I make the omelettes at our house. The other day it was my wifes birthday so I made her a cheese omelette. I did one thing different. I was watching a television show featuring an old diner that has been making omelettes the same way for many years. To make the omelette fluffy the cook mixed it on a regular drug-store-type malt mixer. I decided to give it a try and mixed our omelettes on our kitchen high-speed mixer.

How fluffy the omelette turned out depended somewhat on how much milk you added. The main thing is to get a lot of air into the mixture before you place it in the frying pan.

You can put about anything into an omelette. My wife is a purist and wants only cheese. But you can add leaks, bacon, ham, sausage, paprika, potatoes, shrimp or what have you. I have my preference. It is crabmeat.

I learned about crabmeat omelettes in York, Pennsylvania. We use to go down to the Roosevelt Tavern just to get a crabmeat omelette. Making a crabmeat omelette in Idaho is not like buying one at the Roosevelt Tavern in York, but its better than not having a crabmeat omelette.

A good site for omelettes is http://frenchfood.about.com/od/omelettes/ There you will find a wide variety to put you in Omelette Heaven. One that interested me is an egg recipe from France for Omelette Lyonnaise, an omelette made with caramelized onions and sprinkled with vinegar. I dont know if that sounds good or not. I guess the only way to find out is to try it.

An omelette that would interest my English friends would be a recipe from France for an open faced omelette with smoked salmon.

Know that the English know little about cooking eggs. I had to teach the cook in my hotel in the Midlands how to make a cheese omelette. He put it on his menu and thereafter when you walked into his restaurant at breakfast time you would see that all the Americans and many Englishmen had settled on the cheese omelette.

Thats one thing I did for England.

John T Jones, Ph.D.

Jones was a vice president of a Fortune 500 company subsidiary having the major responsibility for research and development and certain engineering functions. After he retired, he became editor of an international trade magazine. Jones is Executive Representative of IWS, sellers of Tyler Hicks wealth-success books and kits. He is a direct mail and mail order marketer and operates a dozen websites.

He has written three technical books, four novels (Bull, Revenge on the Mogollon Rim, Bone China, and In No Way Guilty), and many published papers on business, marketing, engineering and other topics. Details on many of these topics can be found at his personal web site.

Jones is a hack poet and amateur landscape painter. He lives in Idaho with his wife of 52 years. He has five children, three in medicine, a lawyer, and a portrait artist. The Jones? have thirty-two talented grandchildren (many with special musical talent and skills), and one great grand child.

Jones is a prolific writer which started when he was an engineering professor at Iowa State University (Go Cyclones!). He doesn?t know how to stop.