Unless you have a Korean mother making you breakfast in the morning, it’s hard to prepare the rice, soup, and side dishes that are the hallmark of many a Korean breakfasts. Increasing numbers of Seoulites are pressed for time and like to have western style meals in the morning or nothing at all. Here’s a recipe for a quick breakfast sandwich that is quite quite good.
Weekday Breakfast Sandwich
from: http://internetfoodassociation.wordpress.com/2008/11/18/every-egg-wants-to-someday-be-part-of-a-breakfast-sandwich/
INGREDIENTS: One egg, one strip of bacon, one English muffin (I recommend whole-wheat)
NOTE ON NUTRITION: I know–bacon and egg, scary, aaaaa! But this is actually not bad for you. It’s about 130 kcal for the English muffin, 80 for the egg, and 30 for the bacon for a total of 240: not all that different from a big bowl of cereal and milk. And I don’t know about you, but consuming protein in the morning makes me (a) far more efficient and (b) less likely to eat crap at lunch.
1) Start your pot of coffee.
2) Put a frying pan on the oven. Turn the gas to medium-high. If you do not have a gas stove, start dating someone who does have a gas stove and make breakfast at his or her house.
3) Take bacon out of the refrigerator. Peel off one slice (yes, only one slice). Cut it in half with a pair of scissors. Put it in the pan. Put the bacon away.
4) Take your English muffin out of the freezer and put it into the toaster. NOTE: I recommend splitting your English muffins in half before you freeze them so you don’t have to worry about thawing them first.
5) IF you are putting cheese on your breakfast sandwich, now’s the time to cut a few slices. I believe that cheese is superfluous on a weekday breakfast sandwich. If you’re trying to cure a hangover, then by all means pile it on, but if you just need energy to get you through lunch then there’s no need for cheese.
6) Flip your bacon.
7) Pour a cup of coffee. Fold a paper towel in half and put it on your plate.
Put the bacon onto the paper towel to drain.
9) Turn the gas to medium-low. Pour out the extra bacon fat into the cup you keep in your fridge. Yes, I know it’s not much but when you eat bacon every morning it adds up, and will eventually come in handy.
10) Crack an egg into the pan. FRY IT UP however you like it.
11) Ready your plate with the English muffin and the bacon.
12) IT’S SANDWICH O’CLOCK! Thrown on the egg and eat your sandwich while looking at the internet.
13) Cleanup: clean plate, pan in sink to soak. You can finish cleaning it when you get home from work.
