The ducks stopped laying but the hens haven't stopped.
The price of a bag of poultry feed every week doesn't make keeping hens really financially worthwhile. We are getting roughly five eggs per day at the moment. So nearly three dozen a week.
I know eggs aren't dear in Lidl but like vegetables you can't buy the freshness of your own homegrown or home laid.
Apparently omelette is a fourteenth century French word but the first omelette are said to have originated in Persia. They probably came along the Silk Road along with our vegetables and spices?
Any road our omelette was very nice. Any one got a favourite omelette recipe?
Ooooh. Yes. I love mine with onions, peppers, mushrooms, bits of ham or bacon, and cheddar cheese! Your style is what we would refer to as a 'western' omelette here (think cowboys, campfires, and cast iron frying pans). I like to cook my egg mixture on the bottom, then top it with whatever I am putting on it, and then stick the whole mess under the broiler long enough to melt the cheese and cook the egg on the other side. You pull the frying pan out of the broiler, and then fold it in half and slide the thing onto a plate. If you are lucky it turns out as a half moon. If you're unlucky...well...it still tastes fine!
ReplyDelete'Western' omelette sounds very Blazing Saddles Debby. I suppose one could add beans (Heinz of course) with it? I have tasted some gorgeous omelettes in France. They really can cook.
DeleteWith 3 dozen eggs a week you'll be eating lots of omelettes. They're nice baked in the oven too. No trying to flip them in the frying pan. K loves them with fried potatoes, eggs over chips. I prefer my omelette with slices of tomato, onion and cheese
ReplyDeleteHi Linda. I often throw eggs in their shells to our pigs. They love them. In West Corks chips are often served with a full Irish breakfast. Omelettes are very light and great any day of the week.
ReplyDeleteI also cook my omelettes in the oven and have two small, individual ceramic pie dishes for this. I tend to go for sliced red and green peppers and spinach whereas P prefers ham and cheese in his.
ReplyDeleteI would never have thought of cooking omelette in the oven JayCee. I sometimes make a spicy one with chilli peppers. We do same with homemade pizzas. One half plain and one half spicy. Apparently pizzas 🍕 were invented in Greece and not Italy.
ReplyDeleteI like a nice cheese and onion omelette. The chopped onions are first fried until soft before the beaten egg and grated cheese are added. The end process involves protecting the frying pan handle with foil and grilling the top of the omelette.
ReplyDeleteCooking poetry in motion.
ReplyDeleteHaha - my Dad always said that the hens died in debt. We had about 80 so that Mum could make a bit of cash for housekeeping money (the farm had so much debt the mortgage company owned us and examined every request for a bit of money to live on) - so it represented funds they didn't know about. Still chicken feed had to be bought from time to time....
ReplyDeleteAldi are selling 18 eggs for 3.75. How can anyone compete with that? Animals cost money to keep and its got to be freshness that is the main reason not to just buy some eggs from the supermarket. Plus they provide us with manure for the veg plot.
ReplyDeleteI do cheese omelettes which are not folded in the traditional manner, but cooked until set on the bottom then flipped over like a pancake. The grated cheeses get stirred into the eggs before cooking along with a little dried parsley and sometimes some finely chopped ham. If I am adding finely chopped spring onions, I will soften them in the pan before the eggs are added.
ReplyDeleteSounds good . We often add onions to our homemade pizzas River.
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