Sunday Morning Breakfast

Wish I had some pictures, but didn't have my camera around...

For a little while now, Sunday morning breakfasts have been a ritual we both look forward to. It started out with the simple revelation of how nice it is to eat eggs, toast, and coffee together, and then later watch some Sunday afternoon movie (my favorite of these so far, by the way, is Pedro Almodovar's Broken Embraces).

However, cooking never remains non-experimental with me for long, and a few pancakes here and there just isn't gonna do it. So this Sunday, I flexed my creative breakfast makin' muscles and came up with this little gem:

Mango Salsa Omelettes

This recipe serves 2.

In 1 Tbsp butter, saute about 2 Tbsp chopped green pepper until softened, and remove from heat. For each omelette, use a separate small bowl. In each bowl, combine 2 eggs, salt, pepper, 1 Tbsp of the green pepper, and chives.

Making one omelette at a time, put 1 Tbsp butter in a 7-inch pan on medium-high heat until melted and bubbling. Before the butter browns, put the egg mixture from one of the bowls into the pan. Moving the pan around, coat the pan completely with the egg mixture, thinning it out as much as you can. Then, with a fork, whisk the omelette together until cohesive and push to one end of the pan, making a half-moon shape.

Once finished, put the omelette on an oven-safe plate, place a slice of pepper jack cheese on top, and put in a warm 200 degree oven, until the cheese melts. Repeat with the other omelette.

When both omelettes are finished, put a couple of spoonfuls of mango salsa on top and serve!

Although I've tried to describe as best I can my method for getting an omelette to actually be an omelette, it's extremely helpful to learn from the master, Julia Child. Here she shows how to make the perfect omelette. I also have to use a fork to guide me, because, well, I'm not Julia. But the best advice I can give is to keep the ingredients very simple and finely chopped, and only use 2 eggs per omelette.

Now that the weather is nice here, we've also taken to eating on the porch, and that's what we did with this breakfast, with french-pressed Sencha green tea from Teavana, toast, and fresh mango slices.

Then we watched Survivor. Progress, not perfection.