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

[Kim Shook]

Kay – gorgeous eggs – wish I could get mine like that consistently.

Xilimmns – both the French toasts are lovely.

Bruce – question re: eating the burger/tortilla thing. Do you knife and fork it? Or do you somehow pick it up and eat it like a sandwich. Weird question, I know, but I’m trying to help add protein to Mr. Kim’s breakfasts and remove carbs, so something like that on a tortilla might be a good way to go.

Mr. Kim’s breakfast this morning:

Sliced fruit, sausage rolls and fried eggs. The eggs are another attempt at cooking Xilimmns’ eggs (cooked without turning and covering for the last bit), but I just couldn’t seem to get the hang of them. By the time the whites are set, the yolks are hard and if I pull them when the yolks are still shaky, the whites are snotty. Sigh. Will keep trying.

I went for scrambled:

These, on the other hand, turned out perfectly – set, but still nicely moist.

[C. sapidus]

Bruce – question re: eating the burger/tortilla thing. Do you knife and fork it? Or do you somehow pick it up and eat it like a sandwich. Weird question, I know, but I’m trying to help add protein to Mr. Kim’s breakfasts and remove carbs, so something like that on a tortilla might be a good way to go.

I asked myself the same question. Ended up cutting the burger in half, and wrapping each half in the tortilla. With benefit of hindsight, it would have made more sense to break up the burger and cook it in a little sauce.

[kayb]

Duck egg, a poblano and mozzarella tamale from the farmers market, a caprese and some french fries left over from last night.

[rotuts]

good tamales make a Great breakfast! Im stuck w TJ's, which are OK, not great.

[rod rock]

Duck egg, a poblano and mozzarella tamale from the farmers market, a caprese and some french fries left over from last night.

Beautiful! I love mixing mozzarella with fresh tomato. I think that would go nice with this too!

[percyn]

A lot of catching up to do.....

Pancakes at Napa Cafe

Monkey Bread from Bouchon Bakery

Tacos for Breakfast....who says I need an egg everyday? (well, actually I do).

Breakfast Pizza in SFO airport on the way back from Napa.

[Kim Shook]

Kay – love the idea of serving tamales with breakfast – I never thought of it, but they really make the perfect breakfast food.

percyn – what a perfectly cooked pancake! That is exactly how I want mine to look. And that monkey bread looks truly amazing.

Breakfast this morning was scrambled eggs, sausage, hash browns and zucchini muffins

[rotuts]

you can always tell a great taco by the double-layer corn tortillas! those look delicious as does the breakfast pizza!

[Ashen]

homemade peameal bacon , 6yr old white cheddar& toms on toasted fresh italian bread

Edited May 26, 2012 by Ashen (log)

[Kathyann]

I don't have a picture handy, but one of my favorite breakfasts is 2 scrambled eggs with, JUST before taking off the heat, 1/2 a diced avodaco mixed in. The texture is sublime, totally decadent.

[kayb]

Wow....never thought of avocado with scrambled eggs. Must try that ASAP.

[percyn]

Xilimmns - Beautiful omelet

Ashen - Great peameal bacon

Fried Egg, Spiral Ham, Biscuit

Scrambled Egg, Truffle Butter, Ham on a Pumpernickel Bagel

[SobaAddict70]

Fried farm egg

Heirloom tomato salad (heirloom tomatoes, sea salt, lemon juice, mint, black pepper)

Roasted Roseval potatoes, crimini mushrooms and cippolini onion

[andiesenji]

Here in Lancaster it is 10:30 at night and I am hankering for breakfast after looking at these photos.

I signed in to post a link to "Gogol Mogol - The Self-Cooking Egg Grenade" as they look like they would be fun to play with for a breakfast egg.

[percyn]

Nice breakfast Soba.

Andi, that Gogol Mogol egg looks awesome, have you seen it in the US?

[C. sapidus]

Percy – Your scrambled eggs always looks so appealing

Soba – Nice egg, but the sides are to die for

Tortillas and scrambled eggs with onion, garlic, salsa, and pickled jalapenos, topped with Tapatio salsa.

[Kim Shook]

Ashen – that is some truly gorgeous peameal bacon. I am dying to try that stuff.

Stash – tomato salad looks fantastic.

Mr. Kim’s breakfast on Sunday was a mushroom and Jarlsberg omelet and sausage:

Breakfast today – Mr. Kim’s:

Mine was hash browns and a Spanglish sandwich minus the cheese:

[rod rock]

Yummmm this browns and a Spanglish sandwich looks tasty!!!!!

[Ashen]

Ashen – that is some truly gorgeous peameal bacon. I am dying to try that stuff.

It is amazingly easy to make actually. It takes 5 or 6 days but most of that is brining and drying out time. actual hands on time was less than 30 mins.

I followed this recipe out of the The Art of Living According to Joe Beef.

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/printerfriendly/Peameal-Bacon-368929

[Kim Shook]

Ashen – that is some truly gorgeous peameal bacon. I am dying to try that stuff.

It is amazingly easy to make actually. It takes 5 or 6 days but most of that is brining and drying out time. actual hands on time was less than 30 mins.

I followed this recipe out of the The Art of Living According to Joe Beef.

http://www.epicuriou...al-Bacon-368929

Thanks so much, Ashen! I've bookmarked the recipe to try.

[Mr Holloway]

homemade peameal bacon , 6yr old white cheddar& toms on toasted fresh italian bread

Was lucky enough to get a sample of this.

Amazingly good

Will be trying this real soon

Thanks Dave

Shane

[SobaAddict70]

thank you all, for the kind words and compliments.

Poached wild turkey egg, with cumin-spiced potatoes, spinach and heirloom tomatoes

there really isn't a recipe for this because it's something that I tend to vary over time, depending on what's available. the basic template goes something like this:

toast black mustard seeds, crushed green cardamom pods and chiles in ghee, then add some combination of garlic, thinly sliced onions, cumin, turmeric, salt and/or ginger, to which I then add potatoes and greens. tomatoes if in season. maybe a squeeze of lemon or lime. cilantro to finish, if I have it on hand. top with a poached egg.

I had leftover heirloom tomatoes and chives, so used those for the garnish.

I'm on vacation until next Monday so there's going to be a lot of cooking at Casa Soba.

[percyn]

Soba, if you are on vacation, you should do a blog again

Country Sausage and Fried Egg on an English Muffin - from a restaurant who makes its own English Muffins - dense and crispy on the outside yet fluffy and yeasty on the inside.

Scrambled Egg & Ham Salad on a Bagel

Scrambled Egg w/Beef Rendang

Scrambled Egg w/Smoked Salmon

[Anna N]

Some amazing meals in this topic. Today something just a little different. Two farm eggs fried in duck fat with a side of broccoli with crispy red onion and crumbled blue cheese:

[kayb]

Corned buffalo brisket hash, with a duck egg. Not as good as it should have been for the effort it took to corn and cook the brisket. I'm done corning; the deli will have to do mine.

The corned brisket looked respectable enough when finally tender (48 hrs sous vide, 2 1/2 hours stovetop simmer). The homemade biscuits with bacon jam, however, were worth the slip off the gluten-free wagon.

This morning, country bacon, "Methodist" latkes (fried in bacon fat!), and a sunnyside up egg.