Here are some pictures of the best breakfast I have ever had. Of course I have had many wonderful breakfasts over the years but there is something extra special when the eggs were fresh from the chook pen and the purple broccoli and asparagus picked just minutes before eating.
Basically we had a sort of do it yourself style Hollandaise suace – which we took from the Hugh Fearnly-Whittingstall episode – which aired last Wedensday night on ABC. Soft boil some eggs, and then when in the egg cup add a dob of butter, a drop of apple cider vinegar and sprinkle with salt and pepper. And then you can dip the asparagus into the egg, or dip intot he salt and pepper first and then into the egg.
It was so yummy we did this on Saturday and Sunday. But sadly, since the asparagus has only been in the ground for a year, it may be better in the long term to leave the asparagus alone for the rest of spring.
Breakfast @ OGA Fresh eggs and asparagus picked that morning
Sorry have not blogged for a while, I will be doing some catching up next weekend. But there is something I do have to tell you about.
Chickens like eggs. I did know that from reading about this in magazines and books, but I have now witnessed it for the first time.
This egg eating by the chickens occured yesterday (Monday) and it has to do with the structure build and the location of the chicken coop.
Chicken coop structure. We have two small latches (one on each side) where we can remove the eggs, but at present the coop is located against some bales of straw (I use straw as the boundaries of my vege patches). The position of the coop is my future strawberry patch. So on Monday the chickens laid their eggs on the opposite side to where I could get easy access. Normally this is not really an issue as we just gently knock the eggs (using a piece of wood) across to where we can pick them up. This time we cracked one of the eggs. It was a free for all, the chickens raced to it and started to devour it. Luckily we got the other two eggs out.
Now my understanding is that the chickens should not get the taste for eggs, if they do they will start to eat them all the time. So today Lee-Ann is going out every hour or so and grabbing the eggs, so far she has two of the three we normally get. My thought being if we go a few days removing the eggs straight away we should be OK. Otherwise it may be stock for them.
Well while we have had salads from the garden and other odds and bods todays frittata is almost all home produced. The salad, tomatoes, spring onion and cucumber all from the vege patch and the frittata itself the eggs are from our chickens and the all the veges (potatoes, tomato, garlic, herbs) are home grown to.
