Breakfast! 2015

[rotuts]

are those 'crumbly' spice cookies ?  a fav of mine

[blue_dolphin]

24 minutes ago, rotuts said:

are those 'crumbly' spice cookies ?  a fav of mine

I believe these would be best classified within the Russian Tea Cake/Mexican Wedding Cookie spectrum.  There is a nice mix of finely ground (for a crumbly texture) and chopped (for crunch) nuts.  Both walnuts and almonds, I think.  Very nice with a cup of coffee!

 

Edited December 18, 2015 by blue_dolphin (log)

[sartoric]

Brekkie at our guesthouse in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

Filled pancake with minced beef, bean sprouts and herbs, plus spring rolls with noodles in soup.

 

[scubadoo97]

A bag of Yukon Gold potatoes on the counter needed to get some action.  A Spanish tortilla was in order

 

[Anna N]

 

 

Toasted ciabatta with Danish blue. 

[Okanagancook]

Pork/cabbage pot stickers!

[ElsieD]

What does the sauce consist of?  Looks good!

[Shelby]

Mimosas for breakfast on Christmas morning

 

[Steve Irby]

Merry Christmas to All! Santa passed us by again but I'm not going to take it personally. We're happy to share the season with friends, family and food. And what better way to start the day than homemade cornetti and cappucino.

 

[Okanagancook]

So good, had to do it again!  P.S.  I got a dumpling cookbook for Christmas!

 

[Ann_T]

Christmas morning.

 

Spanish Tortilla

 

Made Moe a couple of little sandwiches this morning using leftover grilled beef tenderloin from our Christmas dinner on home-made mini kaisers.  

[liuzhou]

Christmas morning.

 

 

I vaguely remember I also had some smoked salmon scrambled eggs, but that was possibly a false memory. There is certainly no remaining evidence. Hic.

Edited December 27, 2015 by liuzhou
typo (log)

[kayb]

 

Stuffed French toast topped with apple butter, with a slice of leftover Christmas ham made a fine Boxing Day brunch. With a mimosa. OK, maybe two mimosas. Two large mimosas. 

[kayb]

Pao de quiejo, Brazilian cheese bread. I used a bit too much garlic (I tend to add garlic by the theory that if the recipe calls for x, x times 1.5 is generally better). Odd mouth-feel; it starts out like a regular drop biscuit texture, and then morphs into a more chewy-gluey, but not unpleasant, texture.

 

Don't know that I'd make it often, but it was an interesting experiment.

 

[blue_dolphin]

2 hours ago, kayb said:

I tend to add garlic by the theory that if the recipe calls for x, x times 1.5 is generally better

 

I do that, too.  And then I observe that some of the cloves are a bit small so maybe 2 X the recipe would be best.  Plus maybe a little more since I really like garlic.....

Edited December 28, 2015 by blue_dolphin (log)

[blue_dolphin]

Ham bone soup with a poached egg and some crispy bacon bits.

 

 

Edited December 30, 2015 by blue_dolphin
To add link to soup recipe (log)

[naguere]

I have discovered 'Steel cut oats', Whites, from Ireland.

 

As long as you remember to soak them overnight (pinch of salt) they cook quickly.

 

I dress the dish with evaporated milk, no sugar:

 

 

[blue_dolphin]

9 minutes ago, naguere said:

I have discovered 'Steel cut oats', Whites, from Ireland.

 

As long as you remember to soak them overnight (pinch of salt) they cook quickly.

 

I dress the dish with evaporated milk, no sugar:

 

 

 

Mmmm.  I love steel cut oats and need to pick up some more.  So warming on a chilly morning.  I want to try them out in the Instant-Pot.  I noticed lots of people like to set them up in the pot at night with the timer set to have them all cooked and ready first thing in the AM.

[rotuts]

I coo0k these 'straight-up' in a fuzzy rice cooker on 'Porridge'.  its the reason its the reason got thing a zillion years ago:

 

I cook them w milk and there is no scorching.

 

I have not used theIP for this but it might work as well.

[rotuts]

" Bagel & Lox"

 

mise :

 

 

most of the stuff is from TJ's  Not the bagel which was underdone, but that was cured in the CSB. The 'Pastrami style' SAS was nice

 

the cr. cheese was Silver Goat, also from Tj's.  I add a tiny bit of milk or water and mix that up first.  SG can be crumbly and difficult to deal with

 

this fixes that.  I like SG as its a bit tart.

 

 

pretty nice for New Years Day at 6:15 am

 

Fortunately ( Un ? ) I don't have cable, so no Rose Bowl for me nor for Mister Cat.  he does not know that at the moment.

 

Go Higher Education !  Greed is Good !  

 

as Mr. Potato Heads says in Toy Story :  "  Money Money Money "

 

I won't add the clips this time

 

and a Happy New Year to all !

[Anna N]

 As the lucky recipient of some of this, breakfast was a toasted English muffin with chicken liver pate and a few Campari tomatoes sprinkled with Maldon salt. 

[Ann_T]

Lots of ham leftover over from yesterday.   

 

Fried ham and eggs with toasted baguette.

 

And Apple Kuchen with warm cream sauce. 

[blue_dolphin]

Today I enjoyed leftovers from yesterday's brunch:

Not pictured:  a piece of slightly stale panettone, resuscitated in the Cuisi-steam oven and coffee. 

Much more relaxing to scavenge this from the fridge than yesterday when I had to get up at the crack of dawn to clean the house from the NYE festivities and get brunch ready for the group!

[Duvel]

Catalan family breakfast:

Embotits (cured meat & cold cuts): clockwise Bull negra (blood sausage), Xoriço, Pernil dolç (sweet ham), Pernil salat (Iberico ham), Salsichon. In the middle Fuet (cured mini salami) and Ahle Worscht (a clay room-cured raw sausage from my hometown in Germany). My two year-old demolished the carefully arranged plate in seconds - he loves his Fuet.

Fromatge (Cheese): two goat cheeses from the Pyrenees.

Dolçes (sweet stuff): Ensaimada (snail-type dough/park fat concoction dusted with caster sugar), Canya (puff pastry filled with custard cream and sprinkled with pine nuts) and a Croissant.

Coca: sweet yeast dough rubbed with oil and sugar.

All eaten on Pa amb Tomaquet (bread rubbed with ripe tomato, olive oil and sea salt). Freshly squeezed orange juice.

Good start !

 

[Anna N]

 

 Inside out mushroom omelette.