Saturday, June 5, 2010

Eggs and Oatmeal...My favorite breakfast :)

I woke up today hoping for some beautiful weather to go hiking and guess what?!? It's raining...
It has rained almost every day for the past week and a half. That's Florida --> sunshine state that rains and is humid in the summer :)

To take the rainy blues away, I made my favorite breakfast! A four egg Omelet and cinnamon raisin oatmeal....Yes it sounds boring but it doesn't have to be :) I eat this meal  a lot! I usually exclude the cheese though, except on rare occasions.

My Omelet

Ingredients
4 eggs
Pam non-stick spray
Salt and Black pepper to taste
2 slices of your fav cheese --> I love either gouda, mont. jack, cheddar or american on mine
Things to add (optional)
A little bit of cold pressed Olive Oil 
Spinach
Onions
Tomatoes
Green peppers

Preparation
Dice the veggies into small pieces
Pour a little Olive oil to coat the bottom of a pan and put on medium heat
When hot, put all veggies into pan except tomatoes (add those when the other veggies are already soft to avoid making the tomatoes flavorless)
Cook until the veggies are no longer hard/crunchy
Take the pan off the burner
Cover or keep warm until ready to insert into omelet

Directions
Spray the pan with Pam and put the stove on medium heat
Beat 4 eggs (yolk and all!) in a bowl
Pour into hot pan (don't let it get too hot that the pam burns/turns brown)
Wait until the egg begins bubbling and gets a bit firmer, use the spatula to raise the edges of the omelet to allow the uncooked (liquid) parts to go under. This ensures a fully cooked middle :)
When all the runny parts look like they are firm, make an invisible line down the center and add the cheese and veggies to that half. Fold the other part over to cover the cheese and veggies, and cook for a minute or two letting the cheese melt.

Cinnamon Raisin Oatmeal! Yum!

Serves 1
Ingredients
1/2 cup of oatmeal
1/2 cup of unsweetened soy milk (or you can use vanilla soy milk)
cinnamon
a handful of raisins


Directions
Turn the burner on medium heat
Put the soy milk in a small pot and place on burner
Wait until it starts bubbling a bit and add the oatmeal
When it starts bubbling again, turn the heat down to low and cook until the consistency is no longer liquidy.
Add desired cinnamon and a handful of raisins

No comments:

Post a Comment