Chef extrodinaire

My boys have been trying to have a "cookoff" for some time now. I have invited anyone who would like to participate to do so. I did want to videotape these sesssions to give it a sort of "cooking show" feel. Well I forgot to do this last night but I did manage a couple of pictures of what Colin did before we at it all.

Colin wanted to make eggs benedict. I knew that the egg was poached and there was some type of sauce on top but that was the extent of my knowledge of eggs benedict. Colin said
Mom we learned three things today.
What's that son?
We learned how to poach an egg, how to make hollindaise sauce and how to make eggs benedict.
Why yes we did Colin(I look at dh with a very proud grin of how astute my son is)
The things we decided was that the english muffin would be better toasted. The egg should cooked a few minutes longer. Colin now has a new favorite breakfast and he didn't think it was all that hard. Dh said he would just fry the egg because it was easier. I pointed out that it was healthier this way.
It is amazing at how long i have gone without poaching an egg. I have never done this and here my 11 yr old son has that belt already under him. I am really proud of him for trying out a new recipe. He truly is in his element in the kitchen. Austin is supposed to make dinner for us tonight. I think it is breakfast burritos in the microwave. Yes I said microwave and yes I think that is wierd but hey it's all good. Oh yeah the pictures, here they are. And to anyone wanting to "cook off" with us just have your child cook a breakfast item of their choice, you may help out I did. Then put your link into the comments. I would do mister linky but I don't exactly know how yet. I hope to be able to do this next time. Sure hope you guys join us.

Hollandaise sauce. I made it because there seemed to be alot going on in the kitchen and I didn't want Colin to get frustrated. I wanted it to be fun. Besides now I know how to make it. Is it just me or does it look like pudding?
Eggs benedict by Chef Colin.

Vanessa

Gourmet Chef

Colin really likes cooking. He loves to experiment with new recipe's. So he will show me a new recipe and say he wants to make it. I look at the list of ingredients and see a slew of stuff I have to purchase that I won't ever use again unless we like said recipe and make it part of our "menu". This is where hs is great though because I can make it part of our day and it counts for so many things.

Recently we began making pizza at home and well it hasnt always turned out pretty although we did find a crust recipe we loved and have since stuck with. Now if I can only figure out how to make pizza sauce I'll be all set. We made this pizza a while back but it was so pretty I couldn't believe we had made it. I guess it is all about practice. We made a pepperoni and a canadian bacon pizza. Colin helped with the crust and pretty much made the Canadian pizza on his own. I did help a bit on getting the crust to look nice( nicer anyway).

Pepperoni Pizza, ok I love the way it looks it's like out of a resteraunt. One half the pizza was double pepperoni. Guess which side.

Mmmmm, I'm getting hungry.

Colin, my live in chef.

Putting on the sauce

Spreading the cheese, we one tried double cheese and well we found out that there is a limit to how much cheese you should put. It was a bit much even for us cheese lovers.

Evenly putting the canadian bacon.

Checking to make sure there are spaced right and enough on the pizza.

Work in progress.

Look at this beauty! He did a great job!

Ready to eat.