Best Omelette Recipe, Hemel Hempstead - Anglophile Friday

Best Omelette Recipe

In my opinion, of course

Ingredient list:

2 eggs

Celery

Broccoli

Onion

Peppers

Bacon (gluten free, nitrate/nitrite free, MSG free)

Stilton Cheese

(this was Stilton with apricot, although I'm partial to Stilton with cranberry - of course)

Saute veggies. (I always make the bacon way ahead of time and keep it in the freezer). Set aside on a plate.
Whisk eggs.
Pour into a no-stick skillet that's at med-high heat
Swirl eggs around by tipping the skillet back and forth and around to cover the bottom of pan.
Turn to low and cover for about 30 seconds. You can peek and see if it's wet looking on top but not runny and not dry. If so, it's perfect!
Uncover, add veggies and bacon and top with cheese on one side of the omelette. Cover, take skillet off burner, and let sit about 30 seconds. You don't want anything to make that omelette brown. Ewwww on brown eggs.
Roll omelette out onto plate.

Didn't the title read 'Anglophile Friday???'
Yes, you read that right. But please just bear with me. You'll eventually understand why I dared label this 'Anglophile Friday.'

 Yummy Apricot Stilton
A surprise from my husband,
who got it at the Eau Galle Cheese Factory
(and of course we know it was made in England, not in Eau Galle) 

But I covered that topic in another post. Read it HERE

This was delicious!

Henry Crabbe, owner/chef of the restaurant 'Pie in the Sky' makes a terrific omelette. Mine isn't too bad either.

Henry Crabbe, our new favorite detective/restaurateur

Pie in the Sky

Mystery/Drama/FUN

Yes, another great British mystery show.
Who can NOT love their sense of humor!

And, I found out that at least some of the episodes were filmed on location at Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire, England.

From Hemelonline.com:

"Hemel Hempstead is a town in Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom with a population of 81,143 at the United Kingdom Census 2001 (but now estimated at around 89,000 by Hertfordshire County Council). Developed after World War II as a new town, it has existed as a settlement since the 8th century. It is part of the district (and borough since 1984) of Dacorum and the Hemel Hempstead constituency.

Origin of the name

The settlement was called by the name Henamsted or Hean-Hempsted, i.e. High Hempstead, in Anglo-Saxon times and in William the Conqueror's time by the name of Hemel-Amstede. The name is referred to in the Domes day Book as "Hamelamesede", but in later centuries it became Hamelhamsted. Another opinion is that Hemel probably came from "Haemele" which was the name of the district in the 8th century and is most likely either the name of the land owner, or could mean "broken country".  Pre-World War II residents knew it affectionately as "Hempstead" whereas the majority of present day residents simply call it "Hemel"."

You can read more about it, here: Hemel Hempstead.

Photo via en.wikipedia.org

Hemel Hempstead

If I ever get back to England, I just might look up Hemel Hempstead. And a sad note about the TV series - Richard Griffiths, the actor who played the lovable Henry Crabbe, died exactly a year ago today -  on March 28, 2013, at University Hospital, Coventry, of complications after heart surgery. He was 65.


Some of you might know Richard Griffiths from the Harry Potter movies.

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