Breakfast Sandwich❤️

It's literally the least I can do. He is barely home at all this summer. Off to work, playing golf, baseball or hanging out with his girlfriend. Everything I want for him the summer before he heads off to college. Except that I miss him already.

So, I get up at 5:00am to see him off. I make him a breakfast sandwich to go. Crisp bacon, one egg cooked over hard- yolk broken, no longer runny, topped with melted cheese. Two slices: one to glue the bacon to the egg and another to glue the bacon to the top of the sandwich. Toasted everything bagel, a skim of sweet butter, wall to wall. Cut in half and loosely wrapped in foil. I rest it on a folded piece of paper towel so that he won't be tempted to wipe his greasy hands on his khaki work shorts. Don't forget the iced (black) coffee, leftovers from yesterday in a to go coffee cup.

"Bye mom, love you."

"Have a great day. Love you."

Some have made comments, teased me for continuing to make my son's lunch for him to take to school everyday his senior year in high school just as I had been doing since he started preschool. Was I doing too much? Was I not allowing him to grow up? Coddling him? I mentioned these feelings to my friend Sheila. 

"That is your love language. Don't stop."

She is right. I felt so validated. 

I am going to make that sandwich everyday until he leaves for college. Then I am going to make it again when he comes home. I hope I get to make it for a long, long time. 

Breakfast Sandwich 

(serves 1)

1 everything bagel, sliced open

1 1/2 slices cooked bacon (see Precooked Bacon below)

1 egg (preferably from Val's chickens)

salt and pepper

approx 1 tablespoon of salted butter

2 slices of American cheese

Toast bagel. While bagel is toasting, heat small frying pan on medium. Add slices of precooked bacon (cut in half so that all three pieces are the same length) to the edge of the pan. Once the bacon begins to heat through, add about a teaspoon of butter to the pan on the opposite side. After the butter melts, crack the egg and slowly add it to the pan so that the white begins to cook as you add the entire egg. Use a spatula to contain the egg in a small area. Salt and pepper the egg. Once the egg begins to set, gently break the yolk and mix it around. When the egg is completely set, flip it over and top with one slice of cheese. Place bacon slices on top and top the bacon with the remaining slice of cheese. Lower heat to low and cover.

Meanwhile, butter the bagel wall to wall. After a few minutes, remove egg from pan and place on lower half of buttered bagel. Place bagel top onto sandwich and slice in half. Wrap sandwich in tinfoil.

Serve with a thermos of iced coffee (black, leftover from the pot that was brewed day before). Don't forget the napkin/piece of paper towel for greasy hands.

 

Precooked Bacon

(makes 1 package of bacon)

1 package bacon

Turn on oven to 425 degrees. No need to preheat.

Line a rimmed baking pan with tin foil.

Line up bacon strips in an even layer on foil lined sheet. Try not to overlap, squish them in but make sure all the pieces lay flat.

Bake for 15-20 minutes, checking often. Flip the slices with tongs about 10 minutes in. Remove bacon as slices cook to your liking onto a paper towel lined plate. (The outermost slices seem to cook the fastest.)

Once cooled, store in an airtight container in the refrigerator before the man/boy comes home and eats it all for a snack.