Sandwichspace 13

 A couple of changes in today's effort. Thick sausage patty and the same bread as yesterday, toasted. For cheese I used cream cheese. It was ok 3/10. It beat nothing, but meh. I bet scallion cream cheese would be a bit of an improvement. For eggs I microwaved a handful of spinach, then squeezed out the water. Then a couple eggs, a pinch of salt, a dash of pepper. I have certainly made prettier microwave eggs, but they tasted pretty good, maybe 5/10.

Appearance - I dunno, 5/10. The circular eggs kinda looked weird. Bun looked nice though.

Flavor - 4/10. I mean it was ok, but not very cheesy, the eggs unpleasantly underdone and not very fluffy - kind of surprised at that. I like having microwaved scrambled eggs usually, they are nice and fluffy often. But not this time. Perhaps I'm off my microwaved egg game, have been frying on the stove so often.

Out of bread now. Will have to whip up something new for tomorrow. Also hit up Whole Foods and bought some supplies - smoked gouda, thick sliced cheddar, grass fed sausage patties, Genoa salami, and mortadella. 

GARDEN UPDATE: Kale is coming up nicely!

Sandwichspace 12

So I toasted this bad boy. This time it worked, it wasn't too hard. Onion, spinach, and scrambled egg. Thin sausage (cooked but not overcooked, did not end up leathery). Thin sliced cheddar. 

Appearance - 7/10, not bad

Flavor 6/10, decent. No new ground broken here. 

Garden Intermission

 I planted some kale a few days ago in one of the stone planters by the driveway. Nothing up yet, the seeds may be too old.

I planted spinach and basil in some windowbox planters. We'll see if I get anything before the frost. I will probably plant some more kale. I want to have kale for my breakfast sandwiches.

UPDATE Feb 20, 2025 - Neither the kale nor the spinach and basil grew to harvest. I think the soil the windowbox had in it was kind of trash, so they never flourished. The kale grew a bit, but I think deer chomped on it a bit. I moved some up by the house. They grew ok, but it got really cold before they were big enough to harvest any. I don't think they are dead, maybe they have a headstart on next season.

Sandwichspace 10 & 11

 10:

This sandwich was biscuit, shaved cheddar, fried eggs, and three thin frozen sausage patties. Again, love the sunnyside up egg for a nice picture, so good, but not really in the running for a sandwich I would not be eating immediately. And so messy. The three sausages really boosted the sausage flavor and made the sandwich much more enjoyable. I had poo-pooed the thin sausage patties before but I think I can make them work by using, maybe two stacked, maybe 6/10. Three was a bit decadent, but I was experimenting.

Appearance 8/10. Pretty.

Flavor 7/10. Not dramatically better than the last one, pretty similar.

11:

I was out of biscuits so I made like a dinner roll type bread. Soft and fluffy. Unlike the recipe, I just made a giant circular bun instead of breaking it up into little balls. Then each sando got 90 degrees of the disk. I hit that bad boy with an egg wash before putting it in the oven, which in retrospect may have been a bad idea. When I toasted it then wrapped it in foil to steam while I went to work the top become QUITE hard. Maybe no egg wash? Maybe these just don't toast quite perfectly. Anyway, bread was a 4/10. Might try just untoasted? The egg was scrambled with sauteed spinach, which is fucking amazing and I love it so much right now, shaved cheddar, and two nice slices of thick cut bacon. Nothing new with these.

Appearance 7/10. Not unpretty. Very bacon forward.

Taste 6/10. Good, but the hardness of the top crust was a bit disturbing.

Sandwichspace 9

 Today's effort was a bit simpler, sauteed spinach and egg on a biscuit. I decided to forgo the meat and cheese because I had a big dinner last night and I wasn't super hungry. Nothing new with the spinach and egg, though a quick glance back at the last four sandwiches show I used the same egg mix. Man, spinach is pretty good. The biscuit is new, and while it looked absolutely gorgeous, the taste, while good, was maybe not ideal for the job. The recipe itself suggested not to use Greek yogurt, but that's all I had, so I used it. The recipe suggested Greek yogurt would make the biscuit "gummy". I wouldn't have used that term without prompting, but I felt like I could see what they meant by it. The second and more serious issue was that it is a LOT of bread. The biscuits puffed up dramatically, which is generally a good thing. But I'm not sure that it is ideal for this application. That all said, the biscuit was soft, buttery, and delicious. But I guess I'd give it a 6/10 for this project.

Appearance 8/10. Can't deny the biscuit is pretty.

Flavor 7/10 - it was good for sure, but it was like maybe 3/4 biscuit. I could have mitigated that with meat and cheese, so this example is not definitive for the biscuit option. I may also try different biscuit recipes, perhaps something less substantial would do the trick.

Biscuits!

Ran out of ciabatta for tomorrow's breakfast. Well, that's not completely true. There was one burned one that had gone completely rock solid. And there are a few frozen ones as a fallback. It's getting late. So naturally I decided to make biscuits. https://www.seriouseats.com/light-and-fluffy-biscuit-recipe

The recipe said it made 14, so I halved it. I made them bigger than it recommended. It made... 2.

Sandwichspace 8

 Today's breakfast feast was really nice, but no major new ground was broken. Scrambled with sauteed spinach, thick frozen sausage, cheddar, and ciabatta.

Just for fun I popped the top. Not too photogenic! But does give a nice idea of the crumb of the ciabatta. 

Appearance - 6/10

Flavor - 7/10. I toasted it up, then took it to work. Not bad. It steamed up a bit and wasn't too crunchy or too soggy.