I don't know about you, but I remember waking up to the smell of bacon frying from the cast iron skillet back in the day when bacon was not only considered ok but a treasured Sunday morning delight. Well, it's been awhile since those days but the good feeling that comes with smelling that smell stays with me yet. This morning I happened accidentally upon creating a bit of the bacon smell and taste in an unexpected way, and I didn't have to break the bank during these tough financial times:

 

Slept in late on a Saturday morning

Nothing in the cupboards, opened the fridge

Mostly bare except for a carton of eggs and half a red onion

Heated up the skillet, poured in the olive oil

Chopped and added a half-cup of onion

Fried until crispy brown, hinging on blackened

Added a farm fresh egg, beaten

Stirred with onion until softly cooked, flipped once to finish

Toasted my favorite bread lightly (rye)

Enjoyed 'almost' flavored bacon and egg late morning sandwich with coffee and soy

 

For those of you in the Minneapolis - Saint Paul area you could always head over to The Egg and I to indulge, or to a latin breakfast favorite of mine, Victor's 1959 Cafe.

 

Yes  pay day was yesterday, grocery shopping on the to do list today!

Ciao

It was a difficult choice. Should I categorize this under 'News and Politics' or 'Health and Wellness' ...or add a totally new category - What?

 

Bill Gates' Cascade Investment - Company Profile on LinkedIn shows a new hire. While this is not so unusual, what baffles me completely is his penchant to build up his personal portfolio with dirty burning, CO2 spewing, mercury poisoning, acid raining contaminating coal. What? Yes.

 

Cascade not only wanted and got bigger stakes in Otter Tail Power, up to 20% from 9%, FERC Order Issued Oct 2- Cascade is also a holding company through its indirect ownership interests in Optim Energy, LLC, which includes the 305 MW lignite-fired power plant Twin Oaks 160 miles northwest of Houston., and more. You can check out Bill Gates' mini-coal-empire building at PNM Resources Inc.

 

Does Bill have a thing for coal? It would seem so, which is strange considering he claims to care about the health and well being of humanity. In his own words, which I would hear on a radio commercial as I would drive past the Big Stone I Power Plant in South Dakota on my way home to Minnesota '...all lives have equal value—...every person deserves the chance to live a healthy and productive life" -- yeah right Bill. What about those of us who live next to the coal plants you support and continue to build? Isn't there a saying, "To those who have been given much, much is expected?"