Ginger and T Cook: The Glorified BLT

Let me start by saying that eggs are not my favorite food. After a very nasty experience on a mission trip to Romania about 13 years ago (wow, that makes me feel old) I didn't eat eggs for a long time. When I do eat eggs it is usually only scrambled, and occasionally boiled. That's it! I don't do the runny, yolkie (yes I just made that word up) eggs. Nasty!

  So, our new recipe for this week was definitely a stretch for me, but I did it, and I'm proud! T and I cooked what I'll call "The Glorified BLT." It was an idea of T's, probably mainly because it involved bacon, and he's one of those people that likes runny, yolkie eggs.

  We started out with some sourdough bread fresh from our grocer's bakery, tomato slices, lettuce, avocado, pepper bacon, eggs and spicy mayo. We made the mayo by mixing some spicy chili sauce into regular mayo.

 

 

  I fried the bacon, while T made the eggs. Now let me tell y'all that T was super excited about this recipe because I got good bacon. He told me, "now we can't do this with that turkey bacon stuff that you usually buy. It's gotta be the good stuff." So, I got the good bacon. You know, the kind that actually comes from a pig. 

  T cooked the eggs by cracking them on the skillet and letting them cook on the lowest setting. Nice and slow and no flipping. When he said they were ready, but I'd noticed he hadn't flipped them and he said he wasn't going to I made a scrunchy face and moved on with my life. We then assembled the sandwiches. And.....I knew it was coming, but I was still slightly terrified. Very quickly after putting everything together the yellow gooey stuff started running everywhere. 

  Now I know you may be thinking.....I thought she said this was a BLT. Yeah....I took the pictures, but forgot to put in the "L." Oops, please forgive me. 

  I did very well with the runny, yolkie stuff and the sandwich was absolutely delicious. The combined flavors of the egg, bacon and avocado were fabulous. Give it a try!

Lazy Sunday Morning

  T and I decided to have a lazy Sunday morning, which is a rare thing for us. We were at the grocery store a few days ago and both confessed that we'd really been craving pancakes. We rarely eat pancakes...because let's face it....they're not the healthiest breakfast choice out there. While at the store we decided that we'd look for a healthy pancake mix and came across this one.

 

  I absolutely love being able to cook breakfast for the hubby and myself and the weekend is the only time I can do it. I wanted to make our pancakes extra special this morning since it'd been so long since we'd had some. I made the pancakes, topped them with cinnamon, sugar free syrup, toasted pecans and some apples that I warmed and softened in the microwave. They were absolutely delicious!!

   On another random note, I have to share something else that I did this morning. I found this awesome idea on Pinterest a few weeks ago, where you could make your own Febreze spray. I was totally excited because that stuff is expensive! Ok...it's not that expensive, I'm just cheap. Wait, not cheap...I'm frugal. Yeah, frugal sounds better. Anywho, so this morning I tried it out. So, you mix 2 tablespoons of baking soda, 2 tablespoons of liquid fabric softener (like Downy), and then fill the rest of your spray bottle with warm tap water. Shake it up and it's ready to go. I recommend testing it on a small area before going nuts with it, because I will not be held responsible if it turns all your furniture bright pink or anything. Try it out. It's amazing and I'll never buy the other stuff again!