March 20
Pancake Dinner for Erin
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- Chocolate Chip Pancakes
- Mini Frittatas [View Recipe]
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Ingredients
- nonstick cooking spray
- 2 ounces cheese (sliced into small pieces)
- .25 cup peppers (drained and chopped)
- 6 large eggs
- .25 cup milk
- 1 tablespoon cheese (freshly grated)
- salt & pepper
- 2 tablespoons parsley (cleaned and chopped)
Instructions
We start by pre-heating the oven to <temp val="375"/>.
We ready our mini-muffin tin, which can make 24 "muffins". We spray it with nonstick cooking spray and add the roasted peppers to 12 of the cups. We add the mozzarella to 16 of the cups since our children (we think) would prefer their eggs without the roasted peppers.
In a large measuring cup, we whisk the eggs. We add the milk, parmesan, and some salt and pepper and mix well.
We pour a little of the egg mixture into the 4 cups with the mozzarella only, filling them half-way. We stir the parsley into the rest of the egg mixture in the large measuring cup. We divide the mixture as evenly as we can in the mini-muffin tin. Each of the 12 cups is filled nearly to the top. We fill the unfilled cups half-way with water to prevent burning in the oven.
We bake the mini-frittatas for 12 minutes. They have puffed nicely and are firm to the touch. We turn on the broiler and broil on high for a few minutes to brown the tops slightly.
The muffin tin is removed from the oven and the mini-eggs are carefully placed onto a platter with the help of a fork and clean hands.
- Roasted Red Potatoes
The poor weather does not weigh too heavily, mostly because our son is feeling better today. The same can not be said for the adults, who had a restless night. Both our son and the baby woke up during the night. Both went back to sleep in quick order, but their waking was enough to make us very tired.
To get out of the house, we took a quick trip to Barnes & Noble in the morning. Our son found himself a construction trucks book. Our daughter got all lawyerly on us and was somehow able to convince us to get a stopwatch book. Robin had hoped to find last month's Martha Stewart magazine, but left disappointed.
Chris and the kids saw Robots in the afternoon. It was pretty good, but nothing spectacular. Our son was asking to leave 10 minutes into it, but ended up rather liking it.
Erin came over for more masters work. She insisted that she was not staying for dinner, not wanting to burden us with extra work. Somehow, she did not consider that we were going to eat anyway (and we like the company!).
Our daughter helped Chris with the pancakes while Robin made the potatoes and some new muffin-style frittatas. Dinner, unlike the first day of spring, turned out very nice.