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Trash Omelette
Bit of Red
Sparkling Pear and Ginger Fizz
When I lived in the British Virgin Islands I sometimes used to have breakfast at De Loose Mongoose which is on the beach just a few watery yards from our boat.
I don’t know if they still do but they used to serve a Trash Omelette, cunningly making it out of whatever they had leftover from the night before.
Omelettes ~ a Perfect Way to Use Up Leftovers
I thought of De Loose Mongoose today when I was looked in the fridge and found …
½ red onion
4 thin slices chorizo
1½ cold cooked new potatoes
a smallish piece of red pepper
1 broccoli floret
little broken off corner of Davidstow Cheddar
… that all pretty well needed using up. So this is what I did:
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~ Thinly sliced the onion and cooked it till sweet and tender.
~ Coarsely chopped the chorizo and fried it in a little oil till crispy then set it aside.
~ Diced the cold potatoes in the chorizoey oil in the pan till crisp. As there wasn’t enough oil I added some from my jar of recently roasted garlic.
~ I added the red pepper, coarsely chopped, and the broccoli broken into tiny florets.
~ When the veggies were just turning tender I stirred in the cooked onion and the crisp chorizo.
~ I whisked together 2 eggs with salt and pepper and a few drips of hot sauce, poured it over the potato mix and cooked for a few minutes till almost set.
~ When almost cooked I sprinkled the top with the bit of cheese, grated, and slid the omelette under a hot grill just to melt it and set the runny bits of egg.
Halfway through this last stage I had a too late inspiration – I wish I had sprinkled a handful of panko crumbs on top for crunch, but I didn’t. Maybe next time.
The other day we had Pear and Ginger Crumble for pudding: I gently cooked the pears in syrup from the Stem Ginger jar which tasted good but produced Far Too Much Juice. I kept back about 60ml and drank it today topped up with fizzy water. I’ve done this before with juice leftover from cooking rhubarb and no doubt I will do it again – makes a pleasant change in the drinks department.
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Today, I made a Spiced Satsuma & Cranberry Chilled Soup for New Covent Garden's Christmas soup challenge. Had way too much cranberry puree left over – and we've kept it to add to lemonade in exactly the same way as your juice. 🙂 Your omelette looks like the sort of thing I regularly make for lunch, except hubby calls them my \”grey omelettes\” because often they'll end up that colour! I have to say, yours looks a lot more presentable! 🙂
You man sounds as complimentary as mine! My sister and I used to make a \”cream of mushroom soup\” as it said on the menu but in the kitchen it was known as Cream of Grey.
Oh that's nothing! A previous boyfriend used to call my Tomato & Sausage casserole \”Monkey's Afterbirth\” – which rather put me off making it. LOL