If you’ve been reading DudeFoods for a while then you’ve already seen plenty of posts where I’ve tried to use macaroni and cheese in non-traditional ways. There was the Macaroni and Grilled Cheese Sandwich, the Macaroni and Cheeseburger and of course the Colby Jack Mac and Cheese Pie with a bacon crust, which to this day is still one of the most popular blog posts I’ve ever written. This time I’m back with the Macaroni and Cheese Omelette.
Omelettes on their own are great and so is macaroni and cheese, so by all accounts a macaroni and cheese omelette should be even better right? That’s what I set out to find the answer to on a recent Saturday morning.
I started off by cooking some Kraft Macaroni & Cheese on my stovetop right alongside a six egg Cheddar cheese omelette. Why use so many eggs you ask? Simple. I wanted to be able to fit as much macaroni and cheese into the omelette as possible. When the macaroni was nice and tender I drained it, added the cheese, butter and milk and then topped half of my omelette with it before folding the other half over and transferring it from the pan to my plate.
The six eggs might have been a bit too much (especially considering that most omelettes consist of two or three eggs), but using twice as many eggs as a typical omlette definitely helped me accomplish my goal of stuffing as much macaroni and cheese into my omelette as possible. When eating an omelette there’s nothing worse than having tons of eggs and barely any other ingredients. If I’m eating a ham and cheese omelette for example, I like to be able to get a little bit of ham and cheese in each bite I take.
My macaroni and cheese omelette on the other hand had the perfect macaroni and cheese to egg ratio and turned out awesome. Granted, I was absolutely stuffed after finishing it, but I guess that’s a small price to pay for being able to start off your day with a breakfast like this. Do you know what else goes great with a mac and cheese omelette? (aside from the obvious choices of hash browns and breakfast sausage) A beermosa!
10 Comments on The Macaroni and Cheese Omelette
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AJ
January 23, 2012 at 10:54 am (12 years ago)
OMG!!! This looks delicious!!! Can you make me one???
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Zach
January 23, 2012 at 10:02 pm (12 years ago)
Seriously Nick! Just open up a restaurant already! I would eat there everyday. Good lord if I could actually eat some of these homemade concoctions without having to make them all myself, that would be delightful.
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sara | creamcityandsugar
January 24, 2012 at 12:41 am (12 years ago)
A Dude Foods restaurant would definitely fly!
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Courtney
January 25, 2012 at 1:33 am (12 years ago)
Genius! Whenever I make mac and cheese, I always have a portion leftover. Making an omelet or frittata out of the leftovers would be perfect! I showed this to a friend of mine and he said,”looking at that, I wonder if he thought ‘this is going to be so much poop later.'”
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In appearance, I detect a general somewhat akin to a mac and cheese taco-like view.
I have always had difficulty manipulating foods when cooking them.
However, some stuff is so basic that even I can do the deed; such as mac and cheese cooked then placed in a glass oven-ready dish atop tuna with a small amount of tuna mixed in.
That omelet sure looks mighty appealing!!!!!!!!!
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Ingrid
November 21, 2013 at 12:53 am (10 years ago)
Write a cookbook if you haven’t already
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Scott
April 3, 2016 at 2:40 pm (8 years ago)
They ate these on a recent episode of “American Dad.”
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Denise
May 18, 2016 at 12:59 pm (8 years ago)
That’s what sent me here! Just watched that episode on netflix lol
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Collin
March 19, 2018 at 12:50 pm (6 years ago)
I made this year’s ago but am currently watching the episode now which made me Google the delicious entrée
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Ayesha
May 1, 2021 at 4:12 pm (3 years ago)
Oh! Oh! I knew someone would try this!
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I wish you’d have written a more thorough recipe though, but it’s nice to know that this combination resulted in success.
