Like all good northern New Jerseyan, my go-to egg sandwich order is a Taylor, egg, and cheese. Taylor is New Jersey slang for Taylor ham, which in flip is New Jersey slang for pork roll, which is the biggest breakfast meat of all time. Southern New Jerseyans seek advice from it solely as pork roll, which is a debate for one more day, as a result of the operative phrase in all of that is: order.

I order TECs at Jewish delis and bodegas and markets. However you’d by no means discover me making one at dwelling.

It’s not that cooking Taylor ham is tough. Like bacon strips or sausage patties, it requires little greater than tossing it in a sizzling skillet and standing watch. But it surely’s the standing watch that turns into an issue at 7:31 a.m. on a Wednesday after I’m sprinting round my home attempting to brush my enamel, discover my headphones, pour my tea into its journey mug, and make an egg sandwich—all on the similar time.

That’s when this recipe is useful. In the event you can name it a recipe.

Most egg sandwiches hinge on 4 elements: bread, eggs, meat, and cheese. This sandwich follows swimsuit with the primary two, however goes off-road from there—by ditching the meat and cheese, and calling in Calabrian chiles and mayonnaise.

Why? Let’s take them one after the other:

Final 12 months, Giada Di Laurentiis known as crushed Calabrian chiles a pantry must-have—and ever since, I’ve by no means been with no jar. Made with minced chiles, olive oil, and wink of vinegar, it’s a chunky, spreadable paste that makes me consider sizzling sauce earlier than it will get blended easy.

Now, concerning the mayonnaise. Whereas extra more likely to be discovered on a lunch sandwich than a breakfast one, it’s no stranger to eggs. Simply consider egg salad and deviled eggs. And the truth that mayonnaise is made with eggs! I particularly love the best way this ingredient provides richness and creaminess, virtually like melty cheese.

While you smear the 2 collectively, they meld right into a hurried particular person’s spicy mayo, marbled, swirled, and really messy.

I wrap the entire thing in foil whereas nonetheless heat, throw it in my backpack, and sprint for the door. However wait—the place are these headphones?

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Emma is a author and recipe developer at Meals52. Earlier than this, she labored lots of odd jobs, all on the similar time. Suppose: stir-frying noodles “on the fly,” baking dozens of pastries at three a.m., reviewing eating places, and writing tales about the whole lot from find out how to use leftover mashed potatoes to the historical past of pies in North Carolina. Now, she lives in Maplewood, New Jersey together with her husband and their cat, Butter.