Discrepancy

I think these things are vile but Mark likes them...

He likes to have them on hand, especially on Sundays.

Sundays are a busy day of meetings for him and he's up, dressed in his suit and off to the church before the rest of us get up at all since we have afternoon church schedule this year.

Sometimes he is able to run home for 30 minutes or so midmorning to say hello and he's always hungry. It's hard to have something ready for him as we never know when he'll pop in so we try to keep some things on hand he can eat quickly.

I picked up this new flavor for him to try and he was skeptical when he saw it but he decided to give it a go anyway.

When he pulled it out of the microwave it was the tiniest piece of meat we'd ever seen.

Granted, the meat patties are never very large but this one was shockingly small.

It certainly didnt' match it's picture and it actually even looks more respectable in this photo than it did in "real life"

Look at it in relation to his thumb. It's about the size of 2 thumbs side by side.

After trying it, however, he said "Really good flavor. I'd eat it again!"

FedEx guy vs. The Buffalo (wing)

Our exciting family Valentine adventure was going to "The Wingshack" in American Fork

to watch Mark attempt

"The Wingshack's Buffalo wing challenge"

You pay $10 and have 30 minutes to eat 12 boneless breaded buffalo wings with

XXXHOT SAUCE.

If you win you get:

1. A free T-shirt

2. A $10 wingshack gift certificate

3. Your picture posted on the wall of fame

He's been itching to try this since August so we just decided to try it.

Here's The Big Cheese, confident, hungry...

He decided to go with the knife and fork approach. He has watched Man Vs. Food enough times to know that you don't want to have that hot chili residue on your fingers and itch an eye or a cheek and have other places than your tongue burning....

They were HOT!!! My nose was burning just from smelling it across the table but it wasn't the heat but the amount of food that got to him. They go with the boneless, breaded chicken tenders on purpose b/c the breading holds on to more of the hot hot hot sauce. These were BIG tenders too. It was a lot of food.

Since he started working for FedEx, Mark has been eating a lot better and lost about 15 lbs. He takes carrot sticks, celery sticks, string cheese, a granola bar, little tubs of tuna fish that are packed dry that he can just eat right out of the container, PB &J sandwiches,etc. He eats smaller amounts throughout the day and isn't used to eating such large amounts.

Here he is at about 2/3 through both the chicken & time, with about 10 minutes left. He was struggling. The kids would cheer him on. I thought he was going to lose it at about 3 minutes to 0. He kind of gagged and then kept it together. He didn't want to hear how much time he had left. It stressed him out. I thought he would laugh and joke throughout the time but he was pretty serious and focused.

The employees had set a timer on the counter counting down the 30 minutes and Mason could hardly sit still. He was always jumping up and checking the time. Rachel was the reporter/cheerleader. She kept cracking jokes and commenting on his progress and taking pictures and videos.

He succeeded with 0.00001 seconds to spare. In fact, if he's had to do the "fear factor mouth check" he would have lost. The kid at the counter said "as long as it's all in your mouth and you keep it down... We'll give it to you!"

He did.

So proud.

We are so proud!!!!

He told us to use the gift certificate if we wanted so we bought a $10 box of Teriyaki boneless breaded tenders. I figured I'd better get something everyone would like. We got them to go and enjoyed them at home. They were tasty!

yum!

Thoughts on Chips and Salsa

It's the perfect meal. Not too sugary. Not too healthy. 50/50. It's what I want to eat every time I'm hungry. I love it.

- Mason, December 26, 2011

Me too Mason! Me too! yummm.

Wednesday Harvest

Mason started picking beans this morning.

Bless him!

It was the first school morning yet that any of us have had any time to spare!

We're finally getting into the swing of things.

We even read scriptures this morning.!

Well... Most of us....

Samantha got her pigtails fixed and then she started helping too

Jacob even got into the fray helping me by getting bowls and picking snails off my boxes

Yuck. I didn't take their picture but between Mason and Jacob we also harvested 5 snails.

who have a lovely new home in my red trash can.

Lunch today:

Tomatoes and green beans.

mmmmmmmmmmm.....

PINEAPPLE TERIYAKI BEEF ROAST

PINEAPPLE TERIYAKI BEEF ROAST

2 1/2- 3 lbs Beef Rump Roast; cut into 5-6 slices,

1 (16 ounce) can crushed pineapple in juice, do not drain

1 cup water

1 cup soy sauce

1/2 cup brown sugar

1/2 teaspoon ground ginger

4-6 cloves garlic, pressed

1 tablespoon cornstarch

white or brown rice, cooked ( we used 3 C Rice + 6 C water)

Directions:

Add the pineapple with juice, water, soy sauce, sugar, & spices to a crock-pot. Stir to melt the sugar then add in the beef cubes. Cover with a lid then cook on high for 6 hours. Take 2 forks and shred meat up. If does not shred easily, cook a bit longer. When shreds easily. Remove meat to serving dish and cover to keep warm. Pour juices into shallow pan and bring to boil. Mix Cornstarch with 2 tbsp of warm water then stir into the sauce. When thickened, pour into bowl for serving. Another way to thicken the sauce is to mix cornstarch and water and pour into crockpot with meat and juices. Recover crockpot & cook for another 20-30 minutes, until the sauce thickens. Serve over rice.

Served family of 7 with some leftover

The original recipe said to cube beef but I didn't want to take the time so I just cut it into several big slices. I planned to shred it when it was cooked anyway. I adjusted the recipe to make more sauce b/c we like a lot of sauce for our rice. If you don't then you should probably half the sauce. The whole liked this recipe. Yea! I wished I'd taken a picture. It looked so pretty on the plate. We served it with fresh grean beans from the garden sauteed in butter and garlic salt. mmmmmmmmmm

Tonight, the Big Cheese is cookin!

Beef Fajitas!

yum......

doesn't that look good?

Mason calls them Frijitos, no matter how many times I correct him.

....and he mowed the lawn.

....and he fixed the swingset.

Thanks babe!

If I do say so myself.....

These look really, really good.

mmmmmm....

They are good too!

(Thank you Maury for teaching me how to make pretty uniform, smooth-topped rolls like grandma used to make. I can't believe I never noticed her trick after all the time I spent at her house. You have ALWAYS been so much more observant than me.)

How to properly dunk an Oreo.

1. Purchase a package of Oreos.

2. Pour a glass of Ice-cold Milk.

3. Remove Oreo from package and find a fork.

(Plastic seems to work well for me.)

4. Gently insert fork tines into cream filling.

5. Lower cookie on fork into milk.

6. Keep going.....

7. Really dunk it!

8. Lift out of milk and place in mouth.

By Carly

Valentine Faux Pas

I made my traditional Valentine's day breakfast again this year. The food is never the same, I do whatever sounds good in the weeks leading up. Sometimes it's simple, sometimes it's more involved.

what is the same is that I use glass dishes, candles and try to be "fancy".

Valentines Breakfast 2o11 menu:

Breakfast casserole (not one of those bread ones!)

Mandarin oranges

Sausage

cranberry/pomegranate juice

Orange juice

cinnamon/sugar mini muffins

Breakfast Casserole:

20-24 oz frozen hash browns (I added some from another bag, so I did more like 32 oz)

1/4 c butter

3 c sausage, bacon, or ham, cooked (I did ham)

3 c shredded cheese (I used colby Jack)

1/2 c half and half

6 eggs (I used 8 eggs)

1/2 tsp seasoning salt

1/8 tsp pepper

Spray 9 x 13 dish with non stick cooking spray. Add has browns, brush with butter and brown in oven for 20-25 minutes. Layer sausage bacon or ham and cheese over cooked hash browns. Beat together cream, eggs, salt and pepper and pour mixture over casserole. Return to oven and bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes uncovered.

(I cooked it at 400º the first 30 minutes and then lowered it to 350º after I added the eggs)

Rachel does not like eggs and I didn't know how strong the egg flavor would be in the casserole so I made her a little one without eggs. She LOVED it, ate the whole thing, and made another one Monday after school and writing up the altered recipe for her recipe book.

I fried up sausage links, making half of them into these hearts from my favorite friend "Family fun Magazine" That's an uncooked fettucini noodle skewering the halves together and the arrow parts are made of what else? cheese!

I had an Amish friendship bread start that needed to be made up that day so I turned part of it into mini muffins.

The breakfast casserole was such a big hit it may turn into an annual thing.

I found an idea for scratch & win valentines on this blog; "Let me count the ways" They were so easy.

I made all mine for Macey's ice cream cones. The scratch off spots said "small", "medium" and "king kong". I put the sizes all in different orders on the cards and used silly little rhymes that had something to do with ice cream.

"I scream, you scream, then we make up. That's the best part"

"I scream you're the coolest kid on the block"

"You're a twist of every good thing!"

"Rose are red, violets are blue

vanilla is sweet and so are you",

and so on....

I told them all before they scratched off their heart, "this is all in fun. There is no complaining. You get what you get and if you complain or scratch off more than one, you get nothing!"

They were all good sports and made it fun. Mark and Rachel got King Kongs and the rest got medium. I'm glad nobody got the small all by themselves. That would have been sad. We went that night after Mark got home from work to get our ice cream.

My faux pas moment came in my other valentines.....

I had a little sweet for all my sweethearts.

For Rachel & Carly I had valentine Junior Mints

For Jacob, Samantha & Mason I had valentine Airheads

For Mark, I had Townhouse crackers and squeeze cheese.

Again, I had to write a silly little rhyme for each of them.

For the big girls I had written "you were MINT to be my daughter. Please be Mine for eternity"

For the little 3 I had written "I'm no airhead, I'm lucky to have you for a son/daughter. Please be mine for eternity"

For Marks, I had written "In a Townhouse or in a tent, loving you is Easy Cheesy. Please be mine for 19 more years." We had been talking some the past week about how our 19th anniversary was coming up in April and so I was thinking in terms of we had spent 19 years together already and wanted to have that much more.

He looked at his and then looked over at the kids valentines whereupon I had asked them to "be mine for eternity" and started teasing me about only wanting 19 more years with him to which Carly quipped

"Maybe 19 more years with you IS an eternity to her"

On my lunch hour I called him and said "I just called to say I love you" and he said "good, cuz we only have 18 more years!"

I don't think I'm ever going to live this down....

I did try to make it up to him that afternoon by

sending him a singing valentine.

One of the local high schools hires out their Senior choir to sing to your valentine so at 3:30 he's sitting at his desk and in walks about 8 girls in red dresses and ask for Mark. When he indicates he is indeed the man they're looking for they make a semi-circle around him and start singing "Falling for you". I came in right after they left and he was laughing and said "I don't get embarrassed but I got embarrassed!"

I would really like to have him around longer than 19 years......

I think I could handle eternity with him.

(I wonder if there are suitcases to put away in heaven....)

He makes me laugh when I'm mad

He's generally the first one to apologize after a disagreement

He makes me feel safe

He pushes me to think differently about things.

He makes me laugh.

Observations at Sizzler

Mark had planned to go to the youth activity at the church last night but plans were changed at the last minute so he ended up being unexpectedly free for the evening. With Carly and Rachel running out the door to their Young Women's Christmas party & Jacob off to 11-yr old Scouts we decided to take the little kids out to dinner at Sizzler seeing as we had 2 free Sizzler kid meals.

As usual, it was an adventure.

While in line to place our order, Mark had to do some instructing on proper restaurant etiquette.

"no jumping up and down"

"get up off the floor"

"don't point at other people's dinners"

sheesh! you'd think we never took these children out to dinner. I know it's not very often but really.....

Samantha ordered the children's steak.

Mason considered Pizza but I've tasted the pizza they sometimes put on the salad bar and told him I didn't think their pizza would be very good so he switched to the hamburger, plain- of course. Just the meat and the bun. It was an easy sell once I told him it most likely came with french fries that he could douse in ketchup.

Pretty soon we were seated at the table and the observations began.

Mason:

"This is the best night of my life!!!!"

"I know how they make their lights mom. Do you want to know how they do it mom? They turn on a flashlight and hang it upside down inside of that cover. That's how they do it"

Our drinks came. Mason took a sip of his Sierra Mist.

"ooohh! This is Spriter than normal!!!!"

Our meals came. Mason continued to talk and talk and talk. Mark gave me a desperate "does this kid ever stop talking look" and pointed out sternly that he better start eating, he hadn't even taken a bite of his hamburger. Mason turned his hamburger around so Mark could see the very small single bite taken out of one side of the burger. He shrugged his shoulders and said:

" Sometimes I like to talk more than I want to eat."

Samantha was awfully quiet. Granted she has never been as big a talker as the boy but she usually holds her own pretty good if she thinks she's got a cornered audience. She was REALLY enjoying her steak and fries. MMMM... good! There were a lot of appreciative groans of delight as she chewed and swallowed.

We ended the evening on a high note with a trip to the ice cream bar. Mason and Samantha both chose vanilla- there was some serious discussion weighing the merits of going with the cone or the bowl. Bowls won out. I mean.... where do you pile the toppings if you get a cone ?

They both beamed from the attention and the prestige of doing something utterly fantastic that the older kids were not involved in. They very maturely told me they wouldn't talk about it ALOT at home.

They kept their word. They only talked about it some.....

We got our own jello with whipped cream on it. We got a cookie. I got a steak. I got a hamburger. We both got vanilla ice cream with oreos. Their french fries are really good!

Mason saw the bummed look on Jacob's face and promptly ran to the fridge and pulled out his to-go box, took out his hamburger with the one bite taken out and broke it in half. "You take Half Jacob." Jacob said "No, no, that's ok" Mason insisted. "I want you to have some Jacob. You are my best brother"

Jacob's shrugged and accepted.

He bit, he chewed and swallowed.

"Oh man! It's still warm!"

It was a good night.

Sad.....

All that remains of 2 christmas tubs of Chocolate covered cinnamon bears.

Poor little guy.

All alone in there......

ode to the pink plate

The shards of a pink plate brought unexpected emotion to our household today. In a rush of putting away the dishes too quickly, a haphazard stacking of plates caused a single plate to crash onto the kitchen floor and break into lots of pieces. It was a lone pink plate in our cupboard of red and white, the last of it's kind.

My bridal foray into keeping house involved a lot of pink. Baby pink and Forrest green in the bedroom. Pink and light blue in the kitchen. Country blue and Mauve in the family room. Pink still remains one of my favorite colors although it does not figure as significantly in my home decor. Now My bedroom is blue and white. My bathroom yellow. My kitchen is red. My family room gray and green. In fact the only room with pink right now is Samantha's bedroom.

You might be surprised at who loved the pink plate and who loves it's single matching pink bowl that still resides, as of now, in the cupboard. Can you see the size difference with our regular bowls? This is Jacob's beloved oatmeal bowl. He fills it to the very top and eats the whole thing.

They were never a full set. We were given 4-5 bowls and plates from some friends of ours when they were cleaning out their kitchen back when Mark and I were newlyweds. Dave and Lorrie Preim were like a brother and sister to Mark. He met Dave when they sold cars together in Palm Springs. Mark sold cars from age 18-20 before his mission and then for about 2 years after his mission. Mark would spend holidays with the Priem family, he would babysit their little girl Jennifer who tortured him with a triple deck of uno cards and kept him playing for hours.... Lorrie helped him pick out my engagement ring when I was in Hawaii and threw my first baby shower when I was expecting Carly. They had us over to eat at their house probably once a week the first year we were married. They loved us and treated us like family.

When the plates went crashing and I saw that my red and white Correll plates were intact among the broken bits of pink I sent happy thoughts to the Correll people for their very sturdy dishes and then said to Mark "well, that's the last of the pink plates....."

"WHAT?????!!! My pink plate??!!! Oh man, that was my favorite plate" He then took a quick look at Jacob's tense posture and that he had turned his back to us to hide his beginning tears and switched gears. "oh well, it's no big deal Jake. Accidents happen." I was proud of him. Sometimes he forgets, sometimes I forget, that their little feelings are so much more important than what they broke.

We threw away the big pieces. Jacob got on shoes and socks and swept up the tiny pieces. Then as Mark got ready to leave for work he stopped in reverence in front of the trash can and looked fondly down at the sad remains and said a few words...

"Think of all the food I piled up on that plate! The Preim's gave us that plate. I liked it because the sides raised up a little and your food didn't fall off.... It was a good plate."

Good bye Pink plate. You were a big plate. You were a good plate. You lived a long, full life serving 2 hungry families. Rest in piece(s)

This is Mark

" I am usually not that sentimental, but in this case I am very. That was my pink plate. It was given to me from ones that I loved. There were many memories using that plate. I went from 180 pounds to 248 pounds because of that plate. That's hard work. Some day, I will see my plate again. Until then, rest in peace. Maybe I will start my diet now. Well maybe I'll let more time pass by first. You should never make any decisions when your distraught."

Pot Pie for Jena & for David who doesn't know he likes it yet...

chop 1 onion (unless your Jena who's allergic), 3 ribs of celery and julienne (or grate) one pound of carrots (approx. 6-8). Sauté these vegies in a couple tablespoons of butter. Sprinkle liberally with garlic salt.

When they are limp and a bit caramelized, sprinkle on 1/2 C of flour. Stir well to blend in. Start adding 2 C of chicken broth approx. 1/2 C at a time. Add slowly and stir well after each addition before adding more so it will thicken instead of clumping. When broth is added, stir in 1 C of milk slowly, stirring well as you add. If seems too thick add more broth or milk. I am mostly guessing at my measurements. I never measure with this recipe...

Add about 6 med. potatoes. Dice them on the small side so they'll cook quickly. Add 1 to 2 C cooked chicken and 1/2 a bag of frozen peas. Simmer til potatoes are mostly done. Add 1/2 to 1 C cheese and stir til it melts. Now pour it into your baking pans. This amount for me fills a 13 x 9 pan and an 11 x 7 pan. Now its' time to add the crust. I don't make a bottom crust, just a top crust.

Parmesan Pie Crust

I got this recipe from a magazine. Tore it out at a doctor's office probably. I still feel a tad bit guilty about that but I have used it so much. I really should write it down because it's getting a little tattered. I didn't use the filling recipe but it's simpler than mine so if you want a simpler filling Jena I'll send it to you.

1 1/2 C flour

1 1/2 C potato flakes

1/2 C parmesan cheese (just the kind in the can is fine.)

2/3 C butter/margarine

1/2 C cold water

combine flour, potato flakes & cheese. Cut butter in with a pastry blender. When it resembles coarse crumbs add cold water a little at a time, sprinkling it in and toss with a fork. I usually need to add just a little more to get it to hold together. I reach in and start handling the dough. I squeeze it to see it if will hold together in a ball. If I have a lot of crumbly pieces I sprinkle in more water until it will all hold together.

I rip out 2 large pieces of saran wrap and put the 2/3 of the ball of dough between them. This is for the 13 x 9 pan. Repeat with final 1/3 for 2nd pan. I flatten it with my hand and start rolling it out. You need to get it really thin because it will puff up some when it bakes. When it looks about the right size you just take off the top layer of saran wrap and flip the dough over the pan and then peel off the 2nd layer of saran wrap. cut off excess and make it pretty if you want...

I don't worry about pretty with this as the gravy bubbles up some. I just try to get it to the edges and if I don't quite make it I cut off a piece of the excess and make it fit in any holes. Cut a few slits in the top and bake 25-30 minutes at 400 degrees.

Yum! Let me know if you try it and what you think. It is different and might not be for everyone. Jacob doesn't like any of it. Mason doesn't like the crust. The rest of us love it.

Thanks for reminding me about Chicken Pot Pie Amy! I hadn't made it in a while.

I went with the chicken pot pie

Thank you to all who sent suggestions. I almost went with the turkey chili Maurs' but my beans were dry and my afternoon of running kids around didn't jive well with pressure cooking my beans. So I started in on the chicken pot pie because I had all the needed ingredients. I actually have a great recipe for chicken pot pie with a pie crust with potato flakes and Parmesan cheese that smells like goldfish crackers when it's cooking. yummy. I had just forgotten about it.

I have decided I need to start a project. I need to make myself a recipe index that is categorized by ingredient. So if I have hamburger I look at all the dinner ideas and recipes I have for hamburger, if I want to use up some cooked chicken I look under cooked chicken, etc.

I'm definitely putting all your ideas under cooked chicken. Thank you so much!

improvisation

So I was planning on making Hawaiian haystacks the other night. I had my cooked chicken defrosted, I had my rice cooking and oops! I opened Cream of mushroom soup instead of cream of chicken. I can't waste so I switched gears and just made a hamburger gravy with some precooked hamburger I had in the freezer.

I shelved the chicken for tonight but don't feel like hawaiian haystacks now as it would be awfully similar to the meal we just had involving rice and gravy...

I'm tapped. I got nothin. no ideas.

I'm hoping you all will help me out with some fabulous dinner ideas involving precooked chicken.

Send me your thoughts, your ideas, your recipes! Save my family from a mheh meal tonight.

please.....

Goggles: The new kitchen necessity

Rachel and Jacob hate it when I cut onions. Every time I fry hamburger for dinner, I cut up a whole onion to fry with it. Jacob's eyes are extremely sensitive to whatever the onion puts off that makes your eyes hurt. His eyes will hurt for a much longer time than anybody else. I know he's not faking here because he'll be gone to a friends house while I've fried onions, come home when it's all cleaned up and then start tearing up and ask "did you fry onions today?"

We try burning candles when we don't have our fans going. That seems to help. I try to remember to put the onion in the fridge an hour before cutting when I can but lets face it... I'm generally not that organized.

It's gotten better lately because with my work schedule, dinner has become more of a chore to get ready on time so I've taken to frying large quantities of Hamburger, with onion of course, and freezing it in one pound packages so I can just thaw it and dump in the recipe. It has helped soooo much.

Back to the goggles...

Rachel started the idea of putting on swimming goggles when I was cutting onions. Jacob knows a great idea when he sees one and he found a second pair and anytime I get out an onion and the knife he slips them on. I look up and there he is doing long division in goggles. It has really cut down on the whining in my kitchen so I'm grateful. However the goggles do make me giggle. It just looks so silly. Jacob keeps them in the kitchen drawer with my spatulas and pizza cutters. Just like any essential kitchen utensil.

Mason has taken the goggle wear a step further

It seems they are also essential

while whipping up a PB&J

You never know when a rogue blob of jelly is going to pop up and smack you right in the eye.

taking squash too far... even for me.

I've been accused of being a little crazy with the squash in my time. I used to steam and puree banana squash and make squash waffles for Carly and Rachel when they were little. I added cinnamon, nutmeg and applesauce. They weren't terrible. I ate them too. Just trying to be a good mommy you know, trying to get their 5-a day in. I ran across a new squash recipe the other day. I just wanted my brothers and sisters to know that this is taking squash too far.... even for me....

I am a firm believer that squash should Never be served in any form of smoothie. And that includes all those pumpkin pie shakes that pop up at this time of year. Cold pumpkin pie I can drink? no thank you.

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These butternut squash ice pops taste just like the classic Thanksgiving pumpkin pie.

Ingredients

• 2 1/2 lbs. butternut squash
• 1/2 cup pure maple syrup

• 2/3 cup light cream
• 1/2 to 3/4 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice

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Instructions

1. To make a batch, cut a butternut squash into quarters and scoop out the seeds.

2. Boil, bake, or microwave the squash until it's soft. Let the squash cool a bit before scooping its flesh into a medium-size bowl.

3. Add pure maple syrup, light cream, and pumpkin pie spice to the bowl. Use a potato masher to mush the squash and blend all of the ingredients.

4. Spoon the mixture into ice pop molds (we were able to fill 10), add sticks, and freeze for at least 6 hours before serving.

The Great pancake experiment of '09

Jacob has to do a science fair project this year for his new school. The teacher sent home a packet that outlined how he was to proceed in choosing a topic. She did NOT want him going to the library and checking out "101 science experiments for kids", which is exactly what I would have done...

He was supposed to go through this whole process of identifying the subjects he was interested in which were

1. medieval warfare

2. Baseball

3. cooking: more specifically, cooking pancakes

I wasn't quite sure how we were going to build several sets of armor of various thickness and metal types and check their durability against arrows, lances, maces, battle axes and broadswords.....

I did think there was some merit to seeing which kind of bat gave you an edge in distance hitting in baseball; metal or wood.

But I was greatly relieved when he decided that he wanted to see how the size or absence of eggs in pancake batter would affect the finished product.

That sounded like something I could easily help with.

We made 4 batters: no egg, small eggs, large eggs (the regular recipe) and extra large eggs

We mixed and measured very carefully

We measured batter thickness, ease of pouring...

As you might expect, the no egg batter was very thick and clumpy and not so easy to pour.

It made the ugliest pancakes

oddly enough, the small egg pancakes seemed to be the most popular. We could find VERY little difference between the batters and pancakes from the large and extra large eggs. They were almost exactly the same.

Now we just have to chart our findings and decorate a tri-fold board for the science fair.... I think that will be more work than the actual experiment.