The freezer has become my backup plan for egg season. Whenever the refrigerator starts looking more like an egg cooler than a refrigerator, I spend an hour making breakfasts I can stash away for later. A batch of these egg breakfast bites doesn't take much effort, and they're the kind of thing you appreciate on mornings when there's no time to cook but you still want something homemade. These egg breakfast bites are a simple make-ahead breakfast packed with protein and flavor. They’re perfect...

I counted thirty eggs in the basket yesterday morning, and that was before I'd even checked the nest boxes by the barn. This is the stretch of the year I plan for. The hens don't slow down, the fridge fills up, and I end up back at the same two dishes I always turn to when there are more eggs than plans for them: hard boiled and deviled. Neither one is fancy. That's the point. When you've got a dozen eggs staring at you from the counter, you don't want a recipe with fifteen ingredients. You...

Hens in our farm are laying like it's their job. Which, I suppose, it is. Long daylight hours push their bodies into peak production, and this time of year I'm collecting more eggs than I know what to do with most mornings. If you keep chickens, you know the feeling. The basket by the door fills up faster than you can plan meals around it, and eventually you start hiding cartons on neighbors and tutoring center coworkers just to keep up. So instead of letting eggs pile up in the fridge, I've...