I’m certainly not a gourmet chef, but I love to find and share recipes and tips that make domestic life easier. If they are a bit quirky, all the better.
So I’m going to share a recipe with you that came to me via email. Anyone who receives email is probably way overinformed about almost everything. The emails I receive run the gamut – informative, funny, stupid, disgusting, inspirational, discouraging, scary, helpful, sappy. My inbox can be a treasure trove, septic tank and mine field, all rolled into one.
But some folks who send me emails have established their credibility. My mother is one of those people, so when she emailed me the recipe I’m going to pass along to you, I knew it would be worth trying.
Although this recipe seemed too easy to be true, I tried it and learned that yes, it is possible to cook an omelet in a plastic bag.
That’s right – in a plastic bag. A quart-sized, ziploc freezer bag, to be exact. And it doesn’t even end up as a giant blob of melted baggie, as I initially feared.
Here’s what you do …
First, get a pan of water boiling on the stove. (Am I going too fast? Don’t worry – the recipe gets easier from here on out.)
Now, crack two eggs into your quart-sized, freezer ziploc bag. Shake and mash up the eggs a bit to break up the yokes. (Note: Use only the inside of the eggs, not the shells. If you didn’t instinctively know that, this recipe might be a wee bit too challenging for you and you should perhaps limit your cooking to ramen noodles. Also, it’s really good to be sure you’ve securely closed the bag before mashing the eggs, or you will find this step extremely messy and exasperating).
Now, toss your other omelet ingredients in with the eggs – cheese, ham, onions, peppers — anything you’ve always dreamed of “omeletizing.” Squoosh it all up some more. When your pan of water is boiling with gusto, drop your baggie into the boiling water and leave it in there for about 13 minutes, give or take a few nanoseconds.
Now just open your baggie and roll out your perfect omelet. Can ya believe it? Yes, indeedee, it works. You can even make a breakfast party game out of this – give baggies to all your guests, have them write their names on the bags with permanent markers, allow them to mix up their omelets, toss them in a large pot and let the good times roll.
As I was dropping omelet ingredients into my baggie this morning, I thought about a familiar Bible verse – “And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.” (Romans 8:28)
Sounds like an omelet to me. Eaten individually, some ingredients might taste fine. Others, not so good, or even awful. Throw them all together and cook them up, however, and they turn into something very good. That’s the promise God gives to “those who are called according to His purpose” – those who have embraced His Son, Jesus Christ.
Maybe some of the ingredients of your life don’t seem too tasty right now when viewed in isolation. Yea, me too. But God knows how to cook up a terrific omelet if we simply throw it all in His bag and trust Him while we’re in the heat.
Bon appétit!