The best bacon sandwich

Bacon. The best right? How about sandwiches? Also pretty damn good. Well, let me tell you a story...

One day, Mr Real Bacon met Ms Homemade Sourdough. They pretty much hit it off instantly. The love affair was quick and Mr Real Bacon decided to propose. The pair eloped, because, you know, they're naughty. As a result, they could only have a few of their closest friends at the wedding. The best man was Mr FigandNaartjie Jam and the bridesmaids were Ms Organic Feta and Ms Wild Rocket. And of course, Pastor Butter was there to oversee the procedings. The two lived happily ever after.

Well, kind of. Not really. This giant came along and ate everyone. It was tragic(ally good). The end.

Ok, very lame, I know, but seriously, one of the best sandwiches I have ever eaten, let alone made myself. Here's how to do it:

You'll need (per person):

4 slices of Richard Bosman's Real Bacon (here)
1 or 2 thick slices of good sourdough bread
Wild rocket
1/4 of a feta round
Jam (I used fig and naartjie, it was delicious. Try to go for a more relish-style-jam than a jam-jam, if you know what I mean. Apricot, strawberry, raspberry etc... won't cut it.)
Butter


Griddled sourdough: heat a griddle pan until it is just starting to smoke. Butter the slice of bread very thinly on BOTH sides. Griddle the bread for about 4-5 minutes per side, until you see wonderful griddle marks. Don't blacken your bread please. Duh. Remove the toast from the pan.

Bacon: 

ok so pay attention because I'm going to tell you HOW TO COOK CRISPY BACON. So, usually, when you try and make crispy bacon, it shrivells up and looks a bit like you've tried to dehydrate your bacon. Not cool. Here's how to do it properly: place your bacon slices in a COLD non-stick pan. No oil or butter. Do not overlap the slices. Place the pan over a medium-low heat. Get a pot which will fit inside your pan and will cover all of your bacon slices. Fill it 3/4 of the way up with water. Place the pot ON TOP of the bacon slices, inside the pan. This weighs down the bacon and prevents it from shrivelling up. Cook the bacon for about 3 minutes per side in this way, so that and excess water from the bacon evaporates and the bacon fat starts to melt. Increase the heat to high and cook the bacon until crispy, about another 4 minutes per side. Keep the bacon weighed down at all times with the pot. Et voilá, you have perfect crispy bacon.








To serve: put a thin layer of jam on your toast. Stack on the bacon, top with the crumbled feta and garnish with lots of rocket.


And there you have it. The best bacon sandwich.




dK




*Side note: I had a Whale Tale Ale from Boston Breweries to accompany this fine meal. It was a good match, but I would have to say that I think the Versus Goliath from Brewers & Union would be phenomenal with this. Give it a shot.

Power Playlist

Here's a mishmash playlist to power you through the rest of the week. Maybe it'll help you power through gym, or work, or studying, or school. Or just in general, good listening.


So it's made up of drum 'n bass- and electronic-style music, which I dig trawling the internet to find, seeing as I always hear so much of it in the clubs and music festivals in and around The Mother City, but I never actually know what its called. Hence hours and hours sifting through music in the interweb to find it. Sooooooo worth it.

'POWER PLAYLIST'

Electroindian Mix - PsymanSays


No problem - Chase & Status


Save the world (Knife Party remix) - Swedish House Mafia


Discord (The Chaotic Good Remix) - Midnight Conspiracy


Flashing Lights (Feat. Sub Focus and Takura) - Chase & Status


Everyday - Netsky


Electron  - Nero


Lotus Flower (SBTRKT remix) - Radiohead


Pirate Bay - Netsky


ET(Noisia remix) - Katy Perry



If you can't find the songs on youtube (if you have Google Chrome, download a plugin called ClipConverter - it allows you to download directly from youtube, for free... shhhh, if you won't tell, I won't), then take a look around Soundcloud.

dK

It's been a long time

So it's been a long time since I last posted. I must admit, I kind of lost the enthusiasm and drive, but I feel renewed and re-invigorated. And so much has happened! There have been political fights, baby showers, valedictories, bread journeys, craft beer festivals, coffee festivals, sabbatical-type weekends, music concerts, exams, more exams, and even a rugby world cup.

Oh well, exams are starting again (last round though), so in and around I should get my lazy butt onto the couch and post a bit. I think I need it. And I secretly hope you do to.

In the meantime, check out  OH, SHADOW GIRL. Its a blog by my oldest friend, and it is AWESOME.

Cheers for now,

dK

A chain letter you WANT to read

I received this "chain letter" today, and it's absolutely brilliant. Have a GOOD laugh!

dK

Hello, my name is Billy and I suffer from guilt for not
forwarding 50 billion fucking chain letters sent to me by
people who actually believe, if you send them on, a poor
six-year-old girl in Scotland with a breast on her forehead
will be able to raise enough money to have it removed before
her redneck parents sell her to a travelling freak show..

And, do you honestly believe that Bill Gates is going to
give $1000 to you, and everyone to whom you send 'his'
email?

How stupid are we?

Ooooh, looky here! If I scroll down this page and make a
wish, I'll get laid by a super model I just happen to run
into the next day!

What a bunch of utter bullshit.

Maybe the evil chain letter leprechauns will come into my
house and sodomise me in my sleep for not continuing a chain
letter that was started by St Peter in 5AD and brought to
this country by midget pilgrim stowaways on the Endeavour.

Fuck 'em!!

If you're going to forward something, at least send me
something mildly amusing.

I've seen all the 'send this to 10 of your closest friends,
and this poor, wretched excuse for a human being will
somehow receive a nickel from some omniscient being'
forwards about 90 times. I don't fucking care.

Show a little intelligence and think about what you're
actually contributing to by sending out these forwards.
Chances are, it's our own unpopularity.

The point being?

If you get some chain letter that's threatening to leave you
shagless or luckless for the rest of your life, delete it.

If it's funny, send it on.

Don't piss people off by making them feel guilty about a
leper in Botswana with no teeth who has been tied to the
arse of a dead elephant for 27 years and whose only
salvation is the 5 cents per letter he'll receive if you
forward this email.

Now forward this to everyone you know. Otherwise, tomorrow
morning your underwear will turn carnivorous and will
consume your genitals.

Have a nice day.

Billy Connolly

PS Send me 15 bucks and then fuck off.

 

Incredible videos

Here are some fantastic videos to brighten your day. All are courtesy of 2oceansvibe. Enjoy :)

Flash Mob wedding proposal in Sandton City

EAT

LEARN

MOVE

dK

It's the weeeeekennnnnd, baby!

So this weekend is a biggie, entertainment wise. Just thought I'd give you a headsup as to what awesome things are happening:

• The ILoveCoffee Festival. Coffee, as I've mentioned before, is the elixir of life. This weekend, ILoveCoffee has organised a first-of-its-kind-in-Cape-Town (as far as I'm aware) coffee festival. The festival will exhibit some of the best coffees available in the world, with all the aritsan roasters and baristas on hand to chat to you about the coffees, their origins, roasting methods and tasting profiles. It looks extremely exciting, and the details are as follows:

Where? : The Old Biscuit Mill, Woodstock

When? : Saturday morning, from 9am until 2pm

How much? :  Free! Seriously.

Web? : here

• Dont Party TV Launch. Already you should be getting excited. How can I put this event into words to get you stoked? Hmmm... Its going to be FUCKING INSANE. Pretty much. With the line up consisting ONLY of the BEST electro/drum'nbass/dubstep/grime artists in South Africa (possibly even the world), its impossible to be disappointed. Niskerone, Haezer, P.H. Fat, Bruce Willis??, Kennedy, Liver... need I say more? By the way, I suggest you get there early, as the queues are going to be long and the tickets are going to sell out 'so fast they gonna make fast tickets look, well, not fast." (Quote (ashamedly) adapted from The Longest Yard). All of this mindblowing music will be going down as follows:

Where? : The Assembly, Harrington Street

When? : Friday night, doors open at 9pm

How much? : R70 at the door (pre-sold tickets are already sold out)

Web? : Assembly event

            Facebook event

• Van Coke Kartel & Zebra and Giraffe. What? Another two of South Afrika's best music groups performing this weekend? Yep, thats right. These awesome Afrikaans rockers will be performing with Zebra and Giraffe this weekend; a night not to be missed. Lets hit it up!

Where? : The Assembly, Harrington Street

When? : Saturday night, doors open at 8pm

How much? : R60 pre-sale (at webtickets)

                      R70 at the door

Web? Assembly event

Have a great weekend.

dK

Errr... I'm back

So, I'm back. The reason I haven't posted in well over 4 weeks is complicated. Well, not really. I spilled water on my laptop. That was stupid. Anyway, I tried to save it by drying it off then sticking it in rice (yes, the rice that you eat) for two days. I had read somewhere that when electronic things - more commonly cellphones - have water spilled on them, you should dismantle them and put them in rice. The rice is said to have mystical powers of revival*. It worked! I switched the laptop on and all my data was still intact, but the power adapter was broken. No problem! That should be cheaply replaceable, should it not? Turns out, not. I sent the machine in to Digicape to have it assessed. It turned out it was going to cost more to fix the laptop than to buy a new one. Anyway, long story short, insurance paid for a new laptop (bonus for me) which is slightly better than the old one. The guys at Digicape were also very helpful, and that was nice to deal with people who are competent in what they do, for a change.

Now, I have to have a little bit of a rant to say just how great Apple products are. The laptop I have is a 13-inch Macbook Pro. Everything about it screams sex. The keyboard, the graphics, the design, the functionality, the simplicity, the EVERYTHING. Just as an example: seeing that my old hard-drive was still intact and contained some precious data, I wanted to get it onto my new computer. No prob, they said, and they housed it in a nice external HDD cover. Switch on laptop, run configuration program. Do I want to transfer information from and old computer? Why yes, yes I do. Plug in, leave 2 hours, come back. I expected some of the programs to have to be re-installed, the data to be re-organised, the personal settings to be reset, the calendar to be painstakingly reworked, etc. I look at my laptop and see everything EXACTLY AS IT HAD BEEN on my old Macbook Pro. I could not believe it. I nearly wanted to cry at the beauty of it all. Oh, thank you Apple technicians for designing such a wonderful, majestic, intelligent piece of technology. Everything was exactly as it had been, making this probably the simplest, most stress-free, effortless task I could have imagined when it comes to transferring everything from one computer to another. Wow. It was incredible. I am in awe of how great Apple products are.

If you have any other kind of computer, throw it in the bin and get yourself an Apple computer. It will change your life, for reals.

dK

*Clearly, you know nothing about rice. It has no such mystical powers. What it does do though, is absorb water (basic knowledge of rice people). Caught you :)