The Stockhausen – Frühstück Easy and Delicious

Good day to all of our savagely loyal readers!  I am happy to report that you will no longer need to frantically click that refresh button on the How We Eat blog, which is what I imagine all three of you have been doing for the past 22 months.  You needn’t wait another moment for the next fantastic installment!  It has arrived!!!

This episode of How We Eat was inspired by my perpetually-absent co-blogger Paul D. Stockhausen’s latest visit.  Paul spent a week up here recording a country music masterpiece, and while he was here, he ate all of my eggs.  In the process, I learned a great new take on the traditional eggie sandwich.  I call it “The Stockhausen”!  It’s simple, spicy and delicious.  It will forever change that way we eat breakfast.

Preparation:

OK, while we prepare all of the other ingredients, let’s start frying that egg!  If you’re lucky like me, you have a friend or coworker that provides you with fresh eggs.  This is great for lots of reasons, but let’s start with the fact that you get a multi-sized set of eggs!  Large eggs are great for omelets or frittatas and the like, but not ideal for an egg sandwich.  For myself, I like to use a small type of bread, such as an English muffin (and I would recommend the same for you).  Anyway, I digress.  You want to fry a small egg (or whatever sized egg you have) until the yolks are less than runny (somewhere between medium and well is ideal).  If the egg isn’t small, you can correct the size of the egg with the edge of your spatula as it begins to cook.  Ideally, the shape of the finished egg would be exactly the same as the bread.

The other ingredients you’ll need are peanut butter (salt, no sugar), Sriracha (or equivalent) hot sauce, cilantro and scallions.  While the egg is being fried, you should be toasting your bread.  Once the bread pops up (not too crispy, I hope), apply a layer of peanut butter to both sides.  Top each side with Sriracha.  Next, chop up some scallions and cilantro and apply to one side of the peanut butter toast. By now, the egg should be all fried up.  Put the egg on the green side, like so:

Put it all together, and you have The Stockhausen, a simple, transcendent, Thai-inspired breakfast sensation!  Let me leave you, my lovingly devoted blog subscribers, with an old-fashioned ProTip:  When you buy your cilantro and scallions, chop them up immediately and put them in Ziplock bags with a moistened paper towel.  This will keep them fresh for a very long time!  ProTip!

Yours truly,
Sav