Day 2, recipe 2

Again, today's is less of a recipe and more of a new way of combining things.

When I was pregnant, a lot of the other mums were going crazy over McMuffins. Well, I'm far too lazy to go out for breakfast, and I don't like McDonalds anyway, but I was thinking about that recently, and decided to have a go at something similar.

So, I did a bit of googling and it turns out the egg is baked. So, this is what I did:

Squash your sausage meat into a burger shape. Crack an egg into a ramekin and poke the yolk with the tip of a sharp knife or skewer. Pop in a hot oven for about 10 minutes. Grate some cheddar. 10 minutes in, toast an English muffin in the toaster.

Butter, then apply fillings in whatever order you wish. I went for cheese, sausage, egg, but I think sausage, egg, cheese might be more traditional? Also, any brown sauce or ketchup would go on before the fillings, I did not indulge.

I can't speak for how authentic it was, but the baking of the egg with the sausage made it low effort and although the egg didn't look like much (the yolk was brown and not at all runny, my usual preference), it was soft and cream.

Overall, delicious, would cook again (which is good, as I only used about a fifth of the sausage meat)

Cooking from a different book

Judith has a much loved Disney storybook, half of which is given over to a story about a picnic planned by Minnie but executed by all of the super six.

There has been much talk about all 55 pages of that story, and much reading, and today, we finally made the meal described ourselves: hotdogs in buns with ketchup and mustard, corn on the cob, lemonade and fruit salad. There's not a lot of preparation in the mains, and I mostly did that, but the fruit salad and lemonade are explained in detail, and the lemonade in particular is a bit more work.

The fruit salad is blueberries, watermelon and pineapple, I did the chopping, she did the mixing, and it was much appreciated.

The lemonade contains both lemon and lime juice, and also cocktail cherries, which was a surprisingly good idea, I'm not sure it will ever be a regular feature on our table, but it was delicious.(ALso, another new recipe for me, so if I run out of ideas by day 7, might get counted in 7 days, 7 recipes challenge, even though it's a bit cheaty as Judith did the work.)