I started with Kenji’s Pork Belly recipe to knock off the Volunteer Park Cafe Breakfast Sandwich
I *started* with Kenji’s Pork Belly recipe to knock off the Volunteer Park Cafe Breakfast Sandwich
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Storytime:
The Volunteer Park Cafe has, perhaps, the best breakfast sandwich in the city of Seattle. So delicious is the bacon, egg, and cheese that my wife, who famously does not enjoy eggs, will religiously snag half of mine. It’s also, cruelly, not open Mondays or Tuesdays, and, further cruelly, is $16 with bacon.
This sounds like a lot, but the prices in Seattle at nearly every restaurant/coffee shop in the city are so grossly inflated by our housing prices that being a tourist pretty much anywhere allows Seattleites to smugly say behind teary eyes, “Oh, that’s not that bad”. Even the Dick’s Deluxe, a once staple of the late-night Seattleite bar-hop is nearly $6 a piece. Unfortunately, $16 a piece for this deliciousness is too steep unless for a special occasion (like waking up on a Saturday morning early enough to get up there) *and* I had determined that it was missing something creamy.
I finished it off with the pork belly mayonnaise Kenji makes in the above recipe and finally got what I was searching for, since the only thing the Volunteer Park cafe is missing out on is some sort of creamy, vinegary aioli to finish the whole thing off.
Anyways, many thanks Kenji for the pork belly sous-vide recipe (one of my favorites, and I’ve used variations of it a ton over the years), *and* the Volunteer Park Cafe recommendation! Love having you in Seattle.
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Storytime:
The Volunteer Park Cafe has, perhaps, the best breakfast sandwich in the city of Seattle. So delicious is the bacon, egg, and cheese that my wife, who famously does not enjoy eggs, will religiously snag half of mine. It’s also, cruelly, not open Mondays or Tuesdays, and, further cruelly, is $16 with bacon.
This sounds like a lot, but the prices in Seattle at nearly every restaurant/coffee shop in the city are so grossly inflated by our housing prices that being a tourist pretty much anywhere allows Seattleites to smugly say behind teary eyes, “Oh, that’s not that bad”. Even the Dick’s Deluxe, a once staple of the late-night Seattleite bar-hop is nearly $6 a piece. Unfortunately, $16 a piece for this deliciousness is too steep unless for a special occasion (like waking up on a Saturday morning early enough to get up there) *and* I had determined that it was missing something creamy.
Therein began the journey. I stole the [kaiser roll](https://imgur.com/a/yNDIpkn) recipe [from someone on Breadit](https://www.reddit.com/r/Breadit/comments/1hai8bh/homemade_kaiser_rolls_probably_could_have_pulled/?ref=share&ref_source=link) (many thanks u/Apprehensive_Week349), and began with the methodology of Kenji’s [pork belly](https://www.seriouseats.com/sous-vide-pork-belly-bun-pork-braise-mayonnaise-quick-pickled-cucumbers-recipe) recipe to create the “bacon” as my wife can’t currently have any and then [finished it on a pan](https://imgur.com/MOdSS2r) with – honestly – an excess of butter in it. Topped it with swiss (no American in this household) and a fluffy scrambled egg done in the same overbuttered pan.
I finished it off with the pork belly mayonnaise Kenji makes in the above recipe and finally got what I was searching for, since the only thing the Volunteer Park cafe is missing out on is some sort of creamy, vinegary aioli to finish the whole thing off.
Anyways, many thanks Kenji for the pork belly sous-vide recipe (one of my favorites, and I’ve used variations of it a ton over the years), *and* the Volunteer Park Cafe recommendation! Love having you in Seattle.