"They can be tricky," she said "more like a quiche and less like a souffle. But you have to know how to add the ingredients to get the results that you want."
First we cut potatoes and onion, next cook and drain sausage crumbles, then crisp the bacon. "There are many other vegetables we could add in place of the meat, but I find that the meat adds a specific type of flavor to the business." She smiles and cracks egg number twelve into the large mixing bowl. "Stir those potatoes." she directs and motions with her head as she whips the eggs into a frenzy.
The potatoes are being slow roasted before they will be added to the mixture. I open the oven and stir them," The key here" Nina says, "is to have everything prepped and ready to go." I look inquisitively at her and ask
"And how does that relate?" The thought pops out of my mouth before I can stop it.
"I was just about to tell you that." She heavily enunciates the word that. "sometimes you get ahead on the conversation." she warns. I nod and listen. "You see all of these ingredients have to be prepped, much like when people are young children. If you do it one way, you get a certain result. If you do it another way, you get quite a different result..." she pauses and stops whipping the eggs.
Nina gives me a stern look, but her eye brows are raised as if to say 'Take good mental notes.' I know I am simply to listen. " Like the potatoes. See how we slow roast them in the oven?" She doesn't wait for me to answer and I nod as she continues. "We could par boil them on top of the stove, or even microwave the little buggers, and with each we will would get a different result. This way, they are more flavorful and they have a little bit of crust on top. If this were a child, you would have a well behaved and disciplined child, because you spent time with them, you understand?" I nod.
She sets two 9 X 13 pans on the counter top. "Now we will make two. One because some people don't like meat." She dumps the bacon and the potatoes (the well behaved children) into the pan and says "Here's the TV family, like the one that causes people to have dysfunction or think they are not as good as they could be, you know?" I continue to nod and smile. I get her point. Then she adds sausage
into the same pan and describes it as a 'blended family' step father or mother. I noticed the potatoes, grow a bit less crunchy as they soak up the little bit of grease from the meats. "What's Happening to the children?" I joke. "We have changed the original family make up by adding more fat, you know, making it different. The children are learning a different perspective exists." She says as she pops one of the potato children into her mouth. "And they are tasty too." She smiles and laughs. She adds onion, and a few green chilies. " These additions represent opinions. They can add flavor or they can over power the meat and potatoes if we add too many, then you will have problems for sure. The flavors will fight for dominance. So to calm it all down we add the constant in every breakfast casserole, eggs. The eggs, represent the right to choose. Once they are cooked they are a more stable environment for the rest of the ingredients." Now we were ready to put the first mixture into the oven.
As I hand Nina the pan to place into the oven she continues
"This Breakfast family casserole now will have stability. We have given it the meat, or the head of the family if you will, the children (behaved and disciplined) and enough opinions to add flavor but not over power the choices the impressionable potato children will need to make in their lives, they will be stabilized by the eggs or the beliefs that they have based their opinions on. And here my Dear, you have Family and a Breakfast Casserole." She smiles and hugs me, grabs her coffee cup. refills it from the pot, and refills mine. Next I follow her to the table. where we sit to wait for the casserole.
"You know, even when you love the thought of breakfast...like a breakfast casserole - not everyone likes it? It's sometimes bland and boring and your get tired of eating the leftovers faster than you want more."
We had already prepped the vegetarian casserole to go in when the other came out. She made vegetarian because not everyone liked meat. "Meat upsets some tummies yes? Kind of like advice from your parents when you realize they were right you made a bad choice. You get that feeling in your stomach knowing that you were wrong and they were right.
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