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Meg, you are a jewel! I hope your family knows how blessed they are to have you. You are one of the few women who prepares food for her family in abundance. God bless you! 😊

Meg you are EGGceptional! Preparing food for your busy baby future days! Buggy is always wanting to be so helpful 😇adorable 🥰

In my family the standard response when taste-testing yummy food is "You wouldn't care for it. (nom nom)"

I had a job years and years ago, and I peeled 50 to 100 hardboiled eggs 5 days a week as one of my tasks. I was a shy 18yo doing the grunt work and the vending machines in a very busy cafeteria along with several much older veteran cooks. And the cook who worked in the section where I peeled the eggs, showed me a tip on how to peel eggs: Tap the point end, tap the fat end, pinch the fat end and break the seal / membrane. The shell will basically fall off the egg if you do this. Now super fresh and organic eggs may be beasts of another color. But hopefully this might help. My peeled eggs were used in egg salad sandwiches, in salads, and whatever was on the menu that day. Then I took about 15 eggs and put them in the refrigerated vending machines along with sandwiches, pie and cake slices, veggie cups etc.

I a couple more years we will be watching the buggy cooking show!

Ok…you’ve got this, Meg. How about using eggs to make a ginormous batch of French toast and freeze it. Then when the baby comes, stick a few slices in the toaster or oven, and you’ve got an easy start to breakfast. You can do the same with pancakes. You could also make a few batches of a rich egg bread and freeze the loaves. Keep it up!

Your little girl peeling eggs was so adorable.

Fyi lemon curd uses lots of yolks can freeze for cake filling later and so does ice cream, then I make macaroons with all the whites !

Buggy is getting so big. She is going to be a big help when the new baby comes along.

Professional Level Tip: If you're cubing eggs for egg salad or any other application, simply take the square wire baking cooling rack over your bowl and palm the egg through it. Takes milliseconds and it's more uniform.

I am also due in May with baby #2 and have older daughter the same age as Buggy. It is so fun to watch you in the kitchen and motivating to get off my butt! I keep telling myself, “If Meg can do it, so can I!” Praying the rest of your pregnancy goes smoothly, and can’t wait to see Buggy with the baby!

We make an easy breakfast casserole. In a 10 x 15 casserole dish, put a layer of hash browns, top with a pound of sausage (cooked) and scramble 18 eggs (you can add a little milk or cheese if desired), add seasonings of your choice and bake 45 minutes to an hour. Use smaller ratios for a 9 x 13 🙂

If your future plans include investing in a freeze dryer at some point you should wire for one now during your remodel since they need a dedicated circuit.

What a Blessing Buggy is. She will be a confident woman who can conquer mountains. All of your children are Blessed to have parents that teach by example.

I’m seriously amazed at her energy and patience. And all good natured. After baby she’s gonna need spa day. Lucky family.

I cannot believe that little darling Buggy can peel eggs so well I have trouble.

I love making breakfast burritos and egg cups for the freezer.

Oooh 41 weeks pregnant and suddenly wanting all the chocolate! Definitely going to try that pudding tomorrow!

We loved the salted egg yolks. Break the eggs, separate the yolks from the whites. Fill a pan with salt (flavored salt, like truffle salt, smoked salt, herbed salt, etc... is great for this) smooth the salt surface and make divots in the pan with the bottom of a clean egg or spoon, then lay the yolks into the divots. Cover with more salt. Leave in a cool, dry place, preferably well ventilated (refrigerator/cooler). Leave for at least a week. The yolks should be firm, but a bit tacky. Get some cheesecloth or linen or any clean material to roll them in, tying off between them with twine. Then hang them beside your prosciutto to cure. Untie or cut off a single yolk at a time. You can grate them over soups, sandwiches, or salads, whirl them up into sauces, crumble them over your devilled eggs, sky's the limit as a main course or flavoring. Duck eggs are good like this, too, though they need extra fridge and drying time.

Custard, and rice pudding.....

Meg, to me it looks like you are starting to drop. I am so excited for y'all to bring another little one into your home.

Meg who taught you how to cook all your amazing recipes ? Wow child you are a treasure ❤

Buggy is your "star", such a big helper. Can't wait to see how she interacts with the new baby!

Outstanding!!!! HOLLAR FAMILY YA’LL ARE OVER THE TOP AMAZING !!! ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ Patricia

Buggy peeling those eggs like a chef!! Love it

Homemade egg nog: 2 eggs 1 cup milk 1 Tablespoon sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla Nutmeg/cinnamon to taste Blend well and enjoy! Our family likes to pour it through a sieve before drinking. Easily multiplied too!

Frozen hash browns, cooked sausage or bacon, cheese, 8-12 scrambled eggs, milk, S&P. Freeze in casserole dish for delicious bfast. Frozen baked oatmeal with fruit, unset jelly or jam, eggs, milk. Pasta or egg noodles. Add to canned chicken/ vegetables and broth serve over mashed potatoes or make soup. Easy meal. Wish your family was closer, would love to bless you with some freezer meals.

I'm jealous of Buggy's fresh egg pealing abilities

Eggs: Easter Eggs!!! Freeze dryer? Pickled… egg noodles…quiche… deviled eggs. Eggs and bacon!!! Cheesy sweet potato frittata. French toast casserole, lemon meringue pies, meringue cookies, egg salad (with lots of dried dill. )Bacon and egg breakfast muffins. Scrambled eggs !!

hahaha, cheekist smile stealing 1st bit of bacon while Ben was waffling to the camera LOL

Bacon brings everyone to the kitchen....!

Buggy is such a cute helper!❤

OHHKAY?? So I know kids that are twice her(Buggy’s) age that don’t have ANY kitchen skills!! Very proud of y’all!!😍

Meg, I wish I was your next door neighbor! You are so full of knowledge, energy and determination to get a list completed each day. I really need some of that in my life right now.

Love your work ethics. This is what real homesteading is all about. Not those who talk the talk, but don’t walk the walk. Magic.

Egg custard: 4 egg yolks, 2 Tablespoons to 1/4 cup granulated sugar, 2 cups milk, 2 Tablespoons corn starch, 1 teaspoon real vanilla. You can drop the some to all of the cornstarch with an extra egg yolk per Tablespoon; or add protien powder instead. It will be lighter is you hand whip room temp eggs into lemon colored strands; some sugar quickens this process. It truly works better if you heat the milk to "pretty warm" before putting it in the double boiler to actually cook with the steamed in eggs while wisking. I prefer a thin metal mixing bowl of the type with a wider top and narrower bottom over a pot of boiling water to a number of different double boiler set ups and actual double boilers. I prefer regular whole milk as it comes together (over 2%) easily without the extra effort and attention required of a fattier milk. It can be made with both the egg white and the yolk but it jells differently and tastes differently. If using fresh, sweet milk, fresh eggs, and a generous teaspoon of vanilla you can easily skip the sugar.

Buggy is a star 😊 God Bless the children❤

😂again the minute you said the word sugar Buggy ran into the room and said she was going to eat some of those eggs ! It's ok she deserves a few after that awesome job she did for you at peeling those eggs 😊

Make angel food cake with egg whites and lemon curd with the yokes....yummy! LOVE watching you cook with buggy, she is so blessed to have a momma that teaches her at such a young age!

Buggy has become such an old soul so smart and understanding❤

Good work Buggy!!!!

Buggy does such a good job! Mama’s little helper ❤

scramble some eggs then cook sausage or bacon or ham then put that in tortillas add cheese for breakfast burritos. freeze them then take them out the night before you want them and heat them up .

I make my egg salad like you, but I also add mustard & turmeric. The turmeric adds a more yellow color. I am 74 years & still learn so much from you both. I tried water glassing, haven't used them yet, but it is so hard for me to find unwashed eggs. I also have dehydrated them & while it works well, it takes alot of eggs to fill a pint jar! Those of us with an English background love bacon & egg pie! Love your family, especially Buggy. She is such a williing helper & her free speech just cracks me up. Blessings to you all.

Meg I love watching buggy helping you and Ben. You guys have the patience of jobe. Love you guys.❤️❤️❤️

I make egg muffies when I have alot of eggs. I started making them at work too. I work at a convenience store and deli. And everyone loves them. With the size of your family, Meg. I'd make a big batch. That will use 4 dozen eggs. 2 cups of milk, 1 cup of grated parm cheese, 1 tsp salt, 1 or 2 tsp. Black pepper. And I put in a container and shake well. This amount will make at least 50 muffies. Spray muffin tin well. Then put egg mixture halfway up in each muffin cup. Then take any type of cooked meat and add a tablespoon to each muffin cup. Then use any type of shredded cheese and put 1 Tbs. In each cup. Then add a sprinkle of either fresh or dried green onion. Then add enough egg mixture to come up to 1/4" from the top of each muffin cup. Then put into a 350° oven for 20 minutes. But do check them, as ovens vary. Take out of muffin pans. And enjoy. I have used crumbled sausage, bacon, spam, ham, cut up kielbasa, any type cooked meat. Then any type shredded cheese you like. These are so good with taco sauce on them when you serve them. Or ketchup, Tabasco etc. Hope this helps you use up a lot of eggs. Warning! These are very addictive!

You could also make frozen custard/ice cream with those eggs and some great quiches. Buggy is such a little doll and a fantastic helper.

German pancakes are a great way to use up eggs.

Thank you for all the good ideas for using up egg surplus! Your channel is our favorite. We are a family of 11 with such a similar way of life as your family. May God bless you.

❤ avongol soup: BROTH with parsley, garlic.... unlimited eggs! Ratio-1 egg 1 T lemon juice serve with rice.....

Mustard pickled eggs, horseradish deviled eggs, pound cakes, regular deviled eggs. Meg you are amazing!

I'm wondering if y'all don't have Egg & Bacon Pie in the US? Can be 30 eggs used in 1 meal!!!! Super quick prep. Everyone loves it! Line a rectangle roasting pan with a large sheet of flakey pastry. Scatter bacon over the bottom. Drop in as many eggs on top as you want to fill it up. I seriously do 3-4 doz sometimes to get rid of eggs!! Salt and pepper. Run a folk through to just break up the yokes. Bake till set. Cut and take on a picnic, quick lunch, dinner on the go. Can freeze. Can add veg also.

Hi Meg, 👋 FYI just as we can tell if eggs are fresh or not by popping them in water to see if they float or sink, we know the ones that sink are fresh, and toss the ones that float, the same applies to whether or not eggs peel nicely. When we have a very fresh egg, the membrane around it is adhered to the shell, as the egg gets older, that membrane shrinks and let's go of the shell, creating an air pocket, which gets bigger and bigger as the egg ages, hence floating when stale.....so the older the egg is, the easier it is to peel as that membrane has let go of the shell. The reason you need to pop them in cold water, when they've cooked is to prevent the outer portion of the yolk going grey....letting them cool on their own, without cooling, means when you cut, (or bite) into it later on it will most likely have that grey green outer layer on the yolk, which doesn't taste bad, just doesn't look so good. Lesson for today complete. Cheers Dee from NZ.❤🎉😂

Easy egg peeling. Take a quart canning jar, six hard boiled eggs and about one cup of water. Cover and gently shake until the shells are very cracked. Take out the eggs and the shells will slide off.!!

Mrs. Meg, you are absolutely amazing! Thank you for letting me visit with you for a little while.

Meg buggy is a good helper

My go to when overwhelmed with eggs is chile relleno caseroles and something we call eggy cups. I fill cupcake tins with all kinds of veggies and bacon or sausage and fill with whisked eggs and bake them then freeze them. I don't like making breakfast so it's a nice easy self serve breakfast.

Buggy is so adorable and inquisitive and certainly loves shadowing her mum but meg for the most part your kitchen is the heart and soul of the home

This is one time I wish smells actually transmitted somehow through the internet. I'd love to smell all those good cooking scents in your kitchen! I also wish Harvest Right had given you a freeze dryer when they were gifting them to other homestead vloggers a few years back. You could have a lifetime supply of dried eggs for your entire family!

I use up extra eggs making "chaffles" . Eggs, canned sausage, and cheddar cheese in the waffle iron then serve on toast as a sandwich. I also make egg bites in my muffin pan and freeze those for a quick out the door breakfast. You can add anything you like, I usually do sausage or bacon, cheese, chopped bell pepper, chopped onion, mushrooms, and eggs. And there is always breakfast casserole and breakfast burritos. Love your channel and family! Buggy is the most adorable little girl ever! I am guessing that you might be having your baby or babies? in April, lol. You look beautiful and have the sweetest smile. You and Ben together are a real power couple, and complement each other in the best way possible. Thanks for sharing another excellent video, sending all of you my prayers!

Hi Meg. I would recommend a spanish flan the huevo to use up eggs. It is really simple and delicious - I am pretty sure Ben and the kids will love it. This is the recipe: Mix 8 eggs and 200 g sugar, then add 1 liter of milk. Optimally, 1 teaspoon of vanilla essence can be added. For the caramel: Put 8 tablespoons of sugar in a pan and add 6 tablespoons of water. Allow to caramelize without stirring until the caramel is slightly brown. Place the caramel in a flat-bottomed pot or bowl, then pour the egg-sugar-milk mixture over it. Cover with aluminum foil and let it solidify in a water bath for 1 - 1.5 hours. The water bath should only be around 80-85 °C, so don't boil it, otherwise the flan will end up tasting too much like eggs. Then remove it from the water bath and let it cool completely (first at room temperature, then in the refrigerator). Then turn it out onto a plate with slightly raised edges and enjoy. 😊 Best wishes from Germany and happy Easter

When my youngest was a toddler he was a pro egg peeler. It was great having his help . He still loves pickled eggs

Love seeing Meg cook! ❤❤

I love ALL The Hollar Homestead videos!

I loved watching Buggy peel the eggs, I need a Buggy to help me! Love your family!

Egg ideas: Chile Rellenos, Dutch Baby Pancakes, Deviled eggs for Easter Dinner. I'm glad you guys talked about smoking with oak. I have a pile of oak woodchips from a tree we had to take down and I was thinking about using some of them for smoking - not if it's kind of bitter. Perfect timing too because I just mentioned this to my husband a couple of days ago. Thanks!

I want to wish the Hollar family! A bless and wnderful Easter. May God bless you,Meg, and the family richly.

EGGNOODLES VERY EASY TO MAKE

$6 a dozen here in Philadelphia so eggs are a commodity I have a suggestion… make waffles, vacuum sealed and freeze them for breakfast Chicken and waffles for dinner Waffles and ice cream for dessert I also made a waffle layer birthday cake 😎👍

Loved to watch Buggie shelling eggs. I can imagine Buggie is going to show baby how its done! You all work so hard at making your homestead run like clockwork. 💕💕🌻🌻

EGG CUSTARD and custard pie... My two favorites that my mom made in the 60's...

Egg salad, a omelette, a soufflé, a custard oh my God you got your hands full with all them eggs but I just love 🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚

😮A great video. Thank you. Blessings

I love that Meg is wearing a Roots and Refuge tshirt! Homesteaders sticking together!

Meg, you are an amazing woman.😊

Idea : cook scrambled eggs, put flat onto a oven cookie pan for example, flash freeze and then bag up. Easy to add to salads, rice stir-fry, etc

You can boil that ski🎉 from bacon and when is wery soft ,than cut I small pieces put spices on the top and bake in oven to get crisp is wery good 😊,Brenda

Buggy is so helpful, just wait when the baby comes!!😊

Meg you got you a healthy baby boy in there 😊

Buggy is SO precious helping you to peel those boiled eggs!

Love you guys 🥰🙏 thank you 🤩

Bacon dipped in chocolate pudding sounds yummy to me!!!

Unless I missed it, we didn't get to see your son's critic of the bacon. I love watching your cooking episodes - so much learning to be had. Thank you for another educational video.

Buggy was quite the egg peeler, she is a great helper and so cute. Meg you are so efficient with everything you do, and especially with an over abundance of eggs!

Buggy, you are growing up so fast! A real individual, lovely to watch your contributions to your family.

Love all you do! You two are a force and love watching you cook and prep for future meals. I learn something more each time I watch your videos. I never miss them and I love each one! Love watching the boys and Buggy out with you guys in the gardens and about the property. I cannot believe the twins are grown men almost at this point. Mercy, where has the time gone! I am excited to see Buggy as a big sister and I am sure she will be such a big help. SO cute! She was just a baby it seems last year........as I said, where has the time gone? Excited to watch Ben build the addition as well. Never a dull video put out by the Hollars! Blessings!!! Take good care of all...........the bacon looks delicious as does everything else you have done! Yummm

Buggy is the cutest little girl i have ever seen. She is a girly with a kick of tomboy. She will be a big help when the baby comes. Love your videos. I catch myself saying " hello beautiful people ".

Just a thought, if you froze the skrambled eggs in zip lock freezer bags. You could freeze them flat and take up a lot less space.

So impressed! You asked for suggestions, so here goes, Sacher Torte, a really rich chocolate cake that will use some of your cherries too. Ideal for celebrations. freezes well as a plain cake finish when you take out to defrost. Choux Paste uses eggs not sure how well the dough would freeze but worth trying fresh and reserving a bit for the freezer, great filled with cream and fruit. Make meringues with egg whites to store dry and top lemon meringue pies English set custard tart, best fresh, mostly eggs with milk and sugar can be done without a crust in a glass dish or with a crust in a pie or pattipan. Duchesse Potatoes, plain mashed potato mixed with seasoned beaten egg and baked in portions, can be ready in minutes, from the freezer, or use to top Shepherds or cottage pie and freeze. Make all your pancakes with eggs, rather than other raising agents they taste so much better. to do a lot and freeze them clean off the hotplate on the outside grill and cook them there. Make scones with eggs rather than other baking agent. You already make mayonnaise so make lots more and keep in a cool place, you can make garlic mayonnaise too , you have plenty of garlic. I am sure you know that you can dry eggs maybe you know someone who has the best freeze-dryer to do it with, or maybe you have one. Saves on room in the freezer for other things. Remember baking agents are used when eggs are in short supply. One egg = one measure of baking agent. hope you find some of the suggestions useful.

I don't know what it's called.. but it's 8 eggs,8 oz cream cheese, 1/2 stick of butter in a blender, spray 8 by 8 pan bake @350 for 30 minutes (i had to go 40) allow to deflate and sprinkle cinnamon top with sugar free syrup, berries and whipped cream...reminds me of a flan texture with a french toast taste.

My chickens are in full swing right now, so I am making ham, cheese , and egg breakfast burritos for the freezer. I freeze a lot of eggs too.

Buggy rocking the egg pealing is adorable but the bacon really made me smile, thank you for bringing us along. Except now I want some bacon…

Buggy , what a great little girl, so very helpful. Beautiful.

Buggie is an awesome egg peeler - she rocks!! lol 😂👍😬❤️❤️🇨🇦

I just 💜💜 Buggy’s enthusiasm! Soon she will be making dinner for the family.

Egg-cellent, the pudding looks good. Love what you guys do. Keep up the good work. Be blessed.

So many eggs! Buggie is such a good helper! Oh, and the bacon!!!

First...thank you for your vlogs. We follow you hard core!! We use our egg overload to make Baked Egg Custard, Egg and nutmeg Tart and Curds....so Lemon , orange and lime Be well and be safe xxxx

Here is another eggy recipe that you can freeze for baby time. Bake a custard CAKE in a cookie sheet that has sides. Use a recipe that take a lot of eggs. Mine is a gluten free recipe that tastes so good. Then allow to cool completely - cut the cake in half on the cookie sheet - spread a topping on half of the cake (think pudding - uses more eggs or if you want fruit - think jellies) - carefully place the unspread side on top of the other side. So now you have a two layer type custard cake. Cut into small 1.5" x 3" serving sizes and vacuum seal - freeze. If vac sealed they will stay fresh in the freezer for months!

Deviled eggs are a good use of a few dozen for snacks. Add bacon, jalapeno, cheese and onions. Also a great sandwich spread.