Eggs Three Ways

My wife has been getting breakfast ready for the kids on most mornings since I started working. Usually, I’ll get ready for work while she gets the kids and breakfast ready during the weekdays. Most of the weekends, I try to repay the favor by making breakfast and taking care of the kids so she can sleep in.

Recently, I was going to make my kids eggs with power greens (a blend of spinach, chard, and other leafy greens) since that’s my go to breakfast. Eggs are a super food along with those greens. My kids have tolerated it and it’s a way to sneak some vegetables in an extra meal to start the day. On this day however, there were no power greens in the fridge.

I didn’t know what to make, so I decided in a spur of the moment to make eggs three ways - similar to how you would have salmon three ways at a sushi restaurant. I told my kids we were doing something different with the eggs that morning and they seemed excited. I also remember my 1 year old son L eating about 3 eggs by himself, so I needed to have a lot ready for this hungry boy.

The first way I cooked eggs was scrambled. That was the easiest to cook a lot of and I knew my 5 year old son C was going to eat a lot of it without picking out the yolk (which is the nutritious part!). I made a huge batch of it and everyone gobbled it up to start the breakfast. I explained that this was the go to style of eggs for breakfast and of course they knew that.

The next way I cooked eggs were fried. I used more oil and fried them up crispy. This is how I grew up eating eggs. My 7 year old daughter E was a fan and I told them this is how eggs are cooked in lunches, especially with Asian cuisines. They gobbled it all up.

The last way I cooked eggs were over-easy. This was my favorite and I told them it was for fancier breakfasts. I usually wanted it over some bread so the runny yolk could soak into it (or you could dip the bread into it). I made it and all the kids gobbled the eggs up also. E said this one was her favorite too and I told her we couldn’t do this every morning we ate eggs since it took a bit more precision then scrambling a bunch of eggs together and cooking it all in on batch. She understood, but kept saying it was her favorite.

By the end of the breakfast, they were stuffed full of eggs and said how much they enjoyed experiencing that. I told them that using the same three ingredients in eggs, salt, and oil, you could create something totally different. There were more ways to cook eggs also, but we were done exploring eggs for the day. I left the kitchen a bit messier than my wife usually does also, but it’s a tradeoff I guess for a fun morning!