More food talk

So, I woke up today planning on having an egg white omelette. I was actually very determined to have an egg white something as I had leftover egg whites from when I made my cheesecake and as I hate to discard perfectly good food, I decided I had to eat them. I just didn't know what to do with them exactly... I admit it, even though it's healthier to eat egg whites without the yolk, I don't do so very often at all. As in, I've probably used only egg whites once or twice in my life. Part of the reason has to do with the fact that I don't like wasting food and only using egg whites would mean I would have to deal with the yolks somehow and unless I'm making crème brûlée, I have equally no idea what to do with them on their own. And I don't make crème brûlée...the blowtorch frightens me and until I get over it, I won't be. And I refuse to do it in the oven -- it's wrong and infinitely not as cool.

Anyway, the egg white omelette seems like the best idea that I naturally thought of. The problem is that I don't really dig the plain omelette for the very fact that it is plain. I admit, it's simplicity at its finest, seasoned with only the bare essentials but it's not my thing. I like mine to be chalk full of yummy ingredients but the problem is that my fridge has nothing. It's so bare that it's not even funny. I had the ingredients from my leftover pie and cheesecake some random Chinese soup ingredients and other random foods gathered over the years in various stages of decay. Not exactly great in terms of making that awesome omelette. The cupboards are equally as bare with random meins, funs, and random snacks. We may have a jar of 49 flavors of Jelly Bellys but I don't even have black pepper or even MSG.

So I was just planning on having that plain omelette since it's better than nothing. We do have salt and while there isn't any black pepper, there is white pepper. It's a different sort of flavor but it's still yummy. I'm just more used to black pepper in my eggs but I know other people prefer white because it's less visually obtrusive in eggs so I knew the flavors could work. And I knew I had some cream cheese leftover from the cheesecake so I thought I could use that as well. I didn't know how it would work but I thought it would be okay and add a nice cheesy creaminess to the omelette. As I was grabbing the egg whites and cream cheese, I noticed that we have some leftover Krab sticks from the last time we made sushi and thought to myself, I could add that for some extra protein and flavor! Score! ^^

It was only later as I was eating it that I realized what I had essentially made -- a crab puff egg white omelette, or really, an egg white omelette stuffed with crab puff filling. *fail* Crab puffs or crab rangoons can be found in pretty much every single Americanized Chinese restaurant and is something I've made before with much reluctance. It's usually my sister's thing but I try to help out whenever I can but it still pretty much drives me insane... They take so long to make a huge batch and individually they take a short amount of time so you're stuck making hundreds of them for hours. Talk about insanity inducing...

I don't really eat them all that often but they're actually okay. I'm more against the fried wonton more than I am against the filling so this omelette actually worked for me. It was very tasty! I upped the amount of white pepper and skimped a bit on the salt (I was afraid of over salting it) but the cream cheese ended up being salty enough that it didn't matter. The Krab added a nice seafood taste to it and the egg whites weren't bad at all. And as you can see, I managed not to burn the eggs and aside from a little brown patches, it was almost perfect. Oh, I apologize for the bad light in the second pic, I forgot to open the blinds in the dining room where as I totally did in the kitchen when I took the first pic.

I ended up pairing my omelette with a nice, buttery and flaky croissant from Costco and a slice of my pumpkin pie. I adore Costco's croissants -- they may not be what they're like in France but I think they're pretty damn good regardless. The pumpkin pie is awesome and I don't care what Jen says, I LOVE the crust on the pumpkin pie! I like the filling too but the crust adds a nice flaky crunch to the soft filling that I adore. I also had a can of Taisun's Grass Jelly Drink to wash it all down. With their little bits of grass jelly, it's almost a sickening sweet drink but surprisingly refreshing at the same time. I love grass jelly and hadn't thought of it as a drink until a few years ago. It was a dessert of my childhood, only we used to eat it from cans where we talk it out and cut it up in tiny chunks and then eat it with sprinkled sugar on top. The sugar is essential as it's rather tasteless without it (aside from the grass taste, I guess). It was refreshing and sweet and oh so yummy. The drink is also rather nice although from what I've read on Google, it's not as awesome as the drink you hand make in Asia but since I've never had it differently, I can't compare. Still, I like the canned drink. It's not something you can have a lot of because of the sweetness but it's still good once in a while.

Ah, today was a nice lunch all around. And a lot more balanced than my usual Cup Noodle (which I also ADORE for a great many reasons). ^^ If anything, it was a tasty and nice change from the usual.