This Week's Vegetable...the Egg

Seriously, I get to change the rules because it's my blog, right? In honor of Easter, I'm talking about eggs instead of veggies this week. They are so very nutritious (protein, vitamin A, riboflavin, folic acid, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, choline, iron, calcium, phosphorus and potassium) and yum.

My family is crazy about eggs - Sophia ate seven hard-boiled eggs on Sunday. And there are several so-easy-they-don't-really-qualify-for-recipes recipes involving eggs that we make regularly.

First, the boiled egg. Believe it or not, I didn't really master the perfect hard boiled egg until recently - my husband was the egg boiler in the house. But here's now it's done: put eggs in bottom of pot, cover + 1 inch with cold water, put on stove on high heat until the water comes to a good boil, then turn off the water and let them sit for 15 minutes. Also, if you hit them with a spoon to just barely crack them when you turn off the heat, they're easier to peel.

Here's a weird one...when my kids were infants, I made baby food out of a hard boiled egg yolk mixed with breast milk. Yuck, huh? They loved it.

We often have breakfast for dinner on nights that I feel uninspired to cook - the kids always think it's brilliant! And eggs are always the main attraction - fried, sunny side up, scrambled, poached, they're made to order on my griddle.

When I was pregnant, my power breakfast several times a week was spinach scrambled eggs, served with whole wheat bagels. Whisk together 4 eggs and 1/2 teaspoon fresh tarragon (or 1/8 t. dried) and salt and pepper. Melt butter in skillet and over medium heat and cook a couple of handfuls of coarsely chopped spinach until just wilted (yes, I just said "a couple of handfuls" - welcome to my version of a recipe). Then add the egg mixture along with an ounce of cream cheese and cook, stirring slowly, until the eggs are cooked through.

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And my project for tonight... a superhero girl cape. Sophia's best friend, Zoe, has a superhero birthday party to attend on Saturday, so I made this for her. This girl LOVES pink. I am going to make one for Sophia, but not tonight (it's bedtime!) Sophia loves playing Rescue Girl! Sometimes she's Rescue Something Else... like the other day she was crawling around the floor with her sister and her daddy, and when I asked her what they were doing, she said "we're rescue spiders!" Of course.