Breakfast 2023

[liuzhou]

Hospital breakfast congee with century egg and lean pork, and a side of pickled beans.

 

 

Edited November 26, 2023 by liuzhou (log)

[Senior Sea Kayaker]

A few recent breakfasts: 

A soft boiled egg, shrimp sauteed with green onion and cilantro, tomato, arugula just enough Cholula to wake it up. Cherries with yogurt and a glass of V8.

Omelet with leftover spanakopita filling, leftover potatoes pan fried with green onions and some smoked paprika, half a toasted naan with blackberries and a glass of V8 for balance.

 

[Ann_T]

Moe's breakfast.

 

Bacon (low sodium)  with butter basted eggs.

Toasted slices of baguette.

[C. sapidus]

4 hours ago, Senior Sea Kayaker said:

Omelet with leftover spanakopita filling . . .

 

Yum, I love spanakopita

 

Green bean and roasted Poblano chile scrambled eggs with feta cheese, cumin, and a chipotle-garlic-tomato sauce.

 

[Kim Shook]

@liuzhou – So sorry that you are back in the hospital!  I hope you can go home soon and continue your back recovery.

 

Not eating breakfast much this week.  I had a ham biscuit a few days ago:

Just a whomp biscuit and one of those sliced, boneless ham chunks.  But it was pretty good just the same. 

[Senior Sea Kayaker]

Sole filet, a tad overdone egg, lettuce and arugula with Green Cholula on a toasted WW bagel. An orange and a V8 on the side.

Once I finish my second coffee I'm off in search of the season's first case of tangerines and a panettone.

 

[Kim Shook]

Gingerbread waffle from the freezer and ham:

[liuzhou]

I'm being boring and relying on my usual hospital standby for breakfast. It's the one thing they do really well. 皮蛋瘦肉粥, century egg and lean pork mince congee.

 

 

However, I am yearning for one I spotted on my outside delivery app. The description given is 

 

"Prawn Seafood Porridge

 

Heritage pork marrow bone soup is cooked for 8 hours without any additional ingredients. No chicken bouillon or monosodium glutamate. Only bone soup, rice, prawns and clams."

 

The problem is it costs 15元 (very reasonable), but the delivery service has a minimum 20元 requirement. Were I at home I'd order two and refrigerate or freeze one for later but no such option here. I'll have to wait until my sentence is served!

 

Soon.

[Senior Sea Kayaker]

French toast with cherries and breakfast sausages.

It's -6 C and sunny so a good day for a hike.

 

[Captain]

some yummy mushrooms on toast.

[rotuts]

scrambled eggs :

 

 

first albino yolk Ive ever seen.  Market Basket generic large eggs .

 

tasted exactly the same as generic pigmented 

 

like scrambled eggs .

[Kim Shook]

@rotuts - I've never seen a yolk like that before!

 

Kringles are in at TJ’s.  I got an almond one.  We ate a quarter of it and I froze the rest for future breakfasts:

 

 

Lovely layer of marzipan in this kind:

 

Yesterday was cheese toast with Swiss, American, and Gulden’s mustard:

It looks burnt in the picture, but it was perfect. 

 

Today:

ET bagel, cream cheese, and bacon. 

[Tropicalsenior]

56 minutes ago, rotuts said:

first albino yolk Ive ever seen.

I don't know if it has anything to do with the breed of chicken down here, but we do see it quite often.

[rotuts]

@Kim Shook 

 

those Kringles are  amazing   in a TJ's thread

 

I think it was mentioned that Tj's caries possible 4 , each at a different 

 

time of the year.    the pecan version is outstanding .  , as I like pecans

Edited December 2, 2023 by rotuts (log)

[Kerry Beal]

21 minutes ago, rotuts said:

@Kim Shook 

 

those Kringles are  amazing   in a TJ's thread

 

I think it was mentioned that Tj's caries possible 4 , each at a different 

 

time of the year.    the pecan version is outstanding .  , as I like pecans

Almond for me!

[gfweb]

4 hours ago, Tropicalsenior said:

I don't know if it has anything to do with the breed of chicken down here, but we do see it quite often.

 

Yolk color is from the diet of the hen. Lots of carotenoids (vit A precursor) gives a yellow yolk.  Same stuff that makes salmon and steelhead pink/red

[rotuts]

@gfweb 

 

I ageee with you

 

there are known additives to commercial egg laying hens that color the yolks .

 

the hen w the albino yolk 

 

very rare  from my life time analysis of commercial eggs 

 

must have been very very ' picky ' w her diet

 

or I think might have an allele that prevented coloring.

 

who knows ,  I do know Ill never see one again.

Edited December 2, 2023 by rotuts (log)

[Senior Sea Kayaker]

Found this old article from NPR.

I've never encountered a white yolk so it was interesting.

Help! My Egg Yolks Are Freakishly White : The Salt : NPR

 

[chromedome]

13 hours ago, gfweb said:

 

Yolk color is from the diet of the hen. Lots of carotenoids (vit A precursor) gives a yellow yolk.  Same stuff that makes salmon and steelhead pink/red

That was a shock to me when I first moved to Alberta, and the egg yolks - even from a lot of farmer's market vendors - seemed weirdly pale. "Surely," I thought, "Eggs in Alberta can't all just be old?"

 

The explanation I was given (if you're going to ask that kind of question, culinary school is a good place for it) was that chickens in Alberta are often fed on barley rather than corn, and that it results in paler yolks.

[blue_dolphin]

Very interesting @rotuts!  I've never seen such a pale yolk. I know the color is due to diet but for some reason, I thought they started out pale yellow and went from there!  

Clearly, it's conditioning, but a runny white yolk would take some time to get used to! 

Speaking of runny yolks, here's a bowl that Nigella Lawson calls out as one of her go-to quick meals:

Wilted spinach (I used arugula), dressed with a mix of harissa and olive oil, topped with soft boiled eggs, anchovies and a bit more harissa dressing

 

Edited to add that I don't always think of anchovies for breakfast but Nigella says she's heard of them referred to as the bacon of the sea!

Edited December 2, 2023 by blue_dolphin (log)

[liuzhou]

I brought my 皮蛋瘦肉粥 (pí dàn shòu ròu zhōu), century egg and pork congee, home with with me, so I ordered some. This lot came with a small bag of 涪陵榨菜 (fú líng zhà cài), Fuling pickled mustard tuber.

 

 

 

Fuling Zhacai

 

 

Edited December 5, 2023 by liuzhou (log)

[Ann_T]

I decided I would roast the chicken this morning before work.

But then I gave Moe the choice of a full chicken dinner, or a hot chicken sandwich with fries for dinner

or he could have the legs with fries and TBQ sauce for breakfast.

 

He choose breakfast.

[C. sapidus]

Leftovers from yesterday's South Asian feast

 

 

Beef karahi, carrot salad, and kachumer (onion and cucumber salad) on a tiny plate

 

 

Gingery cauliflower and potato soup

[Senior Sea Kayaker]

A few recent breakfasts:

Basted and steamed eggs with green onion, Cilantro and Nerpy's Gold Scotch Bonnet sauce.

Eggs Scrambled with green onion, cilantro, Thai basil with aged cheddar and lettuce on a toasted 'brioche bagel'.

Each with two seasonal tangerines.

 

[Ann_T]

Moe's breakfast. Picked up more of the Kirkland brand low sodium bacon

so breakfast was simple.

 

Bacon and Sunnyside Up eggs.

Toasted baguette.