From the perfect soft-boiled egg to French toast, omelettes, eggs Florentine, and huevos rancheros, readers will find a wealth of favourite breakfast offerings with new twists. Local, fresh eggs bring out the best in classic preparations such as Caesar salad, spaghetti carbonara, eggnog, and homemade mayonnaise. In recipes ranging from smoothies to casseroles, devilled and stuffed eggs to stews, Thompson offers inventive variations for spicing up eggs and combining them with fresh seasonal vegetables for every meal of the day. She also shares amusing anecdotes about her own chickens and family life with a backyard flock. With easy recipes and tasty flavour combinations, ''The Fresh Egg Cookbook'' is the perfect book for any egg-loving kitchen.