Simple Weekend Breakfast

I've been slacking.

I had great intentions this week but got slammed on the work front and so I ate more takeout than I would like.

The good news is the food I bought last weekend will wait for me. I did use up the ground beef making spaghetti sauce - which went into the freezer so no review of that yet.

Every time I've opened the fridge the thick cut applewood smoked bacon from Creswick Farms has been taunting me. If bacon could talk it would say "cook me, I'm delicious".

So I did. (Finally)

I was hungry so I didn't go for anything fancy. I pan fried four strips of the bacon, fried two of the farm fresh eggs in butter with a splash of the bacon grease, and briefly toasted - also in the bacon grease, isn't it wonderful stuff - a buttered slice of some bread that I made mid-week.

That's how breakfast is done.

And how it should be done more often.

It wasn't perfect - I overcooked the bacon slightly - but it was still very tasty.

If you wanted to assign some kind of score for being local, sustainable and otherwise "good" this meal would rate pretty high. The eggs and bacon are local. I haven't found a local source for butter yet and the same for the flour in the bread - it's just King Arthur organic all purpose. I don't expect to find truly local sources for oil, yeast or pepper (duh) but only small amounts of each are involved.

What's up for this week? Well, I have lots of ingredients left from what I bought last weekend. Time permitting, I think I'm going to try oven baking most of the rest of the bacon - I'll probably freeze a few slices. I'm thinking I might make scrambled eggs with salsa tomorrow. I need to bake another loaf of bread - stupid easy when you have a bread machine - and hmm, maybe I'll have a grilled cheese with some of that local cheddar for dinner tonight.

Downside to posting this stuff: It makes me hungry!