Of my three girls, Alycia is the most finicky when it comes to food. While Sherilyn and Cass will wallop everything that I cook and often leave lots of compliments on how nice the food taste, it is truly a challenge to please my eldest, whom I think has inherited her foodie daddy’s pernickety taste buds. She gets really disappointed and will turn sulky if porridge or sandwiches are placed on the dining table for lunch. She is a rice pot, OK and prefers to have rice with dishes. I have told her umpteen times ever since kakak left last year that she has to alter her taste buds and learn to appreciate simple meals as mummy has to work too and cannot afford the time to dish out ‘complicated meals’ twice a day, everyday. If she wants rice, I will cook rice for her but on days when I am busy, she has to learn to accept a bowl of rice with an egg ONLY if she does not like to eat porridge or sandwiches.
Being the fussy eater that she is, she is even picky over how the egg is cooked. Being pressed for time, I normally cook hard boiled eggs or half boiled eggs and sometimes scrambled eggs but Alycia does not fancy eggs cooked this way. She only likes ‘hor pau tan’ or sunny side ups, cooked over well. I hardly cook sunny side ups or over well eggs as it is time consuming…. 5 minutes to fry a sunny side up x 4 eggs = 20 minutes for an egg dish only for 4 people. I can’t afford the time.
So to please everyone, the mil and I taught Alycia how to fry sunny side ups or ‘hor pau tan’ during the recent school holiday. And she passed! Given more time to practise this skill, I am sure she will cook perfect sunny side ups. And I have something embarrassing to confess. I do not like cooking sunny side ups and I suck terribly at it. I just hate the painful oil splatters on my hands. If the girls want fried eggs, I am ever willing to dish up some yummylicious omelettes or scrambled eggs but please, no sunny side ups 😉
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It is good that Alicia is learning how to cook her sunny side up. She will learn to appreciate that it is not easy to cook a perfect one. I know how you feel when one is picky over food served. I have the same problem too.
I don’t enjoy cooking sunny side up too.. and I feel that the oil is just way too much to fry an egg.. but nowadays, I use my air-fryer to do the work.. no oil sunny side up! perfect!! and I can do more than 1 egg at a time too! hahaha…
Cynful Pleasure, how do you cook sunny side up using air fryer? Coz there is a netting inside – how do you place the egg? And how to put 2 eggs at a time?? Amazing!
I would say this is a blessing in disguise … she will learn how to cook from the master (your MIL) from young. 🙂
That is a foldover omelet! That is difficult to do! Kudos to Alicia. I don’t even think I’d attempt that.