Potato and Cheese Frittata

And now a recipe for those of you who enjoy the morning. Or who screwed up something and are trying to appease their significant other in the morning. Or just those who want to look like they know how to cook something that a terrible chick movie that I've now seen twice* said was difficult but is really incredibly easy.

To make this culinary des un detre** first choose your base ingredients. You'll need eggs (2 per person), but past that whatever you have on hand will do. For today's experiment I used potatoes and onion. Other favourites are bacon, ham, tomato, peppers, steak, mignon, pate, caviar and anything else foodworthy. Cook them in an ovenable skillet until they're edible, and then pour your whisked eggs over them. Potatoes take around 15 minutes with a decent amount of oil until they're golden and brown. Chop them up small unless you like standing in the kitchen for 6 hours. About the eggs, I should have mentioned earlier that you need to whisk them in a bowl. Do that now if you haven't.

Once you've poured them in, put the whole skillet into the oven you've preheated. Remember? We preheated it to 200C earlier. I totally mentioned that. Pay attention. Anyway, pop it in there for 10 minutes, or until the egg mixture sets. Then take it out and put some grated cheese on it, as well as pepper and herbs and chilli if you like it (you totally do). Then put it back in until it melts.

Take it out, and voila! You've got an awesome breakfast/brunch/post-divorce-meal. Have it with some toast and butter. You'll look awesome.

I took this photo because I had no idea if I'd be able to get it out of the pan without scrambling it, and I was a little proud that I hadn't set fire to it. Go me!


*'Morning Glory', and by God if I have to watch it again I will commit some sort of crime against humanity.
**made-up French; hell, I can barely speak English.