Eggs, such glorious food! So healthful and scrumptious! My neighbor’s family lives in rural Vermont, so last summer when she made the two day drive to visit her parents, I watered her plants and took in her mail. When she returned home, as a thank-you, she handed me a shoebox filled with four carefully wrapped goose eggs laid by her mom’s goose, Lucy. This goose is her mom’s dearest pet; she has a cute little house to live in, right in the backyard. She gets to wander around, eat things in the flower garden; basically Lucy lives a pretty ideal life for a goose or anyone, for that matter. All she has to do is lay eggs, which she does!
Her eggs were so gorgeous and strong, and so big (a goose egg is about the equivalent of 3 chicken eggs) that it was a bit of a chore to even crack them. But break them I did, and wow! Each one was the most delicious, rich, golden-yolked egg I’ve ever tasted. I cherished every last egg Lucy gave, and can’t wait for my neighbor to head back up to Vermont this summer. Maybe she can sneak Lucy back for a visit…..if my city will allow it, that is.
If you’re like me and just can’t get enough of the good egg, then these recipes should be on your must-make list. Don’t wait for goose eggs to show up at the grocery store, though, just use the little ones!
My current favorite recipe is a flatbread ham and cheese with a fried egg on top, a French bistro favorite called the Croque Madame. Oo-lala! Of course, the flatbread sandwich can be made without yolks, too, if you’ve got a few extra egg whites in the fridge, you can make an egg white frittata to beat all frittatas.
If the flatbread wrap is your thang, then prep up some curried egg salad and simply roll it up. Sweet and spicy and super easy to eat, unlike egg salad on regular bread, which falls out of everywhere onto everything. Or this kale and egg wrap with spicy chorizo, just begging to be made with that bag of kale languishing in the vegetable drawer.
Eggs are great for dinner, and these flatbread pizza recipes can both be whipped up in no time flat. The breakfast diner pizza is the epitome of basic yet wonderful diner food, while the sausage, egg, and pepper pizza is a kid’s dream come true. Or a frugal chef’s dream come true; turn breakfast leftovers into dinner in under 5 minutes.
Whatever egg-cites you, we have a flatbread recipe for it, so get crackin’ egg-lovers!
-Amy at Flatout
