Frittata Frenzy

Promised my brother I would make something good for breakfast so he could eat something besides cereal (which he has been eating in copious amounts).  Got a nice book at Barnes & Noble last night (hooray for Bargain Book shelves :-))=

Product Details

• ISBN-13: 9781450851268
• Publisher: Publications International
• Publication date: 11/15/2012
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So, one of the recipes is a frittata (yes, you have to read the below pictures sideways (and the right side is blurry--made the photos bigger if that helps), but that's the way it goes--turn your electronic device or head sideways--heck, it's a good stretching exercise--as needed)...

I did not have all the ingredients handy (not a huge green pepper fan either), plus I wanted to switch some things up to make it a bit "healthier" (I'm a big egg white fan and I limit cheese) so my revised recipe follows.  Feel free to use the original recipe above, my recipe below, or throw in whatever veggies you have in your refrigerator to create your own frittata frenzy!

Here's what I did...

1.  Cook turkey bacon in microwave--I made about 8 slices (doubling the recipe)--following the cooking instructions on the bacon package (to get them crispy took about 4-5 minutes).  I didn't want to mess with bacon in the skillet this morning.

MMWM Note:  There's a lot of sodium in bacon so I highly recommend buying low(er)-sodium!

2.  Heat some extra virgin olive oil in large skillet (I didn't measure it out--but 1 teaspoon per the recipe is probably fine).  Add vegetables (I doubled up on the veggies)...I added: 1 cup finely (or somewhat finely) chopped onion (used white onion this time), 1 cup organic mushrooms (used canned--can use fresh if you have those), 1 finely chopped and seeded jalapeno pepper, about 2 cups organic spinach that I ripped up into little pieces.

3.  Follow the original recipe from this point...except instead of regular eggs, I used egg whites (3 tablespoons=1 egg so I used about 18 tablespoons to almost cover all the ingredients already in the skillet).

MMWM Note: I did not add cheese at the end, but feel free to throw cheese on there if that makes you happy.  When eating this, I did throw some extra hash browns (separately cooked) on the side/top, plus some ketchup (remember ketchup with no high fructose corn syrup!).

Came out YUM--both I, my brother, and my husband enjoyed!