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Kielbasa Omelet
Mince 2 medium-large shallots, cut up a red pepper, and chop 4 tablespoons of chives. Saute the shallots and red pepper in 3 tablespoons butter or oil over medium heat, stirring, till almost limp. Add 1 cup chopped kielbasa (or cooked chorizo or Italian sausage). Cook for 5 minutes. Add 8 large beaten eggs and the chives. Turn the heat down to moderate-low and let the omelet sit for a while in the hot butter. After 5-6 minutes or so, lift up one side of it; if it's easy to loosen from the side of the pan, it's time to turn it. Use whatever means necessary to flip the omelet. If it breaks, which my omelets always do, scramble it and no one will care. When the eggs are cooked, slide the omelet onto a platter and spread with sour cream.
Cut in quarters and serve with...Lime-Mint Fruit Salad.
Chapter Ten
"Teddy unpacked the bag, found a skillet in a cupboard and some butter in the refrigerator, and got to work chopping the red pepper and chives and sausage, beating the eggs. When the omelet was done she cut it in half, spread it thickly with sour cream, and put the pieces on two plates with a mound of fruit salad on each. She carried the plates into the dining room and used one of them to shove aside a stack of mail on Lewis's placemat. She set the other plate on the placemat across from his chair and sat down. He had set the table with cutlery, glasses of orange juice, and cups of hot coffee, finding room to put it all amid stacks of mail, half-read books and magazines, an inexplicable bag from the hardware store, and eight or ten equally inexplicable carved masks. Teddy busied herself with cream and sugar while Lewis leaned his face over his plate happily inhaled sausage-scented steam.
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