The pandemic has prompted the adoption of all sorts of unusual behaviors, such as 1) abandonment of all pretense of screen time limitations, 2) worshiping via Zoom, 3) grown-up podcasters building blanket forts in their closets to mimic the sound studio, 4) shifting from print books to ebooks no matter one’s previous Luddite habits, 5) wearing face masks and homemade ones at that, and finally 6) cooking.
Or at least from what I gather, a lot more people are doing a lot more cooking. This can turn into a whole new species of maladaptive competition—have you fully taken advantage of this precious and irreplaceable time to start your first batch of sourdough, ferment your kombucha, and construct architectonic pastries!?—and it can equally well turn into dreary repetition of the same ol’ same ol’.
Well, to those of you suffering in culinary confinement, I release you from the burden of achieving Great Things in Solitude or acquiring a New and More Wholesome Perspective on Life, the Universe, and Everything, and offer you instead something much better: a fantastic omelette you can make in three and a half minutes.
Under normal circumstances, I am frenetic chaser after gastronomic novelty. But this is the one single recipe I have made more than any in my entire life. I never get tired of it (luckily, neither do the other residents of my household). I have shared it with others who have confessed their lives to be changed by it. It’s so good it doen’t need fillings, though I often have mine with homemade kimchi on the side (all right, all right, I do ferment) and on very special occasions with a slice of raclette or a similarly melty, smelly cheese inside. But plain is absolutely wonderful.
You can’t have your best life now, and anyway who’d want that anyway? Nothing left to look forward to. But you can have your best omelette now… and you can have it tomorrow and the next day, too.
Watch, learn, and then cook:
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