This morning, when we opened the door to head to school, there was a fresh layer of powdery snow covering the ground (and streets). ...At this point, not unusual, yet still quite unexpected.
And thus because people cannot drive at a normal speed when there is a drop of precipitation on the ground or in the air--this is universal, I have come to find--, it took us a whopping hour to get to school. (We were late, no doubt.) And on the way back home, traffic was not much different. Another 45 minute drive...
Basically, the point I am coming to is that I was quite hungry by the time I got back to the house. Truthfully, I was starving by the time I even dropped the kids off. And sitting there in that bumper-to-bumper traffic only allowed my mind to start roaming to all the foods I could be stuffing my face with... Bacon. Eggs. Hash browns. Omelets. Pancakes. Eggos... Mmmm... A good hearty breakfast: That was something I hadn't had in a while... So breaking one of the cardinal rules of life, I took a detour on the way home and went to the grocery store while I was hungry.
Unfortunately, the selection at Albert Heijn* is not quite the selection of my treasured American Kroger or Walmart. There are no bagged hash browns in the freezer aisle. There are no Jimmy Dean, or even George Jones, sausage links. And there is no sliced bacon in the meat section (that I could find)... So having a limited selection, I grabbed anything that looked helpful and made my way home.
*Typical Dutch grocery store.
Pretty much, I wound with a sack of potatoes, "bacon" from the deli aisle, eggs, juice, syrup, and some little bite-size pancake looking puffs. And with these ingredients, I went to work on my masterpiece...
First I put my extremely thin slices of ham into the skillet and cooked them as if they were regular bacon. Then I peeled, sliced, and, for lack of a better word, grated my potatoes. When my bacon was done, I threw them in the skillet hash brown-style. In the meantime, I prepared my mini-pancakes. And while my potatoes were still frying, I threw in an egg on the other half of the skillet...
And viola!
When it was all said and done, I had one hell of a breakfast spread to sit down to. Oh how heavenly it was!
...And here are the pictures to prove it:
So watch out Waffle House, Huddle House, and Denny's. Cause I'm in the kitchen... And that's what's cookin'!
..And who knows, one morning next week, I may just attempt a Rooty Tooty Fresh'N'Fruity!
did someone say rooty tooty fresh and fruity? (you can giggle now)
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