It’s frittata time again

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cooking, eggs, garlic, peppers, postaday2013

When all else fails you can always count on a frittata to please everyone. As long as you have garlic, some type of herbs and salt and pepper and of course at least 8 eggs, you can make a frittata work. However if you have other ingredients on hand then you are really going to have something delicious to serve. Tonight I asked the baby boy to go out back to gather a bunch of chives and on his own he rummaged a bit in the refrigerator and asked if prosciutto could be included, as a result I asked him if he minded chopping the chives and prosciutto while I was sautéing the shallots and the trio of peppers that needed to be used. The baby boy did a beautiful job and into the pan went the chives and prosciutto to meld with the caramelizing shallots, peppers and the many cloves of garlic that I had minced. I also found some basil leaves that I ribboned and added to the hodge-podge of ingredients in my oven proof pan. All that was left were the 10 eggs that I had beaten and seasoned with salt and pepper and in they went to join the vegetables, the proscuitto and the extra bacon that had been sauteed before. Once the bottom had set, into the 350 degrees the pan went and about 18 minutes later it was done. You know that it is done when the top doesn’t slosh when you shake the pan. It was very pretty when I inverted it onto the plate and according to the baby boy and my hubby it was yummy for their tummies.
I love frittatas.

Everything changes

Walking down the street, you encounter a folded piece of paper on the sidewalk. You pick it up and read it and immediately, your life has changed. Describe this experience.

I know that this is to be a flight of fancy, but really, what are the odds? I have had a few immediate random thoughts such as "LAURIE I AM NOT YOUR FATHER" as a spoof but then it hit me, that piece of folded paper would actually be so painful for me because I love my father and I would never want another one. My father passed 10 years ago and there isn't a day that goes by that I don't miss his voice, his presence and just him. So that rift on Star Wars kind of backfired on me.

What else could be on that folded piece of paper? The common fantasy of winning toms of money is a life changer, but gradually over time I have come to realize that over the top sums of money isn't what I want. I only ask to be comfortable and be able to provide a secondary education for my two children and plan for a retirement with my hubby.

Perhaps the piece of folded paper could say that Random Publishing accepted my book and is prepared to send me on a cross country book signing tour along with the requisite talk show appearances. That would be a nice life changer, meeting new people who would be curious to read what I had written and I would get to meet the talk show hosts that I enjoy watching such as Kelly Ripa and Michael Staham, Jimmy Fallon and my favorite, Craig Fergeson. It would definitely be a lot of fun.

I definitely wouldn't mind finding that last piece of folded paper.