The first real day of NaBloPoMo and what springs to mind is bacon and fried egg rolls.
There’s something really special about a bacon and fried egg roll. The bacon seasons the egg, the egg adds body and moisture so you don’t realise how dry your bacon roll would’ve been.
I tend to have it with ketchup (“with red sauce please”), which I think ties the whole thing together quite nicely. Other condiments are generally available: have fun and be yourself.
I had a bacon and fried egg roll yesterday, but wasn’t quite right. The main reason is that it didn’t have a fried egg in it. I went into a café and asked for one: I was told that they could do a bacon and omelette roll, to which I obviously said “no thanks, I’ll have bacon and sausage instead”. I can only presume this is what Nikola Tesla was on about when he said “You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension”. A bacon and omelette roll is about as far as you can get from a bacon and fried egg roll while still using the same ingredients.
The bacon and sausage roll was fine, although I really did wish it had a fried egg in it. This is my penance for buying instead of making.
A knife is important: if you forget to pop the yolk, it will pop itself at the most inconvenient moment.
A bacon and fried egg roll doesn’t rely on great ingredients, but they elevate the experience. A plentiful helping of thick cut bacon and a lustrous orange yolk certainly doesn’t hurt. Technique is important: thankfully, technique is please don’t overcook the yolk.
My dad used to go by a farm shop which does good morning rolls and he’d tend to get the bacon and fried egg. At some point they invested in one of those heated units to keep food warm, which is handy for bacon and sausages. Unfortunately someone thought it was a good idea to keep some eggs in there.
It sped up the process of making the roll when it was ordered, but it also converted that beautifully cooked fried egg into something you could use to hold a door open.
At some point they saw the error in their ways and stopped committing fried egg malpractice.
In conclusion, maybe I should spend some time thinking up blog post ideas.