Brunch Omelette Torte

Total Time: 2 hrs Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 30 mins

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter
• 6 medium potatoes, sliced (i leave the skin on, but it is up to you)
• 1 medium onion, sliced
• 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
• 1/2 lb sliced ham
• 1/2 lb shredded colby-monterey jack cheese
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 6 eggs, scrambled
• 1 tablespoon water
• 2 tablespoons chopped parsley
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/8 teaspoon black pepper
• pie crust (i get pullisbury already made, but you can make your own)
• 1 egg
• splash water

Recipe

• 1 melt butter and sautee butter, onion, pepper and salt. this takes about 20 minutes. i suggest covering while sauteeing, helps the potatoes not burn but cook thoroughly.
• 2 lay shell #1 in a deep dish cassarole dish. i am not sure of the exact size of the dish, but it is at least twice as deep as a pie plate.
• 3 preheat oven to 350.
• 4 mix eggs, 1 tbsp water, 2 tbsp chopped parsley, 1/4 tsp salt & 1/8 tsp pepper.
• 5 melt 1 tbsp of butter in sautee pan and cook half the egg mixture making an omlette. set aside and do the same with the other half of the egg mixture.
• 6 in the shell lined cassorle dish, layer first omlette, then ham, cheese, potato mixture, more cheese, ham, and then the last omlette.
• 7 top torte with final pie crust. make slits and brush with an egg water mixture.
• 8 place in oven and cook through, about 1 hour. i usually wrap the pie crust edges with foil and remove for the last 15 minutes.
• 9 .