Breakfast befitting of the unshowered.

My hat is off to you  multi-childrened folk.

Especially those of you who have young ones and manage to cook dinner every night!  We do a lot of "making" not necessarily COOKING.  Like, sprinkle some rub on salmon and bake, boil some quinoa, unfreeze some peas.  Dinner usually consists of a well seasoned protein, carb, and veg.  But that's boring for a blog.

And breakfast?  A LUXURY.  For me, it's coffee COFFEE cOfFeF cofffeeeeeeee!  And half a banana and apple (the other half goes to Lucy) and maybe some cereal.  Or non-breakfast appropriate leftovers from the night before.

But a few weeks ago, I had a relaxing couple of days in Chatham at my dad's house celebrating my brother's birthday.  While the partiers were sleeping off a hangover, Nat, Lucy, my dad, and I went for a walk in the drizzly summer morning for some coffee and breakfast.  We stopped by a cafe for what my dad eats every morning for breakfast:  a toasted bagel with home made cream cheese and a fresh slice of the ripest fattest organic tomato you've ever laid eyes on.  How simple and yet indulgent it is!  So here's my every-day home version.  And it's so quick and transportable, even I can do this daily.

Breakfast bagel caprese
(See the fancy name?  That's an unemployed person's top notch communications degree at work.)

Ingredients
Toasted whole wheat mini bagel
Cream cheese
Perfectly ripe tomato
Fresh basil
Salt

Directions
You know what to do.