Organic Eggs– Any Difference?

I just started purchasing eggs from a local farmer, a certified organic farm. The eggs are a little pricier than grocery-store eggs, but I am happy to directly support a local farm (and get fresh eggs, too).

I wish we could have our own chickens. I live in the suburbs, though, and chickens are verboten. Bah. Suburbanites have no imagination. Chickens are COOL.

Anyway, I get these eggs. All I care about is that they are eggs. When I found out that they are “certified organic,” it meant little to me… I don’t know if that’s because there really is no difference or because I do not know enough about chicken care. But that would be the SUBURBS fault because they won’t even give me a chance to raise my own and find out!!!! LOLOL. Oh, I know certified organic chickens are fed only certain foods (and no antibiotics) but I have heard many conflicting reports about the use of antibiotics for farm animals. I am, in general, against stuffing farm critters with potions, pills, additives, medicines and chemicals. You betcha. But I don’t know if the store-bought eggs are pumped with antibiotics and stuff. Not sure. It’s actually kinda difficult to find out where ANY of our grocery food comes from, as a matter of fact.

But I don’t notice any big difference in taste between organic and store-bought. Today I am hard-boiling them and maybe then I will notice a differemce.

Some of these eggs are a lot larger than “regular” store-bought eggs, that’s for sure. Take a look at this sucker.

And all the eggs do smell like the dairy farm from which they come. I’m hoping that boils out, lol.

Fancy Breakfast in Soho

Now THAT’s a fancy breakfast.

Oooo la la!!

I stayed at the Soho Grand Hotel last week, and ordered breakfast. I opened the aluminum tray cover (wow, just like in the movies!) and that is what I saw. I believe it’s called Eggs Benedict. It was an English muffin sliced into halves, with a sliver of smoked salmon, a soft-cooked egg on top of that, and melted butter with parsley. It was incredibly good. It also came with hash browns, which were good but rather mild. The smoked salmon was a little too pungent for me that early in the morning, but it was good. I will have to make some of these sometime for the family (when I have a kitchen again, soon!). I also got coffee… but it was just ONE cup in the carafe. The complimentary New York Times was nice. Not much to read in it, though, except some weird ads for best eye cream and Broadway shows. It went to serve its more important use as papers for the doggies. Guess how much this breakfast cost, total? $35.

O_o

Oy vey. Such is New York.

It was nice getting pampered a bit. Don’t worry, it didn’t all go to my head. I’m back into the daily grind of pounding the keys for work by day, and drilling and wiring for the new kitchen by night…