Egg Recipes & Cookbooks

Egg Cookbooks and Recipes

• Boiled eggs - An egg boiled in its shell. This is a popular breakfast dish, and is often eat with "soldiers" (thin strips of buttered toast).
  
  
• Century egg - This is a method used in Chinese cuisine for preserving eggs (chicken, duck or quail eggs may be used). Eggs are placed for several weeks in a mixture of ash, clay, lime, salt, and rice straw, and this causes chemical changes in the egg. The yolk of egg turns dark green and gains an a sulphur-ammonia aroma, the white of the egg turns into brown transparent jelly with little taste. When the preparation is complete, century eggs are ready to eat, and can be eaten on their own as a side dish. Alternatively, century eggs are sometimes used in an ingredient in other dishes.
  
  
• Creole Omelette - This recipe from Creole cuisine, is a plain omelette served with a spicy vegetable sauce.
  
  
• Denver Omelette - This recipe from midwestern cuisine is a rich omelette containing onions, bell peppers, and ham or bacon.
  
  
• Fried Eggs - An egg shallow-fried. This is a popular breakfast dish in thee United States, Britain, and Canada.
  
  
• Omurice - The is a Japanese dish. It is an omelette filled with fried rice. Chicken rice (rice with chicken and ketchup) is usually used, and the dish is often also flavored with beef stock.
  
  
• Quiche Lorraine - This is a French dish It is made by filling a pastry shell with heavy cream, eggs and bacon, and baking it.
  
  
  
• Scotch egg - This is a traditional British recipe, although, despite the name it does not originate from Scotland (Scotch eggs were actually first created by Fortnum & Mason, a famous food shop in London). Scotch eggs are hard-boiled eggs, coated in sausage meat and then breadcrumbs, and cooked by deep-frying. They are allowed to cool, stored refridgerated, and eaten cold, usually as a snack food. Scotch are readily available from convenience stores and supermarkets in the United Kingdom.
  
  
  
• Scrambled Eggs - Beaten eggs mixed with a little milk, and then fried, and optionally topped with grated cheese.
  
  
• Shakshouka - This is an Israeli dish made from eggs, tomatoes, onions and garlic. It is usually eaten with pita bread.
  
  
• Soy egg - This is Chinese recipe. It is made from a hard-boiled egg flavored with herbs and spices, soy sauce, and sugar.
  
  
• Tortilla de patatas - This is a Spanish recipe for onion and potato omelette.

• Egg Recipes

Deviled Eggs: 50 Recipes from Simple to Sassy By Debbie Moose Harvard Common Press Hardcover (96 pages) List Price: $12.95* Lowest New Price: $7.52* Lowest Used Price: $0.79* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 08:04 Pacific 29 Jul 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: A revered favorite for generations, deviled eggs are not only the ultimate party food but also great side dishes, first courses to an elegant dinner, or additions to a salad to round out a light lunch. In Deviled Eggs, Debbie Moose introduces 50 recipes for making deviled eggs, with flavors that range from light and simple (Springtime Herb Delights) to elegant (Avocado Angel Eggs) to gutsy (Blue Devils) to fiery (Tex-Mex Diablos). With tips for perfectly hard-cooked eggs, ideas for creative presentation, and gorgeous full-color photography of the eggs themselves, Debbie Moose’s Deviled Eggs is devilishly good.

Blue Eggs and Yellow Tomatoes: Recipes from a Modern Kitchen Garden By Jeanne Kelley Running Press Hardcover (352 pages) List Price: $35.00* Lowest New Price: $15.20* Lowest Used Price: $9.00* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 08:04 Pacific 29 Jul 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: A visually stunning guide to the emerging kitchen garden culture--combining home-grown ingredients with globally influenced tastes! Like many of today's home gardeners, Jeanne Kelley's backyard kitchen garden is a means to indulge her desire for fresh, organic, and flavor-rich produce. Just minutes outside of downtown Los Angeles, this same backyard is also home to Kelley's pet goat and Ameraucana chickens, which provide her with a plentiful amount of milk and sky blue eggs that often feature in Kelley's internationally inspired dishes. Now she shares more than 150 of her recipes, all of which incorporate new and authentic ways to take advantage of local and seasonal foods and incorporate the multi-ethnic flavors into your everyday meals. This remarkable cookbook presents a contemporary version of field-to-table cooking that hails from a region where home chefs prune their kitchen gardens in the shadow of metropolitan cities and year-round farmers' markets provide heirloom vegetables that inspire classic and enticing dishes. Capitalizing on her 20 years as a Bon Appetit contributor, Kelley's recipes are simple and spectacular. With strategies for both weeknight cooking and special occasions, Blue Eggs and Yellow Tomatoes is the essential manual for all who hunger to create quick and healthy meals with flair. In addition to the many mouthwatering recipes, Kelley provides readers with tips and menus for entertaining, plus a thorough kitchen garden primer that celebrates the simple joy of growing your own produce--including discussion on small container and community gardens, raising and keeping backyard chickens, composting, and growing your own exotic ingredients.

Country Egg, City Egg By Gayle Pirie Artisan Hardcover (128 pages) List Price: $15.95* Lowest New Price: $11.11* Lowest Used Price: $6.44* *(As of 08:04 Pacific 29 Jul 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: There isn't a more delicious little book on eggs than this treasure by former chefs at the very popular and much-acclaimed Zuni Café in San Francisco. Gayle Pirie and John Clark spent eight years cooking, thinking about, and writing menus for eggs, and it is no wonder that these are inspired creations. From the most rustic country dishes—eggs baked in braised-mashed potatoes—to smooth and sleek city dishes—caviar and scrambled eggs—here are eggs around the clock, for every meal of the day, including dessert. Here too are the best hard-cooked eggs you'll ever make, the most seductively flavored omelets, tortas, and frittatas, and a dish so delicious yet so simple that the eggs get cracked right into the skillet. No need to mess up a single bowl! With a few eggs in the fridge, something great to eat is just a few seconds away. When it comes to comfort, simplicity, infinite versatility, downright goodness, and affordability—nothing beats eggs!

Take a Thousand Eggs or More: A Translation of Medieval Recipes from Harleian Ms. 279, Harleian Ms. 4016, and Extracts of Ashmole Ms. 1439, Laud Ms. By Cindy Renfrow C. Renfrow Spiral-bound (2 pages) List Price: $27.00* Lowest New Price: $130.73* Lowest Used Price: $31.24* *(As of 08:04 Pacific 29 Jul 2010 More Info) Click Here

111 Egg Recipes by Mrs. S.T. Rorer Kindle Edition List Price: $1.95* *(As of 08:04 Pacific 29 Jul 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: 111 Egg Recipes. Any single food containing all the elements necessary to supply the requirements of the body is called a complete or typical food. Milk and eggs are frequently so called, because they sustain the young animals of their kind during a period of rapid growth. Nevertheless, neither of these foods forms a perfect diet for the human adult. Both are highly nutritious, but incomplete. Served with bread or rice, they form an admirable meal and one that is nutritious and easily digested. The white of eggs, almost pure albumin, is nutritious, and, when cooked in water at 170 degrees Fahrenheit, requires less time for perfect digestion than a raw egg. The white of a hard-boiled egg is tough and quite insoluble. The yolk, however, if the boiling has been done...

The Egg White Cookbook: 75 Recipes for Nature's Perfect Food By Margaret Blackstone M. Evans and Company, Inc. Paperback (144 pages) List Price: $15.95* Lowest New Price: $3.00* Lowest Used Price: $2.98* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 08:04 Pacific 29 Jul 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: The egg white is low in carbs, calories, and fat and contains almost all of the protein available in the egg. The 75 recipes cover every meal, also included are surprising uses,facts,and lore, about the incomparable egg.