I’ve written before about my love for the bacon sandwich: see The Bacon Sandwich Sonnet for more info.
My latest lunchtime creation is the bacon and mushy pea omelette sandwich – snacktime genius if I say so myself – but, when there’s no bacon and no mushy peas in the fridge, the classic fried egg sarnie is where it’s at.
The fried egg sarnie is like a 911: quick, simple and can be optioned up to become whatever takes your fancy. Add a little salt to the pan with butter on the bread for simple comfort food, a bit of sweet chili if you’re feeling kinda spicy. I am going through a semi-Elvis phase at the mo, so here’s today’s recipe:
Heat a small pan & add a couple of tablespoons of olive oil to it. Add your egg and immediately break the yolk. Give your slowly cooking egg (pic) the shape of the bread with a table knife. Yes, a metal one. Yes in the non stick pan. Don’t give me any crap about damaging the coating – I’ve been doing this for years and the pan is fine. Frying pans only cost a few quid: stop going on!
In the time it’s taken you to read thus far, your egg is cooked on the bottom. Flip it and cook another 20 seconds max. Your bread is already buttered with a tiny bit of onion relish, right? Put the egg on it. Make the sandwich. Now put it back in the pan. YES THE WHOLE THING. Cook over heat for 30 seconds. Then turn it (don’t flip it unless you are a total messer) and do another twenty. Now your lunch is ready, the pan just needs a quick clean and you have the ultimate in high cal single-filling bread based snacks. Serve with a cup of tea and espresso for dessert.
What you’ve done is a: feed yourself well (good job you) and b: charted the evolution of the Porsche 911. The classic fried egg sandwich is a 911 2.4S Targa: cracking the shell to bring out the goodness. The onion relish and lid of the bread made it better: a small-cranked, lightweight Orange Carrera 3.0 Coupe. Frying it in luxury made it a 993 C2S: like a classic Carrera but fatter and a little tastier to some. The cup of tea is like a 996, perfect for an everyday drink but you don’t seek it out on special occasions. The espresso gave it a kick: GT3 RS.
When it comes to frying eggs and 911s, I know my stuff. I feel a cookbook coming on!
What’s the moral of the story? Stop at the onion relish.
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Classic, and you've managed to avoid 996 headlamps. My new coffeemaker does make me feel like I'm doing 180mph all morning I must confess…
Methinks you've got a quiet day today.
It's busy but that was something that made me laugh. Worth getting it down
connection is 'loose' at best my friend!
I agree but, as Bruce Canepa once told me, "loose is fast." I'll take loose if that's all there is!
Surely the fun in an egg sandwhich is biting into the yoke and it running onto your fingers/shirt/face?
So why would you break the yoke!?
When you know the answer Grasshopper, you will understand more than simple yolk-lore.
"… Yes, a metal one. Yes in the non stick pan. Don’t give me any crap … stop going on! ".
Just beautiful. Soliloquy to a hard headed man with a fondness for the soft yolk ! Poetry in your potion! Jamie Oliver is quaking in his Uggs ;-0
Hahahahaha, too funny. Must do another recipe sometime.