If a simple egg white can throw them, we're doomed.

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Most weekends I'm out of the house by 6:15 because I have a well-trained bladder and "IT" doesn't care that I don't have to go into work today. With a heat index over 100, the morning air is still hot and muggy regardless of how early I get out. After a beach walk, I head up to Panera's for my standard breakfast of egg whites, whole wheat bagel, iced coffee and the NYTimes crossword puzzle.

What can I say...my life is (six letter word for dull, uninspiring, mundane).

Since "egg whites" are considered a miscellaneous item, only a manager can code it in. This morning, I waited as...we'll call her Melanie entered the data and then called over to Chelsea in the cook area that an order for 3 plain egg whites was coming to her. Chelsea yelled back that she only had enough egg whites for two eggs. Melanie yelled back to use an egg.

This threw Chelsea. She paused and said "Use an egg?"

Oh, I thought. This is bad. Really bad.

"Yes" said Melanie. "Use a REAL egg. Just the white part."

Again, this threw Chelsea who stood there, holding an egg as though it was a plutonium reactor that had just started a countdown. Apparently she has never made the connection that egg whites in a carton ACTUALLY come from egg whites in a shell.

She finally got the idea and 5 minutes later I had 3 cold egg whites because the Manager had keyed in "take out" and they sat at the counter in a bag. I didn't have the heart to traumatize Chelsea again and these egg whites are boring regardless of whether they're hot or cold.

On the upside, my iced coffee was perfect because I got to make it myself.

 
OH, my!! That is disheartening! However, here we have what are called

Freedom School in the summer for 6 weeks as an adjunct to keeping kids on a learning curve. It serves about 600 at risk children at a number of sites, one near us One of the programs was teaching kids to grow things--with the explanation of food along with it. Some did not know that potatoes are French fries.
You are right about the whites!!! LOL You know eggs are good for you again, don't you!!

 
Oh my....sad. I think I have told this story before

When grandson was younger, about seven or eight, I gave him breakfast which included fresh, homemade applesauce. He wanted to know what that stuff was. His mother told him it was applesauce. He said he wanted the kind that came in the can. I told him THIS applesauce was made by grandma and they came from apples our next door neighbors pulled from their tree. He said, "apples come in a can, I don't want this stuff". Right then and there I wanted to box his ears, but I said nothing and went on my merry way in the kitchen. Grrrrrr

 
Lol, I've had times I had to identify most of my produce. Love the comments that I must like veggies

 
I had to leave a store once without my purchase because the power went out...

and the kid at the register hadn't a clue how to do it with paper and pencil. Yup. Doomed.

 
They feel the same about us

and certainly know things that we will never have a clue about.

My sons "help" me understand that the knowledge they value as important is not the same as what's on my list.

Officially an old person smileys/wink.gif Colleen

 
That's why my 10 yo nephew cooks from scratch with me when visiting

His parents cook somewhat and he learns from them, but with me the sky is the limit. This visit he made Alton Brown's waffle recipe (again). I like the fact his recipes have volume and weight. While he made the batter, we talked about leveners and how they work - even did a little science experiment with Baking Soda & Powder . We followed it up by watching the Good Eats waffle episode.

Then because he loves crusty bread (he tastes bread first before deciding whether it's "butter worthy")... we decided to make KA's no kneed bread. We discussed gluten, yeast and how it works (he liked that yeast burps). So we followed that up with a Good Eats episode on bread/yeast and the ever popular yeast sock puppets.

He named the dough Bob and we watched it rise and then put it in the fridge for a few days.

The day his parents arrived, we had gone to a local sheep farm that makes their own cheese. He did the taste testing and picked three to have as a first course with the crusty bread he was going to make.
His parents watched as he took out the dough, shaped it and baked it - commenting on how easy it was to do - they could do that at home.
At dinner he declare the bread "butter worthy" and was proud of his work.
Before he left at the end of the week, I gave him his own "Bob incubator" (rising container -I had a spare) and enough "Bob juice" (yeast) to make 2 batches of Bob.

It's always an adventure at my house!!!

 
We watched his gifts grow while he watched his older brother navigate ....

...everything for the first time.

Two years later, when this child got there, he had an advantage. His growth exploded when he got to school. The elementary school headmaster wanted him to skip first grade and go from Kindergarten straight into second grade.

We declined, since he was doing just fine where he was, and his peers were really sweet kids. We never regretted that decision.

Michael

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