Bacon and Eggs

[desperance]

For his lunch today, our cheffy novelist toasted a couple of fat slices of artisanal ciabatta, topped those with crisped pancetta and a heap of baby salad leaves, added a pair of perfectly poached eggs and poured over all a warm dressing of olive oil and balsamic vinegar with wholegrain mustard and a ripe red Cayenne chilli.

Sometimes, it's good to be king.

Comments

[devonellington.livejournal.com]

I knew I should have paid more attention in teleportation class! Sounds delicious!

[gauroth.livejournal.com]

Oh, yummy! If only I could get the rest of the fambly to tolerate eggs in any form... Sod it. Qu'ils mangent burgers.

Sublimely full, the epicure may say,
'Fate cannot harm me. I have dined today!'

Though Sidney Smith's poem was about potato salad, this seems an appropriate quotation.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

It's always an appropriate quotation. And one of these days, I am going to make that salad. I know what it tastes like in my head, but that's not quite enough.

[gauroth.livejournal.com]

Buggrit. *Serenely* not *Sublimely.* *headdesk*

Chillies

[gauroth.livejournal.com]

Oh - and, Chaz, forgive me for spamming your LJ, but when you grow chillies do you use seeds from shop-bought ones, or do you buy posh seeds from proper garden centres? I ask because I remember a very hot chilli-plant growing by our back door in Nigeria when I were a nipper, and I have a sudden desire to grow some myself.

Re: Chillies

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Yield, yield, give in to this desire! The first chilli I picked from my own first plant, I cut into it and it positively spurted juice. You don't get that from shops...

I don't use seeds from shop-bought fruits. I've grown some from garden-centre packets, but they tend not to be as hot as I like 'em (I am not macho in anything, I think, except my food, where I am the total alpha male; I'll eat anything, the more challenging the better, and I want my hot food fiery). So I tend to buy seeds from specialist producers - the only problem with this being that as I have limited windowsills and a passion for variety, I buy many packets and grow two or three specimens from each, which means that next year I still have lots of those seeds left, and ditto the year after, and of course they decay over time, but I can't bear to throw 'em out...

What I'm saying here, I'll be buying a new set this winter, and if you'd like some seeds, just give me a mailing address. Or we could swap, we could set up a seed-sharing syndicate...?

Re: Chillies

[gauroth.livejournal.com]

You're a star! If I email you, would you let me have some seeds pleasepleaseplease? Tell me the costs, too, including postage, packing, etc etc

Thank you!

- Maggie