Jul 18 2011

all apologies

Category: bacon and egg,booze,musing,randomness — pimento @ 12:32 am

Hello dear reader, I hope you’re well. How’s that issue you were having with the things, I hope it’s getting sorted out satisfactorily. I hate for unsatisfactorial results in that regard. Would be most unseemly.

Anyway, just checking in really. I’m hoping to have some actual content on here pertaining to things, but it seems lately I’ll I’ve been doing is complaining. It’s not all bad though really.. if it was it’d be on here. Mostly it’s just irritating. Soon though there will be some positivity – I’ve finally organised the piece of marble I’ve been threatening to aquire for a while. I wish to make a kitchen plinth. Details will come as further developments.. develop. I’m also pondering the new bed base thing again, but that’s rather more up in the air at the minute. I’m thinking less bohemothy than I was last time though. Just some more storage space so thing seem more sparse. Too much shit lying around.. anyone want a motorcycle helmet that’s been in a crash? Mmm, me either. Think I’ll just bin that one.

One thing about the wineboarding – you only get the cheap stuff on here. The nice stuff is drunk off site with friends [I don't entertain here.. far too crummy] and I keep neglecting to photog something while out. If you do ever take any advice from me though, get some Molly Dooker. It’s all fantastic, my highlight being the Two Left Feet. Not sure about the more expensive stuff, I’ve not tried it.. but if the entry level stuff is anything to go by, it’ll knock your socks off. Also they have some US delivery arrangement, so youse sepos out there have no excuse.

As for the ol’ B&E thing, I’ve not forgotten that, I’ve just been doing my own. Some good ol’ fiends tipped me off on a better way to do things in that regard – cook bacon, crack egg into frypan then immediately chuck a nice slab o’ bread on the egg so it cooks into it. Kinda like real easy french toast, only without all the messing around. Crangasmic. Once the egg is cooked, flip it over so the back side toasts (you can have buttered it or, as I like to do, drizzled some olive oil on there) and slick a bit of cheese, the bacon and some chilli sauce on there. That way the cheese melts a bit while it’s in the pan. Do it right, it’s a 10/10 I’d wager.. I’d have to try it with duck eggs fresh from the bum and super nice bacon to be sure, but I can’t see how it could go wrong with the right ingredients. That’s really the key in that sort of thing.

Anyway, should sign off. Hopefully I’ll write again soon, but no promises. T’would clearly be hypocritical to.

Sep 22 2010

new fuel cafe

Category: bacon and egg — pimento @ 9:34 am

It’s a new challenger! .. I mean, B&E roll. At New Fuel Cafe, Chatswood. Large, basic, better than average value. Good, freshly cooked fillings, cheap roll. Let down by the pretty average coffee. 7/10.

Sep 04 2010

bert n oni’s

Category: bacon and egg — pimento @ 11:48 am

A B&E update! It’s been a while, I’ve been being (slightly) healthier. Somewhat.. Anyway, I ventured forth into the rather dreary ‘outside’ this morn to attain some breakfast with at least a +3 to tastiness and ended up at Bertoni’s, which is my most favoured coffee place here. I ended up with the last of their bacon in my B&E panini, and having consumed it I’m glad I’m not the lady that was a few placs behind me in line. That bacon was delicious! All smokey goodness and not scads o’ fat. The constituant parts of the repast are stored in bains-marie so the eggs were a little average but they were of a quality to overcome that sufficiently. The panini itself is tasty and takes the toasting process very well to produce a top notch B&E roll. 8.5/10.

Also, the coffee is delicious.

Apr 28 2010

cheesey bun

Category: bacon and egg — pimento @ 12:20 am

B&E roll from Bacino cafe in Balmain.. premade in the display fridge, nice roll, tasty egg, bacon was a little soft and it has provelone cheese in it. Delivered toasted and warm. Tasty, and the coffee’s good too. 8.5/10.

Apr 20 2010

quick bun

Category: bacon and egg — pimento @ 2:37 pm

Just a quick B&E update.. had the B&E roll from XL (where I had that wrap). It was a little bland, a somewhat average turkish bread roll with otherwise identical ingredients. 6.5/10, if only because I didn’t really like it as a wrap.

Apr 09 2010

moar buns

Category: bacon and egg — pimento @ 11:38 am

Time for another Bacon and Egg in bread product review! They’re not the only thing I eat for breakfast.. but I ran out of toast this week. Both of these are from places in Chatswood.

Firstly is a bacon and egg bagel from.. downstairs. Bezini? Something like that. Given it’s in a bagel, it’s immediately compared to the B&E bagel from the Bagel House in Rozelle, which is excellent. Nice free range egg (I’m assusming by taste) but tends to be a little over cooked (solid but not dry yolk) and lots of tasty bacon on your choice of bagel. The bagel downstairs was a poppy seed one (I ususally get a cheese one at Bagel House) and was ok, but nowhere near as good as the BH ones. The egg tasted like a cage egg (demand free range eggs people!) but it was cooked nice with the yolk still a little runny and the bacon was fine. The accompanying coffee was also on the good side of acceptable. 6/10, would do again.

Secondly was this morning’s bacon and egg wrap (werd) from XL cafe. The egg was nicer, the bacon was good and it was wrapped in a tortilla and toasted on a cafe press. It was nice, but I think I prefer my B&E on more meaty bread products. Also acceptable coffee. 6/10, fine alternative to the bagel.

This may end up as an irregular series at this rate. It should be noted that I’m a harsh scorer, so don’t take 6/10 as discouraging. I’m not sure how someone could get 10/10.. duck eggs fresh from the arse and some sort of amazing bacon to end all bacon I guess. One day…

Feb 24 2010

average bun

Category: bacon and egg,musing — pimento @ 6:34 pm

Given that everyone seems to have a foodblog nowadays, I thought I’d give it a go. Unfortunately, the thing I decided to blog about is today’s breakfast. Oh well. It was a bacon and egg roll from the Mobil servo in Raglan, which is near Bathurst in countryside NSW. I was out there for reasons I cannot disclose. Anyway, I was on my way back and has missed breakfast at the motel due to setting the alarm for pm rather than am. Just one more reason I prefer 24 hour clocks. Anyway, after housekeeping woke me and I dropped into certain clients, I was on my way back in The Little Yaris That Could and came over all peckish like. So a servo it saw, and a B&E roll it was. I must say, the egg and bacon were tasty, fresh and cooked very nicely. The bun was merely a cheap hamburger bun, but it wasn’t sugarey like some. All in all, I was most satisfied by my repast. The coffee wasn’t bad either. 7/10.

So, I hear you pondering, what is The Little Yaris That Could? Why, it’s Ronan, my steed for the trip. Ronan is a Toyota Yaris 1.3 auto I hired from GoGet, a mob that both hire and name cars. It’s a car share thing, so it’s designed around people who sometimes need a car for an hour or two but don’t own one or occasionally need a second one. It’s very handy for me, given I fall into the first category. Unfortunately, poor Ronan isn’t terribly suited to driving through lumpy countyside at 100ish kph, what with a tiny engine and automatic gearbox. Still, we got there and back so I’m not complaining. The accelerator didn’t stick at all, for one thing…

Certain frogs can survive the experience of being frozen. These frogs make special proteins which prevent the formation of ice, so that they actually never freeze even though their body tempurature is below 0C. The water in them remains liquid: a phenomenon known as supercooling. If you disturb one of these frogs (just by touching them even), the water in them quickly freezes solid and they die.

Also you’re a bit of a bastard. Poor little froggy..