Feast Your Eyes: Dappled quail eggs

by Marisa McClellan, Posted Oct 9th 2008 @ 8:00AM

a plate with five quail eggs and a lettuce leaf on it

I live down the street from a gourmet grocery store. I often stop in there for a wedge of cheese or a particularly good loaf of bread. They carry delicious sausage and reasonably priced chicken. On those occasions when I splurge on a bit of hand cut smoked salmon, the wait for my order leaves me gazing at a case that also contains five or six dozen diminutive quail eggs. I've never bought any, but I'm always attracted to their cute size and pretty shells.

This picture comes to us from Diana, a freelance writer, frequent traveler and blogger behind Appetite for China. She's got all sort of tasty things going on over on her site, so make sure to go over and pay her a visit.

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10-09-2008 @11:28PM jocelyn said... I recently bought some to use in bento lunches. They came in packages of 10 eggs. I boiled a few up, and they taste like chicken eggs, but their yolk is bigger in proportion to the white. (it also seemed a bit smoother than a chicken egg yolk to me.) I bought two packs, and still have 12 eggs left to play with. I haven't decided if I boil more or what I should do with them.

Here is a not so great picture of a lunch I included them in http://www.flickr.com/photos/cmtigger/2925788954/
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