BLT Sandwich with a Fried Egg

I’ve recently been learning how to make sourdough bread. It’s quite tricky and I’ve made several mistakes which led to a few dense funky loaves that gave me stomach aches. It was really discouraging at first. However a few weeks ago, I managed to make my first decent loaf, which did not give me a stomach ache! My moderate success definitely helped lift my bread making spirits and I’m excited to learn more and develop this skill!

This whole bread making situation got me thinking about the struggles of being a beginner. It doesn’t matter what it is you are starting (it could be cooking, weight training, eating healthy, or learning guitar) being a beginner can be frustrating and discouraging at times. Why is this? It’s because you don’t know a ton about the topic yet so you are gonna make more mistakes.

But here’s the beauty of it; every mistake you make, can teach you a lesson. It is this high frequency of mistakes made, when you are first learning something that leads to a rapid increase in skill. By this I don’t mean you can master something in no time, because that is far from the truth. What I mean is that you won’t be in that somewhat discouraging phase of making tons of mistakes for too long.

To stick through the beginning phase, it helps to remember why you are trying to learn this skill, having a strong motive will help you stay disciplined and dedicated. Lets take learning to cook for example. A common motive for this is to eat healthier. The deeper and more personal you take your motive, the better. An example of a deep and personal motive would be:

I want to learn to cook so that I can eat healthier. I want to eat healthier so that I can properly fuel my body so that I can give my best performance when I dance. I also want to take care of my body so that I can still be active and vibrant when I’m older and not suffering from disease, cancer, or other health problems.

It is important that whatever skill you are trying to develop, holds value to you personally. If you remind yourself of your reasoning it can be a lot easier to stick with your skill when you are tempted to give up. Maybe the first few times you cooked dinner you screwed up the meal and you’re beginning to think cooking is not for you. When you’re just about to go back to eating take out and frozen dinners, you remember your goal to eat healthier and your reason to stick with it and then you decide to try again and again and again and pretty soon you know how to throw a decent meal together and with practice you become a pretty good cook.

While this might seem like kind of a goofy story. The purpose of it is to inspire you not to give up. Just remember its ok to make mistakes that’s how you learn. With dedication and persistence, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish.

Now for todays recipe I have a BLT Sandwich with a fried egg. I made mine with the homemade sourdough bread I made. So you can see my bread in the picture above. Anyways this is a super delicious and simple recipe that I have been making for a while now. Its perfect for when you don’t have a lot of time or energy and just want to quickly make something yummy and healthy. Anyways I hope you enjoy the recipe and I hope you found some motivation to push through the beginning stages and learn a new skill!

With love from my kitchen to yours,

Kayley

BLT Sandwich with a Fried Egg

AuthorKayley O'Brien

Nutrition:

(1, 2)

Notes:

• Nutrition is based on the products I use. I provide a nutrition table so that you can quickly check to see if your food products match or so that you can easily calculate the nutrition for any changes you want to make to the recipe. I think this helps if you have very specific diet goals and/or fitness and/or health goals. I also wanted you to be able to see exactly where I get the numbers for my nutrition facts so that you can see that they are reliable and learn more about macro breakdowns of food.

• Also I only calculate 1/2 tsp of butter even though the recipe calls for 1 tsp. I do this to account for the butter that gets left on the pan.

• For this recipe the macros can very greatly depending on what kind of bread you use.

Works Cited

1. Nutritionix. Gladson. https://www.nutritionix.com/ Accessed 21 January 2019.

2. “Nutrition Label of Eggs.”Vital Farms, Austin, Tx, 2019.