Slow Fast Food!

Our default fast food is the incredible edible egg!  Since our week has been busy preparing and cooking for Thanksgiving….which consisted mostly of local foods….but not entirely, I’d figured I throw in the simple slow egg!

These are our own pastured free range eggs with sprouted toast and homemade butter.  As my son said, “what exactly is homemade butter?”  It’s butter I made from our local raw heavy cream.  It’s so good.

Notice the bright undoctored color of the eggs.  A pastured egg where the chickens are free ranging on bugs, grass and whatever else they can find will give you a very bright yolk, indicating it is nutrient dense! The eggs are very slow.  My pullets are almost 15 wks old and only a few are laying.  That’s a lot of time and care put into a chick to get an egg.  The old ladies are only giving me an egg every other day.  Slow is the correct word to describe the incredible edible egg!  Sprouted bread is is also a slow food because it takes time to sprout the wheat, grind the flour, raise the dough and bake the bread.  Normally I’d throw in some slow pork of some kind. Hogs that are pastured foraging for their food and drinking surplus raw milk.  There’s nothing like milk fed pigs.

Eggs are a great depression fighting food.  Loaded with Vit B, Vit A, iron and Vit D.  The egg is high in protein and cholesterol which you need especially for your aging brain.  I make sure I get my egg yolk somewhat raw even with scrambled eggs.  One of my favorite ways to eat raw eggs in in EggNog which I’ll post soon.  So simple, yet loaded with nutrients.

A challenge for you this week is to think about just how slow your food is even if it is “fast food”

This post is a part of The Dark Days Challenge and Fight Back Friday.  Click in the sidebar under Resources to see what others have been cooking up this week…..I bet a lot of Turkey!