There’s an alternative: the farm fresh egg, or farm egg. Farm eggs differ dramatically from the factory type: they vary in color and, depending upon the farmer’s chickens’ ages, in size.

Farm eggs are the product of “free range” chickens who are free to roam the pasture, eat a varied diet including grass, grains, greens, and an occasional grasshopper or bug. They aren’t fed antibiotics. They aren’t kept in cramped cages. The product of this approach varies dramatically from the factory egg.

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Kevin on March 1st, 2009

This is a great recipe. I did the slow roasted pork shoulder/Boston Butt thing today, using this recipe from a site called Kevin and Amanda’s Recipes – Perfect Pulled Pork – Slow Roasted, Seasoned and Sa-vor-y and the result was mind numbingly, pork fat orgasmically wonderful.  Try it sometime – you will not be disappointed. [...]

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Kevin on February 25th, 2009

Although your humble correspondent and She Who Must Be Obeyed continue to purchase cookbooks – Giada De Laurentiis’ Giada’s Family Dinners is the most recent such purchase – we find ourselves increasingly finding great recipes and entertaining ideas on food websites and blogs.

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A treat I used to enjoy when we lived in the Capital District of New York was to go to Perreca’s Bakery (reviews) in the Little Italy section of Schenectady on Saturday mornings.  Part of the lore surrounding Perreca’s was that Frank Sinatra, in Albany for a concert, had some of their bread – and [...]

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Responding to my post about homemade energy bars, someone from Matisse & Jack’s sent me a few samples of their all natural bake-at-home snack mixes several weeks ago, and I finally got around to trying one of them this evening. First, a few basics: The company is based in San Francisco, and their claim to [...]

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I’m sure many of you are familiar with AllRecipes.com, but if you aren’t and are any kind of foodie, you should check it out.  One of the slickest features is the ability to adapt any recipe on the site to the exact number of people you’ll be serving. For instance, this evening we’re going to [...]

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