quail eggs

what's for dinner tonight?

yup, you guessed it:

Quail Eggs.

mmmmmmm, delicious.

I fell in love with these tiny eggs during my first few weeks in Tongliao when I was eating lunch and a couple eggs appeared in my soup.

I bought these tea-cup beauties at the grocery store, already hard boiled in the deli section.

I remember my Italian grandmother saying how she wanted to go hunting in the New Mexico desert to steal Quail eggs so she could eat them. I remember being horrified that she would even consider doing that given how the poor Quails have a hard enough time as it is given that cars, dogs and apparently Italian immigrants are dwindling down their population.

But now I understand.

Quail eggs are the most delicious little eggs I've even eaten.

Who knows, maybe I'll get desperate in my return to the States this summer and join my grandmother on the Rio Rancho West Mesa to hunt out some quail eggs.

yum yum.