Last night I cooked for the first time since my surgery. I made my Italian Soup. Yummy, and I didn’t realized how much I’ve missed cooking. Alyson has been doing a great job, though.

I was just reading Nobody’s Fool (a great cooking log – check it out) and a reader had sent in a recipe for an eggs-on-bread kind of thing, and it reminded me of something my mom and my uncle used to make:

Fry up some good bacon. Put a slice of sourdough bread on a broiler rack, add some thick slices of extra sharp New York cheddar, and put the bacon over it. Broil it while you fry an egg (I like mine over medium) and then put the egg on top of the bread/cheese/bacon mess. Simple, but absolutely delicious.

Oh, something else I used to make for myself: Put a piece of good sourdough bread (or your favorite bread) on the boiler rack. Add a slice of tomato, sliced boiled egg, and a slice of good cheese. Broil till the cheese melts. Yummy.