Breakfast Hash Blast
Strange week that made me... hungry...
The rest of the week be damned, when a bolt of inspiration strikes you gotta go for it. While vacuuming the call of the potato in the back of a drawer was heard. It was the most excited I've been in days. Cooking is one of my favourite activities for going off script. Improvisation at it's best leads to a flow state.
I wanted to make a hash! I've only done this like once before too! Spent a little time researching if I gotta boil these little cubed potatoes a smidge before frying - that was not the move. Off I went, in between scrubbing a toilet and vacuuming the floor, a phone call from my love gave me the window to connect and chop.
This jar of tallow has now moved apartments with me. You guys ever move and bring a bunch of sauces that your roommate left behind? It's that same vibe but I purchased this myself. I think it was used for latkas, but I was gonna get weird with it today. Experiment a little whats the harm. Well the expiration date is a little off but those are just recommendations no? ;^)
The tallow beat the sight, smell, and taste tests. It's just fat right? Never had just a spoonful of it before, but the bony quality is there. Faintly beefy and very neutral. Warmed up the skillet and shaved off a couple spoonfuls, got the onions and potatoes dancing. My old roommate Michal would fry potatoes a LOT and I saw him toss them in mayo, so I figured what the heck lets get decadent with it. I prepared a mayo and habanero bbq sauce concoction, a dollop of each, while I took in the smell. Fat and onion on a pan, holy moly.
Forgot to mention I fried up some spam earlier too! Got those nice and browned and crispy, trying to keep everything uniform shape. I love when a uniform shape is like less than a half inch squared. So fun. The early bites of the hash were getting there and nice and tender, so went full throttle with it. Spam returns, while tomatoes were a new entrant to the pan. A dash of cayenne, chili flakes and chili powder stop by to say hello as well.
Once the seasonings hit the bottom of the pan and some of those sweet scents were released, I knew this was gonna be sinful. I needed to commit a little sin this weekend. Grated some parm onto the hash, and cracked in two eggs to fry and top with. Wish I had some stringier milkier cheese but all I was carrying was parm.
Damn I think this was definitely for two people but fuck it, sinful weekend right? I popped off and ate the whole bowl. The habanero bbq mayo thing was maybe too much. I think just the habanero sauce would've done the job I was looking for, it's smokiness is welcome but the mayo was a rich addition. But hey, like Chief Keef once said, "bitch I'm finally rich".