Good things come in small packages

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

I can’t resist anything new or new to me.  When the Fair Food Farmstand sent out their weekly email saying they had Natural Acres “Pee Wee” pullet eggs, I had to have them.  Had to.  And at 75 cents per dozen, who wouldn’t want to give them a try?  I figured they’d be really tiny, but they were only a little smaller than regular eggs.

From the email....

These tiny vibrant eggs are laid by “pullets” (chickens less than a year old). As hens begin to mature into their egg laying capacity, they lay what some consider their most flavorful eggs. With the industrialized food trend toward jumbo eggs, these miniature treats are hard to find, but worth the effort and incredibly economical.

So were the eggs more flavorful than regular Natural Acres eggs?  I couldn’t say with any real expertise.  But they were most certainly just as yummy, and the yolks were nice and orange!  I used them to make an all local breakfast on Sunday morning - eggs cooked in homemade butter, mixed with a little bit of spinach and red bunching onions from the CSA share.