all right bitches, it's 4pm and it's time for BREAKFAST!
so what we're gonna do is make a kick-ass fried egg that will warm the FUCK out of you in winter (it's summer here but i don't give a FUCK) and give you tonnes of ENERGY.
first we gotta get our shit together.
i got:
- oil; i used grapeseed oil
- cayenne pepper powder. fresh chillis would be better but i haven't got any at the moment.
- black pepper
- salt
- butter
- a chopped up shiitake mushroom
- fresh rosemary (on the mushroom chunks) straight from my back yard
- a chunk of ginger, chopped
- a small clove of garlic, chopped
- bacon, because no self-respecting fried egg is complete without bacon
- 2-3 eggs. i used 3 because the eggs i get from my chickens are pretty small
- fresh spring onions
- some onion would be great also but i don't have any
- fresh rocket
- 2 pieces of bread
- tasty as FUCK cheese
- a bit of lemon (new discovery!)
you'll also need a toaster, a frying pan, and, for the cheese part, a top-heating grill.
now start heating the pan and bring it to a medium-high temperature. throw in a bit of oil, followed by the bacon. let that shit cook a little, then throw in the shiitakes, rosemary, garlic and ginger. if you have onion and/or fresh chillis, throw those in now also.
once it's starting to look cooked, throw in a knob of butter and let that melt through it all before throwing in your eggs and adding in your seasonings (salt, pepper, cayenne). i do this thing where i scramble the eggs in the pan; just keep mixing it up as it cooks. i dunno if there's a name for this but it gives a nice texture and consistency. so mix that shit up, and once it starts to cook a bit, throw in your spring onions also.
now's a good time to toast that bread and start warming up the top-heating grill. keep mixing up your eggs while that happens, and turn off the heat if you need to. once the bread is done, put them under the grill, load your eggs on to em, and cover that shit with cheese before sticking it under the heat.
you only need to keep it under long enough to melt the cheese, so take it out once that's happened and plate it up. garnish that shit with some rocket and a drizzle of lemon.
now fucking dig in and enjoy!