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.