Eggstra special breakfast

A double yoked egg!

I decided to cook a big breakfast last Sunday morning, so my daughter and I headed to the kitchen to strategize.

Well, no surprise there; that’s almost always her breakfast of choice (we do raise chickens, after all!).

I headed to the cupboard for a pan; she headed to the fridge for the eggs.

She brought two eggs over to me for inspection, one of which was a very large egg with a network of funky ridges on it surface.

Now, I had been watching that egg for a few days…often when a young hen first starts laying, she will produce eggs of interesting sizes, shapes, and … textures.

I made Izzy her “tween omelet”:  egg scrambled with the mushrooms cooked separately and served on the side.

Then I bit the bullet and cracked the unusual egg into the bowl…and it had two yolks! Now, this wasn’t our first chicken egg that contained two yolks, but it was the first one that I’d ever personally cracked that did.

I was absurdly pleased by this.

One great thing about this egg was how bright and beautiful the yolks were. What was also great was that it was big enough to make an entire omelet from just the one egg!

Note: I put my mushrooms (and spinach!) in the actual omelet, as opposed to the “tween” version with them on the side. 🙂