So in case you haven't caught on...I LOVE FOOD.
I like to make it, bake it, tweak it, eat it, share it, photograph it. You name it.
Yesterday was IHOP day. Today is homemade, country style, do-it-yourself IHOP day. Made with real butter and real bacon. The whole house smells like maple. YUM! My sweetie is a growing boy and needs a good sized portion. I enjoy a little less than whats pictured here, but only slightly.
We've got biscuits (from a can, 'cuz...homemade, from scratch biscuits...ain't nobody got time fa dat!).
We've got hickory smoked, maple flavored bacon. Cooked a little crisp, still very tender.
We've got some fluffy scrambled eggs, cooked in a little of that bacon grease.
We've got grits. REAL southern style grits. None of this adding milk and sugar shenanigans like the west coasters around here. This is lightly salted with a whole heck of a lot real butter.
Some may think, so what. It's just breakfast. Oh no. This is 2 o'clock in the afternoon breakfast. This is the most important meal of the day. This is love. This is tiny tweaks in the same old, same old until it is just right. This is attention to detail, even in a traditional meal. Yeah, I could slap it together and toss it towards the table, but I have an annoying nag of a personality that is getting more and more bothersome. I like to enjoy things. Anything thing. Big things, little things, every day things, special or rare things. It really gets in the way of my laziness. But, it's worth the effort. It's worth the getting up early, the moving around the kitchen. It's even worth the clean up.
Laziness and sleeping in are awesome. Actually enjoying what I use to fuel my body takes work, but it's soooo worth it.
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