Easy Egg omlet

 This easy egg omelet recipe is simple.  It is gfdf (I consider eggs diff than milk/butter)  An egg substitute could work!  

Ingredients 2 eggs

Df cheese thin slice or shreds- my go tos are Violife, Chao, Follow Your Heart, and Miokos.

Optional: 

Salsa for topper at end

Hot sauce for topper at end

Herbs- I have a gigantic Italian seasoning

Garlic with eggs mixed in

Bacon with eggs either mixed in or with cheese layer

Green onions

Etc...Make it your own!

Start by tossing in a smidgen of oil or df butter.  I use Earth Balance.

Use a really good omelet pan.  Yes it makes a difference.  "All Clad" is my go to!

Heat up medium low or lower heat.  Know your stove and kitchen.  Watch the pan always.  Too hot and it will cook too fast.

You can use a nice flipper spatula that's silicone so it won't melt in the pan.

When the sides are cooked on the edges and it looks like towards an egg pancakes, add your cheese, bacon bits, green onions, whatever the filling is.  Just not too much.  You can cover it to melt with a tiny bit of water, you can flip it till it melts after folding it over.  Whatever you want, but fold it over at this point to max the melt!

Serve with salsa, Pico, hotsauce, garlic salt, pepper, nice sea salt, whatever your jam!  Garnish with cilantro or parsley if ya got it!

Boom!! Easy omelet.

Let pan cool down before adding water or it can warp the pan allegedly.  Cooking too hot can do that as well.

Enjoy!!

Backpacking Luxuries!

 

When I go backpacking, I like to keep it simple.  If space and weight is an issue, you can have your first meal be the more rewarding meal.  However, there's an abundance of food you just add hot water to like Zora meals, dehydrated or freeze dried veggies, chicken stock sealed with vinegar, etc.  I chose a Zora meal quinoa and beef with epic Bison bar cut up and extra yellow rice with uncle Ben's seasonings added in for meal #3 for dinner.  Check the ingredients always!  Many have dairy or gluten!!  My first meal was some local smoked salmon. GfDf of course!  My #2 meal or breakfast was the chicken stock (no fridgeration needed), dehydrated veggie mix, Chicken Sriracha Epic bar cut up, and 2 packages of sea weed Lotus foods Ramen with their white gfdf miso seasoning.  

A quick note is to double check the ingredients on the seasoning packets.  There's an instant pho I bought at Costco in Seattle I presumed was also GF when I visited my mom in Colorado Springs.  It was not!!  So read the labels carefully.  You can also smash the noodles to fit more in your bear bin.  Don't forget to put any scented items inside and seal so the animals and bugs don't get them.  Even the trash!  Pack it in, pack it out!!

Pro tip!  You can skip the washing by pouring in fresh water and cooking with your next meal.  The water can help make stock for the next meal when heated to a boil.  One less trip to the creek or whatever.  Our water source was a ways away, so water was precious.  If you need water, try to find running water, avoid stuff in with it, and boil it real well for 30 seconds to sanitize.  

You can use the creek to help cool down the water for drinking.  It can take a bit to refill a camelback.  Don't add the water into the bladder until it is lukewarm.

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