I have no particular secrets from you kind people out there in Bloglandia, so it can come as no surprise (especially to those who have seen any of my previous food posts) not only that I am an unreconstructed carnivore but also a generally unrepentant eater of all things–okay, nearly all things–that might be considered decadent if one is of the sort that equates dining habits with morality. I like eating. I like eating lots of different things, and in what even I will readily admit are too large quantities. It’s not good for my health, to be sure, and possibly not best for my soul, but there it is. I love food.
One of the things I would be most reluctant to give up eating or cooking with is of course that stupendous universal donor among ingredients, the humbly perfect egg. If I must be limited in my access and opportunities and omnivorous mania, I would proudly and gladly be wearing a nice schmutz of egg on my chops any day. Besides, with my coloring I am very ill-suited to wearing any other form of yellow, so why not embrace the ephemeral form of dressing up in some eggy yellow goodness that can at least be licked off my lips and make my innards very happy if its look doesn’t suit my exterior. I love what the egg can do for a sauce, a custard, a souffle. For baked goods; for dishes where it serves as binder, thickener, garnish.
Maybe most of all, I love eggs when they star in the show. Their honest simplicity and smooth, creamy deliciousness deserve to be featured and recognized as the wonder that is borne in that beautiful capsule of the egg’s origin. So today I give you one of my very favorite meals, which despite my fondness for all sorts of marvelous mealtime miracles is a supremely simple omelette with grated sharp cheddar cheese melting in the middle, accompanied by some nice crispy bacon with a little drizzle of pure maple syrup, and a fresh, crisp, fabulous apple. I don’t usually mess with eggs much when I cook them, and a nice little cheese omelette like this deserves to be treated respectfully, so the only ingredient in the omelette besides the eggs, lightly beaten, and the cheese is just a nice big splash of melted butter to make the eggs easy to loosen from the pan and fold over when sufficiently set–but just barely set, really. Still light and creamy through the middle.
I’d go on, but I’d kind of rather dash over to the kitchen and grab an egg or two . . .
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Omlettes are a wonderful dinner, in which Hubby will happily indulge when we are abroad…but won’t even consider making at home.
Odd man.
Isn’t that redundant, ‘odd man’? I find them all quite mysterious; it’s half the fun. Guess you’ll have to have your omelettes when you come to visit. 🙂
Mmmmm never eaten apples with my eggs and bacon. What variety of apples do you prefer to combine with your omelette?
I’m very fond of Fuji apples. Crunchy, sweet, juicy, with just a little bit of zing. Yummy!
Oh so do I.. i love eggs a lot!! Any which way! c
Having your chook girls around to provide a fine supply of beautiful eggs would make them absolutely irresistible. 😀
xo
K
Huh. Imagine that. Using eggs for something other than pasta. Who’da thunk? Next thing you’ll be telling me is that there are other uses for flour, too.
Darling, why not egg pasta Carbinara? Perhaps with a nice egg flip to wash it all down . . . Ohhh, the possibilities are endless.
That is how I like them too.
So far I’ve not found it easy to discover any ways I *don’t* like eggs, as long as they’re fresh and kindly prepared. But a tender omelette is very hard to surpass.
Try out Indian Egg Bhurji!
Gladly! Thank you for the suggestion!
I could eat eggs at every meal and could live on every variety of eggs benedict.
Ooh, Benedicts. Yes those are particularly marvelous. Lovely, lovely, lovely.
Dip that cornbread in that sunny side up delicious little 300 grams of cholesterol, topped off with a steaming, hot cup of home ground, dark roast java–
and then another & another…
*Good* cholesterol, mostly. 😉 Not that that would be much of a determining factor for this little piggy. 🙂
‘I love eggs when they star in the show’
Now, I wish I was having an omelette for lunch! Yours sounds SIMPLY delightful!
I’ll gladly fix you one any time you come by! 🙂