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Each week we round up our favorite posts and recipes from our friends at The Kitchn.
This week, the Kitchn justifies paying $7.50 for a dozen gorgeous, pasture-raised eggs over the generic grocery store alternative for half the price.
Also on the Kitchn, salvaging butter wrappers, the curious existence of yellow baby carrots, DIY curry ketchup, and dressing up s'mores.
- 4 Ways To Reuse Your Butter Wrappers!: Butter's wax paper blanket might actually have a useful afterlife.
- Spotted: Yellow Baby Carrots: Mass produced, miniaturized yellow carrots? Apparently, they exist, and they're from Cal-Organics.
- Ketchup With a Kick: Add Curry Powder!: Curry ketchup is common in Belgium and Germany, home of the popular currywurst, a pork sausage seasoned with curry sauce, but it's also super easy to make at home.
- Nutella and Banana: Dressed Up S'Mores: If you want to add a little flair to s'mores, try peanut butter, or banana... or did someone say Nutella?
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12 Comments:
Anyone who can justify spending that much money on eggs deserves to be parted from their $7.50. And in reading the comments, it sounds like plenty of people are ready to hand over the cash.
Kerosena at 3:51PM on 06/18/09
Freaky. Just yesterday I noticed those carrots in my neighborhood Fred Meyer.
RegrettableFoodie at 3:55PM on 06/18/09
Love to see a blind taste test, as long as they use the freshest possible commercial eggs.
Must be blind since color of yolk will give it away.
peekpoke at 4:32PM on 06/18/09
7.50 for any kind of eggs is ridiculous. Ridiculous. I am dumbfounded.
The most I've paid in the farmers market in Saratoga was 4.00 a dozen and someone usually has them for 3.50. And if I have time I can get them from the local creamery for 3.00 a dozen. 7.50?! Insane.
jenh718 at 6:26PM on 06/18/09
Scary, I have almost the same exact picture on my blog:
http://forayintofood.blogspot.com/2009/03/yeggies.html
Thankfully my eggs only cost $5 per dozen, which I wince at every time!
Happy chickens are worth it as far as I'm concerned.
jennywenny at 6:33PM on 06/18/09
I'm lucky enough to raise my own free-range chickens and feed them from my organic garden. I get the best tasting eggs I've ever had-for next to nothing. Just clean the cages, fresh water, food and voila'-great looking/tasting/baking/frying eggs!
shastings at 6:39PM on 06/18/09
@peekpoke - But taste isn't the only reason to buy local pasture-fed eggs. They're more healthful and the money goes to the local economy. I can get pasture-fed organic eggs for $5/dozen at the greenmarket here in NYC, but I'd pay a lot more if I didn't have that option. Even at these relatively high prices, eggs are a cheaper high-quality protein than most meats.
producestories at 8:16PM on 06/18/09
i have my own chickens also, so there's nothing like a pasture-fed egg. at a mere 63 cents each -- what the hell. it's one of nature's most perfect foods and if you have never eated one, you must, indeed, splurge on yourself. for $1.26 you'll have one of the most delicious meals of your life.
i know $7.50 is a little steep, but the price of organic feed is through the roof..... plus transportation, etc., etc...... the chicken's have to make a few bucks, too, these days.
pooch at 9:32PM on 06/18/09
Hah! We only have to pay $4.00 a dozen for these kind of eggs at the Dallas Farmers Market in Dallas, Texas.
Twinwillow at 9:23AM on 06/19/09
Aside, the deeper orange color of egg yolks found in various parts of Europe is because they feed on marigolds.
Twinwillow at 9:27AM on 06/19/09
I pay $4/dozen at one of our our local farmers markets in St Louis, which I consider to be well worth the price. The last dozen I bought had eight double-yolks, and there's a noticeable difference in taste. However, I'm fairly certain if I had to pay $7.50, I wouldn't be eating many eggs.
KBestOliver at 11:39AM on 06/19/09
Even the very best of yard eggs should cost considerably less than $7.50 per dozen. Maybe I should give serious consideration to raising chickens again.
Grumpy Old Man at 3:15PM on 06/19/09