Every morning, I make Niko breakfast. On the weekends, we eat together, but during the weekdays, I am doing 65,876 things for him in the mornings, so I usually don’t eat with him.
Just a few of those 65,876 things are: dad, I want Orange Juice, hot cocoa from the Keurig, greasy eggs (I will explain that in a minute), water with ice, a bowl of cereal, a piece of chocolate, or a piece of toast with butter. I have to limit what he eats as he also has a lot of things to do in the weekday mornings and we only have an hour from the time he gets up from the time we go to school. Sometimes, I am like, let’s have greasy eggs first and if still hungry, I can make more food.
Why the greasy eggs?
I used to cook eggs in a nonstick frying pan. Easy to clean and no grease. But, a few weeks ago, I started cooking eggs in a cast iron skillet and they come out much tastier and greasier because we have used that one a lot. When something sticks to it, sometimes it can be hard to clean. We liked that cast iron skillet so much that we purchased a bigger one, and even purchased smaller ones for gifts to our family members. They can go in the oven as well. Just last week, I made Rice-A-Roni in it! Yeah, I am serious. Nina has made a pizza in the big one, cornbread in the small one, lots of meat in both, and I have made bacon in the big one as well. Oh man, after I cook bacon, I love using that grease to cook eggs! I also have a teeny tiny nonstick frying pan, and I have used it a few times. One of those times, I made a scrambled egg with a tad of butter for Nina, and too this day, we still talk about that and she always says, it was really good and just what she needed that day after recuperating from surgery. Then, a few weeks, Niko requested fried ham, so I used that small pan for that.
Nina doesn’t like the nonstick frying pan or the cast iron skillet for eggs, she prefers the stainless steel frying pan. She has learned that for it not to stick, to turn the stovetop on for three minutes before buttering it.
So, Niko requests greasy eggs in the morning with either ham or salami and I am happy to do that for him.
Sometimes, Niko will want to help in the making of eggs. He is 7 years old, and cracks a fine egg with no shells! He stirs the egg in the frying pan very carefully. Just a few days ago, Nina showed him how to turn the gas stovetop on. But, we both told him, only can do that in the presence of us.
