Breaded Chicken Fried Rice Breakfast Bowl

Got out all my ingredients and breaded the chicken with panko and rice flour. Panko has a better crunch, in my opinion, than any other bread crumb and I do prefer the silkier texture of the rice flour over regular flour. [Thanx to my job at Bravo!]

I actually pounded the chicken out to be a little thinner so that it would cook quicker, and a little more evenly.


Dried the chicken up some with a paper towel to remove excess moisture. Subsequently, I covered it in panko, salt, pepper, and rice flour.

Got my oil warmed up and slid the chicken right in there.

Flipped it on over after cooking for about 3 minutes. I do the same on the other side of the chicken then take it out of the pan and start preparing some veggies.

Onions and mushrooms to be exact.

Sauteed the veggies and cut the chicken breast up to toss back in.

Added bacon to the mixture and put them all back into the skillet for more frying.

Then I added some brown rice leftover in the house.

Cook it all up for a while so the chicken is nice and cooked through.

Topped it off with an overeasy egg and pomegranate craisins. The egg was nice for creating a nice sauce for the dish and the craisins added a sweet juicy bite to the dish. It turned into a very delicious breakfast and I couldn’t even believe I at all of it.
What fun items do you find yourself creating in the morning?

Breakfast Rueben

A spin on the regular Rueben Sammich.

Start your oilin engines!

Usin some Havarti Cheese, onion, mushrooms, and rye bread in this pic.

All sliced!

Getting all nice and sauteed…

Drop in them eggs…

Toast that rye bread…

I did not have any Thousand Island dressing so I decided to make a little mixture of my own. Used a sweet onion dressing [almost like a honey mustard], and then I added ketchup. I also added a little cocktail sauce for a little kick.

Spread the spread and line up the cheese on ze toasted bread…now for the stacking…

BAM! Sauerkraut, romaine, corned beef, and all the other mixtures are stacked up onto the samwich.

Sliced up an orange and banana to go with it…

Little closeup shot…


I really need to start cooking for someone else to get some feedback on the taste of the stuff. It tasted pretty good to me, but who knows how it tastes for other people. Hopefully y’all can be inspired to make a dish along the lines. I actually made this for breakfast a few days ago. I got another blog to come up here on the fried chicken bowl I made this morning…in the meantime, hope y’all are having a good one!

Bfast: Rice bowl

Start your engines! Or some oil, however you would like to reference it.


Little picture montage of ingredients, butter, onions, brown rice, spinach, bacon, garlic, egg. Also included on the list are olive oil, walnuts (I’m obsessed), parmesan cheese, salt, and pepper.

Sautee them ernions. At this point I should have added the walnuts, but those were a split-second addition I threw in.

Drop in the bacon with a dash of minced garlic.

Top it off with spinach, a little more olive oil, parmesan, salt, and pepper.

Funny thing about spinach is it seems like there’s so much of it, then it wilts down to a quarter of the volume.

Get yir brown rice ready. Go ahead and set the spinach mixture aside (or on top of the rice) to start cookin the egg.

Overeasy egg y’all! They cook quickly and once they harden, you can’t really go back. Gotta keep a close eye on it. The best part is when the egg is runny and the yolk  becomes a binder for the entire dish.

Final product. Had some Challah bread and a big ‘ol cup of coffee that I’m still drinking after finishing the meal.

Little closer up.
Cooking can be so cathartic. It turns idle time into a reward. These motions have become second nature to me so I find myself thinking the entire time I cook. It’s a good time for reflection. Maybe replaying the evening before, repeating something in your head that someone said to you the day before, or just time to think about your horoscope.

Do you find yourself thinking while cooking? What do you usually think about?

Breakfast burrito experiment: Walnuts

Start yirr sauteein engines ladies and gents!

Get out all them ingredients you gon’ need. Today, I used tomaters, ernions, garlics, bacons, and walnuts in my egg mixture.

Drop in them onions. It helps when the oil is hot when you drop in that which you want to fry. A good way to tell is the immediate sizzling the food will make when it hits the oil. Listen closely to the sizzle as well, you don’t want to immediately burn the outside of the food you’re dropping in the oil. It’s gotta cook all the way through.

Dropped in the walnuts and the garlic next…

Then dropped in the bacon…

Then to the eggs…I ended up adding one more egg in the process, using 3 eggs total. I knew it would be a long day.

Let the egg cake get to a firmer consistency then added the tomatoes and flipped it. I forgot to take a picture because I was setting up the wrap. Oopsy poopsy!
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Once flipped, reduce the heat so you can prepare the rest of the feast while the egg heats all the way through. It is very easy to overcook the mixture and have a burnt egg breakfast burrito.

Same set up as yesterday, yummy fresh spinach and white American cheese in a lavash wrap.

Slide the egg mixture on for wrapping purposes and roll right up. I added some parmesan cheese for good measure.

For the final product, I cut up half a banana, made a pile of craisins, walnuts, and raisins, and grabbed a nice knot of Challah bread to dip into my coffee. Turned into a very filling breakfast for a long day ahead.
The idea of adding walnuts into the mix stemmed from, 1) loving walnuts 2) asian cuisine. I often enjoy dishes with nuts in them, e.g., cashew chicken, kung pao chicken, and walnut shrimp. Nuts seem to add a sort of meaty texture to the mix and a nice depth. The walnuts were a nice addition to this burrito. I really like walnuts so that my be why I was partial, but I encourage you all to break some standards when throwin down in the kitchen.

Anyone have any ideas they would like to see? I’m always willing to play Chef Guinea Pig =D

Belated Breakfast Burrito

Start heating some olive oil in a pan.

I pulled out bacon, onions, and garlic for the egg mixture.

I started sauteeing the onions first and then I threw the bacon and the garlic in as well.

Add the eggs…

Scrambled the eggs some and then I added sliced tomatoes at the last second…this pic is after I flipped the egg patty.

Lavash bread with white american cheese.

Add some fresh spinach…

Drop in the egg mixture and wrap it all ups$

Served it up with some bagel thins spread with craisin walnut cream cheese and banana slices. Had a nice cup of coffee to accompany the meal since I can’t go a morning without my cup (or two).

I chose to keep the spinach fresh in the wrap because the buttery crunch of the spinach adds much more texture. Also, the spinach helps take on some of the juices of the egg mixture keeping the wrap from being too moist.

So what did y’all have for breakfast?
Fashion sometime soon =D

Missed this.