When Hay and I went out on a bike ride a couple of days ago, we discovered a place where they sell goose eggs outside their gate with the usual honesty box. The geese were on display in a run just inside the gate. Never having tasted goose eggs, we bought one, leaving the requisite £1 in the jam jar provided.
On getting home Hay scrambled and accompanied it with toast and fried, cherry tomatoes. Absolutely divine and more than enough for two people. A greater depth of flavour and more creamy than hen eggs.
I returned to the vendor's place later in the day to see whether I could get any more, but they'd all been snaffled. Went again yesterday morning, but early, and manged to get 4 of them.
OK, they're not cheap at £1 each, but one goose egg is the equivalent of 3 hen eggs. That works out at £4 for a the equivalent of a doz hen eggs, compared to £2.40 for a doz from our usual hen egg supplier in the village. The taste is well worth the extra.
I don't know about you, but I detest American recipes on the internet. Go to a British cooking site and you dive straight into the ingredients and method. Go on to an American site and you get about 10 pages of waffle about how the writer first found the recipe, what pans she uses and where she got them, how her cats are - you bloody name it, you get it. The recipe is generally the last thing you find, and then it's in some archaic measurement system comprising cups, quarts (which bear no relevance to our quarts), gallons (again, not Imperial gallons - they make everything in industrial quantities) and something called Fahrenheit. Every damned thing needs converting into a rational measurement system. Even the most ardent Metric Martyr would become unhinged.
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