Breakfast Sandwich Porn: Mexican Inspiration

*Extremely Arnold voice* IT'S NOT A TORTA
Photo Credit: TH

It's not a torta. Okay, so let me back up a little bit. The above sandwich has chorizo and black beans (processed, but still there) on it. I don't want to call it a torta though. Too many times, I've seen people say they're taking an ethnic dish and they make too many changes to it so that it's only what they want to call it in spirit. I don't want to disrespect the national sandwich of Mexico like that. I will say the sandwich I made this past Sunday morning is inspired by a torta though. Sometimes, inspiration is all you need.

Breakfast Sandwich Porn: Meatless and Marvelous

No meat? No problem!
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Breakfast sandwiches more often than not follow a simple paradigm: meat, egg, cheese. Whether it be bacon, sausage, ham, or for the local Southeast Pennsylvania/New Jersey crowd, scrapple or pork roll, the meat is almost as essential on the bun or roll or bread as the egg is. A breakfast sandwich almost stands antithetical to the ideal that your first meal of the day should be carbs, carbs, and more carbs. The bread is the only conveyance of complex carbohydrate. Honestly, it's a blueprint for an ideal meal, and I'm hardly an advocate for a keto or Atkins diet.

Breakfast Sandwich Porn (THE RETURN): When New Jersey Met Yemen

The sandwich. Gaze upon it. (also, go birds)
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Do you see the above picture? That, my friends, is perfection in breakfast sandwich form. I don't mean to toot my own horn, but honestly, whenever I make a breakfast sandwich, something askew always makes its way into my technique. The bacon is either under or, god forbid, overcooked. I mess up the eggs. The bread gets a scorch on it. I put too much sauce, hot or otherwise, on and it becomes a gooey, slippery faux pas. But this morning, I got it completely right, and my god, the results were as delicious as the technique. Oh, I'm sorry, I haven't described what's on that sesame seed bagel yet.