Omelets & Hamburgers

Two of the best meals you can have are omelets and hamburgers. While there are many meals that taste better, there aren't very many that are as versatile. While an omelet is mainly for breakfast, you can eat it for lunch or dinner too. Vise-versa with a hamburger although a hamburger for breakfast doesn't sound appealing. These two meals are great and I'll tell you why.

I used to be someone who just put ham and cheese on my omelet. And I was someone who just put mayonnaise, mustard, ketchup, maybe a pickle, maybe some lettuce on my hamburger. Now, I pity the people who do that each and every time they form up their omelet or hamburger.

Omelets and hamburgers are the most versatile foods because you can put almost anything in them and it will be great! You can experiment a million times and it will give you a great tasting meal. Just follow a couple basic rules and then be creative with your taste buds.


Omelets:

You always need a meat and a cheese. This goes for the standard ham and cheese (cheddar), but goes a few steps further. Use sausage, bacon, turkey, roast beef, crab, etc. Anything that looks good put it in there, but remember you need the meat because this is a meal and you need it to fill you up. Next is cheese. Cheese is your most important ingredient, you can go down my list of Cheeses and experiment if you want to. Put some cream cheese, American, blue cheese, pepperjack...anything in there and it will give it the flavor. And you can leave your omelet here but why do that if you've got some more stuff in the fridge. Put some mushrooms in there, maybe some jalapenos, sauteed onion, hot sauce, diced tomatoes, anything that you like! The key is don't think, "well I like these, but I don't think they'll be good in an omelet". Nonsense! Throw it in there, it will be good if you like the ingredients.

Suggestion 1: Cream cheese, blue cheese crumbles, diced jalepenos and bacon

Suggestion 2: Shredded white American cheese, crab, diced sauteed mushrooms and chives


Hamburger:

The rule is meat and bread. With a sub-rule of don't use pre-made patties because that just isn't enough beef, and your toppings will overpower it. Use some ground chuck or ground beef and form your own. I prefer ground chuck because it will hold it's shape a lot better than ground beef. (Don't forget that ground beef is cheaper because it has more fat in it, once you put it on the grill the fat is going to cook out and it's going to shrink so you'll end up with the same amount of meat anyway.) From there put whatever you want on the burger. Bacon, mustard, B-B-Q sauce, mayonnaise, lettuce, tomato, blue cheese crumbles, onion, grilled onion, guacamole, ketchup, hot sauce, chipolte mayo, whatever kind of cheese you can think of, etc.

Suggestion 1: Mayo, bacon, blue cheese crumbles, grilled onion, tomato and lettuce

Suggestion 2: Chipolte mayo, onion, slice of pepperjack cheese, jalepenos, lettuce, tomato, a dab of hot sauce and of course and napkin to wipe the sweat off your forehead.


Preparation:

Omelet - Wisk 3 eggs, put in a skillet on medium heat for 10 minutes, start putting the ingredients in around the 7th minute.

Hamburger - Put a squirt of mustard, Worcestershire, and a fair amount of Montreal seasoning in the ground chuck and form the burgers.

If you are a fan of eating good food and trying new things then your sure to enjoy endless fun with omelets and hamburgers!

JB