For Sunday breakfast we had bacon and eggs with the last of the little girl’s eggs. There has been a slow down at the moment as Rusty is moulting and not laying, Cinnamon had her second, one day broody spell, and last time this happened she stopped for a week, Dandelion’s recent eggs have been broken and Apricot had taken a break after briefly going broody. This meant it had been down to Freckles to keep us going. I decided to use all the eggs between the two of us.
We had all five eggs for breakfast
The two oval shaped eggs on the left were Cinnamon’s last two eggs before she took a break and the three round eggs are Freckles.
For lunch we had a ham and tomato sandwich with tomatoes from the garden. For Sunday dinner I had some sliced pork and gravy in the freezer from a previous Sunday roast. For only two of us, there is always to much meat no matter how small a joint I buy, so I make double the gravy and freeze half and freeze half the meat for another day.
The veg we had for Sunday dinner
I roasted the last of the early potatoes and a courgette and we had the first proper helping of runner beans. The runner beans are late this year but as the dwarf beans have recently finished and now the runner beans have got started this has actually worked out quite well. The runner beans should continue until the first frosts.
After we had eaten the breakfast eggs Apricot laid her first egg after a ten day break. Her eggs are really tiny but as we had eaten all the eggs there were no other eggs to compare it to. Instead I thought I would compare it to a strawberry as her eggs are also a similar shape to a strawberry.
Apricot’s egg
Strawberry egg
Apricot’s eggs are tiny
They may be tiny but at least it means we now have two girls laying. It was very satisfying to have three meals made up from our own produce.
There are loads more courgettes coming and lots of tomatoes now ripening. We are heading for the moment when we have a glut and I may have to cook courgettes and tomatoes together for the freezer. They can then be added to future dishes. I am not complaining as this is the best year for the veg plot for many years. Long may it continue.
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How nice, nothing like eating your own produce, lovely little eggs, as well, like the picture
of the egg and strawberry, they are so tiny.
It is lovely eating our own produce. We really enjoyed our Sunday dinner.
Apricot’s eggs are about half the size of the other girl’s eggs and yet she is the same size as the other girls. At first I thought her eggs would get bigger as she laid for longer but they have stayed like this. We can manage with two each of the other girls eggs but need three each of Apricots.
Your garden produce looks lovely. Tiny eggs but, no doubt, delicious.
They are lovely little eggs. We had to supplement with shop bought eggs recently and they are so pale compared our girl’s eggs. You can see by the recent broken egg what a lovely orange colour the yolks are.
I bet it’s really nice producing so much food. We’ve been doing similar but on a smaller scale and it does feel nice, and tastes so good.
Can you imagine how small a chick from one of Apricot’s eggs would be?!
I have never thought of that. I struggle to imagine that Apricot’s eggs could ever house a chick, bless her!