now that's breakfast!
I love diner fare for breakfast. It’s bad for my heart. It doesn’t really fit into my new Weight Watchers’ lifestyle, but, hey, I still like it. Don’t eat it any more, but I do have a recurring dream …
One of my old favorites from before I realized that I was killing myself with what I was eating was the classic two-egg breakfast at the local diner.
Serves 1 (heart attack)
INGREDIENTS
4 slices American style pork bacon (what part of a turkey do they get bacon from anyway?)
4 pork sausages (real pork – no turkey, no vegan)
2 slices country ham (yes the stuff with all the salt)
1 small potato peeled and cut into chunks (carbs? we ain’t worried ’bout no stinkin’ carbs)
3 large eggs (include the yolk, egg white are for health nut sissies!)
butter (the quantity doesn’t matter. Use as much as you need)
4 or 5 slices toasted bread (Schmidt’s Blue Ribbon preferred and none of that whole wheat, it tastes like straw!)
Salt to taste (lots)
Pepper to taste
hot sauce
1 tall glass orange juice (and there better not be any pulp in it)
coffee (keep it commin’ hon)
sugar
half and half (I am watching my weight after all)
3 Tums (for later)
DIRECTIONS
- Cook up the bacon in a frying pan. When it’s crispy, take it out and drain it on paper towels. Leave the grease in the pan.
- Toss the potatoes in the pan and fry them up in the bacon grease. Add lots of salt and pepper to taste. Take them out and put them on the plate. If any grease is still in the pan, pour it into the bacon fat jar.
- Fry up the sausages in the same pan. Put them on the plate.
- Cook up the ham. Put it on the plate.
- Put about a quarter cup of butter in the pan. Crack open the eggs. Fry them up until they set and start to turn white. Salt and pepper to taste. Flip them of carefully (don’t break the yolks). When they’re done (it don’t take long) slide them onto the plate.
- Douse the eggs with hot sauce. Butter up the toast. Use this to dip into the egg yolk.
- Put sugar and half and half in the coffee. Ah, hell, make it cream.
- Darn, what happened to my french toast and pancakes? I forgot those.
That’s good eating right there. (The Tums are for later.)
