Omelette/Scrambled Eggs

I've had quite a history with both of these foods. When growing up, some weekends we'd have Omelettes or Scrambled Eggs. Lunch or Lazy Dinner both were options. If it was omelettes, there's be fillings and I'd always have far too much filling in mine. And because they were thick, they didn't fold well, and were always browned under the grill, which I believe was to make sure the inside actually cooked.

When making omelettes with my ex, so often we'd end up with scrambled eggs because something failed along the way. I don't know exactly when I changed how I made my omelettes, but I do know that when I saw Adam Savage and Traci des Jardins cook omelettes, it all clicked for me. Since then I hadn't made accidental scrambled eggs, until today while trying to capture images of the omelette making process. Instead of scrapping it and starting again, I give you my failure and resulting dish, as well as a finished product from my previously successful omelette making.

Omelette

Ingredients

2 Eggs
15 grams Butter
Parmesan Cheese, grated
(Optional: Other Cheese, Ham, Jalapeno, Onion or pretty much whatever you want to try)

Method

Crack both eggs into a small bowl and whisk until well combined. It should appear consistent in colour and no clear stringy bits left visible.

Put the pan over a medium heat and melt the butter.

Reduce the heat to low and pour in the eggs.

With a spatula, kind of gently stir the edges and centre, being careful to allow liquid egg to replace the moved egg. The mixture shouldn't become lumpy from this, but should end up being fluffier.

If I were to continue to make an omelette (and it didn't have holes in it), this is about cooked enough to add the cheese and fold the 2 sides in to form the rectangle. Flip the rectangular omelette over and cook briefly before sliding it onto a plate and topping with herbs, or in my pictured example above, sliced mushrooms fried in butter.

Scrambled Eggs

Method

So, I've failed at making an omelette, time to break it all up with the spatula to become scramble.

Those fillings that were going to go inside my omelette that are in the ingredients picture above? I'm still going to use them, just going to fry them off and add them in.

Dice the onion and finely dice about 1.5cm of the jalapeno. and fry for about a minute in a pan with some butter.

Chop a piece of ham and add to the pan.
Stir so the pieces all separate and fry for about 2 minutes.

Add to the Eggs, along with parmesan and grated cheese. Stir well. Cook until the cheese is melted through.

Serve on toast. Mine is on a nice slice from yesterdays loaf of bread

So, I know where I went wrong, an I know how to fix it. Hopefully you enjoy making either the omelette or scrambled eggs and remember that often with food, little failures aren't the end of the world and still create delicious food