Daily Morning Sustenance

So there's been talk of my special breakfast bagel that I make. Some of you have tried it, others have watched. I'll show you what it is that I slap together in the morning to get me off for a morning full of hearing tests. I first take a sliced bagel and toast it to my liking. While the bagel's toasting, I'm microwaving my sausage patty. I've been using the 4 lb Tyson Original Flavored (don't know what other flavors sausage comes in) Sausage Patties that I've been getting from Costco, so yet another Costco Gem. After the bagel's done, I smear cream cheese on both the crown and heel halves. Finally, the sausage patty goes in the middle and I'm done. With having cream cheese on both halves, it can overpower the sausage a little bit but it is more filling. Putting the cream cheese on only one half does not make the sausage any less slippery either. As shown in one of Gary's blog entries, I've modified my sandwich to a v1.5. The added Spam is more of a brunch sandwich and adds a saltier flavor to it. The Spam adds friction to the sausage, but again is still slippery.

Costco Gems: Finger Ling Ling Good!

So Gary got me hooked on these delectable frozen treasures known as Ling Ling 'All Natural' Potstickers. Although you can get them at grocery stores, I am making it a Costco Gem because Costco sells a larger bag of the dumpling-encased taste explosions than what you can get at say Safeway. Those of you who know my usual diet may be shocked that the package has the word 'vegetable', but yes they're in there and I do eat it! You can boil them and put it in soup, or boil them and pan fry them for that traditional crispy look. I've come up with my own method of cooking the potstickers. I skip the boiling step and go straight to a pan fry procedure using some fried chicken oil. Fried chicken oil is oil that I'm reusing from frying chicken with. It's flavor increases the more times it's cooked with. The oil adds more chicken flavor as well as onion and garlic to the potstickers. After frying them and rotating the potstickers about 10 min, they have a nice crispy golden complexion all around. You'll see the pics show the process from frozen, to cooking(mmmm...swim my pretties), to ready to be consumed. Check out Ling Ling's website, the flash intro is quite rediculous-but I guess it can be when the food is so good. Food ads or the photos on packaging is usually showing how the food can look at its most ideal appearance. I think mine looks better.