Bacon!

Disclaimer: This meal is not healthy at all. . . and we don’t care. Why? because it was darn good, that’s why.

BLT extravaganza!

This BLT idea came from Jacob and he was the mastermind behind dinner last night. (I love him).

So step one was making the bacon (pretty standard).

Then, we both really like adding eggs to everything so we decided to fry/poach our eggs in the bacon fat. (As you can tell, the meal loses all nutritional value very early on.)

We did this by taking a spoon and pouring the oil over the top of the egg consistently until it was all white. In an effort to get a picture of this I left them in too long and the yolk cooked all the way – we were going for a runny yolk. Oh well. It was still tasty. *safety note: If you attempt this, be careful, the oil has a tendency to ‘pop’ and burn your forearm. I wore long sleeves to avoid severe pain – and cursing.

Ok. So assembly of the famous BLT is pretty much a no-brainer, so I’ve just included some pictures of our process – basically for the fun of it.

Still too early to plant our garden, so we had to buy tomatoes from the store. They were alright.

I like them sliced thick.

I let Jacob do most of the work on this meal (and most other meals – he’s an infinitely better cook)

 

We like large stacks of bacon. Don’t judge.

The deliciously fried/poached bacon-y egg.

We can’t get anything but Iceberg lettuce here – so that’s what we worked with.

My tomatoes look yummy!

I liked Jacob’s touch with the toothpick through the middle.

 

We used the rest of the lettuce to make a small salad and then sat down to eat.

Warning: This sandwich is juicy and will most likely run down your hands – and possibly arms. (In my opinion that’s part of what makes it good – but that’s normal right? … )

 

Having shared this with you – and eaten it last night – Jacob and I are both feeling the results of “newlywed-itis” and need to be physically active. Once we get both the bikes up and running that will help a lot, but we’ll probably also limit the number of meals we make that include bacon fat as a featured guest.