Re: Mock Bacon

A Sunday Morning after fun night out is a great way to wash away those January Blues. It was a week after New Year's Eve and there was sun around. We resolved that we needed our share of vitamin D, as we work in offices during the week and our access to daylight at this time of year can therefore be limited.

However prior to our walk in the sun it was time for breakfast. At my house on a Sunday I always listen to more chilled out music as a counterbalance to the aggressive and often heavy music I listen to during the week to get me fired up for the day job. That said the album on the player this Sunday Morning was Fairport Convention's world class second album "What we did on our Holidays". It was an album I remember from long car journeys to Scotland on holiday with my parents. The album has more highlights than my massive personal collection of luminous marker pens. Top tracks include the atmospheric "Eastern Rain" the claustrophobic "Fotheringay", the haunting "She Moves Through the Fair" and the timeless "Meet on the Ledge" among many others.

We needed something quick but filling for breakfast and settled on an Omelette with a difference. The difference was that it included Quorn Mock Bacon, which actually had the same texture and addictive smoky taste as real bacon but without the unhealthy implications.

The ingredients for this recipe were as follows:

Two Beaten Eggs.
Two Slices of Mock Bacon shredded into medium-sized pieces.
A teaspoon of Dried Parsley.
A teaspoon of Dried Tarragon.

The method was as follows:

1. Fry the Mock Bacon with the Parsley and Tarragon for two minutes on a medium heat in a frying pan lined with melted and Unsalted Butter.

2. Add the Eggs and spread thinly throughout the frying pan. 

3. Fry the ingredients on a medium heat for fifteen minutes and during the cooking regularly put a spatula over the base of the frying pan to stop the ingredients from sticking to it.  

4. After the ingredients have solidified into an Omelette, serve. 

The meal turned out to be a lovely start to the day and despite having just two eggs had plenty of protein and energy as well as flavour. It's probably a meal best suited to one person with a healthy appetite or a light breakfast for two if consumed with a compliment of toast.

Gold and Pink- the weak winter sun catches half the Omelette on a plate on my dining table.