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Two layers of orecchiette laid out on an aluminium biscuit tray, separated with a layer of baking paper. The orecchiette are little pasta bowls, the size of a marble, pale gold and dusted in white flour.

Dinner Party Orecchiette

Orecchiette is one of my favourite ways to use (and preserve) eggs. This batch is for a dinner party. Homemade orecchiette, frozen ahead of time and just cooked straight from frozen while the guests are eating starters is a lovely low stress, low cost way to make something special for a tableful of people.

Quails

Aren’t they the cutest little things? They’re day old quail chicks, and we’re finding they’re nicely suited to raising in suburbia. Besides being prolific egg layers, there’s some good science that quail eggs are very effective against hayfever, and possibly, probably other allergies too.

Egg Curry

The Spring egg glut situation is still going on. The goose eggs have started hatching (three babies today and another egg or two to go) and the ducks have slowed down laying. But the chooks are still laying four or five eggs a day (even though some of them are well into chook middle age). So I made an egg curry on the weekend for a curry night feast for…