Breakfast Weather

If the weather in north Texas were regularly like it was yesterday, I could learn to enjoy it here. It started very crisp (a bit colder than I like) in the mid-30s, but by noon it was around 65 and the high was about 71 degrees. That is nice weather. It's rare here...we have 20-30 days like that each year and you can never plan on it. But when I was grilling outside last night, I was reminded about yet another thing that "bugs" me about this area. Huge flying insects that look like enormous mosquitoes with very long legs congregate in big groups near the doors...and when the door opens, they fly inside. They don't seem to bite, but they annoy and they really get my wife on edge. Maybe a screened-in porch would be the thing...

This morning, the temperatures are a bit more to my liking and more appropriate for the beginning of the day. It's about 51 degrees outside right now...crisp enough to call for a light jacket, but warm enough so I won't feel uncomfortable if I go for a walk.

The cool weather makes breakfast sound like just the thing. Today, after my wife gets up, we're going to have a nice breakfast. I'll throw all the rules to the wind and cook eggs and bacon (the real stuff...we've been eating turkey bacon when we've had any breakfast meat at all). I got up early and prepared tomatoes, which I'll cook under the broiler. All we have in the house are Roma tomatoes...so, I cut them in half, cut off both ends so they will sit flat in a baking dish, and put them in a buttered baking dish, large side up. Then, a dab of butter, some bread crumbs jazzed up with leaf oregano and leaf marjoram, a bit of salt, and topped with grated parmesan cheese. On mine, I topped the tomatoes with thin slice of fresh jalapeño. I'll broil them just long enough for the cheese to melt and the bread crumbs to begin to brown. We talked yesterday about bacon and eggs...no mention of the tomatoes, so I hope she likes them.