Just in the last month I’ve started buying eggs from a friend of mine. He and his wife started raising chickens back earlier this year. When they started laying, he contacted me, knowing of my interest in fresh, local foods.

So now once a week we meet for lunch and I pick up a dozen eggs from him.

It’s fun to see what I’m going to get each week in the carton. Some of the eggs are brown, some are blue-ish, some are speckled. The sizes aren’t always consistent, so when I bake, I’ve taken to weighing my eggs (in the US a large egg = about 57 g).

The flavor of these eggs is wonderful. They’re rich and eggy and the yolks are a brilliant yellow. If you have a resource for eggs – eggs from chickens raised locally and allowed to roam and graze (do chickens graze?) – I highly recommend you try them. They’re worth a little extra effort and money.

I hope I never have to go back to store-bought eggs.