Look, I Made Lunch! Eggs, Potatoes, & Bacon

I've pulled out the Sistema again, finally. Sistema is this great collection of plastic lunchware that I absolutely love and has had the most success getting me to take lunch to work. I have a whole set of green: three containers and three little squeeze bottles for sauces (two of the bottles are blue and pink/purple).

Anyway, this isn't a commercial... I'm just excited about using my Sistema containers again.

Today, I brought lunch that incorporated a little bit of leftovers from last night's dinner! I didn't eat all of my piece of pork, so I cut it into tiny pieces and made an egg scramble with some diced onion and cheddar cheese, which I paired with leftover potatoes from dinner, plus a couple pieces of bacon that were in the fridge!

The little dressing container in the middle of the potatoes on the right has a little bit of honey in it... don't judge, I like syrup or honey with my bacon. It's not as uncommon as you might think (at least not in the South).

I actually used another Sistema container to bring the Accidental Cookies to work, and one of the tiny squeeze bottles to bring the lime icing (it's a little liquidy, so I didn't want to put it on the cookies and have it all drip to the bottom).

Breakfast Apples

I made breakfast again! And it was delicious. The plan was scrambled eggs, but I turned my back long enough for it to accidentally be an omelet. Which was pretty cool, because I've never managed to make an omelet before. I also made bacon, but I thought we needed something plant-based... so I grabbed an apple and made the following!

Breakfast Apples

Ingredients

1 apple (mine was Granny Smith)

1 Tbsp brown sugar

1 tsp cinnamon

1 Tbsp butter

Equipment

microwave

Instructions

Dice your apple and put it in a bowl. Add the butter, sugar, and cinnamon, and mix. Microwave for 1 minute. Stir well. Microwave another 30 seconds. Stir well again, and enjoy!

Yields

2 servings as a side

Total time

5 minutes

Cleanup rating 2/5

I have a thing about never being able to use brown sugar without getting it all over my hands (and the counter). And the bowl is pretty sticky but you can run it through the dishwasher, so it's not a big deal.

Difficulty rating 2/10

Dicing an apple is the hardest thing involved.

Flavor rating 8/10

Yum! Not too sweet. Went perfectly with the rest of our breakfast.

Mushrooms, Part Two

Remember how I got my mushrooms drunk last night? Well, tonight I made them breakfast.

Mushroomelette

Ingredients
Eggs (I used 3)
Mushrooms (I used 3 button mushrooms)
Butter (about 1 Tbsp)
Cheese, shredded (I used Jack)
Seasonings (I used shallot-pepper)*

Equipment
Stove, pan, cheese grater

Instructions
Dice your mushrooms. (Just like last night, they don't have to be perfect, just evenly-sized.) Put your butter in a pan over medium heat. Once it's melted, add the mushrooms and stir them around to get them all buttery. Leave them alone for the most part (stir around occasionally) and go grate your cheese if you haven't already, and beat your eggs in a bowl. Once the mushrooms are tender, add the eggs and stir around until they look approximately like this:

Add the cheese and keep stirring around until the cheese is melted and the eggs are done.

*You can season at several different points: while the mushrooms are sauteeing, while the eggs aren't yet done, after you add the cheese, all three... whatever.

Yields
This was enough for two, because I used three eggs. This one, like last night's, is easily scalable.

Total time
Darn my lack of accountability on this front. I would guess about 15 minutes again, because I baked biscuits at the same time and they took a little over 15 minutes.

Cleanup rating 2/5
Eggs are pretty easy to clean up because they don't really stick to the pan. There are still a handful of dishes that need to be cleaned up, though (cutting board, knife, pan, bowl from the eggs, spoon).

Difficulty rating 3/10
You do have to pay attention when making this, but it's not terribly hard.

Flavor rating 5/10
Pretty good. Not great. I could have used more seasoning probably, but generally pretty good.

Look, I Made Breakfast

Since Birk and I both had Martin Luther King Jr Day off, we slept in, I made a big breakfast, and he studied while I worked on wedding invitations.

Some of the pancakes were a total mess.

Some looked closed to normal.

And the result.

That's pancakes, sausage, scrambled eggs, and Allie potatoes (yes, they're for breakfast too!).

The only tricky thing about a breakfast like this is timing. The eggs and sausages got cold while I figured out the right pan temperature for pancakes. (To be fair, I used the same pan for sausage, then eggs, then pancakes, so something was going to suffer, temperature-wise.) The potatoes were the warmest thing on the plate because I started them first and they were JUST ready to come out by the time I finished making everything else.