When I woke up today, at around 1:16 pm, I was hungry and I was in a cross mood. The first question that popped into my head is, "Ma, what's for lunch?" Sadly, since it was past lunch-time, there's no more lunch left for me so I decided to think of something to cook while watching our pet hamsters eat.

The hamster cages are kept in front of my aunt's store so she could keep an eye on the pets while tending to the store. On the other side of the story, I admired how cute they are while contemplating what I would like for lunch, brunch, or should I dare say, my breakfast. That's when I noticed that there are some toasted bread on one of her bread baskets and a spark lit in my head. I knew what I would like for my meal. I decided to cook some breakfast food for lunch.

After getting the toasted bread, I decided to cook a cheese omelet to go with my toasted bread and some caramelized apples to tie in the flavor. I enjoyed my breakfast so I decided to share the recipe.

Since the toasted bread sparked all this in my head, let me start with that. The one I used in the recipe is just plain old loaf bread toasted with margarine and sugar sprinkled on top of it until it gets crunchy all the way through. That's a good choice, I thought, if I wanted to cook this again; I can easily toast some on my own if I can't get any from the store.

As I was walking towards my house, I saw my other aunt eating half of an apple, so that gave me the idea of caramelizing some. When I got in the house, I opened our ref to see the other half and I got it. I just carved out the seeds and the nasty ends of the apple. Afterwards, I cut them into thin slices and I set them aside.

Then, I got a medium sized egg and I beat it in a bowl. I added just a pinch of salt since I'm adding some cheese into it later. As I was doing that, I was preheating some oil in a frying pan. After beating the eggs, I got some cheese and cut a slice. When I got back to the stove, the oil was already hot so I poured in the beaten eggs and I grated some cheese over it. Once the omelet was cooked enough on one side, I flipped it and cooked it all the way through.

I am not a fan of complicated recipes so after I got the omelet out of the pan, I put in the apples and turned the heat low to let it caramelize. I was so excited and I had to be patient because waiting for the apple's natural sugars to come out took some time.I added just a small pinch of salt to help the water come out of the apples. Then, I waited for the apples to turn a bit translucent; that's the time I put in one tablespoon of red sugar and I let it melt a bit. When the sugar was sizzling already, I added two tablespoons of water because I didn't want the apple sauce to be too runny. I decided to reduce the sauce so I got the bread out.

I took the plate where I put the omelet on and arranged the toasted bread on one side of the omelet. Perhaps it took me about four minutes to do that because when I looked at the pan, the apples looked just about done. Smelling the apples made me feel hungrier so I turned of the heat and put the apples on one side of the plate.

I carted my plate off to the dining table and I realized that I just made myself a pretty delicious breakfast. My aunt was there and I shared some with her and she liked it too. In fact, it is so sweet and cheesy that I decided to make some for my sister tomorrow. I think, even the hamsters would like to eat some.

Comments (2)

On December 30, 2008 at 5:42 AM , Rchrd said...

I can't wait to make another batch of this!

 
On January 15, 2009 at 5:22 PM , Anonymous said...

i love cheese omelet! gooey cheese with the egg a little bit runny, fried on butter. accompanied with good toast = yum-yum! :-D

(i'll try your caramelized apples - with fuji apples, my favorite! your ensemble will truly make one fine morning!)

 
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