Quotes About Eggs

Now rush the eggs into a large bowl of ice water; this will keep that unattractive green ring from forming around the yolk.

While we waited for the eggs Peterkin asked, trying to sound casual, "This your hound-dog? What's his name?" Bill Monroe looked at us and the dog as mean as a man can look. "He's ourn all right. Bein' a plain hound-dog he hain't got a name.

Symbolic value of the pickling process: all the six hundred million eggs which gave birth to the population of India could fit inside a single, standard-sized pickle-jar; six hundred million spermatozoa could be lifted on a single spoon. Every pickle-jar (you will forgive me if I become florid for a moment) contains, therefore, the most exalted of possibilities: the feasibility of the chutnification of history; the grand hope of the pickling of time!

I love kids with a passion I usually reserve for hot cheese, miniature chairs, and Prince concerts, but I feel no stress to reproduce simply because of a fear of withering eggs.

I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me. That white round thing without any holes … have you ever seen anything more revolting than an egg yolk breaking and spilling its yellow liquid? Blood is jolly, red. But egg yolk is yellow, revolting. I've never tasted it.

The hens are clucking. Harper thought it would be a toss-up, which term for women she hated more: bitch or hen. A hen was something you kept in a cage, and her sole worth was in her eggs. A bitch, at least, had teeth.

The strategy of putting all your eggs in one basket and watching that basket is less risky than you might think.

I like a well-roasted rotisserie chicken and eggs cooked various ways, like sunny-side up or scrambled. It's comfort food for me.

You don't have roosters with your laying hens. How do they lay eggs?" Dear folks, chickens don't need roosters to lay eggs. They need roosters to hatch eggs, but not to lay them. Just like women don't need men to lay eggs; they just need a man to hatch one. A mere century ago, not one in a hundred would have been ignorant of this common agrarian knowledge.

I see lots of women having beautiful children later in life. And, if not, just freeze your eggs!

The miracle of eggs. In the beginning was the egg. The chicken was an afterthought, a mere transmission mechanism for the production of further eggs. The world itself is egglike. Those astrophotos of galaxies, spiral nebulae—do they not resemble fresh eggs broken in the pan? The universe itself may be no more than one gigantic cosmic egg. And the function of mind? To fertilize that egg. Creating—who knows what grotesque and Godlike monster. Best not think about it.

The codfish lays ten thousand eggs,The homely hen lays one.The codfish never cacklesTo tell you what she's done.And so we scorn the codfish,While the humble hen we prize,Which only goes to show youThat it pays to advertise.

Q: How do bunnies stay healthy? A: Egg-xercise!

Hickety pickety, my black hen,She lays eggs for gentlemen.Gentlemen come every dayTo see what my black hen doth lay.

For sheer showmanship, it is hard to beat the creation of a really flashy dessert. Without asking Benedetta's permission, Bruno assembled his ingredients. Eggs. Sugar. Cream. Pastry. A large dish of black currants and other fruits from the garden. First he spun sugar into delicate lattice bowls of crisp brown caramel. Then he made meringues, inside which he placed individual baked peaches. Where the peach stone had been, he inserted a berry gelato , made with pieces of solid fruit.

Even if I wake up at 12:30 in the afternoon or something like that late I have to have eggs for breakfast. I don't know, it just makes me feel good and gets me going for the day.

I like poached eggs, but I'll make scrambled or fried or whatever anybody wants.

I usually have three fried eggs every morning. It always has to be three: two is just not enough, and three won't put me over edge.

I don't think of eggs as being fundamental to the flavor of mayonnaise, but they are to Hollandaise.

nothing which did not understand the wonderfulness of what was happening to them--the immense, tender, terrible, heart-breaking beauty and solemnity of Eggs...if an Egg were to be taken away or hurt the whole world would whirl round and crash through space and come to an end...

I really don't do much on the night of Thanksgiving other than bring the wine and carve the turkey. My contribution comes the day after, in the form of breakfast. I usually just forage through the leftovers for things that will go well with eggs.

There are many things to admire about Japan but this is the one thing I love the most and probably the only time I eat breakfast. Fish, eggs, soup, salad, veggies; all in the tiniest bites. It's a full meal, but it's so refreshing.

he put the tray down on a long marble table in front of the fire. The Dean seated himself and lifted an enormous chintz tea cozy from a chipped earthenware teapot, incongruous in the midst of a handsome silver tea service,. There were eggs in china cups, a plate of muffins dripping with butter, and a raisin cake.

To ADDLE  (A'DDLE)   v.a.[from addle, adj.]To make addle; to corrupt; to make barren. This is also evidenced in eggs, whereof the sound ones sink, and such as are addled swim; as do also those that are termed hypenemiæ, or wind-eggs.Brown'sVulgar Errours,b. iv.   To ADDLE  (To A'DDLE)   v.n.To grow; to encrease. Obsolete. Where ivy embraceth the tree very sore,Kill ivy, else tree will addle no more.Tusser'sHusbandry.