Last Saturday morning I was sitting at our kitchen table, sipping my coffee, flipping through a new cookbook that had just come out a few weeks ago. Storey Publishing sent me a copy to review and then give away to a fan, so I was looking for something to make for breakfast, while waiting for my email to load up.
In a very odd coincidence, in my queue was an email from a woman named Jennifer Trainer Thompson. She let me know she was a fan of our facebook page and had just entered a photograph into our Future Farm Kids of Fresh Eggs Daily contest.
Oh and by the way, she had just written a cookbook and wanted to know if I was interested in reviewing it. I kid you not, it was The Fresh Egg Cookbook by Jennifer Trainer Thompson that I was flipping through as I read the email.
Clearly a sign from the chicken gods, I quickly chose her Shirred Eggs recipe to make for breakfast and then sent a quick reply. I told her that I already had a copy of the cookbook but would love another copy to give away to a lucky fan. I had been procrastinating writing my review because I didn't want to give my copy away ! Ms. Thompson readily agreed and a second cookbook arrived in the mail several days later.
Now for my review - I LOVE this cookbook ! Not only are the recipes tempting and contain only a handful of ingredients you probably already have around the house, the instructions are written clearly and are easy to follow. Not to insinuate that its a basic cookbook by any means. There are so many recipes that I want to try --- and I already own several egg cookbooks. The only negative about this cookbook is that I keep getting distracted by all the cute chicken photos throughout.
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So far I have made the Shirred Eggs - yummy broiled in ramekins with melted butter, cream and a parmesan herb crust.
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I also made the Huevos Rancheros - really yummy with avocado and Monterey Jack cheese ( I added some sour cream - I love sour cream and couldn't resist!)
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I made the Homemade Mayonnaise, adding dill to the basic recipe. My very first attempt at making my own mayo and it came out perfectly !
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Then of course I had to make some Egg Salad with it.
I loved the Fried Egg Sandwich recipe also - a quick delicious breakfast.
Next I am moving on to the desserts -first on my list are the Lemon Cake Icing, Chocolate Souffle, Lemon Squares and Vanilla Pudding.
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There are tons more recipes - for pies, puddings and cakes....frittatas, souffles and stratas....omelets, casseroles and sauces... All interspersed with a bit of Ms. Thompson's back story and interesting chicken facts and trivia. This has become my favorite egg cookbook. I love it and I know you will too !
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The cookbook has been featured on the Martha Stewart show and Ms. Thompson has been featured in Martha Stewart Living magazine.
If you taste buds are tingling and your mouth is watering, you can buy a copy of The Fresh Eggs Cookbook here:
Scrambled with veggies,fresh every morning from my free range country hens!
ReplyDeleteMmmm...I love to use fresh snipped herbs from the garden also when they are in season.
DeleteI love to make breakfast burritos or just simple boiled eggs to snack on! Fresh from my free range ladies of course!
ReplyDeleteI LOVE breakfast burritos. But don't boil your eggs, steam them - check the blog post on steaming eggs.
DeleteI love huevos rancheros A LOT!!! If I had to choose a second it would be a plain ham and cheese omelet. The secret is to use gruyere cheese instead of your everyday cheddar!
ReplyDeleteI agree. Just changing the cheese you use can change a whole recipe.
DeleteMy fav way to eat them is deviled. Absolutely LOVE them that way but they're also really tasty scrambled with ham, spinach, mushrooms, and cheese :)
ReplyDeleteI love an omlet that includes cheese,mushrooms,onions,peppers ,salsa and sausage
ReplyDeleteDefinitely a sign from the chicken gods! Woa.
ReplyDeleteGreat photos. I'm hungry now. :)
Jason Houston took the pics. He's amazing. Thanks for the kind words.
DeleteI concur...my photos of the recipes I tried pale in comparison to the photos in this book...all around great cookbook.
DeleteThank you for the review! As far as my favorite recipe, it is not mine :) My mother in law is 84 and an amazing cook, so on occasion she will take some of my fresh eggs (I keep her in eggs LOL) and will make me a homemade Almond Pound Cake in return.... full of 6 nice fresh eggs and ever so yummy! I have tried and tried and can not duplicate it. One day I asked her what I was doing wrong and she told me that I was not old enough to know her secret ingredient! Having been married to her son for 18 years, I asked her when I would be and she told me that she just loved making it for us and if she told me, she might have to kill me! I love that woman, and what she can do with eggs :)
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Cute story !
DeleteI love to make boiled eggs. Then fill them with different things. You can stuff them with guacamole, seafood salad, ham salad. Just about anything. It makes great finger foods for kids. They always run for them!!
ReplyDeleteI hope you are steaming your eggs instead of boiling them for perfect peeled eggs every time ! Search steamed eggs in the blog for details.
DeleteI love to read cookbooks! This book looks like it will be fun. The pictures are beautiful. I would enjoy it!
ReplyDeletemy favorite fresh egg dish is anything made by my farmer daughter janice.....i so love having my grown children cook for me.....think i will visit soon....miss my grandchildren and grand chickens...love from gloria sanborn
ReplyDeleteEggs in a basket. Cut the middle out of a piece of bread, crack an egg snide, and fry them. You should eat this with bacon, and if you fry the egg in a basket in the bacon fat, it's even better! I would love a copy of the cook book!
ReplyDeleteThe book looks wonderful! My go to easy dinner when I'm tired - put an egg sized layer of shredded parmesan cheese in a skillet, let it get hot and a little melty, crack an egg on top and break it up a little to mix the white and yolk, freshly ground salt and pepper - done. Because the cheese has a little extra time to cook it gets a little crunchy - yum Thank you to my girls, Topaz Lola and Petal! eenaoriginals@yahoo.com
ReplyDeleteI love to make quiche and just eggs over easy. Im pretty simple gal, but would be interested in this cook book cause my girls are making me more and more eggs every day :)
ReplyDeleteTo pick a favorite egg recipe is as hard as picking my favorite chicken - I love them ALL! Some that I enjoy more often are - steamed (aka boiled) eggs, egg sandwich, egg salad, omelet with spinach, tomato, mushrooms and cheese. Another favorite is scrambled with sauteed onions and Chorizo (casings removed)YUM!
ReplyDeleteAs you can see...I am enthusiastic about egg recipes. I would really enjoy this book- I love recipe books and have been specifically looking for an Egg Recipe book.
I want to enter for one of the cook books. I love cook books.And I love egg receipts. So please enter my name in the contest. jaditesam@aol.com
ReplyDeleteI absolutely LOVED the blog as USUAL! My favorite "egg" recipe would have to be my homemade banana pudding. I know that probably doesn't sound like an "egg" recipe, but I make the vanilla pudding from scratch like my grandmother used to. People may say what they want, especially those who are not used to eating fresh eggs, but it makes such a notable difference in this recipe when compared to the pudding made with store bought eggs! Something about the eggs brings out the best in the vanilla. Call me crazy, but I can taste a difference and so can ALL 4 of my children! ;) I would LOVE a copy of this cookbook! It's perfect for me! Not only am I a chicken hoarder, but I was a cookbook hoarder first! :D
ReplyDeleteGreat review!! I would love to have this cookbook ;-) It's so hard to pick a favorite egg recipe, but I guess it would have to be old fashioned egg custard like my grandma used to make. Delicious! Thanks again for all the great info on your blog...It always brightens my day! ssp373 at gmail dot com.
ReplyDeleteI can't get enough fried eggs over easy!
ReplyDeleteI love it when the eggs are overly abundant and my partner (who does all the baking here) makes pound cakes to use up some of the eggs and then angel food cake to use up the whites! I also love it when we have hard boiled eggs...some homemade bread along with the homemade mayo(also made from our eggs!
ReplyDeleteMy hubby makes an omelet we call "Hot Carl" because he adds some of our home-grown hot peppers. He likes it a sizzling! I like it medium, but I always enjoy when he makes me breakfast. Love the pics from the book- it looks like a good one! Thanks for the giveaway opp!
ReplyDeleteI love to make eggnog.
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I make a lovely quiche using our beautiful fresh eggs, fresh bacon and fresh red bell peppers, onions, sun-dried tomatoes, and yummy fresh mozzarella cheese. There's also a few spices such as garlic, pepper and salt thrown in the mix. It turns out such a deep orange-yellow color and the taste is wonderful! It was a hit for the whole family! I'd LOVE to have this cookbook for some new recipe ideas for our fresh eggs! My email is SarahFairy30@yahoo.com
ReplyDeleteI actually don't really have a favorite egg recipe. I do tend to make a lot of scrambled eggs with ham and cheese mixed in.
ReplyDeleteRight now, I only have Silkies that are laying, and since they are my show birds, I hatch all of their eggs. But my Marans are now going on 3 1/2 months old, so hopefully by the middle of May, they will be laying.
Oh, Deviled Eggs are my favorite thing. I have some in my fridge right now. Yummy!!!
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I like to make creamed eggs on toast when I have a lot of eggs. I make a tasty white sauce and slice up some hard boiled eggs in it. Put it on toasted wheat bread. yum. The cookbook looks like a fun one to read and cook from. ;o)
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In winter I like poached eggs, in the summer I like deviled eggs. Sometimes I like a healthy egg nog. Eggs are so versatile!
ReplyDeleteI love using my farm fresh eggs to make plain fried eggs! They are so much better that store bought!
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DeleteI already a follow your blog. I love the e-mail you just sent about selling eggs. I don't have an egg cookbook and would love one. I love hard boiled eggs as a snack. We often have breakfast for dinner with company and they love the fresh eggs. eposegate@hotmail.com
ReplyDeleteI'm already a follower! Favorite things to make? Well, we make mostly scrambled eggs...plain or on a biscuit with cheese and bacon! Yum!
ReplyDeleteI love making blueberry and raspberry friands with my eggs. Hmmm yum!
ReplyDeleteAlas, I don't have eggs yet! I am preparing my backyard for a small chicken coop. I can only imagine how fun it will be to have my 3 city alloted chickens! I can't wait to make scrambled eggs! I'm sorry I don't have a recipe but I hope I can still enter the contest :-) Thanks! Candy candycorn51@verizon.net
ReplyDeleteCute ! Yes you can enter. When are you getting your chickens ? Be sure and get three different breeds - MUCH more fun that way !
DeleteI love to make egg salad sandwhiches but my kids don't like them so it's usually just regular bacon and eggs for breakfasts, we usually go thru a dozen eggs just for breakfast with a family of five!
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I have a few that are my favorite and I'm always looking for more. Angel food cake is good, and fritata is one I make often. I look forward to getting a copy of this cookbook.
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I LOVE quiche with a nice flaky crust. The best ones are made from farm fresh eggs :D
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We currently only have 2 laying hens - my daughter and husband keep them well consumed. If I ever want to bake I still have to go buy eggs most of the time. SO we have 13 more chicks growing right now, sure hoping for more girls than boys :)
ReplyDeleteANYWAY, my favorite thing to make is actually for my daughter - a scrambled egg burrito for on the go breakfast.
Oh and I am subscribed!
One of my favorite things to make with my fresh eggs is "Sunshine Cake"- a lemon flavored sponge cake with Lemon Curd- absolute heaven!!!
ReplyDeleteI would love a copy of the cookbook!
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I love a simple omelet with onions and peppers. I am so anxious to get my own little flock soon. I can't wait. rader60@msn.com
ReplyDeleteWhat timing! I just sat down to catch up on my chicken blogs while I wait for my egg & sausage casserole to bake. One of 3 egg dishes I make over and over. I was just telling my husband how much I needed some new egg recipes. Judging by your review/pictures this book looks like just the ticket =)
ReplyDeleteCongratulations Janet M ! You have been chosen as the winner of the Fresh Egg Cookbook ! Email me at: fresheggsdaily@gmail.com with your mailing address !
DeleteI follow your blog through google reader. My fav egg recipe? probably quiche with spinach and feta cheese
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ham and cheese quiche. I got the recipe in a cookbook that belonged to my husbands Grandmother. My 6 year old asks for it all the time.
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I love breakfast casserole and my kids love it too!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite egg recipe has to be the Christmas Frittata I make every year on Christmas morning...and lots of other mornings too! :~)
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My favorite is to fry them over easy and serve with toast and jelly. Now that all 3 of my bantam pullets are laying, I've started using them in recipes instead of saving them all for my breakfast.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite on my hot grill pour a doughnut of pancake batter (Krustys my fave) and drop eggs in the center of each pancake flip careful you will have cooked white and runny yoke Oh my goodness nothing better than a fresh Egg -n- Cake for breakfast Or Lunch O heck Dinner works too!!
ReplyDeleteOh yummy! This cookbook wouldn't spend much time on the shelf; )
ReplyDeleteI would absolutely love this cookbook. I just signed up to follow your blog but I have been a fan on Facebook for a while. Love all the photos and info !
ReplyDeleteLooks like a great cookbook....I would love!! :)
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