Egg in the Nest

This is a little meal I grew up on. My mom would make this for us and we loved it. I still make it often and especially when we have company. Basically, you end up with toast and egg all at once. I haven't used my toaster in a long time. I've heard it called several different things, must be regional, we called it Egg in the Nest.

What you'll need:
-Eggs
-slices of your favorite bread (I like using rustic homemade breads, but wonderbread would work)
-butter or olive oil
-a nice pan

I start with spreading butter or the olive oil on one side of the bread and then cutting a hole about an inch in diameter or square in the center. While I'm doing that I get the pan hot and drizzle some olive oil in it (you could use butter here too). Next place the slice, buttered side up, in the pan and crack an egg in the hole. Flip the slice with egg when it's ready, depending on how you like your eggs. Don't forget to also pan fry the little chunk of bread that you cut out. Serve hot!!! YUM!

Back in Business

Although I haven't really noticed the days getting much longer, my girls sure have. They are back to work putting out the best tasting eggs around. With our $130 donation in mind my goal is $150. Of course I'll let the girls know since they are the ones that have to up their game. It was a rough winter for them, we usually don't get much snow, but they got through it and seem to be back on the egg making track. So I'll try to start posting more often, maybe some of my favorite egg recipes and more amazing chicken stories. There are lots of stories I haven't had time to tell yet. So keep coming back and remember Spread the Word, spread the LOVE and Be A Good Egg!

Randy the Random Rooster

This Silver laced Wyandotte was brought out to the country and dropped off, abandoned, with another one just like him. We started noticing them hanging around our mailboxes and roosting in the neighbors trees at night. Then one was gone and the other was alone and many times hanging out in our yard or our neighbors. We found out one of the other neighbor's dog killed the other one after we saw their dog chasing this one and having a conversation with them. Then we disappeared for a week. We figured the dog got this one too and then feared that the dog would be coming over to our yard for some of my chickens. After a little push from the neighboring farmer they have agreed to keep the dog tied up or on a leach and not roaming unsupervised. They admit it likes to kill things....Anyway, one day Random Rooster appears in the yard again and after a few days starts hanging out with my Australorps. I checked in the coop and sure enough, he was roosting with everyone else and our rooster Ruben didn't seem to care. So he has been dubbed Randy the Random Rooster and is now part of the family. So far so good. The other picture is me, with about four layers of clothes, taking a thawed watering can down to the coop. All the snow is gone and the chickens and I are very happy about it!!!

Spread the word, spread the love, Be a Good Egg.

Not Chicken weather

My spoiled chickens are really upset by this weather. They have been in the coop for a week now even though the door is open. I bring thawed water and food to them, but they are used to lots of grass and exercise. The local birds are doing the best they can and loving the frozen apples on the tree. There is about 1/2 of ice crust on the snow that I had to break through to get down to the coop this morning. It's beautiful, but I like green grass.

Be A Good Egg!

Happy Helping Hens 2008 Donation!!!!

What a great first year of the Be A Good Egg project. The donation was just made to Heifer International of $130.00. My girls want to send a big THANK YOU to all their customers for buying their eggs and making this donation possible. The $130 went to buy 6 flocks of chicks and an additional $10 donation. There are lots of gifts to choose from and with $130 I had lots of choices at that level, but I finally went with my original intention of putting the money toward chicks. As I've said before, my girls bring me joy, entertainment, nourishing eggs and are zen like so buying chicks for families in need and not just giving them nourishing eggs to eat and sell, but the entertainment and joy the chickens bring too...well, I had to go with this choice.

Here is the description in the Heifer online catalog for chicks:
Chicks: A Good Choice

A flock of chicks can help families from Cameroon to the Caribbean add nourishing, life-sustaining eggs to their inadequate diets.

The protein in just one egg is a nutritious gift for a hungry child. Protein-packed eggs from even a single chicken can make a life-saving difference.

Heifer helps many hungry families with a starter flock of 10 to 50 chicks. A good hen can lay up to 200 eggs a year - plenty to eat, share or sell.

Because chickens require little space and can thrive on readily available food scraps, families can make money from the birds without spending much. And chickens help control insects and fertilize gardens.

This is the message from Heifer after making the donation: Thank you for making a gift through Heifer International's online gift catalog. Because of your donation, we can continue doing our work across the globe — offering livestock, training and other resources to struggling families can become self-reliant. And because of the commitment each recipient makes to "Pass on the Gift", one purchase from you can create a ripple effect that soon empowers entire communities to lift themselves out of hunger and poverty once and for all.

A BIG Thank You again to our customers. Our girls should be laying again soon, but we have a little snow right now and they are not very happy about it. I encourage other small flock owners that just give eggs away to do the same. Our friends are very willing to pay for our eggs and especially knowing the money is helping others. It's a win win.

Don't know what to get for the person that has everything or wants nothing this holiday season? Heifer International is a great way to give in someones name or consider your favorite charity.

Spread the word. Spread the Love. Be A Good Egg!

Trivia to feed the world

I was tipped off to another great organization to check out. Freerice.com . I just went there and they have a trivia or vocabulary game that you play to earn rice donations. It's fun, educational and you are helping feed the world.

Remember...spread the word, spread the love and BE A GOOD EGG!

Susan B. Anthony

136 years ago this month, Susan B. Anthony was arrested for voting in the 1872 presidential election. Thanks in a large part to her tireless activism, women enjoy the right to vote today. Sadly, Susan died 14 years before the 19th amendment was passed. Let's all honor her memory by voting in this historic election. Pictured left, Susan B. Anthony stands with her sister in activism, Elizabeth Cady Stanton. For more information about the lives of these women, we strongly recommend Ken Burns' amazing documentary film Not For Ourselves Alone.

I received this email from Glad Rags Newsletter and felt is was worth posting. Spread the word, spread the love, Be A Good Egg!!!!