Adventures in food.

[hannah]

An impulse purchase of a rare object at last Saturday's greenmarket became today's labor-intensive breakfast. Because you can't just smash a goose egg's shell. They're too beautiful for that. Too rare and lovely. So I did the trick I read about in a picture book decades ago, making a small hole in each end and using a long needle to scramble the white and yolk inside the shell and then blowing the contents out to save the shell.

It felt like I blew out my jaw, but it was worth it.

As for how it tasted: like a chicken egg, but wider and deeper. The higher fat and protein content translated into a richer, lighter flavor that still tasted like egg and was hearty enough the last three bites were almost too much.

Then, tonight I made this, without the crumb topping and a half-cup of dried cranberries mixed in, to be brought into work tomorrow.

Comments

[nightdog_barks]

Both of those sound so good! (The goose egg and the cake.) I had never actually seen a goose egg, so I Googled them and ran across emu eggs in the process! I told Mister Nightdog_barks that they reminded me of giant green avocados, which makes the old Southern nickname for avocados, alligator eggs pears, seem particularly apt. :D

Edited because my unfaithful brain substituted eggs for pears. Sigh.

[st_aurafina]

Goose eggs are so pretty, especially if you got speckled ones. And apparently they're awesome for baking because of that higher fat content.

[karalee]

Ahhhh, is there a photo of the shell?