The Fresh Eggs Daily Cookbook: Over 100 Fabulous Recipes to Use Eggs in Unexpected Ways

by Lisa Steele

Overview

"Fresh Eggs Daily blogger Steele lays down as many tips and recipes as her chickens do eggs in this innovative and plucky collection.... This will be hard to beat." – Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

Lisa Steele, fifth-generation chicken keeper and founder of the popular blog Fresh Eggs Daily, knows a thing or two about eggs. And she’s ready to show you just how easy and delicious it can be to make eggs a staple of every meal.

First, Lisa will tell you everything you don’t know about eggs—such as what the different labels on grocery store egg cartons mean—and bust some common egg myths.

From there, she provides you with foundational techniques for cooking with eggs, including steaming, grilling, baking, and frying.

And finally, Lisa shares her go-to recipes for everything from breakfast staples, like eggs Benedict and a classic French trifold “omelette,” to breads, sandwiches, beverages, snacks, soups, salads, pasta, cakes, pies, and condiments. You’ll encounter a wide variety of both sweet and savory dishes with Lisa’s unique twists.

Read The Fresh Eggs Daily Cookbook to discover new and exciting ways to incorporate fresh eggs into your cooking and baking repertoire each and every day.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780785245438
Publisher:	Harper Celebrate
Publication date:	02/15/2022
Sold by:	HarperCollins Publishing
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	189,358
File size:	170 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.

About the Author

Lisa Steele is an author, popular television and radio guest, and creator of the blog Fresh Eggs Daily, the premiere online resource for chicken-keeping advice. Lisa has amassed an audience of nearly one million from all over the globe, who look to her for tips on raising backyard poultry naturally, gardening tips, and her coop-to-kitchen recipes. Her previous books on chicken keeping have sold more than 125,000 copies worldwide and are among the bestselling chicken-keeping books in print.

Dubbed "queen of the coop" by the media, Lisa has been recognized by many national media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, USA Today, Country Living, Farmers’ Almanac, and Parade. As a television and radio personality, Lisa has appeared on the Hallmark Channel’s Home & Family, Martha Knows Best on HGTV, P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home, and NPR’s Maine Calling. Her first book was recommended summer reading on The View in 2018, and her website was featured on an episode of The Dr. Oz Show that was focused on eating eggs. Lisa also hosted two seasons of the Telly Award–winning television show, Welcome to My Farm, on NBC in Maine.

A fifth-generation chicken keeper and Maine Master Gardener, Lisa lives in rural Maine, with her husband, their corgi and barn cat, and her “girls”--a mixed flock of about thirty hens, ducks, and geese. Plus one fairly grumpy rooster and a drake named Gregory.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

Know Your Eggs 1

Cooking with Eggs 9

Basic Egg-Cooking Techniques 23

Hard- and Soft-Cooked Eggs 23

Poached Eggs 26

Fried Eggs 28

Scrambled Eggs 31

Oven-Cooked Eggs 32

Preserving Eggs 35

Breakfast 45

Brunch to Lunch 79

Sips and Nibbles 121

Dinner 147

Sweets 183

Condiments, Sauces, Fillings & Toppings 251

Additional Resources 281

Pantry and Kitchen Ingredients 281

Kitchen Utensils and Appliances 284

Caring for Your Cast-iron Skillet 287

Acknowledgments 289

Recipe Index by Number of Eggs Needed 290

Index 292

About the Author 300

Editorial Reviews

★ 12/06/2021

Fresh Eggs Daily blogger Steele (Duck Eggs Daily) lays down as many tips and recipes as her chickens do eggs in this innovative and plucky collection. Combining her expertise as a fifth-generation chicken keeper in Maine with inspiration from her Scandinavian forebears, she succeeds at her aim to share “unique and creative ways to use eggs” in delectable recipes that run the gamut from eggs in a hole to frothy cocktails. Eggs are baked inside roasted rings of butternut squash as a healthy way to bring together protein and veg, while a plate of egg yolk ravioli on marina sauce is made “deceptively simple” thanks to wonton wrappers. Recipe headnotes contain helpful pointers—such as dry-shaking egg whites with an acid before adding ice for optimal foam in one’s lime bourbon sour, and that a turmeric-vinegar soak ensures a stunning presentation for deviled eggs. In addition to sharing basic cooking and curing techniques, she weighs in on whether fresh eggs are really better (they are) and divulges insider info on how commercial eggs are graded and coded. Most unexpected of the lot—and highly useful—is the book’s recipe index listed by the number of eggs needed. This will be hard to beat. Agent: John Maas, Park & Fine Literary. (Feb.)

Publishers Weekly

02/01/2022

Steele (blogger of Fresh Eggs Daily and author of Duck Eggs Daily) aims to highlight the versatility of eggs in her latest book. She went from working on Wall Street to owning a bookstore and currently lives on a Maine farm where she raises chickens. Given her access to fresh eggs, it's natural that in her recipes eggs are the focus and the main ingredient, and not just for breakfast. All of Steele's recipes are easy to use; highlights include ricotta scrambled eggs, lemon fried eggs, tomato caprese quiche, and baked eggs marinara. Helpfully, Steele's cookbook starts with the basics of eggs and tips that are helpful for any cook—including nutrition, storage, cooking, and the benefits of using very fresh eggs. VERDICT This latest work from Steele will provide cooks and bakers with plenty of new ways to use eggs.—Ginny Wolter

Library Journal