Lox and Fried Egg Breakfast

I just thought of something delicious and amazing that I am going to try for a pre-physical therapy egg date on Wednesday morning.

I went to Barnes & Noble on Sunday to use my $20 gift card that I won in the ACM Current Technology Contest last week. My submission was a great site called Wordle. Use it, love it. I used the card to pick up Douglas Hofstadter's I Am A Strange Loop and then, since I had $3 left, I decided to pick up Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49. Since it was so close, and Jesse needed grapefruit soda, we went to Trader Joe's afterwards! While there I picked up some lox because A. I'm Jewish and cannot resist and B. I fucking love lox.

I've had some just as a snack so far, and was thinking of what else I could do with it! Since I now have the physical therapy, Jess and I can do egg dates on some mornings again! I got to thinking and remembered a time when I fried a piece of lox with an egg over it. It was pretty good, but the lox really was not well incorporated with the egg at all. Then I remembered that a cool thing about eggs is that you can separate the yolk from the whites! BANG! It was like a shot of inspiration flew into my brain, seeping into my neural tissue like a really fine sauce being ladled onto spaghetti. First it drips down through the layers and then, as it thins out a little, it begins to stick to the pasta.

Now I have a plan, and here it is! To make it easier to follow, it will be in list form:

1. Get out an egg and a little piece of lox, somewhere between 1x1" and 2x2". You certainly don't need to measure, but that seems like a good size for something like this.
   
2. Separate the one egg into 2 small bowls/containers. You can use a fancy egg separating device, or use the one mother nature gave us a.k.a. its shell. I'm not going to attempt to describe this so I'll assume that if you can get to my blog you can google for "separating eggs"
   
3. Heat up some butter on medium in your really awesome cast iron skillet (either of them really, you pick!) or a non-stick pan. Or any frying pan.
   
4. When the butter has melted and is on the way to becoming brown put the egg white down in the pan.
5. Immediately place the piece of lox on top of this, followed by the yolk. Try not to break it!
6. Hopefully it will not slip off and you will have a tasty little tower cooking in your skillet.
7. Cover it if you want. I do this so that things cook faster and, seemingly, more evenly. This will trap the heat inside so it is more efficient!
8. After a smidgen less than a minute flip it so that the yolk side can cook on the pan.
9. After less time than before, it is done!
10. Put it on a plate and eat it!

This is really just an idea right now, and I'll try to remember to take pictures when I do this tomorrow morning. If not that just means I'll have to purchase more eggs and lox and do it again, oh no!