Eggfruit a.k.a. Canistel, A Fruit For National Egg Month

[1] Eggfruit (or egg fruit, eggfruits, or canistel), whole and halved (photo © Bfaast). [2] Purée the flesh to enjoy as a pudding, topping or sauce, or make curd with the recipe below (photo © Hannah Kaminsky | Bittersweet Blog). [3] You can also simply scoop out the insides and enjoy the creamy flesh (photo…
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TIP OF THE DAY: How Long To Boil Eggs & Lots Of Egg Recipes

May is National Egg Month (the first week in April is National Egg Salad Week). So how about a boiling-time chart from Good Eggs, below? Also check out our Egg Glossary, and see how many different types of eggs you’ve had. There are 10 options in chicken eggs alone! Before you get to the chart…
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TRIVIA: National Egg Month

May is National Egg Month, a time for some consciousness-raising. We look for Certified Humane eggs and don’t mind paying the premium for them. You’ve no doubt heard the horror stories of mass egg production. We buy from Pete and Gerry’s whenever we can: eggs produced on small family farms with a commitment to the…
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RECIPE: Poached Egg With Lentils & Arugula

A delicious trio of tastes: poached eggs, lentils and arugula. Photo courtesy CulinaryChronicles.com.   We love to discover new food blogs and introduce our readers to their bounty. Today, we’d like to present a recipe from Nam of Culinary Chronicles. We encourage you to visit her blog for more. Nam used Safest Choice pasteurized eggs…
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FOOD FUN: Egg-spressions

May is National Egg Month. How many of these egg-spressions do you use? This content was developed by Dictionary.com, one of our favorite resources for words and word fun. Egghead This term entered English as a reference to a bald person. But it gained traction in the 1952 presidential campaign as a pejorative term for…
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