Breakfast! The most important meal of the day (2012)

[C. sapidus]

Percyn: Thanks!

Clean-out-the-fridge fried rice: Leftover smoked baby back ribs, deboned and chopped; edamame, corn, and tomato salad; chopped onion, red curry paste, fish sauce, and an egg. Basmati rice grains stay separate, so they are much easier to work with compared to our usual jasmine rice.

[C. sapidus]

BBQ rib omelet with feta cheese, thyme, and cayenne, fried in garlic butter.

[percyn]

BBQ omelet sounds great...will have to try it soon.

[TheCulinaryLibrary]

Recently: ricotta hotcakes with warmed blueberries and lemon curd, recipe can be found on my blog, theculinarylibrary.com

[percyn]

Those ricotta hotcakes look awesome!

Homemade Corned Beef Hash and Fried Egg

Is this breakfast or dinner?

[C. sapidus]

Is this breakfast or dinner?

Yes!

Eggs scrambled with a sauce of chipotle, roasted tomato, fried garlic, and oregano, blended and fried. Served with corn tortillas, red onion, and cilantro.

[Kim Shook]

Bruce – gorgeous fried rice! I’d eat that any time of the day or night! As a matter of fact, that would make the perfect midnight snack.

CulinaryLibrary – love the combination of lemon curd and blueberries on the pancakes and your blog is fantastic! I’ve bookmarked it to go back to.

percyn – the corned beef looks beautiful, but are there potatoes BESIDE the hash or in it? And the waffle? Is that chicken? Drool.

Breakfast this morning:

Neese’s sausage and CI’s yeast raised waffles with fig syrup. This was the first time that I’d tried the waffle recipe. These are probably the best waffles I’ve ever made – perfectly crisp outside and tender inside. Really easy, too, since you make the batter 12-24 hours in advance and bake them at breakfast time. The fig syrup was the sugar syrup left over from my efforts at candying figs. It was so good, I couldn’t throw it away.

[percyn]

Kim,

Those waffles sound and look awesome.

And Yes, that is fried chicken and waffles upthread and the potatoes next to the corned beef hash are homefries from a local breakfast place.

[Franci]

Hi guys, I don't generally have time for a nice breakfast, mine are generally boring , yours are great! Wish you could deliver

This week, incredible for me, I managed to make two breakfasts a bit more involved for my standards.

Egg en cocotte with some sweet potatoes and salmon

And a poached egg in artichoke bottom with a veal glaze/cream/grainy mustard sauce

Edited September 18, 2012 by Franci (log)

[Kim Shook]

Franci - I'm in awe! You may not make breakfast often, but you rock it when you do!

[menuinprogress]

Huevos Cubanos:

Eggs with black bean, plantains and bacon.

We had this dish years ago in Veracruz, and finally got around to recreating it at home.

Yolk reveal shot:

[judiu]

Franci, to me, that looks like a soft boiled egg out of the shell. What's your technique, if I may ask? TIA!

[Ashen]

poached eggs on a bacon, cothbag summer sausage ,potato hash. green scotch bonnet sauce and roasted red peppers on top.

A the obligatory broken eggyolk shot

[rod rock]

Wonderful huevos cubanos , it looks delicious!

[robirdstx]

Hard-cooked egg, salt, black pepper

[C. sapidus]

Huevos Cubanos, eggs and hash, and good old hard-boiled eggs – nice!

Danish blue cheese and ham omelet - one for younger son, and one for me

[Kim Shook]

Breakfast yesterday was courtesy of my mother:

Smoked salmon and leek quiche and bacon. It was delicious. She uses a recipe similar to the CI one that I use – really fluffy and light and custardy.

[C. sapidus]

Nice quiche, Kim

Fried plantains, leftover arroz blanco, red chile guacamole

[robirdstx]

Breakfast today:

Sliced Hard-Cooked Egg, Lightly Salted Avocado, Laughing Cow Creamy Swiss, and Wasa Sesame Flatbread

I cooked the egg using Alton Brown's steaming method - the yolk was very moist and creamy. The laughing cow cheese worked as a nice sub for the cream cheese I would normally have selected.

[pquinene]

Fried rice with Spam is very popular on Guam for breakfast. Um, yes, islanders love the canned "meat" since the military introduced it to the island.

Spam Fried Rice

Edited October 5, 2012 by pquinene (log)

[Kim Shook]

Bruce – those plantains are absolutely perfectly cooked – that picture could be in a magazine!

Paula – oddly enough, here in the land where Spam was born, I’ve never tasted it! But that fried rice looks like something that I’d like!

Breakfast yesterday:

Fried egg (James’ method), ET bagel w/ cream cheese and bacon. I had lots of excellent bacon grease, so the James’ method of basting the egg with the hot fat worked wonderfully well!

[C. sapidus]

Thank you, Kim! Egg fried in bacon grease sounds really good.

Omelet with Beemster cheese and sautéed mushrooms, shallots, and garlic. Potato bread toast.

[Kim Shook]

Bruce – one of my life’s (many) guilty pleasures. Funny how when I was growing up bacon grease was a bit déclassé and countrified and now it’s considered liquid gold! Mr. Kim would love that omelet – the mushrooms are beautiful.

Mr. Kim’s breakfast on Sunday:

Spicy eggs w/ peach salsa and japs, Benton’s bacon

[rod rock]

Mr. Kim's breakfast looks delicious! Nice one.

[robirdstx]

All these lovely fried eggs called to me, so this morning I had an over easy egg

on leftovers from last night's dinner, stacked pork enchiladas and refried beans.

Edited October 10, 2012 by robirdstx (log)