When you’re busy, it can seem impossible to put together a decent, healthy dinner quickly and cheaply. Fast food beckons with promises of ease. It’s not that expensive or instantly fatal…
Alan and I have a repertoire of good, cheap, really fast dinners that will leave you so much more satisfied than take-out.
When we had our table at the market and Alan would spend Friday nights baking bread, we’d have omelettes for dinner. Very easy, very fast. Here’s how you do it:
Start with some good, fresh eggs. Two is plenty, but if you’re really hungry, a three-egg omelette will fill you up.
Break them into a bowl (a separate bowl for each omelette) and add a splash of milk. Add some chopped fresh herbs of your choice and salt and pepper to taste.
Have some cheese grated or crumbled, ready to add when the eggs are cooked.
Once you get comfortable with the process, you can really have fun with your combinations of herbs and cheeses. Chives, basil, lemon thyme to start. For cheeses, there’s cheddar, feta, bleu… The possibilities are endless!
Whisk up the egg/milk mixture and pour it into a hot, buttered pan.
Then you stir the eggs and shake the pan the whole time the eggs are cooking. They should be cooked but not thoroughly set. Rubbery omelettes are nasty.
Now’s the time to add your cheese.
If you have some cooked vegetables handy, or some chopped tomatoes, you could put them in, too.
Then flip or fold or roll the omelette up (it takes practice. Remember – how it looks doesn’t affect how it tastes. Really!) Set it out onto a plate and make the next one.
The day I took these pictures, we had them for breakfast. For dinner, I’d recommend serving them with some good, homemade bread, a green salad and a glass of wine.
Light some candles, put on some music and no one would think to call it fast food.
The Daily Photo: Does This Look Safe to You? (this is from my photo site: Stratford Daily Photo, which I’ve decided to start sharing here. I hope you enjoy the pics!)
