Grandaddy and Grandma Donna Love My Marvelous Omelettes!

Since we are moving to England in a couple of weeks, my Grandaddy and Grandma Donna came down from Tennessee to visit us. It was great! The omelette turned out really good and so they named it Merrit's Marvelous Omelette.

Eggs get whisked with a fork because that's how I like to do it.

Today's omelette's ingredients are: Ham,
artichoke hearts, white cheddar cheese, and eggs.

You have to evenly spread your ingredients into
the omelette because if you don't it's going to just
taste bad in the one spot.

Mommy made hash browns.

Ollie loves Grandaddy. He's wearing his hat.

This is Grandaddy and Ollie. Ollie is going to
whack the table with that spoon!

Everyone's plate is empty. Breakfast was delicious!

The 2011 Omelette

Happy New Year! Today is January 2, 2011 and we're having omelettes. Eric the Magician and Ann visited us for my Mom and Dad's New Year's party on Friday night. They love my omelettes.

This omelette had a lot of good ingredients in it. Parmesan cheese, asparagus, and black-bean-and-corn salsa. Like usual, we just use up what we have in our fridge.

Ollie's always getting into my eggs.

Me with a fork. I'm mixing eggs.

We made potato pancakes with leftover mashed potatoes from dinner last night. The other stuff
in this picture was for the omelettes. Parmesan cheese, asparagus, and salsa.

I want my omelettes to be round but they're usually bumpy like this.

That's sour cream and applesauce on the potato pancake.

Eric is a big fan of my breakfast. He's saying, "This is really good, Merrit!"

Jolly Good Omelette

My dad is in England and we decided to make an English omelette. So my mom and I looked on the computer to see what an English omelette has in it. 

This is what an English omelette has in it: Green onions (we did not have these, so we used garlic chives from the garden), mushrooms (we sauteed our mushrooms because Gramma B wanted to), asparagus (we only had canned asparagus, but it was still good), green peas (we meant to put these in but we forgot).

Gramma B taught me how to crack an egg with a knife instead of on a table or counter. I got good at it, and so I used it a lot. Gramma B named the omelette because Daddy wasn't here to name it. She called it the Jolly Good Omelette. 

Cutting garlic chives and mushrooms.

Gramma B showed me how to scoop out the
insides of the egg shells to get the rest of
the egg white out of the shell. That's the way
her mother did it.

This omelette is just about ready to be folded in half.

My brother cramming toast in his mouth.

Gramma B's plate. And her cup of tea.

The Thanksgiving Omelette

Dad said, "I'm calling this the Thanksgiving Omelette. That way, I only have to eat it once a year."

I made this omelette with turkey, stuffing, and Parmesan cheese. And on the side, we had cranberry sauce. On top of the omelette, there was dill. [Mom's note: The stuffing is our favorite Thanksgiving stuffing; it has cornbread, shrimp, green chiles, carrots, celery, onions, and cilantro in it.]

The stuffing, the turkey, the eggs, and the Parmesan cheese.

We're just about to flip this omelette.

The decorations on our Thanksgiving table.

Ollie with our cat Skippy. Skippy is trying to score some turkey.

Skippy is thinking, "I need to get outa here."

Ollie crushing Skippy in a big hug.

The "Bologna Me Away" Omelette

Every Sunday, I make omelettes. Today what we put in the omelettes was sliced leftover turkey meatballs, oregano, and Parmesan cheese. Dad called the omelette "The Bologna Me Away" because it had all those Italian ingredients. He said it was good but that it needed some tomatoes or tomato sauce. Or even salsa.

I'm picking the oregano.

The ingredients.

This is a picture of me shredding the Parmesan cheese.
My mom finished because my hand was getting tired.

Meatball, oregano, and Parmesan cheese omelette.

The omelette with a fork on the table. My mom's cup of tea.

Ollie eating.

The Chiles-and-Cheese-with-Needs Omelette

What we put in the omelette was diced green chiles, shredded Monterey jack and cheddar cheeses, and we put herbs in--like we always do. My dad called it The Chiles-and-Cheese-with-Needs because it had chiles and cheese in it but he said, "It needs something else. Maybe bacon."

I'm opening a can of green chiles.

We poured the chiles into a strainer to get all of the juice out.

The herbs we used were parsley and chives.

When we put in the cheese, I saw that we had more than we needed,
so I ate some. These are the cheeses that we used.

Me, whisking the eggs.

The ingredients.

The omelette.

We put the omelettes on the plates so that we could make the other ones.
We put the plates in the microwave so they stayed hot.

Me, eating my omelette.

The Peacemaker

Daddy decided to name this omelette The Peacemaker because the ingredients don't look like they go together, but when you eat them, they do. The ingredients are artichoke hearts, grated extra sharp cheddar cheese, salsa, and dill.  And eggs.

I was so hungry today that I almost didn't have enough energy make the omelettes. I was like, "Gimme some cheddar! Gimme some cheddar!" when I was grating the cheese. And I could not wait for those omelettes to be done. When they were finally done, I dove in. So did Ollie and Mom and Dad.

We spilled some egg down the front of the stove and onto the floor, but my cat Skippy licked it up.