This is what I made Ms Cid for her birthday breafast this morning. Just the addition of the Grand Marnier takes the omelet to a whole different level.

http://www.corrundum.net/post/Broccoli-Che...ier-Omelet.aspx

No offense . . . but that sounds terrible.

But to each their own!!!!!

Something we can agree on . Grand Marnier rarely makes anything better. Next time he should try a splash of tabasco like everyone else.

Au contraire Perch. While I certainly enjoy Tabasco on my eggs, this is a turn towards the decadent. The alcohol boils off quickly leaving the carmelized sugars and a hint of orange behind. This is a powerful contrast to the cheddar and broccoli.

As they say, don't knock it 'til you try it.

Orange + Egges = :vomit:

But that is just me . . . I am a hot sauce kinda guy when it comes to eggs . . .

kid i know you can cook, but that is a hideous flavor profile. i could see grandma used in a hollandaise, but not so much with the cheddar and broccoli.

You're sh!ttin' us, right?

I know, you would think that this is not quite up to snuff, but for whatever reason, this works for me. Maybe it's nostalga.

You don't drink OJ with an omlette?

I dont put OJ IN my omelette, do you?

But mainly coffee anyways.

Orange Julius?

My issue has nothing to do with the orange/egg combo (which has plenty of culinary precedents) but rather the sweet orange with the broccoli.

In fact, once, as I was breaking down the brunch line after work I took the french toast soaking liquid (egg/milk/sugar/cinn./vanilla) and made an omelet from it, putting goat cheese and chocolate inside and topping it with thinned out orange marmalade. It was pretty effing tasty.

chevre/chocolate/cin/vanilla/sugar...topped with orange marmalade is very different than orange/cheddar/broccoli.

Which is why I said my issue was not the egg/orange thing but the sweet orange/broccoli thing. bp seemed to have an issue with the egg/orange thing.

Personally, I dont like orange as a component in my eggs. . That particular combo sounded horrid as a whole. If you spin it with your marmalade, that sure sounds better than the original dish listed . . .

yeah.... would have been fine with just the grandma or with the broccoli and cheddar. citrus/egg doesn't offend me

For that matter, we used orange zest in our herbed goat cheese that we put in omelets, so there's a savory orange/egg precedent as well.

Do you then add broccoli?

No, and I'm not saying that Kid's dish was necc. good. However, if you google orange broccoli, you'll notice no shortage of links to recipes involving the two.

And as I think about it more, my primary concern was the sweet broccoli thing and then I think about all the Asian dishes that have a ton of sugar in them and how broccoli is so often an ingredient.

So, until I'm shown otherwise, I'm gonna give Kid Cid the benefit of the doubt here.

sounds heavenly! Thanks for sharing

detlef, is there any kind of food you dont like?

Well-cooked steaks

That's not an easy question to answer. In terms of specific ingredients, I can't think of any as I'm pretty sure I've never eaten any particular thing that wasn't cooked well enough to enjoy at least once.

As far as combinations of foods, I tend to be dubious of those lacking culinary precedent or those that merge seasons or global regions. It seems that most things that taste good together just happen to naturally ripen at about the same time and are found in the same parts of the world. In general. Of course, swapping a variety of citrus known to grow in Asia for one that grows in America, or something like that doesn't count.

However, like wines and beers, there's not many styles of things I don't like, just bad versions of those styles.

So if someone gave detlef a recipe for well-done steaks, reason would dictate that he would not PERSONALLY find that tasty.

Detlef, please reference my FIRST post that said . . . . . TO EACH THEIR OWN.

That's fine, but this is a message board where people debate things. Kid Cid threw out a dish and you said that, in your opinion, it made you want to vomit. Then you explained why. Then you sort of started to change your tune as more and more combinations of the offending egg and orange mixture were brought to light.

My guess is that you've actually had few, if any egg and orange combos and simply thought it didn't sound good. Then just hid behind the "to each his own" bit.

Wait . . . so when I said in my original post that it sounded bad, and then said "to each their own" which any logical human being would interpret to be a personal palate issue, you took it to mean that I assumed all egg/orange/broccoli possible permutations are outside ther realm of reality?



You "debating" the existence of these possible matches does not mean that everyone would personally LIKE them.

or are you just

the more I read my unedited comments in the whole thread, I realize that I have TWICE said that the particular combo doesnt sound good to me.

Personally.

Not denying that somewhere there is soma magical combination of broccoli/orange/eggs that causes the heavens to open and the angels to sing . . .but that wouldnt sit well with me.

No, I'm challenging the more definitive comments like "eggs+orange=vomit".

Then when someone mentioned drinking OJ and eating eggs, you replied "I don't put eggs in my OJ, do you?"

That sort of implies that the combo should be strange not only to you but to others. Unless, of course, you were innocently curious if Sheik puts scrambled eggs in his OJ.

Then, when I showed a few examples of the offending ingredients going together you backed off, still qualifying your distaste by asking if I then put broccoli in it as well.

Nope, sounds pretty much like you came out swinging (with a polite "to each his own" which is not unlike the catch all, "bless his/her heart" which, here in the south, allows you to say pretty much anything you want about someone) and then retreated behind the fact that your rather bold statements were above defense because they were simply your opinion.

Detlef . . . does that quote sound like a PERSONAL opinion or a indictiment on eggs and oranges as a whole?

But that is just me . . . is that a quote used to disparage entire entrees in the south? Or does it indicate PERSONAL PREFERENCE?

The asking about adding broccoli was to ask if your customers routinely love that combo. To me . . (again there is that ME comment) it sounds distasteful . . .

You do realize that this was your 2nd post and made in response to Kid saying, "don't knock it". Then when Sheik brought up a point, then I brought up a point, you were Johnny on the spot. So, while this may simply be your opinion, you seem pretty hell bent on making sure anyone who brings up the notion that it might not be all that bad is reminded that, no, it's just flat-out nasty...in your opinion.

I guess that's just sort of a pet peeve of mine. The whole bit about making bold statements and then falling behind, "but that's just me". If it's truly just not up your alley, then you just say that it's not your thing and leave it at that. But that's not what you did.

"That sounds awful... but that's just me"
"No seriously, I want to puke...but that's just me"
"Do you put eggs in your OJ? but that's just me"
etc.

I mean, you can't have it both ways. If you just want to say it's not your thing and move on, that's fine. But if you insist upon repeatedly coming back and debating the notion of whether or not that's a nasty idea, simply sticking, but that's just me at the end of each post isn't a sliver bullet. Either make the argument or not.

Imagine this scene at a bar.

"Wow, your wife looks like a tramp. But, hey, that's just me"
"What the hell did you say?"
"I mean, look at her. If I were you, I'd keep my eye on her. But, again, that's just me."

How many more "but that's just me"s is that dude gonna get out before he gets his ass kicked?

NOTE TO SELF: Do not f()ck with detlef

I've always drank OJ with my eggs...since I hate coffee.