Sunday, February 5, 2012

Sunday brunch: red pepper omelette with fried potatoes, and fruit salad

So after a delicious brunch in Manhattan that involved sushi, Bloody Mary, churros and ice cream, my husband suffered some uncomfortable repercussions; and so for today, we decided to have homemade omelettes and potatoes at home.
The idea was to use some ingredients we got at the Greenmarket in Union Square and at Whole Foods; onion rye bread, red cherry peppers from California, and aged Gouda cheese.
So after some discussion, the plan this morning was to fry the cherry peppers until soft and somewhat blackened; fry up the mushrooms, fry the potatoes until crispy, and then to put these ingredients minus the potatoes into an omelette, sprinkled with the cheese; the potatoes would be served on the side.
As I got my ingredients together and warmed up the frying pan, my loving husband came into the kitchen with a new set of enormous headphones; he had tuned them into an opera station (I love opera), and wanted me to enjoy the music while I cooked.
I got to cooking; the headphones provided me with a soundtrack to cook to; but I found as I fried the peppers, they emitted a smokey scent; my eyes filled up; I found it difficult to balance the headset while trying not to sneeze, and stir the peppers.  I managed though; I developed a rhythm after a while.


(Please forgive the ratty hair; focus was on the food at hand)
The peppers finished; I moved them out of the pan and moved the mushrooms (baby portabella and white) in; they cooked quickly; I poured more olive oil in and fried the potatoes.  I turned the oven on to 200 degrees and stashed the potatoes in there on a glass pan to keep them warm.
Then I got to my omelette; into the pan went the eggs, then sprinkled on top, the peppers, mushrooms and a sprinkling of cheese.  That cooked for about 10 minutes on a low flame; meanwhile I prepared the fruit salad - washed off strawberries, grapes and peeled an apple and banana; chop/slice, they all went into a bowl together.


Then the omelette was ready!

Omelette slid onto plate, potatoes whipped out of the oven and placed next to the omelette right before serving.
Voila!!!!
The toasted rye bread was on the side, but I didn't take a pic of it. 

1 comment:

  1. Headphones are HIlarious!!! Omelette does look good. Love the use of all the wegetables!

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