the monday perfect
1/2 c sweet potato fries
1/2 c tofu in irregular shapes
handful chopped sun dried tomatoes
2 cloves of garlic, chopped
1 homegrown jalapeno pepper, chopped
pan fry everything together. be sure you didn’t wash the pan from the night before so you get a nice blend of leftover seasonings so your work is easier. yes, that omelet your girlfriend made had plenty of seasoning and you surely don’t need to add anything. so just fry it to your heart’s content, aromatics first of course, flipping it occasionally on medium-high heat. turn it down if it’s smokin’.
while you wait, find half of a homegrown tomato in the fridge and get excited because you get cut up your tomato with that brand new japanese knife. fuck! it’s so sharp, it’s like just barely putting any weight into it drives right through the core of even the most stubborn vegetable. so cut up that half of the tomato into quarters, then quarter those quarters.
then go outside to your basil plants (you do have basil, don’t you?), rip off a few leaves, cut those up after you give ‘em a little spritz and mix them in with the tomato. then put a dash of salt on that little concoction.
by now the fries and tofu and such should be pretty well cooked and solid, so make a circle in the middle of the pan and drop an egg into it.
let the egg settle for a while and then drop a halved english muffin on top of the egg. flip this mess over so that the egg cooks into the english muffin.
fold the muffin after it’s done cooking, smile a lot, pace for a second to give everything time to settle (especially your mind, whew!) and then grab a bowl and plop that egg sandwich into it. open it up and put the tomato-basil mix right there in the middle, then take about half of the fries and tofu.
add ketchup to taste. as you can tell i have a problem with ketchup.
then eat luxuriously, as though you were enjoying the very motion of the calm day.
