How many of you know that I am an omelet maker? Usually I make pretty standard omelets with ham, mushrooms, green peppers, onions, and cheese (oh, and eggs). Well, a couple of times over the last month or so I have been inspired by some leftovers to come up with new creations, so I thought I would share the yummy results.
First a month or two ago Liz made some fajitas, and we had some leftover meat and sauteed onions and peppers. A few mornings later, I decided to make a fajita omelet. I just heated up the leftovers in a pan with some oil, then added the eggs. After the eggs were mostly cooked, I added some diced tomatoes, salsa, and grated Mexican (cheddar and jack) cheese. Voila! A fajita omelet. It was pretty tasty, if I do say so myself.
Then, just this morning I came up with another one. Liz had made some artichoke-spinach dip for a party we had the day after New Years (Erin found the recipe), and we had some of that left in the fridge. I sauteed some mushrooms, then added and cooked the eggs. I heated up the dip in the microwave and spread it on the cooked egg. I also added some diced tomatoes and grated Swiss cheese. This also turned out to be a pretty tasty concoction.
Okay, now I guess I should update you on our lives over the last few weeks. I had to take two weeks off from work over the holidays. We had planned to try and come down to Utah somewhere during that time, but the weather and Anna combined to foil that plan. Anna had a friend from her time working at Jacob Lake come to visit from the Saturday after Christmas until when she went back to school, so that meant she didn't want to travel down to Utah that week. Erin had to work Mon.-Wed. of both weeks, so that also limited our options for driving down. We were a little hesitant to leave and miss out on spending more time with Anna, and then when we kept having storms come through and dump snow all over, we decided to just stay home.
Anna had planned to head back to Rexburg on Monday 5th, but when I checked the weather last Sunday morning I encouraged her to leave that afternoon, which turned out to be a good choice. We got quite a bit of snow on Monday and Tuesday, and it would have been a nasty drive.
We really didn't do much over the holidays. We did have some friends over the day after New Years to play some games. Also, as Erin reported in her blog, we had two families from the cast of "Christmas Carol" who are Armenian come over on the Monday before Christmas. We had an Armenian dinner, and then looked at Anna's pictures from Armenia. Both of the fathers had a grandfather who came to America from Armenia in the early 1900's. Neither of them really knew too much what it was really like over there, so they were excited to see the pictures and ask Anna questions. They seemed to really enjoy their time here, and we enjoyed having them over.
Other than that we pretty much just hung out at home. This week it was back to normal life, which for me also meant the start of practices for another play. This one is "Seussical, the Musical." It's a composite of a bunch of Dr. Seuss stories with some really fun music. As I mentioned in the last post, I'm going to be playing Horton the Elephant, which means I have to hear a Who and hatch an egg. The performances are going to be the last two weekends in February, so you should all make plans to come up and visit us and see the show. I'll even cook you an omelet for breakfast!
3 comments:
We like to make omelettes, too! We will have to try some of your new recipes--they sound very yummy! We made a taco omelette once a long time ago--same idea; we used left over taco meat, salsa, sour cream, etc.
Love omelettes here too! I made breakfast burritos for dinner one night--big hit! It's an omelette in a tortilla!
Wish we could come in February. Tim started with the church today--I'll post later on it. So we don't know how the vacation days work.
Those omelettes sound good and make great use of leftovers. When the storms all blow away you'll have to all come visit
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