eggs

Jul 10 2011

Spinach and Cream Cheese Omelette

Somehow I must have forgotten that I had already blogged about this spinach omelette I had made, but nonetheless I have done it again. This time though I taken more care in doing. I really wanted to try to perfect this and I believe I’ve done that.

What I used:

3 Eggs
1/2 Cup of Milk
Handful of Baby Spinach
Spoonful of Cream Cheese
Grated Cheddar Cheese
3 Ham Rounds
2 Pieces of Toast

It is not a difficult meal, but it is one that can be really enjoyable. The first thing I did was prep all my food. I cracked the three eggs into a medium-sized mixing bowl, added in the milk with the eggs, chopped up the baby spinach into fine pieces and grated the cheese.

Now take a medium-sized frying pan and either spray it with Pam or add some oil or butter of some sort. Turn on that element of your stove to a medium heat and let it heat up. While that is heating up, in the bowl with the eggs and milk put in your spinach and spoonful of cream cheese and mix it all together. The cream cheese may be hard to mix together so it might be a good idea to nuke it in the microwave beforehand.

Spinach Egg Omlette

Now that the pan has heated up properly in your ingredients are mixed together, pour everything in the bowl into the pan, slowly. Try to avoid any splatter. Now let the ingredients slowly cook. I also sometimes cover that pan to keep the heat in. Put your three ham rounds into another pan and turn it onto a medium-high heat. My ham rounds were previously cooked so what I was doing was just browning the edges

Once your egg mix is firmly cooked on the bottom and you are able to lift one side sprinkle the cheddar cheese over the entire thing. Once you’ve done that flip one side on top of the other. Cover the pan again and let that firm up. Make sure you aren’t overcooking the eggs though, you still want to be slightly liquidy and not dried out.

Spinach Egg Omlette

At this point your ham rounds should be browned on both sides and you can put them on a plate. Your omelette, which I would suggest you flip over and let it simmer for a second on the other side, should also be very close to being done. Once done you can throw it on the plate as well. One thing I did not mention that I did earlier was put two pieces of toast in. You can use whatever kind of toast you like, but I like my white bread.

Spinach Egg Omlette

And there you have the final product. It is a good well-balanced meal, although I probably didn’t need three eggs or three ham rounds. I could’ve cut back on those. What’s your favorite way of making eggs?

May 22 2011

Make an Egg with what you got

This morning was a breakfast of combined ingredients found in my fridge. The combination of things that might not normally go together to make in a magnificent breakfast.

The ingredients:

three large eggs, free range if you can
half a cup of milk
handful of spinach
spoonful of cream cheese
a little bit of cheddar cheese
and of course rounds of ham

Using one frying pan I cooked up the ham first. Once it was done I put it in some tin foil to keep warm. I then greased the pan and turn the heat down low. I then mix the three eggs and milk in a bowl and add some salt and pepper. I chopped up the handful of pinch into finer slices. I then mixed everything together, including the cream cheese, cheddar cheese, eggs and spinach into the pan. I let it slowly cook for a while until almost all the liquid was gone.

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Of course my plans for making a great egg sandwich were squashed when I realized that my loaf of bread had gone bad. And I wasn’t about to pick mold off of pieces of bread. Instead I happen to have a bunch of tortilla shells in my fridge. So egg wrap it is.

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Although three eggs and ham was a little too much for this one tortilla shell, it did offer more flavor. There is something that a tortilla shell offers that toast just cannot.

Have you ever tried to make an egg wrap?

Feb 06 2011

Sweet Egg Sandwich

Once a week I like to cook myself something special for breakfast. This week is was an egg sandwich, which doesn’t actually sound all that special. A normal egg sandwich to me, is 2 eggs mixed together with some cheese in a pan, omelet style with bacon in between two pieces of toast.

So what did I do differently this time? Well I made the omelet with cheese, as well as heated up some cooked bacon I had previously cooked. What I did next was simple. When the toast was ready I spread Philly Cream Cheese on one piece and place the egg on top of that. I then spread Sweet Onion Jam on top of the egg, finally placing the bacon and second piece of toast on top. What does that get you? Something that looks like this.

Of course the normal egg sandwich taste good when does right and the egg doesn’t dry out, but when the added flavour it taste amazing. The Philly Cream Cheese adds a creamy cheesy flavour, while the Onion Jam adds a sweet addition to the sandwich. This dish, is recommended.