Categories: Breakfast, Usenet 
      Yield: 2 servings 
  
      6 lg Eggs (the fresher 
           -the better) 
      6 oz Smoked haddock 
           -(or other smoked large- 
           -flaked white fish) 
    2/3 c  Cream, heavy 
           Butter 
      2 oz Cheddar (sharp), 
           -finely grated (the 
           -light yellow New York/ 
           -Vermont style is best) 
      1 pn Dill 
      1 pn Salt and pepper 
  
  Prepare the fish by poaching it lightly (5 minutes) and then breaking it up 
  into nice large flakes. 
   
  Whip the cream and fold in the grated cheese.  Add the fish and set aside. 
  (The remaining steps are a basic omelet recipe and can be used with any 
  filling.  Crack the eggs, beat them up with the dill, salt and pepper.) 
   
  Meanwhile heat a frying pan.  Add a knob of butter and let it melt.  When 
  it has stopped frothing and is just beginning to go brown... 
   
  Slop in half the egg mixture and immediately return to the heat and stir 
  the eggs two or three times; then with a fork draw the edges into the 
  middle and allow the un-solidified egg to run onto the exposed pan. 
   
  While it is still a mixture of fluffy and runny, add the haddock and cream 
  mixture.  Continue to cook until underside begins to turn golden brown. 
  Fold over and serve on a hot plate with bread and butter immediately. (You 
  can't leave it in the oven for ten minutes while you do another!) 
   
  NOTES: 
   
  *  Omelet with cream and smoked fish filling -- In the vein of artery 
  cloggers, this recipe must be one of the highest-cholesterol dishes I've 
  come across in years. It may sound unconventional, but delicious it most 
  certainly is. I came upon it in the Bistro under the Everyman Theatre in 
  Liverpool, circa 1978. The following is my reconstruction of the dish I had 
  there. 
   
  *  My guess, although I haven't yet tried, is that the smoked haddock could 
  be substituted with any large-flaked smoked white fish, like cod perhaps. 
  The important point is that it should not have an overpowering flavour. I 
  bought mine in a Scottish specialty shop in Kearny, NJ. Also, you should 
  grate the cheese as finely as possible so that it blends smoothly with the 
  cream. 
   
  *  Now a diatribe on omelet pans.  I have always been most successful with 
  a small thin tinned-copper omelet pan (which loses its heat and reheats 
  very quickly), and a heavy cast iron skillet, which maintains an even hot 
  temperature (and doesn't need to be reheated after adding the egg mixture). 
  Aluminum and stainless steel pans tend to cool down too much and then take 
  too long to reheat which results in a dry leathery omelet. (But, there 
  again, you may like 'em like that.) 
   
  : Difficulty:  easy to moderate. 
  : Time:  15 minutes. 
  : Precision:  measuring spoils the fun. 
   
  : Marcus G Hand 
  : AT&T Information Systems, Holmdel, New Jersey 
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  : The way to a man's heart-attack is through his stomach... 
   
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