Affirmation #28

You Can Dance (If You Want To)

Society, mastery, and the omelet dance

Image by Author, via Midjourney

This article isn’t about omelets. Or dancing. But let me tell you about the omelet dance.

The omelet dance goes like this:

First, warm up: Get your cutting board, chef’s knife, eggs, veggies, and cheese — all on the counter in a row. Dice your toppings and arrange them in neat lines on your cutting board. I like spinach and mushroom, so I prep three lines of filling; finely sliced mushrooms, rough-cut greens, and mozzarella, for the love of cheese.

French call this process mise en place, which sounds fancy, but in Americanglish it just means “line up all the things.”

Once that’s done, crack the eggs into a bowl and whisk briskly with a fork, as much as you prefer. Then, grab a ten inch non-stick frying pan and a bottle of olive oil. Your warm up is now done.

Now, the dance. The steps go like this:

Oil, shrooms, greens, in that order. A silver dollar’s worth of olive oil. Cook the mushrooms until their liquid boils off and they start to crisp. Properly crisped mushrooms are a punch of flavor straight to the jaw of a boring morning (to understand why, add a pinch of salt to a browned mushroom and try it). Toss in your greens…