Call for recipes from the eggheads

[muckefuck]

The local Safeminicks was running a sale on eggs last weeked. About a dollar a dozen, but you had to buy three dozen to get that savings. So now I've got three dozen eggs that I'd really like to use up in the next four-to-six weeks (because stale eggs, ugh!) Just making an omelette every morning would do the trick, but that would drive me insane inside of ten days.

So suggestions, people! I'm not on any crazy diet, so baked goods are kosher. (I promise I'll buy new ingredients this time to avoid another kitchen katastrophe.) Tell me your favourite things to do with the incredible edible egg.

Comments

[trom.livejournal.com]

Angel food cake with creme anglaise, that should use up 10-12 eggs right there

[bunj.livejournal.com]

Flan

[prilicla.livejournal.com]

Do you like bread pudding? If so, I have several recipes that call for 8 eggs each.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

(1) Who doesn't like bread pudding?
(2) Do any of them call for bourbon?

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

Kitsune doesn't like bread pudding. I would complain about this, but it means more for me.

I second angel food cake for egg whites but vote for lemon curd to use up yolks.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

(1) I've never been a big angel-food fan. Génoise might work for me, however.
(2) Does this mean you're Better if not necessarily All Better?

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm out of bed, anyhow, but I'm still pretty sick. I took the day off. But I'm bored, which is usually a sign that I'm on the mend.

I should also say that my recipe for bread pudding, which is from Antoine's in New Orleans, does not call for bourbon: the bourbon is in the sauce, which consists of butter, sugar, egg yolk, and, er, bourbon.

[prilicla.livejournal.com]

(1) Actually, a surprising number of people hate bread pudding. I don't understand it, myself.

(2) Sadly, the recipes I have are from Eating Well magazine rather than from an actual authentic source, so they're bourbon-free. (IIRC, they also call for 4 whole eggs and 4 egg whites, while I suspect that a real bread pudding recipe would use all those beautiful yolks.) They're pretty good recipes for my purposes, but if taste is your only criterion, you'd probably be better off with something more authentic.

[lustronheloise.livejournal.com]

There is always the making of bourbon sauce for the bread pudding. I like the one from The Joy of Cooking

DID YOU SAY.... EGGS?

[darkphuque.livejournal.com]

Creme caramel, Polish Bapka, Polish walnut cake, creme brulee, chawan mushi
egg nog, Floating Islands, (http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/recipe_views/views/231611)... need more?

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I don't usually think of nog this early, but the weather is turning cool so why not? I don't really have the right vessels for chawan mushi and I hate having to jerry-rig some kind of a steamer for stuff like that. But that gives me a good idea: 적 (Korean egg-batter skewers). Haven't done those in too long!

ANOTHER ONE...

[darkphuque.livejournal.com]

Chinese Tea Eggs

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Oooh, monshu loves those!

[darkphuque.livejournal.com]

I make them fairly regularly, especially if the eggs are getting a bit older.
They are so damn easy!

Also consider a Fu Yong Party.....

Tea eggs!!!

[monshu.livejournal.com]

Why yes, yes I do!

[that-dang-otter.livejournal.com]

Pasta. Use only the yolks, and a high-gluten flour (most bread flours are OK). If you don't have a pasta machine, if you mix the dough quite soft and roll it out with a LOT of extra flour, you can get it extremely thin by hand without killing yourself. (The excess flour helps suck up the moisture once the dough is thin enough.)

Yolk-only pasta is truly fantastic, and you can easily use 3 eggs per serving. Just a little butter and cheese is all you need. Your cholesterol numbers will prove it. ;-)

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Maybe I can get my SIL to lend me the gnocchera!

[foodpoisoningsf.livejournal.com]

Flan
Creme Brulee
Lemon Meringue Pie
Clafouti (look it up, great with apples)
Egg Salad Sandwiches on Black Bread
Hard-cooked eggs make a nifty snack, but if you've cooked them too long and they turn grey, throw them out. Same w/ eggs for egg salad- it's the sulfur that makes people hate egg salad.
Fritatta are great for using up leftovers and are good cold with a salad
-as is Quiche

There's always the souffle. Which, btw requires all ingredients at room temperature. I cheat by adding extra egg whites.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Fortunately, I have at my fingertips the Rootbeer1 & Qbear Handy Guide to Desserts Wot Got Fruit 'n' Dough In 'Em at my fingertips, so I know just what puts the "fou" in a "clafouti".

I'm going to have to make some deviled eggs for snowy_owlet when she gets back on her feet.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Alternately, I could just say "Fuck doing anything else this weekend" and make that retés bitterlawngnome's been talking about. I'm sure that takes a lot of eggs.

Alternatively...

[monshu.livejournal.com]

There are a number of tagines that have eggs cooked in them with the shells on that are quite lovely. Wouldn't that be tasty!

[lustronheloise.livejournal.com]

-Eggs poached in marinara sauce.
-Scrambled eggs with tomatoes and goat cheese.
-Tortilla espanola with lots and lots of garlic.
-This crazy ukrainian dish called makaron that involves pouring beaten eggs over cooked pasta, then baking it until set. Eat cold with horseradish. (This is way better than it sounds.)
-Pavlovas and Dacquoises (sp?). Oh, these are lovely, lovely uses of eggs.

[mollpeartree.livejournal.com]

I've got a nice curried egg dish that uses about 6 hardboiled eggs, IIRC. I'll email it to you if you're interested. Can be used as a main dish in a vegetarian meal!