Waffles, Egg Coloring, and Dinner that only I liked

My plan for today was to make waffles, and then color eggs with the kids. Everything happened exactly as planned. The waffles are VERY good, I mean VERY good - the recipe is from the little booklet that came with the waffle maker...who knew those little booklets had such quality recipes.

Banana Sour Cream Waffles
Makes 4 to 6 waffles
1 C Flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 egg, separated
1 C sour cream
1/4 C milk
1/4 C butter, melted
1 ripe banana, mashed
In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt; set aside. In a small bowl, beat the egg white with a whisk until light peaks form. Add egg yolk, sour cream, milk, butter, and banana to the flour mixture and mix well. Fold in the whipped egg white. Pour 3/4 cup of batter into the waffle baker. Cook 6 to 7 minutes or until golden brown.

Oh, and I whipped up some heavy whipping cream with maple syrup, pares very well with waffles:)



Then the eggs...When I was imagining how it was all going to happen, I imagined the table filled with paints, markers, stickers, glue, glitter, papers to cut out little pictures, colored sand and the little dots with both sides sticky...it was going to be grand...but when it came to it, it was very simple, and I was happy that it was simple - just dye, markers and stickers. The whole process went very smoothly, I am still learning to relax, and not be so controlling...just let the kids create.







We cleaned up, the kids went outside to play. I really wanted to make something good to eat...started looking through one of my favorite magazines Everyday Food and saw this great meal - new potatoes, chicken, asparagus, and a lemon - all roasted together. So, I followed the recipe exactly (except I didn't have fresh thyme) It turned out beautifully, I plated the food for the kids - they ate the chicken, and then said that I should not make this anymore - "mommy potatoes and asparagus are sour" I said, "well, there is a little bit of lemon there" Tosha "I don't like sour potatoes and asparagus, could I please have what we had yesterday" I warmed the leftovers from yesterday and became sad. I missed my husband, he would have loved it for sure, because it was good...
Here is the recipe