Organic eggs. It’s that time of the month again when we give you a little more to watch.
Our out and about section was in Falkland on a walk called Maspie Den. This walk has been firm favourite of mine (Stephen) for a long time and it was just a pleasure to film and highlight to our audience and followers. Of course there was the normal shenanigans from Rab and I which is standard for the Kilted Coaches.
The Kilted Coaches at Maspie Den
We then wanted to highlight the benefits of using Organic produce and more specifically Organic Eggs. Eggs are always on the menu for the Kilted Coaches because they are so quick, easy and versatile for ensuring good protein content in your diet. Going to the Organic Farm was an eye opener to how well some chickens are kept and was a real breath of fresh air away from the horror stories of third world chicken farming. The Grierson’s certainly know how to look after their animals and Sascha was more than accommodating for two nosey guys in kilts.
Of course Sascha insisted we didn’t leave empty handed so with 12 beautiful eggs between us we felt we needed to do them justice with a nice recipe. There was only one man we had in mind who would be up for the task….. Chef Hall.
Rick isn’t actually a chef but he loves being in the kitchen, is damn good with a knife and certainly didn’t disappoint. His quick and easy spinach and broccoli soufflé was delicious and so easy to make.
I hope you enjoy this episode and of course, if you have any questions or suggestions for future filming please get in touch.
So this months extended episode we’ve brought you something special
Yeah we like to give you a little more, we’ve got loads to show you today, we’ve been out and about
Yeah we’ve been out in the falklands
Yeah we encourage everyone to get to get out in the open, use our country, rather than gym all the time. Because we do live in a beautiful country, don’t we?
and who needs a gym when you’ve got Scotland?
That’s the main message, right?
And who needs a gym when you’ve got the kilted coaches because we’re got a special challenge for you, don’t we?
We do, we do
We’ve got a special challenge called the proclaimers challenge
Can you guess?
No we cant use that phrase anymore
So, proclaimers challenge, can you guess what it is? 500 miles. Let’s walk 500 miles, not in one go, ok, we’ve got a PDF download that you can get straight from out website
If you subscribe to our website which is free you’ll get it emailed out to you, you can print it off, and stick it to your fridge
and all we’re doing is, you then mark off, in five mile chunks, you mark off when you’ve done five miles, if you go for a ten mile walk then you can mark off two
Most people these days have a smartphone or a fitbit, most smartphones have an app or an inbuilt function to measure the distance that you’ve travelled
So you can then, every time you go out, you do something you mark it off and eh on the PDF download you’ll see it, you mark it off and by the time you’ve filled out all the squares you’ve done 500 miles
So today we’re going to give you the footage from the falklands
we reckon about four miles-ish
Almost one block in the proclaimers challenge
Enjoy
So, we’re out and about working towards our proclaimers challenge
Like we said let’s try and make the walks interesting and we’ve got a beautiful walk here in falklands it’s called Maspie Den lots of waterfalls and we’re going to show you exactly what it’s like
Let’s get stuck in
So, this looks pretty scary
The black hole of doom
I think we should do paper, scissors, rock for this bad boy
I’m not going in there
You’re going first
On three
One, two, three
i never win that
Bye bye rabbi
I need a big stick or something
Just get in there
It’s quite dark isn’t it?
Very dark
it’s really dark
Feel like coming out in a different time zone
it wasn’t that bad was it?
Nah it was fine
That’s about two to three miles off our proclaimers challenge
Yeah, just another 497 left to go
That was a pretty epic walk though, especially the tunnel
The tunnel was pretty good, waterfalls were beautiful
Yeah they really were
So just remember if you’ve got an active lifestyle and you eat well then you can afford a few luxuries in life
I’ll drink to that
Cheers!
So we hope you enjoyed that and if you do decide to get out and about it’s really important to stay hydrated
Stay hydrated, stay fuelled, stay safe
It’s important to choose your routes wisely especially weather-wise, right?
Yeah make sure you’ve got the right clothing, the right footwear, make sure your socks stay dry
and on the nutrition front we get lots of questions in the one that seems to be reoccurring is eggs.
Now i love my eggs
After you exercise its all about recovery now to recover properly you need good protein now we’re always battering on about good protein and we’re also battering on about being convenient, lets keep things simple, keep things easy
Something that’s going to be quick and easy to cook
Therefore eggs are the go to choice really aren’t they?
So I think we need to go and speak to some experts about eggs
yeah lets speak to some egg experts
The expert
Show us the chicks
You promised me chicks today
Scratch that line, scrap that line, ok?
Welcome to the fair guys, Rab, lovely to see you again
Good to see you, Sasha
and you brought someone along with you
This is my friend, Stephen, this is Sasha
Very nice to meet you, Sasha
Good to meet you too
Well welcome to our farm
Thank you very much this is all new to me, Rab’s briefly mentioned it, but please tell us about the farm, where it comes from and how long you’ve been doing this
OK, eh Hugh and I, Hugh’s my husband, Hugh and I are a family farming partnership and we’ve been farming organically since 2002 and we produce beef, lamb, pork, chicken and eggs
Eggs is the main thing today, isn’t it?
Eggs for us because we’re trying to keep things simple and eh eggs are just highly nutritious, high protein, easy food so we want to talk to you a little bit about eggs
Great, let’s go see some hens then
So, here we are at the chicken farm then
Yeah, welcome to the farms boy
So I guess the first question is what exactly is organic?
Organic farming means farming with no chemical input and only using medications for animals as and when they need it rather than routinely, it’s a very clean way to produce food, but for us farming with no chemical input means farming with no artificial fertilisers, so we use what nature gives us, so we use farm yard manure, animal dung and eh sunlight and clover to build our soil fertility and we don’t add anything
Whats the difference between say a standard egg and an organic egg, that you know of?
Is there a difference?
Well, it’s definitely true that the yolks in organic eggs they’re much more natural yellow colour, the yellow colour comes from animals being able to go out on grass and scratch around as you can see
and picking at my boots that little one was doing
and they pick up the natural yellow the yolks become a natural rich yellow colour because of that
Nutritionally theres no hard evidence on eggs but theres a lot of evidence coming out now that nutritionally organic food has a better nutrition content
So, the important bit, do they taste better?
Well, I think they do, you guys will have to try for yourselves but yeah theres an underlying sweetness in a lot of organic food especially organic eggs that gives it a nice natural taste you don’t need to add much to it so it makes it very easy to cook because they taste great naturally one other thing to say about farming organically is that what we’re trying to do is recreate as much as possible a chicken’s natural life so they can express their natural behaviour so they are able to come outside peck around in the grass get some natural grass and bugs and various other good things in their diet and to get exposure to sunlight and to the elements
What is it that you feed them?
We feed them on our own home grown wheat and we work very closely with a feed company to buy in the things that we cant grow that chickens actually need in their diet but that’s all done to organic standard and the reason why we have to be very careful about a laying hens nutrition is that she’s actually a very small brilliant food producing machine she’s only about 4lbs in weight and everyday at least six days a week she’ll give you about 50 to 60g of perfect food because eggs are perfect food and that’s the human equivalent of re-growing our arm every day
Thats like 1/8th of the body weight really, thats amazing
So we should show her a little respect and try and treat her well and try and give her as good a life as is commercially possible and thats why i say to people buying a half a dozen organic eggs may cost you about £1 extra per week that’s not really a lot to ensure a better quality of life. That’s one less cup of coffee every fortnight
I’m pretty sure the coffees all it takes
The great thing bout eggs is not only are they a perfect food they’ve got lots of lovely protein and various other amino acids, I think you commented on that Stephen, but they also they’re very quick and easy to cook and make interesting and tasty things from
So, thank you very much for today, Sasha, it was an eye-opener
Chickens are quite cute
Oh bless you
Pecking away at our feet
Yes chickens are, they’re great, and I’ve got some lovely eggs as a momento of your visit here, so take them home, perfect, delicious and organic eggs
Thank you so much
Oh brilliant
Thank you for your time
No worries great to have you here
SO that looks like a pretty tasty eggs
Something a bit more special
Should we find somebody who knows what they’re talking about
I know just the man
Chef Hall
Right, we’re at Chef Hall’s residence
Chef Hall, we’ve got some awesome eggs and we need some ideas, what are you going to cook for us?
Well I think eggs can be very simple or you can make them much more healthy by adding some really good greens
I think spinach and broccoli soufflé would be a great idea
I think we need a name for this, Stephen
Bad-ass broccoli super souffle there we go
Let’s get stuck in
wheres he going?
I dont like the looks of this
right talk us though it chef
Half a head of broccoli, spinach, a little bit of cheddar cheese and three eggs
Three eggs
Let’s cut
How many will this feed?
This is for two
Increase the numbers to feed more you could do a big family one
Stemss as well, there good for you
we like our greens
now we need to separate the eggs
Only the egg yolks go in
Nice big organic eggs there
Better put the spinach in there
Just enough to give it a bit of power
What’s next?
The exercise
Hope you warmed up for that
You could use an electric whisk
We like our exercise
I’ve never done it as well as that before
Chef’s always use lots of bowls
In the bowl first
Now a little bit of cheddar cheese some more protein to it
Salt and pepper to it
Chef Hall
Rock salt
Air is what is going to keep the whole thing
Boiled, scrambled? Can I have a cloud please?
Try not to break the bubbles
It’s always two to three minutes, Chef
little bit of flour and butter in each ramekin
Look at that
Into the over
preheated 200 for two to three minutes
Result
Now there’s a result
That looks amazing
Spoon each tuck in
Spoon, spoon
It’s pretty damn fluffy too
Over the lips and through the gums look out stomach here it comes
You really taste the broccoli don’t you?
That is beautiful
Good eggs, good chef, good dish
Wow, I don’t know about you but that soufflé was damn good
I actually made it again myself later and it worked
I’m so surprised see when you’re whisking it and you’re like i can actually do this I thought there was a magic potion or something that you needed
No it was really really tasty
So easy
There must be other vegetables that was broccoli and spinach
Yeah he must have just made that up, right?
Once you can make a soufflé you can put whatever in it
So what you’re looking to do is make a soufflé and put whatever you want in it, right?
Try it out and let us know what you try
You’ve got to watch as well, Stephen, kind of fell in love with the chickens didn’t you?
They’re so cute that wee one that was pecking at my foot
Love hurts, mate right?
It was quiet an experience there was hundreds of them
It was just that constant chicken noise
Even more reason to go free range and Organic you don’t want drugs pumped into the animals
Thats it for this month, hope you enjoyed the episode, got a few bits and pieces coming your way. If you do plan to watch us next month then stick the damn plan