It's been a while since I've written a blog post, the busy time of year is now over and we're at home recovering from eating more calories than we would ever dream of normally. It's also been busy at school in the run up to the end of term, hence the lack of blog posts. Anyway, the crazy days are nearly over and we've enjoyed spending time with our nearest and dearest and thinking about the important things in our lives. We alternate our Christmas so this year we were cooking Christmas dinner for ourselves, my parents and my sister. Christmas day was good with all of us working together to produce a yummy lunch with roast turkey and many trimmings. I'm discovering that everyone has their own traditions and each family includes different items in their ideal Christmas lunch. My family has sausages and chestnut stuffing whilst my husband's family has sausage meat stuffing and no sausages as well as a cheese course, fruit and nuts.
Anyway, the inevitable happened, we had food left over, not just the turkey but sausages, carrots, sprouts, roasted potatoes and parsnips and some stuffing. Rather than let all of this go to waste and needing a quick and easy dinner after spending Boxing Day with my parents, we decided a frittata would be a good thing to cook. We reduced the number of eggs just to make it a smaller meal as we had eaten so much in the previous few days it was mind boggling. The great thing about frittatas is that they can be a quick and easy meal which uses up food that is either left over or needing using up.
Boxing Day Frittata (served 2 adults and a toddler)
1 tablespoon olive oil
3 eggs
Handful grated cheddar cheese
2 tablespoons double cream (milk would be fine)
Handful cooked sprouts and carrots
4 cooked chipolatas
4 or 5 roasted parsnips
2 or 3 roasted potatoes
Left over stuffing sliced up
- Preheat the oven to 200°C. Drizzle 1 tablespoon olive oil into a frying pan that can go in the oven. Chop up all of the left-over food into small chunks ranging from 1cm to 2cm in size and add to the frying pan. Start to fry over a medium heat so that the left-overs start to brown gently.
- Meanwhile, break the eggs into a bowl and whisk gently, then add the grated cheese and some seasoning. Pour over the frying pan mix and gently spread the mix out. If you want all of the contents to be covered you would need to use 4 or 5 eggs. Let this start to cook, it is ready to go into the oven when the egg starts to cook around the edges. Put the frying pan into the oven for about 10 minutes or until the egg is cooked through. If you have a grill you could use this instead at this stage.
