Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Sunday, January 2, 2011
What to Have for Breakfast
To anyone here who is a fan of the show Castle, I trust you had the same initial reaction as most people to the "S'more-let" (technical spelling of this is up for debate...). I too had this reaction at first... and the second time that I saw that very same episode. However, when I came home for Christmas this year, I could not help but express the desire to make a s'more-let when my brother was home. Well, today the deed was done.
Serving for myself, my brother, his wife, and my dad (my mother was conveniently absent...), my brother and I prepared a 5 egg omelet. First we crumbled and sprinkled over the entire cooking egg layer a thin layer of gram cracker. As we planned to fold this omelet in half, we placed 6 marshmallows (torn in half to cover more area) over one half of the omelet and half of a "giant size" Hershey's chocolate bar over the other half. We let the ingredients heat and melt and we then folded it in half and resumed cooking. Once folded we frequently had to use the spatula to push foaming marshmallow back into the egg....
When finished, the outside of the s'more-let looked much like a regular omelet, but the cross-section looked like chocolaty goodness. We let it cool, as nobody likes to eat superhot sugar... and it then took me about 5 minutes simply to convince myself that I was indeed going to attempt this abomination... but in the end I did; and I was pleasantly surprised. None of us had trouble finishing our respective portions, and we were soon debating what appropriate ratios of ingredients would have been. We are certain that there was not enough gram cracker and it was far too well crumbled. Next time we will look to have more crackers and in larger chunks. We believe the marshmallow was the perfect amount, but we had too much chocolate and it was overpowering. We plan to reduce the chocolate by about half to make everything a more even blend of flavor.
...and yes, this does mean there will be a next time.
So, in short, I recommend to everyone a s'more-let with bacon, coffee and orange juice for whenever you are unsure of what to eat and are looking for a complete and balanced breakfast.
Serving for myself, my brother, his wife, and my dad (my mother was conveniently absent...), my brother and I prepared a 5 egg omelet. First we crumbled and sprinkled over the entire cooking egg layer a thin layer of gram cracker. As we planned to fold this omelet in half, we placed 6 marshmallows (torn in half to cover more area) over one half of the omelet and half of a "giant size" Hershey's chocolate bar over the other half. We let the ingredients heat and melt and we then folded it in half and resumed cooking. Once folded we frequently had to use the spatula to push foaming marshmallow back into the egg....
When finished, the outside of the s'more-let looked much like a regular omelet, but the cross-section looked like chocolaty goodness. We let it cool, as nobody likes to eat superhot sugar... and it then took me about 5 minutes simply to convince myself that I was indeed going to attempt this abomination... but in the end I did; and I was pleasantly surprised. None of us had trouble finishing our respective portions, and we were soon debating what appropriate ratios of ingredients would have been. We are certain that there was not enough gram cracker and it was far too well crumbled. Next time we will look to have more crackers and in larger chunks. We believe the marshmallow was the perfect amount, but we had too much chocolate and it was overpowering. We plan to reduce the chocolate by about half to make everything a more even blend of flavor.
...and yes, this does mean there will be a next time.
So, in short, I recommend to everyone a s'more-let with bacon, coffee and orange juice for whenever you are unsure of what to eat and are looking for a complete and balanced breakfast.
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