Easter Eggs

We never got around to decorating out eggs, but we did lots of cooking with eggs on Easter. Our neighbor brought over some goat milk earlier in the week and I wanted to do something fun with that. I was surprised at how delicious the goat milk was. I remember trying some from the store before and thought that it tasted a little "grassy." The fresh milk was just sweet and creamy and yummy! We definitely have to get some goats soon.

I am still a little unsure about using unpasteurized goat milk however, so I decided to do something with cooked milk. I decided that with that milk and our eggs, we just had to make some gelato. There are a ton of recipes online, but I was looking for something very simple. I ended up mostly following the recipe at FoodNouveau because they had a nice simple base that you could add anything too:
2 1/2 cups of milk,
5 egg yolks and
1/2 a cup of sugar.

I used all goat milk for the cream and added about a tablespoon of vanilla to the milk. When it was time to heat the mixture including the eggs, I just put it all back in the pot that I was heating the milk in, I didn't use a double boiler. It came out delicious! It freezes much harder that regular ice cream. Strawberries and blueberries make it even better!

Since you only use egg yolks for the gelato, I had 5 egg whites left to do something with. The only thing I could think of was meringue cookies. I followed the recipe from my Joy of Cooking cookbook. Again a very simple recipe with just egg whites, cream of tartar and sugar, It calls for superfine sugar, but I just used regular granulated sugar. They came out perfect, nice and dry and crispy.