Breakfast Break
Ok as I sat down to do my daily work, after putting off breakfast as usual, I looked at the front page of wordpress and my eyes instantly glued to a post from Emily Thorson on egg sandwiches.
Now egg sandwiches are incredible in my book so I had to take a look even though I had much to do. So I read the wonderful post and another time waster jumped in the way of my work. I was incredibly drawn to go cook an egg sandwich and eat it. But now I’m back and I can talk about it.
So emily has a lot of good things to say. Number one being that egg sandwiches are good. But I have to disagree with her methodology. Emilies ingredients:
Weekday Breakfast Sandwich
INGREDIENTS: One egg, one strip of bacon, one English muffin (I recommend whole-wheat)
Fine ingredients I’m sure but not the hearty egg sandwich I just consumed.
So how to make an egg sandwich Phil’s way.
As with any culinary delight the quality of the ingredients are the secret and we start there.
The Eggs
I get my eggs from a local mentally handicapped boy. He’s a great kid. He’s mentally handicapped but definetely an asset to society. He works at a local grocery store throught the ARC program and also has a little egg business on the side. He delivers eggs around town on foot. Looks like the mailman delivering packages. He’s quite proficient at sales and raises the best tasting eggs ever. Yes they do come with a little of the shavings from the barn in the package and yes they are of all sizes and colors but that’s just great with me. Greens and browns and pale shades of yellow are far superior to the sterile looking white things filled with a substance that turns to a tasteless substance when cooked.
The Bread
Ezekiel Bread. Found at your local health food store. It is a sprouted wheat bread. A bit chewy and grainy but once you get used to the taste you’ll love it. It’s a very complex carb. for me the combination of an good hearty complex carb and the protien from the farm raised eggs makes for a really lasting breakfast. I work out a big part of the day and this breakfast keeps me going.
Also I don’t eat refined wheat. I think it is the bain of our health. I had a natural health practitioner once tell me refined wheat was causing my heartburn problems. I thought it was BS but took it to heart anyway I was in so much pain. Walla! Heartburn gone. I’ve experimented with it and its true. My heartburn was totally and completely caused by refined wheat.
Cheese
Extra sharp chedar for me
For seasonings I add a little black peppar, salt, Tapatio, and if I’m feeling adventurous a bit of oregano.
With the wonderful flavor of the fresh eggs i find that additions such as bacon are totally unneccesary. The flavor stands on its own.
I don’t go for a prefab egg sandwich. I’ve tried those at Mcdonalds Like Wendy at Wendy Ussually Wanders says. But I get sick afterwards. Those things can make me a little sick. The only time they can be eaten is if suffering from a major hangover. Basically you’ve lowered your body to a low level of functioning anyway and that level it is possible to consume such things.
But back to homemade. Wendy says:
8.25 cents for an egg, 16.5 cents for the English muffin, 43 cents for 2 sausage patties (6 patties per pound) for 43 cents and a few scrapes of the cheddar for maybe 15 cents.
Waaaaaaaaaay better than anything at Micky D’s and cheaper, too at about 83 cents. Much more satisfying and filling. Yum!
It seems there is a lot of talk of egg sandwiches in the blogging world. And rightfully so. They are fast, wonderful and cheap. I will continue my investigations.
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