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Navigating Egg Labels with your Farmer

Food labels can often be confusing or even misleading. Let’s break them down together. When you see the label “free range”, what do you picture? Chickens frolicking through green pasture all day long?! At least that’s what the picture on some egg cartons shows, but that may not be the reality. There are so many options at the store: Free-range, Certified Humane, Cage-free, Omega-3 Enriched, Organic, Vegetarian Fed, etc. It’s easy to get overwhelmed and just choose the first carton you find without a broken egg or the one with the prettiest picture. Let’s dig into what all the labels actually mean.

Farmhouse Chocolate Chip Cookies

Baking, Eggs, Lard

There aren’t many things that I’ve made more of than homemade chocolate chip cookies. We made them a lot with my mom growing up. I make them every month or so and we always make about 6 batches right before Christmas to have on hand for Christmas parties.

Our Guide to the Perfect Quiche

Eggs

One of my favorite thing about making a quiche is that you can keep it as simple or as fancy as you’d like. You can use what you have on hand or you can buy a few perfectly curated ingredients (or whatever is in season at the farmers market) depending on what you’re craving that week. I also love that you can make this and then eat off it for a few days and the flavors seem to mesh more and more each day, yum!

Dying Eggs: White VS. Brown

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With Easter coming up, I thought I’d do a fun experiment to see the difference between dyed white eggs and brown eggs. I honestly thought that you couldn’t dye brown eggs for the first several years we had the farm. Mason was still young enough that he wasn’t interested, however, even if he was, I was fully convinced that I needed to buy some white eggs from the store if I wanted the dye to work. Boy, was I wrong! I actually love how deep and rich brown eggs can be when they’re dyed and I’d love to bring you along for this fun learning experience.

No Hassle Hard Boiled Farm Fresh Eggs

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You want to eat healthy and so you try to find quick & easy snacks that are not only good for you, but yummy too! Hard boiled eggs are just that. Super packed with nutrients, an egg-cellent source of protein (see what I did there?!), and delicious with even just salt and pepper! You can boil a dozen or two at the beginning of the week and have an easy pre-made snack for the whole week…or maybe just a couple days depending on how much you like hard boiled eggs :)

How Fresh are My Eggs?

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I was reminiscing through old pictures recently, when I came across this adorable picture of Mason in a onesie that his grandma gave him as a gift. And I totally had a lightbulb moment! People have asked me: How long do your eggs last? How do I know if my eggs have gone bad? Are my eggs still okay to eat if I left them out on the counter for a couple hours? So I know if I get a lot of people asking me these kind of questions, some of you are probably wondering the same thing!

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Navigating Egg Labels with your Farmer

Farmhouse Chocolate Chip Cookies

Our Guide to the Perfect Quiche

Dying Eggs: White VS. Brown

No Hassle Hard Boiled Farm Fresh Eggs

How Fresh are My Eggs?

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