Egg-stravaganza

Have you ever seen "Runaway Bride"? There is a scene that references her not knowing what kind of eggs she likes (instead, just adopting the favorite eggs of the person she is with at the time). As a casual nod, to that, but mostly just a desire to do something fun together we decided to try a bunch of different types of eggs and rank them to see which ones were OUR actual favorites. We'd never made Eggs benedict, poached, or soft boiled eggs and we wanted to try! And we dubbed it our...

Egg-stravaganza! 

We made: Avocado Toast, Frittata, Poached Eggs, Eggs Benedict,  Breakfast Bowl, Soft Boiled Egg 

(And a Sausage, Egg, Biscuit sandwich - but we didn't score or take a picture of that.) 

Just look at how beautiful these turned out!

We judged on Appearance (1-5), Preparation (1-5), Taste (1-10) with a 2 (+/-) swing points. 

Here are our combined rankings: 

-Avocado Toast [53.5]  <--- Winner!

-Frittata [49]

-Breakfast Bowl [45]

-Eggs Benedict [40]

-Poached Eggs [37]

-Soft Boiled Egg [32] <--- Last Place. 

Jenna's high score-Frittata (18), Fan-favorite-Poached Egg (17), Least Favorite- Soft Boiled (10)

David's high score - Breakfast Bowl (tied with Avocado toast (17), Fan-favorite - Frittata (17), Least Favorite - Soft Boiled Egg (5) - very close to Poached Egg at (6). 

Shantel's high score - Avocado Toast (19), Fan-favorite- Eggs Benedict (17) or Soft Boiled Egg (17), Least Favorite- Poached Egg (14)

 It was SO fun to try our hand at making the different types of eggs. I loved making the eggs benedict, which I've eaten but never made.  I've always wanted to try soft-boiled eggs and it made it into my fan favorite mostly due to the novelty. But I liked it and so did Lydia - so maybe the two of us will eat it together occasionally.  Jenna particularly loved learning how to make the poached eggs and that ended up being her favorite dish, even though it got slightly less points. 

I love thing like this and it was such a fun thing to do with my sister. And now I have so many more egg-making skills than I did before, which is great. 

Watercolors with Sisters

I enjoy the process of creating. I'm not always overly skilled at it, but I have recently found an interest in painting. Several years ago I got into paint-by-number acrylic painting with dreams of painting with acrylics more and after that I found myself interested in watercolor painting. I've done a bit here and there on my own, but it's been an activity that has evolved into something that I particularly enjoy doing with my sisters. We have watercolored at my home before, but this summer we've been more frequent in our watercolor evenings together. Melissa is an incredibly talented artist who works hard to practice and improve and she's taught Jenna and I a lot. Last month we painted at my parents house and Jacob joined us, which was really fun. 

Then this week, Jenna and I left all the kids with David for bedtime and went to Melissa's house to paint. We grabbed some Waffle Love on the way and it made for a really nice evening. I didn't take any pictures of our paintings, but mostly because mine isn't finished. I need to take some time to work on it and finish but the evening was more about the time together than anything else. We got to see Melissa's new studio apartment, which of course is lovely. 

Watercoloring is enjoyable and I'm looking forward to trying to incorporate it in smaller pieces into our homeschool (maybe attempting to make a phenology wheel). But sharing it with my sisters is the best. I love them and I'm grateful for both of them in my life. 

insta-august

insta-august was a quiet posting month - but this couldn't go without posting,

8.23.2020

She's just so excited. 🎉🥳🙌 And if there's one thing Instagram needs tonight it's a video of Lucy learning to walk. 😍