Breakfast a la Carly
I’m rewinding back a few weeks ago, when I was in the midst of my April Bon Appetit challenge, to bring you a breakfast sandwich courtesy of my friend Carly. Perhaps it was a little crazy to forego cooking for a morning during the final week of the challenge, but Carly had been touting a breakfast sandwich creation for a long time and it was time for us to give it a go!
Born from a need for protein (egg) and something sweet (jam) in a to-go form (sandwich), Carly created a breakfast that fueled her every morning through several months of training, including for two marathons. She had her routine down pat – start the water to boil, start the coffee, drop in the egg, toast the muffin, spread the jam, dish up the egg, top with muffin half. With a routine like that, I had to see it in action.
Despite my love for savory and sweet (and my obsession with eggs), I had never tried the jam/egg combo. At breakfast, I have a few rules: bacon and sausage stay clear of maple syrup and there is no place for ketchup at the breakfast table (I know, I know – french fries get ketchup, so why not hash browns? Because they don’t. Period.) I never really had a jam/egg separation rule, but it just didn’t seem like a natural pairing to me somehow.
Breakfast was served – a toasted English muffin with a smear of strawberry preserves and a poached egg – very tasty! We ate them open faced, but the usual service is as a sandwich. Either way, I can definitely see this breakfast in my future. And despite my usual avoidance of breakfast greens, I thought the salad with orange slices was a nice offset to the savory/sweet meal.
Of course, on the way home Kyle and I really started pushing the limits of the sandwich, dreaming of a version with crispy bacon and a fruit pepper jelly. Not only would we have salty and sweet, but we would add crunch and spice! Now that is one sandwich I would break my breakfast rules for.
May 15th, 2009 at 2:24 am
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