Southwestern Eggs for Two

Hi intra-web world. This is my first post as both an aspiring chef and blogger. As you'll see with my posts, I'm delightfully self-depricating and usually will call it as I see it. I want to be able to share with you my triumphs and epic defeats so we can all laugh, learn and enjoy. This post is definitely the latter, so enjoy my FAIL and learn!


Southwestern Eggs for Two

What You'll Need:

½ cup of corn
½ cup of black beans
¼ cup cut green bell pepper
Handful of pepper jack cheese (to top eggs)
Salsa (I prefer the spicier the better!)
1 Pocketless pita
4 Eggs


What To Do:

Okay, so I’m sure that most of the people reading this have A) made eggs a ton of times before and B) will probably do a much better job than I did. The purpose of this entry is to learn from my mistakes and sit back, enjoy and laugh with me at my bumbledness…if that even is a word. Probably a more correct title would be “What not to do”, but I digress...so without further ado:

What I like to do first is to grease the pan, put it on low heat and get the ingredients out and prepared.

While the pan gets hot, I open the cans of black beans and corn and drain them. I then combine them into 1 Tupperware (why not, black beans and corn go great together!) and then I chop the pepper, about ½ inches by a ¼ of an inch.

OKAY! Ingredients prepared - now let’s crack the eggs! SPLAT!

Now, you’ll see this later - if you’re making this recipe it’s best to either use 4 eggs with a far bigger pan than I did, or just individually make 2 omelets with 2 eggs each. Learn from my fail!

I added my ½ cup of black beans, my ½ cup of corn, and my ¼ cup of green peppers, combined them into the egg batter and poured that baby into the pan like so:

So my initial thought was "Wow, this looks like it’s going to be really good!" And why shouldn’t it be, when we have all these yummy things together in a pan with more yummy things to come......but suddenly I realized that as I’m scraping the edges down and allowing the batter to run under the cooked part of the omelet, I’d created the omelet version of Frankenstein and alas, I could not control it on the flame.But, I’m no quitter, so I did my best to flip this gargantuan beast of an omelet...and ultimately, I got this...

FAIL

It turned into some scrambled egg mess - and a not very appetizing mess I might add. But try as I might, I was going to ameliorate this situation … and I began thinking what could I do to fix this mess...thinking...thinking...thinking...thinking...thinking...

CHEESE!

Yes, cheese fixes everything...let’s try thatI laid the pepper jack cheese on top of the scrambled egg mess mocking me in the pan …

And already I started to feel a bit better. What else could be done with this?



I dumped some salsa on top of the eggs. Now it looked like I had planned this whole mess out. While the cheese was melting, I turned the oven on (I usually have it going at 350F) and heated up my pita. Nothing says home like a warm pillowy pita.

I thought it might all be okay at this point, but who wouldn’t feel that way in the sight of a heavenly, glowing warm piece of pita bread? Once the pita was warm, I removed it from the oven. I cut the "omelet" in half and placed it on the pita, which looked like so:

Now, after all that, this thing tasted awesome...it was even man-approved by my roommate who graciously ate the other half.

We can all learn from my fail though! In the future I’d say use no more than 2 eggs, ¼ cup total of beans and corn, and 1/8 cup of green pepper, then heat it slowly and pray to God that the omelet doesn’t break when you try to flip it.

If anyone else tries this recipe, which is both fairly quick and cheap to make, please let me know how it comes out!