Breakfast is the most annoying meal of the day. There never seems to be enough time for breakfast and for someone like me, I end up eating a nutrigrain bar in the car on the way to the office every day of my life. This is supposed to be the most important meal of the day!
I was pretty sick of this routine and so I set out to make a quick, easy and portable breakfast sandwich, a bacon egg and cheese muffin to be exact. Here’s how you can enjoy a hot breakfast in the morning without a lot of hastle.
At first, go through the steps one at a time. However, when you become an eggspert (ZING!) you will be able to move back and forth to maximize your time.
MY “SECRET” SEASONING
My absolute favorite breakfast seasoning is actually something you are supposed to use for meat on a grill. It is McCormick’s Grillmates Smokehouse Maple. I put this on the bread and bombard the egg with it. I never can use too much of this stuff. It adds some needed flavor to the bland egg.
My favorite breakfast seasoing, Mccormick’s Smokehouse Maple
The Bread & Cheese
You can pretty much use whatever you would like here. In my case I used an english muffin, but you can create different sandwiches with bagels, bagel thins, bread or anything else you can get your hands on.
The cheese actually makes an appearance in this stage as well because melted cheese makes the sandwich that much better than a cold piece of cheese laid on top. You can use whatever type of cheese you like (I use swiss), but to make things quick and easy, you should probably just use pre-sliced lunch meat cheese.
- (optional) Spread butter on the bread, don’t make it perfect I just do quick globs as it will be melting anyway
- Season both sides of the bread with salt & pepper or your goto seasoning
- Place your desired cheese slice on one side of the bread (you can do both sides or 2 on 1 side)
- Place in toaster oven (Not too high, you will figure out your setting. Mine is like 1/4 darkness)
Note: If you don’t have a toaster oven, you can put the cheese on top of the bread after toasting in a toaster, but it won’t really melt much.
Seasoned English Muffin with Melted Cheese
Now that you’ve selected TOAST, don’t just sit there and watch the magic happen! Move on to the next!
THE BACON
The key to fast morning bacon is not to cook it in a skillet. I’m sorry you don’t like that, but we are in a time crunch here. We don’t have time to be cleaning pans. The key is to microwave! Yes you can microwave bacon, and it still tastes good (much better mixed on a sandwich than by itself, but guess what, we are making a sandwich!).
All you do here is take 1 square of paper towel, lay out 2 slices of bacon on one side of it, fold the towel in half to cover the bacon (it will stick closed) and then microwave. There is so much fat that you may want to lay down a napkin under the paper towel to soak it up, or just prepare for a quick wipe down when done.
Cooking bacon in the microwave
Typically the center cut bacon takes 1:30 and this thick bacon in the photo took 3 minutes. You will have to figure this out on your own, just start with 1 minute and check the results, add 30 seconds each time. Eventually it should become crispy-ish.
You can even go 1 step farther and use precooked bacon which is ready in seconds, isn’t quite as slimy and is just easier to store and deal with. We are going with speed here, not gourmet quality.
The EGG
At this stage it is time to prepare your egg. You want to fry it up but make sure it gets in a good sandwich shape, and the best way to do that is to buy one of those stupid single egg pans from the store. It is annoying to flip over compared to a normal skillet, but size matters. It is also easy cleanup.
My Morning Egg Making Kit
The first thing I do is spray the pan with cooking spray. This is key for cleanup. Next, crack the egg in the pan, season it and then whisk it a little bit right inside the pan (no extra cleanup, I don’t think the metal whisk is ruining the pan). The whisk is better than a fork because the egg drips off the thin wire wisk more than it does a fork for an easier cleanup and the fork might damage the pan. You can buy a mini whisk for like $2 at Ross/TJ Maxx/Marshalls. You can season with salt & pepper or your “secret” seasoning.
You may notice there is no milk here. No cream. Nothing. Just an egg. Fast, easy simple. The seasoning, bread and bacon will add the big flavor.
Whisking the seasoned eggs directly in the pan
Next, put the pan on the stovetop and set the heat for somewhere in the medium range or slightly below. While that cooks up for a minute or 2 you have some time to check on your bacon and muffin to make sure those are progressing smoothly (or finished). I actually throw some more seasoning on here too.
Now comes the hard part…flipping the egg over. (It should look fairly solid, there might be some slight liquidy egg on top, but the bottom should be solid)
Cutting out the egg and ready to flip
Using a spoon or cool mini spatula with an egg face on it, “cut out” the egg from the pan by running it alongside the circumference of the egg, separating it from the pan. Slide your mini spatula or spoon (not sure how well that works) and flip the egg over to finish cooking the back side.
This is the part of the process where you might say “F this bro!” and switch over to a normal skillet and a larger than the bread egg. That is fine… I guess… *cries*
The egg will be done in another minute and you can turn off the heat now if you would like. I also re-season here.
SANDWICH-IFY
By now you should have all your ingredients cooked up and ready to go.
Start by taking the 2 strips of bacon and ripping/snapping them in half. Bacon is probably still hot so proceed with caution. I scream “owwww” every morning but do it by hand. Place it on the muffin with the egg and…
Bacon Egg & Cheese English Muffin
Nice work bro! You just made a delicious hot breakfast sandwich in only a few minutes more than you can microwave a disgusting premade egg beaters sandwich at 7-11.
The Clean Up
Now that your sandwich is complete (and plated on a paper plate ready to be brought with you into the car if needed), you will want to clean up a few things so you don’t have dirty plates sitting around all day.
- Wipe down the microwave because bacon fat most likely escaped
- Wipe down (with dab of soap) your egg pan, whisk and spatula (simple if they are small)
- You may have to wipe off a butter knife as well, mine just sits in the butter in the fridge
That’s It! You didn’t use any excess bowls or skillets or pans or pots or silverware or china. Clean up is a breeze, and if your cooking spray kept the egg from sticking it is even quicker.
Enjoy your hot breakfast to go!
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