Humble fritatta

Postdated entry:
Week 4: Saturday 16th October 2010

Alan's Challenge

Caramelised onion frittata served on a bed of toast

Hurrah! No hangover today. Bright blue autumnal tumble leaf morning. The cotton ball clouds are racing at pace past a humbled jumbo jet. Hannah is a running a stall in the Jubilee square for black history month. This is much to her chagrin as this coincides with the visit of two of her old chums. I am at odds with the tempo of the rest of the world. I have chosen to caramelise onions at length and to slow saute my eggs. I am now languishing in my chair but should be doing homework instead. I have a research proposal to finish, an essay to start and no doubt some old gents to bathe come two when I get to work. Travel back in time to the recipe:

The consistency of frittata (Taylor, 2010)

Recipe

1 x medium sized onion finely sliced
Olive oil
4 x eggs
a handful of roughly chopped parsley
loads of grated parmesan
salt
pepper

Step 1
Slowly cook the onions in olive oil over a medium heat for 15-20mins
strr occasionally

Step 2
While the onions are cooking:
Mix eggs, parsley and parmesan in a bowl

Step 3
Mix onion in with the egg mixture
Add butter to pan until melty
return egg mix to the pan and cook on a low heat for 15 mins

Step 4
When the bottom of the egg is set but the top still runny:
Grill top until solid

Step 5
Slide out using a fish slice.
Cut into quarters and serve on a bed of whole meal toast

Marking Category	Hannah	Alan
Presentation	2	1.5
Innovation	3.5	3.5
Quality of egg	4.5	4.5
Taste	4	4
Total	14	13.5

comments:

Initially Taylor (2010) intended to dock points for quality of egg as she believed that frittata should be creamy in the middle. However, according to Slater (1992) in his seminal work 'real fast food' a frittata "unlike its soft and creamy french cousin (sic) is cooked slowly over a very low heat and is sauteed on both sides and is cut into wedges like a cake" (pg 39) Thus it may be concluded that frittata should have a strong cake like consistancy. Accordingly Taylor (2010) was disproved and subsequently ate humble frittata.

References

Slater N (1992) Real fast food. London: Penguin.

Taylor H (2010) The consistency of frittata. Personal communication: Unpublished.

Your's Alan