I am married to a wonderful man who eats only traditional breakfast foods for his breakfast. Me… I’ve always enjoyed leftovers for breakfast.
This morning I wanted to use up some leftover rice and vermicelli blend. Protein at breakfast is one of the goals these days. So I combined it at the end with one of my usual failed omelets.
Pretty tasty! It’s too early to add up the protein, fiber, carbs, fats, and calories. In all honesty it’s always too early for that.
Ingredients
2 eggs + 2 tbsp cottage cheese + 1/2 tsp Trader Joe’s Sofrito seasoning mixed together with a fork in a separate bowl
1/2 tbsp or so olive oil heated in a stainless steel frying pan
A mixture of already diced uncooked red and yellow peppers leftover from another meal this week + some freshly diced white onion + 3 freshly chopped garlic cloves ( not from the jar) This probably was a 1/4 cup in total .
I cooked the pepper onion and garlic adding them to the hot pan in that order. After the garlic cooked for maybe 1 minute I then added the egg mixture right on top.
While the eggs were cooking I chopped up 3 slices of Jones Farm Canadian bacon and 2 slices of Iberico cheese from Trader Joe’s.
By the time I was done with that the eggs were starting to set around the edges so I used a metal spatula to lift the eggs at the edge and tilt the pan enough so that the still runny egg would flow to the bottom of the pan on the side that I lifted. I’m always worried that I will tilt the pan too much and have egg run over the side of the pan. Not this time!
Once I have repeated this a few times in a few different spots the top of the egg layer looks much less runny. That is when I added the chopped Canadian bacon and cheese sprinkling it over the top.
It maybe cooked for another minute before I used the spatula to attempt to make an omelet by lifting one of the sides over.
Not today. <sigh> So I continued cooking the eggs and then added my leftover rice noodle mixture on top. I mixed it all together and turned off the heat. I covered it with a lid for a moment or two to help it continue to warm the rice mixture while I got a bowl.
Above is the result. I have about half of it still in the pan. Maybe my husband will try this at lunch, or maybe I’ll just eat the rest of it then.
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