Maribou’s birthday is this week. As such, the plan is always to sing the “you live in a zoo” variant of “Happy Birthday” to her and make her breakfast in bed. Here’s the recipe!
First: get you some croissants. Good ones! Like from Whole Foods if you can’t get them from the French Place! Cut them in half like you’re going to make toast and/or a sandwich with them.
Second: Warm up the broiler in your oven. (Seriously, the broiler is the best part of the oven. It’s a restaurant-quality salamander IN YOUR HOUSE RIGHT NOW.)
Third, get a cookie tray and a sheet of aluminum foil. Put the sheet of aluminum foil in the cookie tray (shiny side up).
Take the first of the two croissants and get some butter. “Aren’t croissants mostly butter?”, I hear you ask. “That’s not the point”, I rejoin. Put some of the butter on the cut portion of the top and bottom croissants and place this croissant, butter side up, on one side of the tray.
Take the second of the two croissants and place it on the other side of the tray and sprinkle shredded cheese all over it. Nope, more cheese than that.
Whip an egg really good and spray your egg muffin cooker with some cooking spray. (I can’t believe that that one is nine bucks. We bought ours at King Soopers for $3.99. So just check your local supermarket first. They’re usually hanging on one of the periodic dangling hook thingies rather than in the cookware section. Or, at least, that’s where they were displayed in our store.)
Anyway, start microwaving your egg (for us, it takes one minute).
Place the tray in the oven under the broiler.
Keep an eye on your croissants! They’ll be done before the egg is! After 30ish to 45ish seconds, take your tray out and the egg should be done seconds later.
Plate your sandwich and then get two different kinds of jam. Put one kind of jam on one of the toasted and buttered croissant halves, put the other kind on the other half.
Serve.
Voila. Breakfast in bed.
I also spent a little bit of time wondering “Are there good ‘birthday’ songs?”
And, of course, I immediately remembered this one:
So… what are you listening to?
Happy birthday to Maribou! and boy that sounds yummyReport
@anne Jaybird makes me the best things.
And thank you.Report
And for a birthday song
https://youtu.be/sOwKDQSvZW0Report
Happy Birthday Maribou.Report
Happy birthday Maribou!
Good croissants really are the bestest thing. You know, along with loving family who prepare them for you just so, and all that wealth beyond the material…Report
Are there any good birthday songs? You are asking that? How can this even be a question? Should I answer a question with another question?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjF1bG5LUcs
Happy Birthday To Ya!Report
Clearly this is the superior birthday song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC5XcyYFuqcReport
Happy Birthday, Maribou!Report
Thanks, all.Report
I hate to be the voice of dissent here, but can we talk about eating in bed?Report
@mike-dwyer You can…. but you’re not going to get me to quit doing it. (Jaybird gave up after 10 years or so. Like, he still agrees with you. And yet he brings me breakfast in bed anyway. Twoo Luv.)Report
It’s not just the general ‘crumbs in the bed thing’. It just seems hard to eat/digest in that position, and generally difficult to eat comfortably.Report
Truth!Report
@mike-dwyer I actually find it easier to eat with my legs up, reclining comfortably. Digest too. Many pillows are required – I don’t eat lying down. Think of it as more Roman than anything :P.Report
I’ve long preferred the “cha cha cha” version of “Happy Birthday,” but YMMV.
and happy birthday!Report
Sounds like a man who has experimented and found a foil difference. If so, what is it? I’ve been curious how much that matters for years.Report
Jaybird’s playing his WWE game, but I repeated your comment to him because I’ve always been curious myself, and it turns out his answer is one I should’ve thought of:
If you’re going to pick the baked cheese off the foil so you can eat it, it comes off the shiny side easier.Report
…and now I have a reason to care which side I put up.Report
I have always heard that the dull side allowed heat to sink through and the shiny side reflected it. So if you were wrapping a baked potato, for example, you want the dull side on the outside so the heat sinks through and the shiny side facing in so it will retain the heat.
Having actually consulted the web on the subject though, Reynolds says it doesn’t matter unless you are using the non-stick stuff, in which case you use the dull side.Report