Bunchland

Your Sunday morning plan

EAT:

Ever been to Toronto’s Easy Restaurant? We’re suckers for their toast soldiers breakfast which includes two soft-boiled eggs, strips of toast, fresh fruit and a delightful surprise lurking somewhere on your plate: a toy soldier. We think this is a great breakfast or brunch to make at home.

A great soft-boiled egg has a runny yoke for dipping toast into, but a firm white. Food.com says you can achieve the perfect soft-boiled egg by pricking the wider end of the egg and submersing it into a pot of rapidly boiling, salted water. Boil for exactly five minutes. Extract your egg, run it under cold water and crack it open.

The stars of the breakfast are, of couse, the toast soldiers. While any bread will do, we say slice up your favourite hardy Italian bread. Once a slice has been toasted, cut into strips so as to easily dunk in the egg yoke.

Balance your this fine meal with some fresh fruit and/or salad greens. We encourage parents to indulge in several cups of a great coffee.

DO:

With snow blanketing much of the Canadian and American landscape this week, we think Sunday is a great opportunity to experiment with snowflake photography. These tips come from Rhythm of the Home’s Winter Crafts for Kids section. All you need is some snowflakes, a good camera and some cold, dark fabric. Rhythm of the Home advises freezing the dark fabric before putting it outside to capture some snowflakes. If you lack the camera, just examine the snowflakes with a magnifying glass and discuss each flake’s uniqueness. We first saw this on ohdeedoh, which also suggested saving the snowflakes on microscope slides.

Tell us how your weekend goes!

Photo of Easy’s toast soldiers by Sifu Renka, photo of snowflakes by Scott Butner, both via Flickr