Bacon and Cake

If anyone deserves a high-five and a trophy, it is the guy that decided that what the world was missing was a meal for those times when you want to sleep in, but not miss breakfast, and still work lunch in so that your whole day isn't thrown out of whack.  Thus brunch was created, and everyone everywhere saw that it was good.

The genius behind brunch is that it combines the best of everything: breakfast items, dishes that trend more towards lunches and dinners, and desserts of all kinds. And more often than not, you can tear up a solid brunch and then go into hibernation for the rest of the day.

For the recent birthday brunch my family had for my sister's birthday, my contributions were as follows:

Deviled eggs topped with homemade chorizo...

And topped with smoked salmon...

And because I felt I should represent bacon and baking: devil's food cupcakes, topped with peanut butter frosting and black forest bacon...

Maybe a little more effort could have been put into a more creative name for this meal-time of epic proportions, but when all is said and done, hats off to they guy who came up with the whole brunch idea. Your high-five and trophy are in the mail.

--Isaac.