Easter has snuck up on us, and I’m trying to figure out when we’ll have time to decorate our eggs. Since my husband has a business dinner on Friday, I’ve invited a long time buddy of Nathan’s to come over with his mom and color eggs. It may be a recipe for disaster – two hyper first graders and a moody preschooler – but at least we’ll get it done.

I love hard boiled eggs, and so does Nathan. But with Lucie’s egg allergies and me trying to loose some weight, we’re limited to the number of “egg imbibers” in the household. There’s the usual egg salad sandwiches and deviled eggs. There’s my husband’s favorite recipe, too – mash up eggs with fork, put lots of butter, salt and pepper on top, heat in the microwave.

But what else can we do with all those eggs that are kid friendly? (For some grown up uses for hard boiled eggs – we’re talking pate here folks – check out About.com’s hard-boiled egg recipe list and Top 10 Ways to Use Up Hard-Boiled Eggs.) How about this fun idea?

Hard-Boiled Egg Mice from FamilyFun.com
Makes 2 mice.

With chive tails, radish ears, and olive eyes, hard-boiled eggs get transformed into whimsical critters (that like to be served wedges of cheese and some salt and pepper, please).

Ingredients:

1. 1 Egg
2. 1 Black olive
3. 1 Radish
4. 2 Fresh chives
5. 1 Tiny Swiss cheese wedge

Directions:

1. Place the egg in a small saucepan and cover with cold water. Bring to a boil over high heat. Boil for 1 minute, then turn off the heat. Cover the saucepan and let the egg sit in the hot water for 12 minutes.
2. Once the time is up, run the egg under cold water to cool. Then ask your child to roll the egg on all sides to crack the shell. Peel under running water.
3. Slice the egg in half lengthwise. Place the halves yolk side down on a plate. (Alternatively, you can slice off a bit of the bottom of a peeled, hard-boiled egg so it can sit flat on a plate.) Slice tiny black olive “eyes” and radish “ears.” Then make small slits in the egg halves for the eyes and ears and push in the olives and radishes. Add chive tails.
4. Serve the pair of egg mice with a wedge of Swiss cheese for a playful lunch.

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