Egg Mice Recipes

Steps:

• Slice the cheese and put in the middle of a plate. Cut the hard boiled eggs in half and put around the cheese, with the narrow part of the egg facing in and egg yolk down. The egg white becomes the shape of the mice. Take the radish slices and put two in each egg white for the ears. So, smaller radishes are best. Place two peppercorns under the radish slices for eyes. Take the chives and cut into about 2-inch pieces and tuck into the other side of the egg white for a tail. Enjoy your mice and cheese!

Steps:

• Slice the egg in half lengthwise. Place the halves yolk side down 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.
• Serve the pair of egg mice with a wedge of Swiss cheese for a playful lunch.

Steps:

• Remove a thin slice from the side of the egg, so the egg will not roll over; This will be the bottom of the mouse.
• Slice the salami down the middle.
• Cut 2 thin slices, lengthwise, from the inside of each salami half, this will be the tails.
• Cut the halves in two, this will be the ears.
• At the small part of the egg and in the center, cut a small slit, just big enough to insert the broccoli floret, this is the nose.
• Just above the nose, cut two holes for the raisins to be inserted, this will be the eyes.
• Starting at the smaller part of the egg, where the nose is, cut two slits on each side, 1/3 of the way down the egg and insert two triangular pieces of salami, this will be the ears.
• Slice cheese cube in half crosswise to form two cheese triangles, one for each mouse.
• Plate mice on a dark platform and decorate with cheese pieces and serve.

Steps:

• Put the egg white in a large bowl and whisk until foamy. Stir in the lemon juice.
• Gradually stir in the icing sugar with a wooden spoon until really stiff, like dough. Or, dust the work surface with some icing sugar and knead the sugar into the mixture until you get the right consistency.
• Divide the mixture in half. Add a dot of pink food colouring to one half, then knead in to evenly distribute the colour. Add a tiny bit more colouring if you want a stronger colour. Leave the second half plain.
• Break off a walnut-sized piece of the mixture and roll into a rounded cone shape, then flatten one side so that the mouse can sit on a flat surface without toppling over. Pinch out little ears on top of the narrow end, then squeeze the same end into a nose. Press chocolate sprinkles into the face below the ears to make eyes. Cut a length of kitchen string about 4cm long, and push it into the round end of the mouse to make a tail.
• Use a cocktail stick to dab a tiny amount of pink food colouring onto the nose, then put the mouse on a baking sheet lined with baking parchment.
• Repeat the process with the remaining pink and white mixtures, then leave the mice to dry out for at least 12 hrs.

Steps:

• Melt the butter in a small nonstick skillet over medium heat. Continue cooking, stirring occasionally with a rubber spatula, until the melted butter starts to darken in color from yellow to light brown, 1 to 1 1/2 minutes.
• Crack in the eggs and drizzle the soy sauce and sesame oil on top, cooking until the whites puff up slightly around the edges of the pan and the translucent parts around the yolks start to turn opaque, 2 to 2 1/2 minutes. Watch that the soy sauce doesn't burn, removing the pan from the heat if necessary.
• Scoop the rice into a medium bowl and top with the fried eggs, including all of the buttery soy sauce drippings from the pan. Crush the seaweed directly over the eggs, piling it high. This will seem like a lot of seaweed, but it will wilt as you mix everything together with a spoon, which you should do to disperse the ingredients before eating.

Steps:

• Hard boil the eggs.
• Gently crack the eggs against a hard surface, then carefully peel off the shells.
• Slice each egg in half lengthwise. Scoop out the yolks, and put them in a small bowl.
• Mash the yolks with a fork until they are crumbly.
• Add mayonnaise and blend.
• Carefully fill the empty egg whites with yolk mixture.
• Cover a platter with lettuce leaves, setting a leaf or two aside for garnish.
• Arrange the egg halves, yolk side down, on the leaves. These are your mice.
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• To give them each eyes and a nose, pull the pimento out of an olive and cut it into 3 small pieces.
• Cut 32 thin, lengthwise strips from several of the green olives. Stick two of these strips end to end onto the back end of the mouse to form the tail.
• Out of the remaining olives, cut 32 small triangular ear pieces.
• To Garnish.
• Tear small pieces of lettuce and position in front of the mice's mouths.
• As a final touch, heap a pile of mouse droppings (chocolate sprinkles) on the platter to re-create an authentically tidy mouse toilette.