Omelets in a bag!

[yendi]

One of many great memories of this vacation:

On Christmas morning, after the kids had all opened presents, the adults sat down and made omelets in a bag!

Seriously.

This involved taking two eggs and cracking them into a ziploc bag. Then, add fixings (ham, cheese, onions, etc), and break the egg up and combine everything by squeezing the bag with the fingers (that said, don't actually beat the eggs). Squeeze out the air, close the bags, then drop them in boiling water for thirteen minutes.

It worked -- I kid you not.

Comments

[zeyr.livejournal.com]

Okay. I have to try that now. :D

[muse0fire.livejournal.com]

That sounds awesome! I am so trying that.

[crystalsage.livejournal.com]

Very cool. I'm with the others...I may have to try that!

[aiela.livejournal.com]

I think I know what I'm making for dinner.

(Hey, I'm kidless this week, i get to eat omelettes for dinner!)

[creentmerveille.livejournal.com]

oh cool!

But where was the CHEESE? ;)

[auryn29a.livejournal.com]

Wow. I need to try this.

[zarhooie.livejournal.com]

That's kind of like my world-famous Om-lay in a Blender trick for when I'm trying to make a massive 6+ egg omelet for a baseball/basketball/football player. Throw everything into a blender (eggs, onions, pepper halves, cheese blocks, whole mushrooms, whatever), mix the hell out of it until everything's chopped into bits, and then pour it into the giant skillet of d00m. Sometimes I'll scramble it to make it easier on me because it's a bitch to flip.

[yesthatjill.livejournal.com]

We do this at girl scout overnights and at resident camp - it keeps all our picky eaters and allergy-ridden-counselors happy.

[yendi]

Nifty -- makes a lot of sense on a camping trip.

[thejunebug.livejournal.com]

Yah, we made them when we went camping when I was a kid. Good stuff!

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

It worked! I tried it tonight, and included avocado pieces among the fixings. The final result was a little "plastic," though -- I may have cooked it too long (it was one bag, not two or more, so the "13 minutes" might be too long for a single bag).

Thanks for planting the seed...

P.S. I did it for dinner because I don't have time in the morning for any breakfast "experiments," which I decided this would be.

[yendi]

*nod* I tried it this weekend myself, and the ziploc did weaken a bit. I think the large Hefty OneZip bags (the gallon ones, so there's more dispersion) are probably the best way to go.