NowHere Farms

  Coming home from the market with extra eggs means an opportunity to experiment with new recipes and things to do with quail eggs.    It often starts with hard boiling the eggs.   With quail eggs the best way I have found is to bring the water to a boil  before  adding the room temperature eggs.  Once the eggs are all in the pot, let the water return to a boil and boil for no more than 3 minutes.  Remove the eggs and put them in a bowl in the refrigerator to cool off (or put them in a bowl and set that bowl in a pan of ice if you prefer). When the eggs are completely cool, begin peeling them.  There is no magic formula I have found other than patience.  I do start peeling at the "fat" end as that does seem to allow me to catch the membrane and get it off more easily. My newest recipe is for an Asian-flavored marinade which was quite popular at the market this past week.      2 cups poultry broth 1/4 cup soy sauc...

  While we were away from home last Friday we had a delivery.  The driver of the truck decided to turn around in our little turn-around area in front of the house.  That was fine; this is why we have that there.  Unfortunately when our new internet server brought fiber-optic to our house, the line was connected to our house with an 8-8.5 foot clearance.  That line did run right over the turn-around area.  Did you know that delivery trucks traditionally require an 11 foot clearance?   FedEx: 1 Internet Provider: 0   Saturday morning as we left for market, Cletus figured out why we did not have internet                          Typically one would find this attached to the side of the house....   He called the internet company later that day.  On Monday when we still had not heard anything he went to the office (they are likely  really  tired of seeing our...

   What a wonderful weekend we had!   Friday I mixed up a couple batches of my new gluten-free sourdough English Muffins  It does not rise like regular bread but it does get nice and fluffy It uses muffin rings because the dough is a little thin Ta-da!               and five batches of "regular" English Muffins.   While I was busy in the kitchen, Cletus was busy in the garden.  We had lots of green beans and tomatoes, some cucumbers, and a variety of peppers. He gardens, he builds ALL the quail stuff, AND he does googly-eye art with the vegetables.  What a renaissance man! Saturday was a wonderfully busy market day.  We were outside this week, so it was pretty warm but we have learned to take our large, heavy-duty fan with us and that made all the difference.     We quickly sold out of green beans, and the tomatoes were also a big hit, as were the cucumbers.    What really made ...

  This is a question I am frequently asked at the market.  My usual reply is, "anything you do with a chicken egg, I can do with a quail egg; scrambles, quiches, baking, hard-boiled, pickled, pumpkin custard, and I make a killer eggnog with them".   I had a couple of ladies take the plunge and purchase one dozen each (and scissors; a huge help if you are doing anything other than hard boiling them).  They went home and Googled what to do with quail eggs.  They were so excited by the possibilities they drove back to the market and bought more! One thing I decided to try this week was eggs baked in avocado.  I found the idea online and ran with it, making modifications to fit our preferences. For the two of us it begins with 2 avocados (and I should have gone with 1 because this is filling), 4 quail eggs, grated cheese, salsa, bacon (or any meat you prefer), onions, salt, garlic, and butter.  I also added some black olives for mine.  Preheat th...

  How was your month of May?    Ours was full, but mostly in a good, old-retired-geezer kind of way.  😉 There were appointments with doctors, including the one-year anniversary appointment for Cletus' new knee (a disappointing result).  There were two rains, each of which flooded the back of our property.    There was a meeting with two men from the county road department to see if the county would agree to ditch the right-of-way to prevent these floods (they will not; we will have to pay someone to do this).  There was a trip over to West Mobile to deliver our first batch of live quail to St. Elmo Feed and Seed for their Chick Days which was VERY exciting for us as a new business!   The garden is growing well and keeping Cletus quite busy.  The quail are hatching and thriving.     Market days keep us busy on Fridays as we prep and on Saturdays as we enjoy our market community .  Our Coastal Alabama Farmer...