Breakfast 2019

[Ann_T]

Up early again Saturday morning so decided to bake a  Tarte au Sucre.

 

This is a buttery sweet brioche dough. Baked in a shallow pan.

 

Came out of the oven in time for me to make Moe another Cappuccino to have with the Tarte, before leaving for work. 

 

[blue_dolphin]

Kind of an @Ann_T breakfast here.  No.  Sadly, it's not her gorgeous bread 😢 but something I'd intended for the previous night's dinner.  I got hungry and decided to go with a quick 10 min pasta dish instead of waiting for the potatoes to roast but I had more patience this morning.

Mashed sweet potato with watercress and watercress butter, adapted from the Six Seasons recipe that uses rutabaga and a CSO chicken thigh

 

Edited December 2, 2019 by blue_dolphin (log)

[Ann_T]

@blue_dolphin, Moe would love your breakfast.  Actually so would I.

 

I had some shrimp in the freezer and since I don't really like shrimp I decided to use this morning

and make Moe shrimp and pasta for breakfast. 

[liuzhou]

This morning I ate the 西湖肉燕 (xī hú ròu yàn) I mentioned a few days ago in this post, but this time treated it the the way nature (or at least, the manufacturer) intended. In a light soup of chicken stock, garlic, chilli and scallion. Photographed through steam.

 

 

 

 

Edited December 3, 2019 by liuzhou
typo (log)

[Margaret Pilgrim]

Crumpets

 

 

 

 

eta Recipe

 

Edited December 3, 2019 by Margaret Pilgrim (log)

[Ann_T]

@Margaret Pilgrim, those look perfect.  Thank you for including the recipe.  I've never made crumpets.  

 

Made poached eggs for breakfast.

Moe likes his cooked this way.

And made one for myself.  I like my eggs more "well" done.

 

[blue_dolphin]

Oh my, that middle egg with the runny yolk is suitable for framing! 

 

Smashed sweet potatoes with maple and sour cream from Alison Roman's Nothing Fancy. Recipe available online here.  

I had some leftover, already roasted sweet potatoes that made it easy to cut this recipe down to a single serving so I could test it out for breakfast. It's a winner and I'll certainly make it again. I love how crispy the sweet potato skins got.
My changes: I'd already sliced my sweet potatoes in half for roasting so I didn't get the "smashed" effect. I didn't have toasted buckwheat groats but the recipe only calls for a small amount so I broke up some seedy gluten-free jalapeño crackers I found in the back of the cupboard and I think they provided the requisite crunch. Otherwise, I followed the recipe.

[Anna N]

1 hour ago, blue_dolphin said:

Smashed sweet potatoes with maple and sour cream from Alison Roman's Nothing Fancy. Recipe available online here.  

I have bookmarked the recipe believing that lime can only improve sweet potatoes. I had another recipe book marked at some point that included lime but I can no longer find that one. Let’s hope I manage to make this before I lose the recipe, too!

[blue_dolphin]

11 minutes ago, Anna N said:

I have bookmarked the recipe believing that lime can only improve sweet potatoes. I had another recipe book marked at some point that included lime but I can no longer find that one. Let’s hope I manage to make this before I lose the recipe, too!

 

I think it's well worth trying.  I followed her direction to make sure the sour cream tasted tart and salty (and peppery) and it was a good contrast to the potato.  Next time, I'll roast up some sweet potatoes whole so I can get the smashed effect.  And I will keep a closer eye on the pan after adding the maple syrup to avoid setting off the smoke detector again 🙃

[Anna N]

3 minutes ago, blue_dolphin said:

 

I think it's well worth trying.  I followed her direction to make sure the sour cream tasted tart and salty (and peppery) and it was a good contrast to the potato.  Next time, I'll roast up some sweet potatoes whole so I can get the smashed effect.  And I will keep a closer eye on the pan after adding the maple syrup to avoid setting off the smoke detector again 🙃

Thanks for the warning about the smoke detector!

 

Edited December 3, 2019 by Anna N
Because once is enough. (log)

[Ann_T]

Fried side pork with toast.

 I offered Moe the option of eggs to go with the side pork, but like me he was happy with just the toast.

[Margaret Pilgrim]

2 hours ago, Ann_T said:

Yum!   This reminds me of a favorite "sandwich" I enjoyed at a fair in France.    Listed as "Lard", it was a half baguette filled with grilled pork belly.   With a cold beer...     Oh, my!     

[Margaret Pilgrim]

Husband's "second breakfast" (he had apple pie for his first!), eggs easy-over on last night's pan roasted potatoes, hash browned.

[Ann_T]

Made Moe French toast for breakfast and instead of maple syrup he had

 

homemade Plum Syrup made and sent to me by a facebook friend.

[blue_dolphin]

French toast here, too!  I used some of the Sweet Potato Onion Bread from Deep Run Roots that I made the other day in that Food52 recipe for Crispy Salt and Pepper French Toast that we've all made before.

Served with @Suvir Saran's tomato chutney

 

[Kim Shook]

Everything looks so delicious, y'all!  Especially since the only bread in my house is bound for sausage roll filling (I can't leave because I'm waiting for a delivery) and I'm eating yogurt for breakfast.  The only recent breakfast worth of this thread is from Thanksgiving.  While we watched the parade:

Sausage gravy and biscuits, fried potatoes and onions, and Ukrops quiche that Jessica brought.  

[Anna N]

On 12/3/2019 at 1:28 PM, blue_dolphin said:

Smashed sweet potatoes with maple and sour cream from Alison Roman's Nothing Fancy. Recipe available online here.  

 

I did it. Not well apparently.  I don’t follow directions as well as I ought. I looked at your photograph. I looked at the photograph that accompanied the recipe. And finally I looked at my photograph and determined to save everyone the horror. 
 

First of all I think I over cooked the sweet potatoes although usually they take twice as long as I think they should and then I squashed them as one might squash a bug. I don’t think that was the way it was supposed to be. Nevertheless it made for a tasty lunch. I have two more sweet potatoes so I might give them a similar treatment but stick a little closer to the recipe. 

[liuzhou]

Bacon 'n Bun

 

[shain]

Soft cooked omelette with toasted cumin and sesame, garlic, light soy sauce and a hint of sesame oil. Short rice.

 

 

[Anna N]

 

Not quite an onsen duck egg on toasted sourdough. Suspect that my reheating is the culprit so I’m wondering if @nickrey can comment on how he handled the rewarming of the chilled eggs. 

[robirdstx]

 

Bacon and Egg Fried Rice

 

[blue_dolphin]

I did it again

On 12/3/2019 at 10:28 AM, blue_dolphin said:

Smashed sweet potatoes with maple and sour cream from Alison Roman's Nothing Fancy. Recipe available online here.  

This time I stuck closer to the recipe and smashed the sweet potatoes as the recipe directs.  Though mine look more smashed than the ones in the recipe photo. 

Speaking of stuck, I also avoided carbonizing the maple syrup but I did make it into sort of a sticky caramel. I only used a little of it and luckily, I had a big mug of black coffee handy to dissolve it off my teeth. 

[Ann_T]

Didn't make dinner last night so I made it for breakfast.

Grilled Pork Chop with potato gratin cooked in chicken broth, squash and Brussels sprouts.

[JoNorvelleWalker]

59 minutes ago, Ann_T said:

Didn't make dinner last night so I made it for breakfast.

Grilled Pork Chop with potato gratin cooked in chicken broth, squash and Brussels sprouts.

 

You eat your breakfast about when I serve dinner.

 

[Anna N]

Stovies reheated in the CSO (Cuisinart steam oven). An overnight rest definitely improved these.