Seagull eggs

A couple of weeks ago we mentioned to The Natives that we were curious about eating seagull eggs. AL's northern connections delighted us once again last weekend when she delivered six gorgeous eggs and a recipe: "Kok i 15 minutter. Loff, godt smør, Mack øl."

The recipe is simple: white bread, good butter, seagull eggs, salt, pepper, and Mack beer.

Norwegians are very fond of open sandwiches (smørbrød) and boiled eggs are a very common topping. Mack beer is brewed way up north in Tromsø. Seems legit.

Two egg halves cover a single piece of bread nicely.

The eggs themselves are 1.5 to 2 times bigger than a large chicken egg. The shells are thin and adorably speckled. There isn't anything particularly interesting about the white stuff but the yolk has a noticeable caviar flavor.

Seagulls are obnoxious; This is what revenge looks like.

I can certainly appreciate why they are prepared so simply. I'm not a fan of Norwegian food but this is exactly the kind of stuff that they get right.

Thanks to AL's family we get to scratch one more item off of the Norwegian-wildlife-that-we-would-like-to-eat list!