Start the day right

I would have included an image but I ate it !

Anyway - quite often you get a hankering for some good old crispy bacon on Sunday morning, we quite like to vary this by having bacon and egg fried rice.

All you need is some COLD left over rice - we cooked ours the day before and left it in the fridge over night - you need about a bowl of rice per person so it's easy to measure out when it's already cooked and cold.

We also used 8 rashers of smoked bacon and 4 eggs today - this was more than enough for 3 people.

Slice the bacon into strips or pieces to your liking I make mine about 1cm square, fry it up until it's how you want it, we like ours really crispy.

I don't use any oil to fry the bacon but let the bacon fat itself do that.

Once it's cooked, put the bacon to one side and let it drain until you need it.

Put the bacon pan back on the heat (without the bacon in it), and pour in your eggs (which you have whisked first).
Again I don't need any oil as there is normally enough bacon fat left in the pan to cook the eggs.

You need your egg to cook like an omelette i.e you want the egg to cook in one large round chunk rather than scrambled.
I let it cook most of the way though then cut into 3 or 4 sections and flip the egg over in the pan to quickly cook the other side.
once the egg is just done then transfer it to a warm plate and get the pan back on a good heat to do the rice.

I add a few spoons of olive oil or whatever oil you prefer, get the rice in once its hot and stir the rice to get it nicely fried and heated through (about 3-5 mins).

Slice the egg into strips then fairly large pieces, and once the rice is almost ready then add a few spoons of soy sauce (I used 1/2 dark and 1/2 light soy as it can have a strong salty taste and the bacon already has enough salt) - don't add too much soy sauce, it's a lot easier to add some yourself whilst eating than take it away whilst cooking.

For 3 people you find about 3 tablespoons of sauce is more than enough, stir that in the rice to colour it and give it a little flavor, add the bacon and stir up for a minute to warm through then add the egg.

Give it a good stir up to warm the egg and serve it up.

You can add peas etc to this but I'm the only one who likes peas in our house so they get left out !

I don't put any salt in as this would over power the dish, you normally find the bacon has a sharp salty taste anyway particularly if cooked in it's own fat.

Takes 10 minutes to make and in our house about 3 to eat, we find it fills us up nicely often not needing anything else to eat well into the day so good if your having an active day.

More shite

Sometimes when the weathers shitty and your having a dull day you get something that brightens the cockles of your heart.

Pulling up at some lights I noticed a car pop next to me, young lad slumped low in the seat (steering wheel higher than his head !) one hand resting on the wheel in the casual style they try to adopt.

I noticed his blacked out windows, large wing on the rear, obviously custom body kit and alloys worth a considerable amount more than his car and you could hear the exhaust popping away like popcorn in a robots belly.

The amusing bit to the situation was that I then noticed a "GT" badge stuck on the boot and actually managed a little chuckle to myself as I noticed the next two words, the first one was "Toyota" - now bear in mind I drive a Toyota, it's OK and does the job but that wasn't the real reason I laughed.

The next word was "Starlet" and before the one person who sometimes reads these rambling words actually writes back and says "Toyota made a GT Starlet" - yes I know they did, that wasn't actually what made me chuckle.

You see I know Toyota made a GT Starlet, if memory serves it was a 1.4l engine with a twin mode turbo so you could be in low mode for some shopping and popping around town then press the button and go into high mode.

In fact I quite fancy one on my Avensis so even that wasn't why I chuckled - so what was it ?

The young lad had obviously gone to a lot of trouble and expense on his N registration Starlet putting a custom body kit on etc, the bit that made me chuckle was ..... he left the 1.2 sign on (and stuck the GT letters on wonky - not to mention they were in a different font and character size to the "Starlet" letters).

So this poor young lad had spent his life savings on a car worth probably £250, put alloys on worth more than his kidneys and lots of other bits, not to mention the bonnet with large air scoop.

The final nail in the coffin was when the traffic lights changed to green, with a Roar like a thousand angry bees his exhaust fired into life, I think we was probably at 10  or 12 mph when I leisurely pulled past him then as I heard him go up into third gear to try and coax some life out of it I allowed my bumbling 2.0 Diesel to leave him so far behind his tax will run out before he catches me up again.

God bless the tinkers, had it been a true Starlet GT I think the shoe would have been on the other foot, by the time my 2.0D had got to 4000 revs I think he would have been gone. In reality although he looked the part (did I mention his suspension lowered to the lowest point possible?) it was like owning a fighter plane but finding instead of a jet engine someone has swapped it for a propeller.

The update after this though, he was in fact faster than a Kia I came across a few minutes later, bear in mind he was on a dual carriageway so had the national speed limit I clocked him at 17mph for a while and he eventually went up to 25mph before he turned off at a set of traffic lights, almost hit a car, then stopped totally trying to work out how to get over a level crossing, tried to turn into a good yard which had a large gate closed over it then I followed him past a speed sign that showed his speed as ... 19mph  !!!!!