Widening Horizons

Daughter 1 has discovered The Pioneer Woman's cooking show.  Since we are practically neighbors (as in we live in neighboring counties in the same state), Daughter 1 feels especially drawn to her. Also, Daughter 1 would like to one day have her own cooking show:  Macaroni and Cheese every day for every meal.  She'd also like to have her own horses, so she feels as if she were born into the wrong family and The Pioneer Woman is really her momma.  I, on the other hand, like to have my meals served with someone else cleaning up and have a huge phobia of horses.  But that, my friends, is another story!

Through The Pioneer Woman's cooking show, Daughter 1 has started to expand her palate - which is to say, she's interested in eating something other than Macaroni and Cheese.  I was thrilled one morning when she woke up and said she wanted to make "Egg in the hole"... but she wanted to make a few changes to the recipe.

Thank heavens for chocolate chip pancakes!

Basically, "Egg in the Hole" is a piece of buttered toast, with a hole cut out and an egg fried in the middle.  Toast, Daughter 1 can do.  Eggs?  Not so much.  I convinced her that she did like scrambled eggs, at least she ate them as a baby, so we could scramble the egg before pouring it into the hole.

We buttered our bread and cut out our hole and scrambled our egg.  She actually narrated as we cooked and I caught her winking at the imaginary cameras on more than one occasion. When we were finished I placed the Egg in the Hole on her plate and then sat back to watch her palate expand!

She ate the "hole" part, first.  Then, she pulled the crusts off and put those in the trash because crusts "aren't really part of bread anyway."  The she poked the egg.

With her fork, she cut around the egg and took a bite.  Of the toast.

Then she took another bite.  Of the toast.

And another bite still.  Of the toast.

Eventually, she ate all round the egg, leaving only the egg on her plate.

"Wow, Momma!"  She proclaimed as she scraped the egg into the garbage disposal.  "That was really good!  I'm a pretty good chef, ya know??!  Next time, though, I think I'll make 'Egg in the Hole' without the egg!"

She'll probably also make the tenderloin without the beef.  So much for broadening her horizons!