Tiny Eggs. Big Flavor. (need recipe advice)

[Dogs Cows Chicken]

COOKING QUESTION:

When I cook for Christmas, I cook a traditional Thanksgiving meal. Roast turkey, giblet gravy, southern sage dressing, deviled eggs... all highly egg intensive recipes.

I'm cooking this year and I'm excited to use my own farm fresh eggs for the first time in my favorite dishes. Unfortunately, four of my five girls who are laying produce tiny eggs (in the neighborhood of 38-40 grams). I don't want to deplete my entire store of eggs by doubling up, so I'm going to use store-bought eggs as well.

My question is this: Where will my eggs have the most significant FLAVOR impact? I'll need boiled eggs for the gravy, the dressing, and the deviled eggs. The dressing recipe includes eggs in the breadcrumb mixture, and making the cornbread for the dressing also calls for eggs. Will using store-bought for the breadcrumb mixture cheat me out of the best flavor? Will I cheat my guests if I use store-bought for the deviled eggs? Are my small eggs too small for deviling?

How would you use store-bought alongside your homegrown eggs?

 

[N F C]

I think your eggs will have the most impact as deviled eggs.

For your baked dishes (like the cornbread), volume is important and the store-bought eggs will provide that.

Also, cornbread, gravy and dressing have so many other ingredients in them any flavor difference between your eggs and store-bought eggs will not be noticeable.

 

[WingItRanch]

I'd use the egg yolks from your personal eggs in the mixture for the deviled eggs and the egg whites in store bought as the "boats." The most flavor will be in the yolks and since your eggs are smaller, you can just use the whites from the store eggs. Hope that makes sense!

I don't think you'd notice a difference in the dressing at all since the other ingredients will overpower.

 

[Dogs Cows Chicken]

I think your eggs will have the most impact as deviled eggs.

I'd use the egg yolks from your personal eggs in the mixture for the deviled eggs

I decided to go the deviled route, then found out guests aren't huge DE eaters. I used only store bought for entire meal.

 

[WingItRanch]

More for you!

 

[Dogs Cows Chicken]

More for you!

Absolutely!

My eldest daughter informed me that she can't take any eggs home with her this time because she's staying with friends for a few days before heading back home. She added that next visit she can take a carton or two, though. I thought that was generous of her considering I hadn't offered any yet. I mean I wouldn't have denied her, but I'm really trying to wait until they are actual egg sized before gifting them. No one wants the reputation of being the Tiny Egg Lady.

 

[WingItRanch]

Absolutely!

My eldest daughter informed me that she can't take any eggs home with her this time because she's staying with friends for a few days before heading back home. She added that next visit she can take a carton or two, though. I thought that was generous of her considering I hadn't offered any yet. I mean I wouldn't have denied her, but I'm really trying to wait until they are actual egg sized before gifting them. No one wants the reputation of being the Tiny Egg Lady.

That's too funny! My parents told me they'd take 4 dozen when I went to visit for Thanksgiving. I was surprised! I've been selling cartons for $5 so I had to tell my customers that I was out so I could save some for my parents. I was grumbling a little until they traded me with canned peaches, homemade apple sauce, and some pork sausage from the wild pigs tearing up their gardens. More than a fair trade for me!

My chickens waited a while to start laying so all their eggs were pretty large for first time eggs. I think my smallest egg was 45g. They're all averaging around 60g now!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

IME, my good home-grown eggs really shine in dishes like scrambled eggs, or other dishes where they are the "star." Shakshuka comes to mind or breakfast and brunch dishes like sunny-side-up eggs on toast, eggs over easy, poached eggs, etc. Where they are going to disappear into a dish, store eggs will do.

 

[Dogs Cows Chicken]

My chickens waited a while to start laying so all their eggs were pretty large for first time eggs. I think my smallest egg was 45g. They're all averaging around 60g now!

I think we've achieved all low 40s now, except for Lucy's 71g or bigger dinosaur eggs... and Morticia.