BltLancaster Farming, Saturday, February 11, 1995 Stuff omelets with your favorite combination of fillings. How To Cook ‘Eggsactly’ LOU ANN GOOD Lancaster Farming Staff LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.) Want to entertain by serving something different, fun, inexpen sive, and impressive? Throw an omelet party. After you demonstrate omelet making to your guests, each one can make their own omelet Omelets are popular any time of the day. They may be served plain, but the addition of fillings makes an endless variety of omelets pos sible. Flavor the omelet, filling or both with about '/■ -A teaspoon of your favorite herb or spice or a sesoning blend from a salad dress ing, soup or other flavoring mix. There’s no limit to the range of exciting ideas. Here are some pos sible fillings that may be mixed and matched, according to person al preference. Use one or more fill ing ingredients to total about 'A to /: cup filling for each omelet. SUGGESTED FILLINGS: • chopped onion • chopped green or red peppers • cubed ham • bacon, fried and crumbled • mushrooms • pizza or spaghetti sauce • broccoli, cooked and drained • chopped celery • salmon, drained and flaked • zucchini, cooked and drained • chopped green chdies • shrimp, cooked, deveined • preserves or jam • tomatoes • cheese • canned pie filling • leftover turkey, chicken, beef or pork SEASONINGS: • Sour cream or yogurt • Worcestershire sauce • Hot pepper sauce • Salt and pepper Before throwing a party, deve lop and perfect your own omelet making skills. Here are step by step instructions. PLAIN OMELET: 2 eggs 2 tablespoons water Seasonings Perfect Omelets adds a bit of pizazz to omelet making when she flips an omelet for guests at a food fest. INSTRUCTIONS: Over medium-high heat, pre heatan 8- to 10-skillet with sloping sides. • Drop in a tablespoon of butter to melt. * Mix the omelet ingredients with a fork or a whisk, just until blended. • Pour the egg mixture into the heated, buttered pan. It should set at the edges almost immediately. • With a turner, draw or push the cooked edges toward the center. • Tip and tilt the pan so the uncooked portion can get to the bottom of the pan. • While the top is still moist, add filling. The whole process should take no more than a minute. • Fold one side over the filling with the turner. (Filling is on the left for right-handed people, oppo site for lefties). Tip the pan over the plate and out rolls the filled omelet. SUPPLIES NEEDED: • One heat source (a butane bur ner, hot plate, or burner of your range). A range burner should be set on medium-high. • One omelet pan • One butter plate and knife • One pancake turner • One ladle for each bowl of egg mixture. Most standard kitchen ladles hold 'A cup, the perfect amount of the egg mixture for an individual omelet • One serving plate per person. • Egg mixture (2 eggs, 2 tables poons water, and seasonings per omelet). • Assortment of fillings. PLANNING PARTY • Select meeting spot. • Send out invitations several weeks in advance. • Get a final guest count. • Make a list, order food and supplies (1 week in advance). • Buy food staples, 2 to 3 days in advance, perishables the day before. • Set up tables and work sta- 3 to 4 hours in advance. • Chop and prepare filling ingre dients (2 to 3 hours before). • Break eggs and mix with water A hour before. • Put food at cooking stations 'A hour before. • Welcome guests, take care of introductions. • Demonstrate the art of omelet creation. • Create! SEE YOUR NEARE S 3 DEALER FOR DEPENDABLE EQUIPMENT & SERVK m AnnvlJle. PA BHM Farm Equipment, Inc, RDI, Rte. 934 717-867-2211 Carlisle. PA R&W Equipment Co. 35 East Willow Street 717-243-2686 Dtclaon Cltv. PA F&S Supply Co. Enterprise St. 717-489-3642 Messick Farm Equipment, Inc. Rt. 283 - Rheem’s Exit 717-367-1319 Halifax. PA Sweigard Bros. R.D. 3, Box 13 717-896-3414 Honev Brook. PA Dependable Motor Co. East Main Street 215-273-3131 215-273-3737 Honev Grove. PA Norman D. Clark & Son, Inc. Honey Grove, PA 717-734-3682 Loysville, PA 717-789-3117 Frederick. MD Ceresville Ford New Holland, P.t. 26 East 301-662-4197 Outside MD, 800-331-9122 NEW JERSEY Bridgeton. NJ Leslie G. Fogg, Inc. • Canton & Stow Creek Landing Rd. 609-451-2/27 ' 609-935-5145 ICWHOLLAN) s YLVANi Huahesvllle. PA Farnsworth F Supplies, Inc 103 cemetery Sti 717-584-2106 A.B.C. Groff, 110 South Railroi 717-354-4191 QIW. PA C.J. Wonsidl Bros. R.D. 2 215-987-6257 Pitman. PA Schreffler Equipment Pitman, PA 717-648-1120 Tamaaua. PA Charles S. Snyder, Inc, R.D. 3 717-386-5945 West Grove. PA S.G. Lewis Son, Inc. R.D. 2, Box 66 215-869-2214 Washington. NJ Smith Tractoi Equip., Inc. 15 Hillcresl Ave. 908-689-7900 Woodstown. NJ Owen Supply Broad Street & East Avenue 609-769-0308
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