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Omelette Creole

Heat in a small saucepan a tablespoon oil; add one finely minced white onion and a finely minced green pepper and gently cook for six minutes, lightly stirring meanwhile. Then add three medium, peeled and crushed ripe tomatoes, also three finely minced canned mushrooms. Season with half teaspoon salt, two saltspoons sugar and one saltspoon white pepper. Mix lightly, then let simmer on the range for thirty minutes. Finely chop together half bean sound garlic with a branch of parsley and a branch of chervil and add to the pan, lightly mix and let cook for five minutes longer. Add one teaspoon fresh bread crumbs; mix a little and keep on the corner of the range. Meanwhile carefully crack eight fresh eggs into a bowl, add half gill milk, half teaspoon salt and a saltspoon white pepper. Sharply beat up with a fork for two minutes. Heat a tablespoon butter in a large and very clean black frying pan. Pour in the eggs, briskly stir all over with a fork for two minutes; let rest for half a minute. Pour into the centre of the omelette half the Creole preparation, fold both ends up, let rest for a minute. Then turn it into a hot dish, arrange the balance of the Creole around the omelette and serve.