Comments on: Heart Health Myths (Eggs Are Good For You!) http://kellythekitchenkop.com/2008/04/heart-health-myths-eggs-are-good-for.html Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:07:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Kelly the Kitchen Kop http://kellythekitchenkop.com/2008/04/heart-health-myths-eggs-are-good-for.html/comment-page-1#comment-306 Kelly the Kitchen Kop Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:16:00 +0000 http://kellythekitchencop.org/2008/04/13/heart-health-myths-eggs-are-good-for-you/#comment-306 Hi Anna,<br/><br/>I could never figure out how to get more egg on that one piece of french toast, I love the "French Toast Frittata" idea!<br/><br/>Lots of great info from you, as always. :)<br/><br/>Thanks,<br/>Kelly Hi Anna,

I could never figure out how to get more egg on that one piece of french toast, I love the “French Toast Frittata” idea!

Lots of great info from you, as always. :)

Thanks,
Kelly

]]> By: Anna http://kellythekitchenkop.com/2008/04/heart-health-myths-eggs-are-good-for.html/comment-page-1#comment-304 Anna Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:35:00 +0000 http://kellythekitchencop.org/2008/04/13/heart-health-myths-eggs-are-good-for-you/#comment-304 Super topic, Kelly. People are still "in the dark" about eggs. I cringe every time I hear someone order a tasteless, nutritionally deficient egg-white omelet. The yolks are "where it's at!". I know of some people who throw away the whites (to avoid excess protein consumption), and eat lightly cooked yolks in butter - talk about chock-full of nutrients. I'm too cheap to throw away the egg whites, but I do find the yolks to be the best part. I find good uses for eggs every day. I even save the shells, crushed and composted, to return minerals to the garden.<br/><br/>I love eggs! Even premium priced eggs are a nutritional bargain! Eggs are so incredibly versatile, too, from simple plain eggs to very complex souffles. Eggs also complement a lot of flavors, from plain, to sweet, to savory, and are easy to serve at breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert, as well as snacks. It isn't unusual for me to have consumed 4 or even 5 eggs in a day.<br/><br/>Our family of three goes through as many as 4 dozen eggs a week. My husband and I have 2-3 eggs each, cooked "over easy" in butter, nearly every day. My son isn't as enamored of basic egg breakfasts on a daily basis, but he loves baked egg custard, and what I call "French Toast Frittata" (one slice of bread broken into bite sizes, soaked in a two egg "French Toast" egg mixture, then cooked slowly in a small covered buttered sauté pan, then flipped). I prefer this to regular French Toast because it increases the egg to bread ratio.<br/><br/>I try to keep hard boiled eggs in the fridge all the time, for quick protein snacks, as well as salad garnishes. In fact, if I am down to to dozen eggs in my stock, I start to panic a bit. <br/><br/>Most of the time, I get my eggs from a small local "hobby" farm in our county, not the supermarket (some of the local markets carry "local" eggs, but they are from huge egg production ranches in our county). Egg production goes down during the chickens' molting season, so we cut back on our egg consumption then. The chickens are kept in an outdoor enclosure during the day, safe from predators (lots of coyotes in So. Cal.), but still able to eat a naturally omnivorous diet of greens, grubs, insects, and even the occasional mouse or lizard. Only confined "chicken ranch" chickens would eat an "all vegetarian diet" as labeled on the egg cartons. Super topic, Kelly. People are still “in the dark” about eggs. I cringe every time I hear someone order a tasteless, nutritionally deficient egg-white omelet. The yolks are “where it’s at!”. I know of some people who throw away the whites (to avoid excess protein consumption), and eat lightly cooked yolks in butter – talk about chock-full of nutrients. I’m too cheap to throw away the egg whites, but I do find the yolks to be the best part. I find good uses for eggs every day. I even save the shells, crushed and composted, to return minerals to the garden.

I love eggs! Even premium priced eggs are a nutritional bargain! Eggs are so incredibly versatile, too, from simple plain eggs to very complex souffles. Eggs also complement a lot of flavors, from plain, to sweet, to savory, and are easy to serve at breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert, as well as snacks. It isn’t unusual for me to have consumed 4 or even 5 eggs in a day.

Our family of three goes through as many as 4 dozen eggs a week. My husband and I have 2-3 eggs each, cooked “over easy” in butter, nearly every day. My son isn’t as enamored of basic egg breakfasts on a daily basis, but he loves baked egg custard, and what I call “French Toast Frittata” (one slice of bread broken into bite sizes, soaked in a two egg “French Toast” egg mixture, then cooked slowly in a small covered buttered sauté pan, then flipped). I prefer this to regular French Toast because it increases the egg to bread ratio.

I try to keep hard boiled eggs in the fridge all the time, for quick protein snacks, as well as salad garnishes. In fact, if I am down to to dozen eggs in my stock, I start to panic a bit.

Most of the time, I get my eggs from a small local “hobby” farm in our county, not the supermarket (some of the local markets carry “local” eggs, but they are from huge egg production ranches in our county). Egg production goes down during the chickens’ molting season, so we cut back on our egg consumption then. The chickens are kept in an outdoor enclosure during the day, safe from predators (lots of coyotes in So. Cal.), but still able to eat a naturally omnivorous diet of greens, grubs, insects, and even the occasional mouse or lizard. Only confined “chicken ranch” chickens would eat an “all vegetarian diet” as labeled on the egg cartons.

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