Spanish Omelette

Hmmmm, well this one is a good news/bad news recipe. The good news is it tastes really good. The bad news is perhaps evident in the photo that this turned out more like an "egg salad" if you will than an omelette. Let me start at the start.

I was SUPER tired all day today. I did not get to sleep until about 1:15-ish last night, or should I say this morning. Husband and I went to a Raptors game last night and when I went to leave the parking lot the pay machine ate my credit card...so we didn't get home any too early. I did get my card back but it wasn't exactly a speedy recovery. Then I had to drive back to suburbia in construction and post game traffic. By the time I got to bed and finally asleep it was past 1am. And my alarm goes off at 5:45 every morning. At 1am I wasn't diggin' the idea of waking up in 4.5 hrs so I re-set my alarm and decided at 1am this morning that I would skip my usual morning workout to get more sleep. This is why I was sooo tired all day. As you can well imagine I did not feel like cooking when I got home. But being the trooper that I am I carried out my plan to make Spanish Omelette for dinner.

The first thing you do is boil your potaotes. Not a problem. The next thing you do is heat your grill. Now maybe it was the lack of sleep but it took me about 6 minutes to figure out what she was talking about. I couldn't decide if she meant the oven or the stovetop. Don't sell me too short here...remember Nigella is writing in proper British English to my feeble American English mind. Yes I do watch Coronation Street and yes I do read Harry Potter so I have some exposure to proper English. But I was in a quandry. Finally I figured it out that she was talking about using both actually. You have to pre-heat the grill or broiler in your oven. But you first cook the omelette in your fry pan of the stove top. This put me in another cunumdrum. Usually you do this type of thing with a cast iron pan - which I don't have. So I could either use the stainless steel pan or the teflon no-stick fry pan. Seeing as Husband LOVES the no-stick fry pan I had visions of the plastic handle melting under the broiler and subsequently Husband FREAKING out on me - so I went with the stainless steel.

What you do is you beat your eggs and add all your chopped foods - when you do this it looks like there's not enough egg and you want to add more - but don't. I came soooo close to adding a 5th egg but trust me it's okay, you don't need to. So you take this and add it to a heated pan, cook for 5 min. Then you take the pan off the stove top and place it under the broiler to finish it off. Maybe 2 minutes. Next you flip it out onto a plate and let cool. Here is where I next had problems. My Omelette would not flip out. It stuck. It was pretty rich when Husband said to me "Oh you should have used the non-stick pan" because it was my fear of ruining his favourite 'grilled cheese makin' pan' that I didn't.

Anyhow, I did get the omelette out just not in one piece. More like 58 pieces. Then I put it in the fridge to cool becauae you're supposed to eat this at room temperature. I chilled it about 5 min and served with a side salad for dinner. I liked it, Husband liked it, so in the end this recipe is a winner. Just use a non-stick pan!