Quail Eggs

 

It's strange thing, the sort of memories that will stick in your head.  I have this very distinct memory of reading some domestic diva magazine and someone recommending that parents pack quail eggs in a child's lunch as an alternative to boring old  sandwiches. This was long before I had a child but I remember laughing and thinking to myself that whoever wrote that article needed to get a grip on reality.

 

You've seen the title of the post  and you've probably already figured out that somewhere within this post, I'm going to have to eat those words. The quail egg is  currently one of my kid's favourite little breakfast/snack foods.

 

 It turns out that the author I mocked long ago was right.  Possibly, I mocked her because I'd never seen a quail egg available at the grocery store . Probably I was thinking that she was silly for suggesting a parent spend a small fortune at some gourmet shop to get a snack for a kid who'd rather be eating some sort of spreadable cheese on crackers. But now I'm living in Korea, and in Korea, quail eggs are available at my little corner grocery right beside the  chicken eggs.   The only real problem with quail eggs as a snack is that it can be difficult to get the  shell off. Geezler can be a little picky with hardboiled chicken eggs, eating just the whites and leaving the yolk behind. With a boiled quail egg, she happily eats the whole tiny thing . That's a good thing because there's very little white in a quail egg. (I once watched one of the Geezler's more picky friends peel a quail egg, take out the yolk and eat the tiny bit of white from the egg; I think she expended more calories than she took in from that snack.)

 

So far, I've only served quail eggs by boiling them. I keep thinking they would make such cute little fried eggs, though, maybe perched on top a a bowl of bibimbap.  They  make cue little Easter eggs when you dye them, too 

(I can't believe how far behind I am in posting about some of the sightseeing we've done here in Korea. For the next little while, I'll be trying to get up some posts about some of the places we visited in the late fall and early spring.)