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This is the bagel order from the shop on my block. They know me and my order at this point, but the price went up by like $2 in the last 4 months and I decided to buy the ingredients myself to see what I can make happen…

Ingredients

• Whole wheat everything bagel, halved
• Lox spread cream cheese
• Tomato, sliced
• White onion, thinly sliced

Instructions, but more like, uh, my process

Pop the bagel in the toaster for a while. Salt and pepper the tomatoes and let them rest. Toss the onion in a bowl of ice water, it’ll take some of the edge off. Once the bagel is toasted, let it rest otherwise the cream cheese will just run and get thinner.

Some things (dinosaur kale) are not always better than other things (curly kale). But if you give them enough time and consideration (serious massage with a bit of lemon juice and olive oil, and also roasted sweet potatoes, roasted chickpeas, halved mozzarella balls, halved cherry tomatoes, chopped cranberries, chopped cashews, and a drizzle of dressing made of honey, olive oil, chopped clove of garlic, lemon juice), they are not at all bad, and often pretty good.

Ingredients:

Meat

• Chicken breasts
• Chipotles in adobo sauce
• Yogurt (Greek or home made)

Tacos

• Blue corn taco tortillas
• Cilantro
• Limes
• Onion
• Avocado
• Cheese

1. Slice chicken breasts in half and toss in large sandwich bags or tupperware
2. Chop 4 chipotle peppers and toss in bag
3. Add two dollops of yogurt into bag and shake it to mix and coat the chicken breasts
4. Let marinate overnight
5. Heat up a cast iron skillet with some olive oil
6. Turn oven to 375
7. Add each halved chicken breast at a time to seat on cast iron skillet
8. Once all chicken has been seared, put them all in the pan and in the oven for around 10 minutes
9. Take chicken out and let cool
10. Meanwhile, chop up limes, cilantro and onion and mix. This topping is nice after it sits in the tangy lime juice and cilantro can spread
11. Warm up tortillas on a pan, add chopped chicken, add cheese
12. Fold over and flip to toast both sides
13. Place tacos on plate and top with lime, cilantro and onion mixture and sliced avocado

Notes:

here’s how you make breakfast tomatoes:

ingredients:

• small, sweet tomatoes. can be those that are off the vine, cherry, grape, campari, whichever. but you should be able to hold only, like, two comfortably in one hand, and they should be sweet
• olive oil
• salt
• pepper
• white wine vinegar

instructions:

• first wash the tomatoes in a medium size bowl
• use a knife to cut them in half or quarters depending on the size of the tomatoes and your preference
• after they’re rinsed and cut, a pinch of salt over the tomatoes in that same bowl. toss them with a spoon or your hands, idc it’s your house, and set the bowl aside
• now. you gotta do something. something you’ve been putting off but only takes like 15 minutes. like feeding your cat, or calling your mom to tell her about the breakfast tomatoes you’re making, or sending a picture of something you took yesterday to your aunt you no longer talk to as much, or opening that internet bill and seeing the same shit that’s on your e-bill but deciding that you can comfortably throw away that piece of mail because you know there’s nothing terribly important in it because you’ve opened it, putting away the various bottles of chili limon that are on various surfaces around the house, taking a damp rag and wiping every individual blind in the living windows. gross huh. yeah. maybe just go for a walk around the block but take the other way around or walk on the other sidewalk this time
• after doing something, check on your tomato bowl. there’s probably a buncha water in there that’s been drawn out by the salt. if there isn’t, congratulations on having the most banger tomatoes. regardless, toss out the excess water (or if you wanna be a purist about this, put the tomatoes in a new, dry bowl entirely)
• add, like, a buncha olive oil, some cracked pepper, and two-ish splashes of white wine vinegar. you can figure out the ratios. what’s important is making sure you’re coating all the tomatoes in this fun italian liquid bath
• eat a tomato piece. add salt if it’s a lil too bland, more vinegar if it’s not tangy enough. you know the drill
• after you’re satisfied with the taste, add the tomatoes to a plate with the rest of your breakfast. maybe two fried eggs with a barely set yolk, a generous scoop of rice, half an avocado, and a pink glass of cool water.

there you go, breakfast tomatoes.