Cooking @lemmy.world FauxPseudo @lemmy.world 3w ago

Soldiers and eggs, dead nettle pesto. Cooking challenge edition.

I'm in a Facebook cooking group and they do a theme challenge each month. April is Depression Era or Frugal. So I decided to go as cheap and gourmet as possible. Soldiers and eggs with dead nettle pesto.

Homemade: bread, butter Home raised: goose eggs Home foraged: pecans, dead nettles, wild garlic

I made a soft skin and a hard skin loaf because my wife likes a softer crust.

Paid for: Salt, pepper, EVOO, flour, yeast, heavy cream. Cost per person: $1.13

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Pesto needs a lot more oil but otherwise looks fantastic
- It was a balance issue. The wild garlic was mild and the dead nettle was pretty neutral. The pecans were more texture than flavor. If I put in any more oil all you were going to taste was the oil.
How’d you get the eggs so cheap?!
- I have chickens, ducks and geese. Eggs are practically free. Especially the goose eggs. Once the goslings are feathered out they can live exclusively off grass with zero supplemental feed. But they only lay in the spring, three times a week, and you may have to fight a goose to get the egg once it's laid. But as a reward you get one egg the size of three chicken eggs with one yolk that is equal to one and a half full sized chicken eggs.
  
  The rest of the year the geese just protect the flock from hawks and mow the yard.
  
  protect the flock from hawks and mow the yard
  
  Such an apt description of a goose
  
  Chicken Eggs are practically free after you spend hundreds on a coop.
- Bought a goose.
There are people still using Facebook? I was completely unaware. MySpace still a thing too?
- Thank you for your invaluable contribution. I hope you find the peace that eludes you.
  
  Thank you. I love you too.
That looks amazing!
- I try to cook things you can't get in any restaurant at any price. But my plating needs work.
  
  I think it looks lovely. Good idea with the nettle pesto, going to try that this weekend!

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