Sharing food is one of our favorite things, and country meals are ideal for sharing!

"Country" meals are simple, rustic, homey, and wholesome, and usually utilize fairly basic cooking techniques and local and/or homegrown ingredients, and are always filled with love. Sometimes we like to get fancy with our Über Dank mouthgasms and @everlove's style of 19 things on a leaf covered in sauce, but easy, straightforward "country" cooking has its place as well. (Read even more about our unique relationship with food by reading our previous post.)

Eggs are one of the foods we can dress up for a party or leave them unadorned for every day dining. We almost always have an abundance of eggs, and we take advantage of them as excellent sources of readily available nutrition! They contain high quality protein, choline, selenium, vitamin E, and B vitamins. While they are also high in cholesterol, it is the "good" HDL form the body needs.

Eggs are a great simple, quick, easy, and nutritious food to know how to prepare, because they can be made to exact specifications. We prefer our eggs over easy prepared outdoors over fire in our sustainable outdoor kitchen according to this simple country formula:

On mornings when our cook @loveon isn't too cranky or tired from catering a big event the night before, she will often volunteer to make breakfast for our crew of Eden Knights. Nine times out of ten, this breakfast is fried eggs with toast, and it almost never gets old! This is a classic meal, and it is one of the few recipes we repeat at all. On special occasions, she'll make bacon too, and on days she's in a really, really good mood she'll whip up a batch of Banana Pancakes to go along with them! She does this in part because she loves us, and in part because she particularly enjoys sharing a plate of hot eggs with 3-year-old Noki and 5-year-old QiQi.

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