So...my 3 1/2 year old son is obsessed with the Green Eggs and Ham book by Dr. Suess...
...and he *used* to be a voracious eater of eggs...
...but as children do---he's turned his nose up at them lately...
...so i thought i'd mix it up and make "green eggs and ham" for him sometime soon...
...and i thought i'd ask---
---any ideas on the green eggs and ham idea? ;)
...ingredients or methods or whatever...
...and remember he's 3 1/2. ;) ;)
...and he *used* to be a voracious eater of eggs...
...but as children do---he's turned his nose up at them lately...
...so i thought i'd mix it up and make "green eggs and ham" for him sometime soon...
...and i thought i'd ask---
---any ideas on the green eggs and ham idea? ;)
...ingredients or methods or whatever...
...and remember he's 3 1/2. ;) ;)
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Re: green eggs and ham
Mon, May 5, 2008 - 9:13 PMThe tiniest drop of food coloring in some scrambled eggs?
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Re: green eggs and ham
Mon, May 5, 2008 - 9:29 PM>>>>..and remember he's 3 1/2. ;) ;)<<<<
^^^ not so sure what you mean, since my 25 month old niece and nephew like to eat arugula, basil and parsley as well as many other green foods...oh maybe you meant no absinthe or something ;0)
so - super super finely chopped green herbs are great in eggs, as are micromized or grated asparagus and/or broccoli florets -
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Re: green eggs and ham
Tue, May 6, 2008 - 4:37 AM*grin*
...yep---i was talking about the absinthe. ;)
...no to the absinthe for him... ;)
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Re: green eggs and ham
Tue, May 6, 2008 - 5:58 AMHaving actually made green eggs and ham, I'd recommend food dye. (Mixing things like herbs into eggs just tends to make them gray, not green.) It's easiest with boiled eggs since you just soak them in the (diluted) food colouring (shells off or, if you want a marbled effect roll the shells to crack them and then soak them with the cracked shells on). You may not want to be encouraging your son to eat green meat though!
Maybe he's just not into eggs at the moment because that's not what his body needs? Is he getting adequate protein elsewhere? -
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Tue, May 6, 2008 - 8:20 AMthe eggs won't turn grey from herbs if you put them in after cooking and give them a quick mix. Herbs are better served with food fresh and not cooked anyway. Unless your making a slow cooked sauce. -
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Tue, May 6, 2008 - 8:27 AMOoh! I love this! It takes me all the way back to kindergarten where we made green eggs and ham, stone soup, and some other thing. It's probably where my love of cooking came from. We used food coloring and made scrambled eggs served with ham steak and it was great! You could also poach in colored water. Maybe you could ease him into it by making other "storybook" foods like porridge (Goldilocks) and cottage cheese (Little Miss Muffett) and plumb pudding (little jack horner.)
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Re: green eggs and ham
Tue, May 6, 2008 - 8:28 AMlisa - Thanks for the tip. I kinda like basil cooked into the eggs so I just live with the grayness, and if the herbs are dried I find they need to be cooked in. -
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Re: green eggs and ham
Tue, May 6, 2008 - 8:51 AMI have never made green eggs but it I was going to, I would put a tbsp juiced kale in the eggs at the very last stages of cooking.
How does one make plum pudding by the way?
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Re: green eggs and ham
Tue, May 6, 2008 - 10:53 AMmy daughter was a little older, but she and her gf still talk about when I made them grn eggs and ham when they were five. I used food coloring
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Re: green eggs and ham
Wed, May 7, 2008 - 2:26 PMI accidentally made green eggs once in first grade. I cracked the eggs, added some milk, and cut up and added some green onions and a few herbs and put it all in the blender for a few wizzes. When I poured the eggs out to the pan they were greeen... kind of a flat green but green just the same.
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Re: green eggs and ham
Fri, May 16, 2008 - 1:23 PMI remember my mom making green eggs for us as kids. She used grape jelly, I believe, to color the yolks green. I don't know if that was during or after cooking.
