...means eggs!
Our girls produce truly delicious and beauitful chicken eggs...
But we couldn't resist purchasing a few emu eggs from our local health food store. We'd been admiring them for weeks but couldn't justify the cost... but Easter seemed a fitting occasion.
We used a Dremel to drill a hole in either end of the egg.
We used a bamboo skewer to stab and stir and mix up the yolk to make it easier to blow the insides out.
Then a deep breath and blowing as hard as one can into that little drill hole! The goodies inside streamed out, looking like custard. Our dearTreeman friend looked on with interest, and perhaps a little bit of disgust...
There was more in there than we'd thought there would be.
Once the goodies inside were all blown out, we did a few passes of pouring water in and blowing it back out to rinse out the inside of the shell and removed the soft inner sac. We set the eggs in glasses to dry, and made an emu egg scromblet (scrambled omelet) for breakfast. I was surprised to find the eggs themselves somewhat bland in flavor, but wetter and somehow creamier than chicken eggs. I think that they'd make better quiche or souffle than they would omelettes, but it was still tasty and nutritious!
Lastly, it was time to introduce the Chickiechickiepeeperpants clan to the egg of their dreams.
Bambi tried it on for size, but decided that she'd rather aim for quality rather than quantity.
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That last picture is hysterical!! Interestingly... the Easter bunny left one of those eggs in the yard for Gryphon last year, claiming it was a dragon egg! Gryphon spent the better part of Easter day sitting on his egg to warm it, until we decided maybe it was a frost dragon egg and he could keep it in his room for the 10 year incubation period. Sadly weeks later it developed a crack and started to smell so we had to bury the poor unhatched baby dragon in the backyard. He's still hopeful that he'll get another one someday.. (So now that Ruby is wanting a dragon egg I have to ask.. where did you buy yours???;)
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