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If you've broken the eggs, you should make the omelette. ~Anthony EdenWhat’s Cooking in Carole’s Kitchen? I love eggs. When they were under siege from researchers for purportedly raising cholesterol, I continued to eat them, though I occasionally used the egg substitute.Research has since restored the egg’s reputation, so I can enjoy my daily egg each morning without...

Frankly, I don’t care which came first, the chicken or the egg; I’m just damn glad that chickens shoot those ovals out at such a clip. You may think I’ve finally run out of things to blog about and saw an egg in the kitchen and just thought, ‘What the hell, I’ll write about eggs.’ You would be only half wrong. True, eggs may seem boring to some, but those of us who crave them...

The bluebirds are back. Again. For at least the twenty-fifth year in a row, a nesting pair have occupied a birdhouse in my backyard, raising at least one crop of fledglings and often two. This year six eggs were laid in the first round, but there's such a crush of beaks and feathers and fluff in the nest, I still can't make out how many have hatched! Though when I peeked in a few minutes ago,...

It starts with small things when we’re young...”Mother, may I eat my Easter egg before you hide it in the yard for Easter? I don’t like dirty eggs.” Here’s the difference in answers between, say, a Mrs. Cleaver Mother and our Ancient One. Mrs. Cleaver: “My precious darling, I don’t hide eggs in the garden for Easter. Why, the wonderful...

 The History Of The Apron I don't think our kids Know what an apron is. The principal use of Grandma's apron was to protect the dress underneath because she only had a few. It was also because it was easier to wash aprons than dresses and aprons used less material. But along with that, it served as a potholder for removing Hot pans from the oven. It was wonderful for drying...

Nothing says happy holidays like a homemade treat! So check out GrowingBolder.com member Chef Steve's recipe for Eggnog -- made the (somewhat) healthy way.

If you've been playing the dieting game for any length of time (a game I hope you've given up), you can remember food trends. One year, a food is deemed good for us. A few years later, we're told to avoid it. Do you remember when margarine was supposed to be better for us than butter? Later, because of trans-fats in margarine, we were encouraged to avoid it. Eggs, at one point, were bad for us...