fruit, nuts, and oatmeal loosely holding it together.

"Breakfast is ready."

Oh dear almost out. Man oh man, that sure went fast. It must be our new favorite thing.

"We're having usual oatmeal with additions." 

"That again?" 

"What do I look like to you ..." 

... a Roman foot soldier traipsing across Europe?

"Fine then ...

... we're having cookies instead.  We're having exotic berries imported from eastern U.S. of America with fruit imported from South America and pecans brought up from U.S. of American South ...

... and cookies prepared from peanuts also from the U.S. of American South and groats originally from Scotland. Cookies in liquid form. We're having all that instead."

"Good. Because that's entirely different from regular oatmeal with additions. And it sounds a lot better." 

thin broiled pork chops, seared vegetables

ARTS!

egg and jalapeño wrapped cornbread with bacon and cheese, more bacon, potato and tomato

This is what we're having at the chef's table when everyone's gone home and everything's cleaned up.

It's amazing. The sweetness and heat and corn are impressively well balanced. You should put this right here on the menu.

No way, José .

Why not?

It'd never sell.

The little potato is already cooked when it's fried in the fat from the bacon. 

Moist cornbread with bacon and cheese is reheated briefly. 

Pan shaken.

Crumbled and warmed moist cornbread with bacon and cheese is spread across the center of the egg.

Mexican style omelet is rolled out of the pan.

five alarm Philly

Taste of Philly. Their online menu changed. Used to be Green Chile Philly was the hottest thing on thier menu and satisfying. Then they changed to milder chiles and they became less satisfying. Now they're offering Five Alarm Philly to compensate for their hotness shortcoming. They're fine. They're using marinated jalapeños so they impart a bright vinegar note. The marinated peppers change the pH and that can be tasted.

bacon, jalapeño and cheese cornbread from popcorn.

Frozen.

Mum cut bacon to fit them in the pan. It works a lot better for moving them around to cook all their edges, but when I was very young I wanted the bacon to be long like a wand. Her cutting the entire package in half all at once ruined the whole thing. 

If only I could ever have long bacon. The whole slice uncut. I'd have an edible bacon wand. I'd wave it all around and nibble the end of it. And they come that way. And she ruins them. She holds all that power over the magical bacon wands in her hands and she just breaks them. It's like breaking spaghetti in half to make it manageable. You don't do that. It robs the spaghetti magic. So too cutting bacon in half ruins the magic of bacon wands. 

Dry ingredients include popcorn milled to powder as before using the coffee mill, and oatmeal replacing half of the wheat flour. So, three grains right there. 

Wet ingredients include sour cream because I ran out of buttermilk. It also includes generous milk anticipating the grains absorbing twice their bulk in liquid, and a lot of butter.

Gone just like that. These were proclaimed awesome.