Eggs-actly what you need

 

With the 15 week members being done for the season and the chickens still producing lots of eggs, this week everyone got 2 dozen fresh brown eggs with their distribution.  YUM!  We use lots of eggs around here, and can go through a dozen easily in one meal if we make that our protein source for the meal.  However, when we have LOTS of eggs, a fun thing we like to do is my 14 year old daughter's DUO OF DELECTABLE DESSERTS.  For those of you who don't like to sugar yourselves up, or can't...This doesn't help you much, but this dessert solution is my absolute FAVORITE use of a dozen eggs. 

The first is Angel Food Cake, the recipe the link goes to is Alton Brown's, which is our favorite.  We switch up the extract of choice depending on our mood.  Light, fluffy, and delicious!  And is uses one dozen egg whites.

Then, since we have 1 dozen egg yolks left after this delicious angel food cake is done, we move onto a double batch of Alton Brown's Creme Brulee Recipe.  Yes, Alton Brown again, what can I say, we always look to the master for our recipes, his always turn out to be our favorite!  Yes, double batch.  There are 5 of us, and we sometimes share.  

 We have also been getting into a lot of breakfast sandwiches lately.  They're yummy, easy, portable and pretty healthy too.  Using an English muffin, typically the whole wheat variety, as the bread, I scramble an egg, and load it onto the muffin with a slice of cheddar and sometimes either bacon or ham or sausage.  This week we used Canadian Bacon.  If you have kids who run out the door without breakfast, or like me need to bring dinner on the run in between after school activities, these sandwiches are GREAT to hand them as they run out the door for the bus, or as a breakfast for dinner in the car, or anywhere.   I wrap them in aluminum foil when I make them, and stick them in an insulated lunch tote, and off we go.  I did 5 on Tuesday and took them to my oldest daughter's swim meet and we all ate them for dinner while sitting in the stands.  She came up to get hers during the diving break.  

Of course, you can make an omelet bar night , scramble them, make chicken in a basket, quiche, frittatas (like maybe with some of the lovely tomatoes and  green peppers we received this week as well!), or many other yummy things with your eggs.  But with only about 70 calories per egg & 6 grams of protein, plus some of the healthy fats and other nutrients we need, eggs are a lovely choice for any meal!