8 March 2012

Welcome to our omelette blog!

The omelette is commonly thought to have originated in the Ancient Near East. Beaten eggs were mixed with chopped herbs, fried until firm, then sliced into wedges. This dish is thought to have travelled to Western Europe via the Middle East and North Africa, with each country adapting the original recipe to produce Italian frittata, Spanish tortilla and the French omelette.
In cuisine, an omelette or omelet is a dish made from beaten eggs quickly cooked with butter or oil in a frying pan, sometimes folded around a filling such as cheese, vegetables, meat (often ham), or some combination of the above. To obtain a fluffy texture, whole eggs or sometimes egg whites only are beaten with a small amount of milk or cream, or even water, the idea being to have “bubbles” of water vapor trapped within the rapidly cooked egg. Some home cooks add baking powder to produce a fluffier omelette; however, this ingredient is sometimes viewed unfavorably by traditionalists. The bubbles are what make the omelette light and fluffy. Okay I for one am getting hungry.

In many ways life is like an omelette, if you ever watch those home renovations shows on the W network or HGTV well I do I can’t get enough of the drama when the home owner is in the middle of a reno and everything is in shambles and tempers are rising, it is at this point that I want to ask the ranting home owners “haven’t you seen this show before?” it always works out in the end and sure enough in the end (Well the episodes they show) the home owners are usually very happy with the results.

This is like life, I think the only way to make an omelette is to break a few eggs, this is a necessary right of passage for proper omelette making. In my travels I have noticed two paths though I only really see one, these are the road less travelled (Which is also a book by Dr Scott M Peck great read) and the beaten path for which there is a road map, and a trail, and a support system etc. For our blog we are focused on the road less travelled for which there is no map or sherpa in which to guide us through the uncleared jungle, foraging a new path can be daunting to say the least however it is essential that someone does as if we all followed the same beaten path it would be impossible for humans to eat omelettes for breakfast. So break some eggs it is always messy in the beginning but after a while (sometimes a really long while) your eggs and other ingredients usually come together beautifully to form a nice omelette.
“A calm sea does not make a skilled sailor.”: Nothing worth gaining is gained without difficulty.~English Proverb
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