Fun breakfast with a 5-yr-old

I know it isn't much, but get some cinnamon swirl bread from Great Harvest Bread co. and watch a 5yr old have FUN eating breakfast!!

What a great smile!!!!  (the haircut is still growing on me... not so much, but it's only hair. It will change in a month or so. Many times, I'm sure. At least THIS time, he let someone actually cut/shave it (his Aunt Janet is a hairdresser). Before this, he wouldn't let you comb it, never mind get a buzzer near it!)

Good food!

Eggies! Is this really LESS work?

I impulse bought something today..... and thought I'd try it out. It was only because I was craving egg salad sandwiches this weekend. I don't mind peeling eggs (hardboiled), but sometimes I lose a lot of 'egg' with the shell. We'll see if this works.

I should have taken a photo of all the parts to this contraption. It has a base, a top, a middle 'collar' to hold the two together and then a 'lid'. They all screw together (although you can see by this photo above that I must not have screwed some part tight enough. oops......

These two I separated, they didn't really fit in the other pot (too snug to move), and I seasoned these. You will see a photo later.

Now this is the bread I got from Great Harvest Bread co. in town....They call it Stuffed Potato Bread. Yum! Ingredients are broccoli, potato flakes, chives, sour cream, onion, cheddar cheese (and possibly garlic-I didn't taste it). ( wanted to make a hard boiled egg sandwich on this.

I took the 'lid off one container that was seasoned with salt, pepper, Sylvia's secret seasoning... Looks good.



The other one, I seasoned with salt, pepper and dill.

The only bad thing I saw was that some 'leaked' and one created a 'tadpole' (as my grandson called it). I threw it in the bowl when I made the egg salad mixture.

These are what they looked like when I opened up the top halves off. I think I'd like to pour scrambled eggs in them instead of 'dropped egg' in them. Maybe with some sauteed peppers and onions, ham and cheese...hmmm, what ideas you can come up with.

They sliced really nice and worked well.
So, you ask, what was the downfall? Cleaning all the parts with a scrub brush!! Yes, I wiped veg oil inside before adding egg, but the crevasses had cooked egg stuck to them. Pain to clean up. Maybe I'll stick with the peeling. Not sure it's worth the $9.99 at Michael's.

Fun in the kitchen with my grandson....Hotdogs and pasta!

I saw a great photo posted on Facebook and decided one morning to just 'do it'!
I later did some with my grandson when I got home from work and it was WAY more fun with him.

Here's why....
This is what my plate of cut up hotdogs and pasta looked like before I cooked them (boiled them for 10 mins--the time the pasta said to cook it). I was 'uninventive' when you look at HIS hotdogs! He made them into stars, robots, aliens, etc....see?

And HE was liking them, too, until I told him that the water was ready and they were 'going in for a bath'!..."What, Gramma??"

Then we get to EAT them....! You should have seen how fast he grabbed two of his and held them tightly to his chest!! LOL... "Gramma, you CAN'T cook my guys!!"

Once he realized they would be fine, he let me do them as long as HE could make them jump 'off the plank, like the pirates'. Whoooo boy, what we don't do for fun with the kids. But this face says it all...

Good eats!!!!(We dipped them in ketchup, but I could see a fondue pot with cheese...hmmm). I figured out later that snapping the long spaghetti in half worked better. The 'legs' weren't as long. LOL