This is what I made for my breakfast home lab. It’s a breakfast hash with peppers onions tomatoes potatoes bacon sausage broccoli and mushrooms. While I was making this, here were so many different things to do and I thought I was gonna burn something. Luckily I didn’t though. I started making this at about 10am and finished at around 11:15am. It probably could’ve been a little faster, but I think it was pretty good for my first home lab.

Mise en place

I first started off by dicing and cutting all my ingredients. Mise en place. I diced the onions and peppers, then sliced the sausage bacon tomatoes and mushrooms, grated the potatoes and cheese. This part was petty easy to manage except when I cut the onions and it made my eyes water. After prepping everything I began cooking. I first stared off by sautéing the onions with some butter. I didn’t want them to be brown but I wanted them cooked. I added in peppers next. I knew my pan was too hot when the peppers started to brown after a few minutes. After the mushrooms were done I transferred all the veggies onto another plate so I could cook the meats.

I cooked the bacon first then added in sausage and at the same time I started frying the potatoes on a different pan. The potatoes took a little longer so I should’ve cooked them at the beginning. I knew the potatoes were done once they were crispy and golden brown in colour. Since all my prep was now finished I layered the potatoes, then veggies, then meat, then tomatoes and finally cracked an egg on top and put that into the oven. While it was cooking I started the dishes and toasted the bread. Once everything was done, I garnished it with some green onion and I served it to my parents.

Overall I think I did pretty well on this. While I was making this I could hear the sounds of sizzling veggies and smell the bacon. I made sure I tasted everything to know if it needed more seasoning or less. I could feel each vegetable size and shape and made sure they were about the same for each one. At the end I could tell that it was a successful lab by looking at it! The hardest part would have to be making sure I didn’t break the egg yolk. The way I did it was I cracked it on top the put it into the oven before putting the cheese on so it had a little time to cook a bit .