Highlights so far:
Broke open two eggs this a.m., and one of them was chartreuse! It smelled ok, and the two bites I could force myself to eat TASTED ok, but huh? I remember the days when the egg yolks turned from pale yellow to almost chromium orange and tasted stronger, too, as soon as the hens could get outside and start eating grass and bugs. My childish palate didn't like this stronger flavor much, but that was explicable. Where did the chartreuse color inside my egg this morning come from? What are they feeding laying hens in Texas these days? (I assume this is where the eggs came from--most of them do, no matter the brand name).
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| Found half a shell in the garbage grinder, and was pleased to see a bit of "egg white" attached but still glowing GREEN. So sorry I did not photograph the entire green egg. I am such a newbie at this. But you see the ominous bright green/chartreuse color here. Imagine trying to eat a whole fried egg of this color? WTF???!!! |
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| I always buy brown eggs, but often I've noticed some wee speckles here and there to make me wonder if they are not white eggs that have been sprayed! Maybe this could account for the color inside the shell?? |
I kind of like shifting the space in here a bit. I may move the little desk from the den to the living room. It's from that wonderful stationery shop on CT ave just south of Dupont Circle. The shop went out of business maybe 5-10 years ago and sold the fixtures. The desk was sitting on the sidewalk one day with a sign: "For sale: $10." I bought it and carried it home. The desk itself is no beauty, but I loved that store. Still think of it when I walk that way. They had the funniest little lapel buttons! Mostly very clever, snarky slogans against housework, the right wing, and other oppressive realities!
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| The clutter will stay in the den until I figure out what to do with it. But maybe some of it will transfer to the l.r. |
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| The desk will go against the wall ahead, in front of the outlet! |
Anyway, stay tuned! These are sort of interim photos between "before" and "after."
4 comments:
Well, if you had green eggs this morning, I hope you also had ham ;-))
Very interesting -- never saw a charteuse egg! I tried googling it and came up with a lot of Dr. Seuss references, but also found out that yolks can turn greenish when cooked to long or on too high heat -- the heat causes a chemical reaction with/that produces ferrous sulfide, which is green.
But I also found this most interesting chicken blog that explains how egg shells get their color -- http://hencam.com/henblog/2012/02/brown-green-blue-white-chicken-egg-color-the-real-story/
The blog is very sweet -- and has a live hen cam during the day. I'll have to check it out tomorrow.
Yes, the radio cooking show I enjoy here has featured discussion about how to properly hardboil eggs because they should not have any green between the yolk and egg white. She gives instruction on her website:
http://www.melindalee.com/resources/reference-center/about-eggs/
Brown egg shells or white egg shells, aren't the eggs inside all the same? At least they were when we raised chickens and sold both eggs and dressed birds.
Meant to comment on previous post about appreciating the story about the seeing eye dog's reaction to you -- even if it was the scent of what you had touched. I prefer to believe the dog was thanking you for giving up your seat.
I miss the stationery store we had for so many years but they finally had to close a couple years ago. So many interesting items there. I liked all the pens, different writing papers and could have them personalized. So few write letters any more.
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