Quick Breakfast

Feeling obligated to prove my continued existence to anyone following this blog, I decided to document a pretty basic, quick breakfast I made this morning. It has the charm of being almost exclusively local - the exceptions being salt, pepper, olive oil, my coffee, and whatever ingredients go into the free two day old bagels at Uncommon Grounds.

First thing, I grabbed a hand full of the Kilpatrick's fingerling potatoes out of the fridge poked a few fork holes in them and tossed them in the microwave for 3 minutes - I know, the microwave, how lame, but I'm trying to be quick.

In the meantime I got the skillet going with some olive oil. I took an everything bagel and put it in the toaster oven for a few minutes. An english muffin or any other type of bread would be equally lovely.

When the potatoes were finished I threw them in the skillet to crisp up. When the bagel was partially toasted I took it out and spread some Sweet Spring goat cheese on one side and some of Anna Mae's tomato jam on the other, and returned it to the toaster oven.

The potatoes were looking nice and crispy so, I cracked a couple of Elihu Farm's eggs into the skillet right along side them - saving on dishes and time. I went with over-easy, but any style egg would do the trick. The skillet was hot so it only took about one minute.

I put the bagel onto a plate, put the eggs on the bagel, and surround it with the crispy little potatoes. New potatoes aren't ready for harvest yet, but when the fingerlings are stored over winter a good amount of their starch converts to sugar, leaving them with an added sweetness which works great for something like this or potato salad.

We had a bag of New Minglewood's mesclun mix which has a perfect kick to it and really goes well with goat cheese - so I topped it all off with that.

I took my plate outside and joined the dog in watching the bees - about as good a morning as I could hope for. Total time: about 5 minutes (I had the coffee going already).

Tamara's ladies are in those boxes.

Mali waits patiently for her welfare check or some of my breakfast - whichever comes first.

One last look at breakfast.