Omelette Muffins (HEALTHY!!!!)

Upon becoming, once again, inspired to stop eating like a fat shite (for lack of a better description) I decided to give these omelette cupcakes/muffins a go. I've seen them all over Pinterest and the food blogging world, with people making them in bulk to last them the entire week, to be used as meals or as a quick filling snack.

I LOVE eggs and these are ridiculously easy to make so it's a win-win situation for me.

Some blogs called for one egg per muffin, but they must be using mahoosive cupcake holders as I only used 5 eggs for 9 muffins! Basically pick out whatever kind of fillings you'd normally have with an omelette. Mine are vegetarian but I reckon chorizo would have been DIVINE in these badboys. 

Here's what I used:

5 eggs

Drop of milk

Tabasco

Salt 

Pepper

All Spice Seasoning

Half a corgette

Half a red pepper

Half an onion

5 Mushrooms

Grated Cheese

What to do:

Preheat your oven to 190 degrees

I chopped the vegetables into small chunks and added a bit of each to each case. 

Mix the five eggs in a jug with a splash of milk and season the mixture. Pour the egg mixture into each case, but not too high as they do rise in the oven.

They need to cook for around 20 minutes so half way through I added some grated cheese to the tops of them to ensure it was melted but not burnt (KEY TO SUCCESS)

You'll know theyre cooked by sticking a knife into the centre of them and if it comes out clean you're good to go. Leave them to stand for a few minutes when you take them out, and then carefully remove them from the tray onto a plate, remove the wrappers and eat them, obviously. 

From what I've read elsewhere, you can keep them in an airtight container, (a lunchbox, for you simpletons out there), in the fridge and they can be eaten hot or cold within the confines of a week. Don't take my word in health and safety matters , if you think they're gone off after a few days then don't bloody eat them!

However, my conclusion on them is that they are scrumptious!

Goodnight Irene 

Missing Flights and Eating Shite

Jaysis sorry for the hiatus lads, I know you were all barely sleeping without my wonderful blog posts, but alas here I am again. As I am mostly back up in Dublin and my laptop won't allow me to access my Microsoft Word (distressing) the only time I can write something juicy is at the weekends. However I am usually drinking, working or hungover which proves writing something coherent quite difficult to say the least.

Anyways, here I am in all my glory and before I get onto the food, I'll fill you in on my awe inspiring life. 

Last weekend I crossed the Irish Sea to visit my soulmate Edel in Aberdeen, Scotland. It was an absolutely HILARIOUS weekend and on Monday morning I set off in a taxi to the airport. What is normally a 20 minute commute, turned into an hour and a half long journey in back to back traffic, thanks to temporary traffic lights and a car crash. Confirming your suspicions, yes, I missed the fucking flight. Stuck in the airport, customer services being unhelpful asshats, I took it upon myself to sit in a toilet cubicle, ring my mother and cry. All I could think of was how in gods name I had made it to America and changed airports on my own before, and when tasked with leaving Aberdeen I was up shit creek. 

MIND BOGGLING. 

To cut a long story short, flights with Aer Lingus later that day were going to cost a whopping €300! That's a one way, 45 minute flight to Ireland. HOLY FUCK. I ended up staying with Edel another night and getting a 4 hour bus to Edinburgh airport to get a €90 flight home with Ryanair. 

Moral of the story: Always leave around 10 hours to get to the airport. Just in case.

In terms of the diet, as you can imagine, it has been pretty horrific. In fact, I'm terrifed to get back on the weighing scales. I feel kind of inspired to start again so I'll be bringing runners up to Dublin this week as well as homemade soup and Omellette muffins I made, in an attempt to get back on the bandwagon. 

Here are some of the things I've been eating:

My new favouite way to eat porridge is by mashing up a banana, adding some flaxseed mix and around a tablespoon of maple syrup and then mixing it through the porridge. I find it much more filling than just regular porridge. 

 I also do not find soup filling on its own. I'm always bloody hungry after, so I started added cooked quinoa to soup to make it more protein packed and filling. 

Rather than making this blog post any longer than it already is, I am going to post a separate one on a new recipe I tried out today: Omellette Muffins.

Later bitches,

Goodnight Irene