HAPPY EGG

Last week, I spent 4 sad mornings having the worst breakfasts in my life, and let us all blame it on the corner deli's eggs and my laziness to walk six blocks to my regular egg store (due to horrible cold and advance allergy combined, thank you very much).

Call me particular, but the egg business is not as simple as I thought it would be. And it shouldn't be. I prefer my yolks in super bright yellow and beautiful shape, taste great (and make the dish, even the simplest one, very tasty), and of course contain all the nutrition needed minus the injection substances and the guilt of eating sad chicken's eggs.

If not coming straight from the farm*, I always purchase my eggs in Japanese markets (NOT Asian in general or Korean, and definitely not those Super 88 asian grocery chain-stores). I always get the one called the Golden Fertile Eggs's Large Brown Grade A, From Cage Free Vegetarian Hens, that comes in 100% reclaimed paper and funny Japanese (chicken) graphic on the cover. The small red stamp on top of each individual egg indicates that it has passed the US requirement for a grade A egg.
Definitely the egg to go for for your healthy little ones.

* Love love Ross and LeAnn's Wind Rose Farm eggs. And those are the happiest chickens I've ever spent a couple of days with.

photo credit: Tabanitha McDaniel's "Fresh Eggs"