Eggs

Look what I got from a colleague of mine:

Chicken and duck eggs, from her backyard! I will definitly put my vegan status aside for some days to be officially a vegetarian! Anyway, it was already half way through with the cheese….

I heard in fact that eggs are washed in the US, with soap, enzyme or chlorine…. and this is why eggs need to be refrigerated here. In contrast, in other part of the world (Europe and Singapore, at least), eggs are stored at room temperature. The tricky part in the US is that you need to be careful that the eggs you buy do not “sweat”, because washing the eggs destroys the layer that protects pathogens to enter through the shell. The humidity created by a change of external temperature will facilitate exchanges of organisms on the membrane or the eggs.

Well, combined with the ratatouille leftover, the next meal was delicious!