embarrassment of eggs

[mountain_laurel]

ok, so my neighbor Shirley just came over with a bunch of extra groceries -- she bought stuff 2 for 1 at Safeway, got too much, and then found out her husband will be going out of town for the week and she won't be able to use everything up. so she brought me: 18 eggs. a pound of butter. and five pounds of potatoes.

the franks, i will eat in short order -- i never buy hot dogs because they're so bad for me, but boy do i love 'em. i'm not sure how i'm going to use up the rest of this stuff.

anyone have any good recipes that involve a whole lot of eggs and butter?

Comments

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

French toast.
Omelettes.
Cake icing.

I'm not helping, am I?

[sailormur.livejournal.com]

12 egg whites - angel food cake (http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,,FOOD_9936_15602,00.html)

With the leftover yolks, you can make lemon curd (http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,,FOOD_9936_14359,00.html) to go on top of the angel food cake.

Also, Hebrew nation makes pretty good-for-you hot dogs.

heartattack on a plate

[saintpierce.livejournal.com]

Let me get this straight. Hotdogs are bad for you but you're eating eggs and butter? Interesting.
I suggest you put the butter in the freezer and save it for your toast.
The eggs: you should dye a few for Easter decorations. The rest you can mix with mayo and or beer and use on your hair.

Sounds like your building is on the Atkins diet.

Re: heartattack on a plate

[merde.livejournal.com]

hot dogs, hebrew national: calories, 150, fat calories, 130.
eggs: calories, 70, fat calories, 40.

yep, hot dogs are bad for you.

Re: heartattack on a plate

[saintpierce.livejournal.com]

But they're kosher!

[2wanda.livejournal.com]

Butter freezes well. We buy it in bulk, and freeze it. Anything that is high in fat freezes well.

As for the eggs, you could make quiche (which also freezes well.) Easter is coming up. You could make painted eggs and call the neighbor kids over for an Easter egg hunt. You could make a frittata, those are yummy. Crepes use a lot of eggs, too, if I recall correctly.

You could make my Grandmother's German buttermilk pancakes, but you'd have to go buy buttermilk. Here's the recipe. They are sehr gut.

6 eggs
3 cups buttermilk
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 tsp salt
2 cups flour
1/2 tsp vanilla
3 tbls sugar

The batter should be thinner than normal pancake batter. You make these very small. Not silver dollar sized, but almost that small, about 3 - 4 inches diameter. This recipe makes about 2 dozen pancakes of that size, so invite some friends over (although, I can eat 8 of these, easily.) Serve with fresh fruit, powdered sugar, or you can do like ronebofh, and put molasses on them (and the kids all say, "Yuk!")

[damienw]

I call these "pikelets", and eat them with butter and cinnamon, or treacle, or maple syrup.
Sehr gut, indeed.

[figmo.livejournal.com]

Great minds think alike, although the German pancake recipe I was going to suggest is for a baked one that doesn't call for buttermilk (although your grandmother's recipe sounds good -- must try it!):

From filker0:

German Pancake

6 eggs (well beaten)
1 cup flour
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup milk
4 tbsp butter (softened, not melted)

Preheat oven to 375 F with all but the bottom rack removed.

Beat eggs, combine with flour and salt, then with milk. Beat/mix until smooth.

Spray a 9 inch oven-safe pan with non-stick cooking spray, then spread the butter liberally to coat the surface. It's ok if the butter is chunky and uneven. Leave the remaining butter in the bottom of the pan.

Pour the batter into the pan, place pan on bottom shelf of oven (with other shelves removed, as noted before) and bake for between 35 and 45 minutes, or until center is set and sides are well risen (they will probably tear shortly before the cooking is done) and golden brown. Remove from oven and serve.

Apple sauce, fruit jams or preserves are often served with German Pancake. [Note: I prefer lemon juice and powdered sugar/diet sweetener. -- figmo]

Serves 2 to 3.

The recipe may be doubled, but you should use a larger pan.

[damienw]

potato cakes with hotsauce!

[swisscheesed.livejournal.com]

SOOPER DOOPER EASTER EGG HUNT!

[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

Souffle! (she says, not helping ;-)

[emmett-the-sane.livejournal.com]

If you're concerned with healthy, tasty hot dogs, then either do Hebrew National (as one person suggested) or the one good vegetarian hot dog brand: Yves.

I wish people would bring ME free groceries! :)

hrm

[glaucon.livejournal.com]

eggs and butter huh?
how about: fried eggs. fried in butter of course.

or scrambled eggs with buttered toast.

or buttersicle egg cream freet wootz tofesticals.

Re: hrm

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

"tofesticals" sounds like Rocky Mountain oysters made of tofu.

the obvious choice

[valancy17.livejournal.com]

Pound cake seems the obvious choice to me.

Either that, or a whole lotta fried eggs.

Lots of eggs are also very good for eggnog, whether you "nog" it or not. The homemade is ever so much more delicious than the store-bought varieties. That would require going to buy something dairy, though (cream, half and half, whole milk, whatever your cholesterol budget permits).

[eejitalmuppet.livejournal.com]

Eggs + butter + potatoes = Spanish omelettes, and a fine dish to abuse with habanero salsa. Throw an Easter omelette party and invite your friends over to watch El Cid (the 1961 version, of course).

[ikkyu2.livejournal.com]

Pound cake was suggested.

Tiramisu comes to mind, too. I've got a recipe kicking around that requires 11 whole eggs and one white for an 8-inch round tiramisu. I stopped eating tiramisu once I realized what was in it.

18 eggs for 2 people for a week is really unhealthy. The trouble with eggs is not the calories or fat, it is the amount of bio-available cholesterol. While your genes to some extent influence how your body handles cholesterol, one egg yolk has a week's worth of cholesterol in it.