Green Eggs and Ham (Peaches, Cream and Pink Pancakes)

These 'eggs' look disgusting, don't they? My daughter loved them, and I very much enjoyed making her this literary breakfast.

Green Eggs and Ham is my favourite Dr Seuss book, and I've always wanted to make a dish of this most special delicacy for my kids.

Green Eggs and Ham

According to Publishers Weekly, Green Eggs and Ham is the fourth-bestselling English-language children's novel of all time, and anyone who read it as a child will understand why.

How to make the green eggs was simple enough, but I puzzled over the ham. I didn't want real ham, of course, because nothing in this dish is what it appears to be. In the end, the solution was simple: I made up a batch of pancake mix and added a drop of red food colouring.

(But I kept back a little of the pancake mix to drizzle alongside the poured 'hamcakes' to make the fatty edgings).

To get a suitably revolting green tint on the tinned cling peaches (the yolks), I diluted some food colouring with water and soaked the fruit halves in it overnight.

 Then I drained the peach halves well on kitchen paper and arranged them on beds of whipped cream.  The cinnamon sprinkled around the edges is supposed to look like the crisp edges of the egg white, but of course as the cream started to spread the effect wore off.

Here are some of my other recipes for children:

Glitter Pizzas

Pretty Little Individual Tuna Salads for Children


Bunny and Turtle Flapjacks for kids


Quick, thick chicken soup for kids


Cheesy Tuna and Sweetcorn Lunchbox Muffins


Perfect Microwave Popcorn


Magic Marbled Microwave 'Meringues'

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