Kookin' in Korea - Bacon Avocado open sandwich

I really wanted to make something with avocado and after searching recipes for a few minutes I came across this. Not only does it look absolutely amazing, but I was inspired to try it out! What you see pictured below is my attempt at creating something similar. Doesn't look much like the website, but it was still pretty tasty and worth a post. Plus, I went through the effort of taking pictures so I'm posting it. For the most part this is a pretty simple recipe and not hard to put together; except for the egg bell pepper part. I had a little anxiety going into that and as you can see I had a lot to worry about.
 

Need:

sliced bread

bacon

avocado

bell pepper

eggs

lemon, salt, parsley

  

The ingredients are pretty basic and easily located at any mart. Avocados can be a little difficult to find, but are usually at Home Plus or Emart. I know I've randomly seen them in other marts so you just have to look around. They are a little pricey here. At home they are 2 for $1 (I think, it's been a while), but here in Korea they're more like ~6,000 won for two which is between $4-$5....I KNOW EXPENSIVE RIGHT?!

First, fry up that bacon! I like mine a little crispy, but it really doesn't matter how well you cook it - just get it cookin'.

 

Use any color of pepper you would like. I only had two options at Feel Mart. Moldy red or wrinkly yellow. I went with the yellow.

Next, cut the bell pepper. I originally saw this on Pinstrosity and didn't understand why so many people had difficulty doing this. I soon found out. I'm not sure if it's because I didn't cut the bell pepper wide enough our if it's because I flipped it; either way it did not look like the picture. I also don't care for sunny-side up so flipping was a must.

Still edible.

Once the egg disaster is complete cut the avocado. For this part feel free to go crazy. I chose to have long slices, but you can also cut the avocado into chunks or make a spread. Go wild!

Toast the bread...

...and let's start piling on the ingredients. Bacon!

Avocado: after placing them on the toast, I sprinkled salt and squeezed lemon juice on top. I just love what salt and lemon does to avocado.

And now the finale...egg/bell pepper mess. I also squeezed a little more lemon juice and added a little more salt and parsley.

I suppose it wasn't too much of a disaster. It still tasted pretty good and aside from the 4 pieces of bacon and 2 slices of bread pretty healthy! If you try this at home good luck with the egg!

I found monsoon season

I mentioned in a previous post that monsoon season had yet to arrive. Don't worry I found it. It arrived almost two weeks ago and has even unpacked it's bags to stay a while. I was planning to go for a power walk tonight, but canceled due to an oncoming headache. Thank goodness I did; I would have been really upset getting my baby blue Nikes wet.

Right before vacation my 4th graders started unit 5: How much is it? Yesterday was my unofficial official day back to school and it was not only filled with a full day of class, but me actually teaching. To start class, my coteacher first reviewed the previous units where I then took over and picked up where we left off in unit 5. To start today's lesson I showed a Talk Talk Talk clip, which is a 2 minute video of a role play on the book's CDrom. The clip included two sets of friends; two young boys who wanted to buy a kite and two young girls who wanted to buy a doll. This particular part plus the students reaction absolutely cracked me up. The clip begins with the two girls hovering over a table looking at various items to purchase. One girl is gazing looking at various object when all of a sudden her eyes widen as she says, "It's so pretty!" The video then quickly jumps to a doll laying on the table. GASP from students. The gasps and comments from my students didn't stop at the initial sight of the doll, but continued as the video slowly and creepily zoomed in. The doll from the video basically looked like the doll pictured below except it had long disheveled strawberry blonde hair with bright blue crazy eyes. When I first saw the doll I didn't think much of it, but as the day went on and the fact that every, and I mean every, class either reacted by gasping and screaming "TEACHER, CHUCKY!" or all of the above I started to realize these students were on to something. Don't worry I handled the situation by telling my students it was not Chucky, but instead his sister.

This Sunday my friends Lisa and Leozanda attempted to spend the day relaxing on a boat, but instead somehow ended up on a six minute speed boat ride. Needless to say I was not ready for that situation and basically had a panic attack the entire six minute ride. A few minutes into our speed boat ride the captain quickly turned and said, "camera." took two photos and was back in his seat driving speeding away.

The behavior charts seem to be a HIT! All classes are up to par and know what is expected. For some reason the students were really impressed with my artistic abilities and even applauded me while chanting, "Bravo teacher!" This made me blush.