Breakfast 2023

[MaryIsobel]

3 hours ago, weinoo said:

 

"Lox," (actually, smoked Scottish salmon) eggs and scallions. 

 

And a real bagel, toasted and buttered.

Having lived in the Pacific Northwest most of my life and never having visited New York and just passed through Montreal, I'm certain that I have never had a real bagel. Going to have to remedy that one of these days.

[Senior Sea Kayaker]

I don't want to stray too far off breakfast as the topic but I'll just say Montreal style and New York style are both very good and I'd be happy to be able to obtain either here (only grocery store bagel shaped bread). Preference is simply where you're from.

 

 

[MaryIsobel]

1 hour ago, Senior Sea Kayaker said:

I don't want to stray too far off breakfast as the topic but I'll just say Montreal style and New York style are both very good and I'd be happy to be able to obtain either here (only grocery store bagel shaped bread). Preference is simply where you're from.

 

 

Where I live, the best bagels that I've found so far are at Costco. And by best, I only mean that they have a little more going on than the "white bread shaped into bagels" that are the norm around here.

[Paul Bacino]

egg/ Blk Bean/ jalapeno /Spanish rice/avo / siracha / cilantro --good breakfast start today

 

[Kim Shook]

@Kerala - for some reason the only Wensleydale that I can find (Richmond VA US) is the kind with fruit, which I love - on a cracker.  I'd love to find it without the fruit so that I could incorporate it into other  things like eggs.

 

I'm pretty happy with the bagels we are able to get here, but the European deli that I've recently discovered supposedly gets bagels from NY every day.  I'm looking forward to trying those.  My thinking is that no matter how good they are, they're still day old bagels.  And are day old NYC bagels going to be better than fresh that morning local bagels?  We'll see.  We did a three local bagel place tasting last year. Maybe to a winner of that head to head with the NYC ones.  

 

Yesterday:

OM eggs with some with some bits and pieces of leftover country ham and some toast to pile it on. 

 

This morning:

Lidl sausage links, IP eggs, and toast with the lovely and delicious Little Scarlet preserves. 

[blue_dolphin]

White Bean-Stuffed Poblano with Green Chile & Cherry Tomato Pickle and Mustard Seed & Curry Leaf Carrot Salad all from Indian-ish with toasted pita wedges

[Ann_T]

We had Migas for breakfast. Cut up and fried leftover corn tortillas.

Added to the scrambled eggs along with some shredded cheese and served top

with homemade salsa and black beans that Matt cooked this morning.

[C. sapidus]

6 hours ago, blue_dolphin said:

White Bean-Stuffed Poblano with Green Chile & Cherry Tomato Pickle and Mustard Seed & Curry Leaf Carrot Salad all from Indian-ish with toasted pita wedges

 

That looks lovely, and I love curry leaves. Sadly, I have not been able to find them for weeks.

 

Maybe I need to grow a curry leaf plant indoors, along with a replacement kaffir lime.

[blue_dolphin]

2 hours ago, C. sapidus said:

 

That looks lovely, and I love curry leaves. Sadly, I have not been able to find them for weeks.

 

Maybe I need to grow a curry leaf plant indoors, along with a replacement kaffir lime.

Thanks!  That carrot salad is a favorite of mine. Keeps its crunch nicely in the fridge for a few days. 
 

I was thinking the same about the curry leaf and kaffir lime. I've got a couple of reliable sources for curry leaves but not so much for the lime.  Both should grow OK outside here. 

[C. sapidus]

13 minutes ago, blue_dolphin said:

Thanks!  That carrot salad is a favorite of mine. Keeps its crunch nicely in the fridge for a few days. 
 

I was thinking the same about the curry leaf and kaffir lime. I've got a couple of reliable sources for curry leaves but not so much for the lime.  Both should grow OK outside here. 

 

Definitely indoor plants around here. Kaffir limes are pretty easy in pots - I kept one going for years.

 

Mrs. C has turned the sunroom into a craft room so it looks like I will need to find a sunny spot for plants in my home office. 🙄

[rotuts]

 

this looks lonely.

 

single ( last ) slice LS SPAM  , crispy on each side

 

bread from TJ's , which they get every morning at 5 AM  

 

( but not Monday )  very good crumb , and it keeps 

 

you,  of course, slice it yourself 

 

and that's it.

 

it was delicious 

 

the hot fat got soaked up by the bread .

 

next time Ill use a slice of the bread to soak up any fat

 

from the Fond-Less too !

 

in NE its important to be careful w fat down the sink

 

saves me using hot water and detergent first 

 

before washing   the FLess

 

not sure this is the Fork in the Road

 

best taken 

 

but it was delicious  

 

 

Edited March 9, 2023 by rotuts (log)

[C. sapidus]

Leftover beet salad for breakfast, made by Mrs. C yesterday. She said it included mango, pistachios, feta, raisins, and cilantro, perhaps other ingredients. Quite delicious.

 

Edited March 9, 2023 by C. sapidus (log)

[Ann_T]

 

Moe was happy with toasted baguette with butter and honey for breakfast.

[blue_dolphin]

2 minutes ago, Ann_T said:

Moe was happy with toasted baguette with butter and honey for breakfast.

 

Who wouldn't be happy with that baguette??? I sure would be!

[heidih]

1 hour ago, C. sapidus said:

Leftover beet salad for breakfast, made by Mrs. C yesterday. She said it included mango, pistachios, feta, raisins, and cilantro, perhaps other ingredients. Quite delicious.

 

Sounds delicious and thanks for giving us some of the ingredients - hard to tell with aggressive beet color masking the other interesting bits. I like my leftover beet salad room temp so I'll even give it a few seconds in MW to take the chill off. Beets just went on the shopping list.

[Katie Meadow]

23 minutes ago, Ann_T said:

 

Moe was happy with toasted baguette with butter and honey for breakfast.

(Alert to @Kim Shook😞 Toast Porn! Looks delicious. Does Moe like salted butter or sweet with his honey? Here's a novel twist: instead of honey try sorghum, which you will no doubt have to order. When we were in Chattanooga we went to a restaurant that served a basket of breads and biscuits with a little ramekin of sorghum butter on the side. Just sorghum whipped into the butter. Now I drizzle sorghum on my buttered toast or biscuits if I want a touch of sweet instead of my usual marmalade.

Edited March 9, 2023 by Katie Meadow (log)

[Anna N]

 

 

Two 6 1/2 minute eggs. Feeding myself for the next few days will be challenging. Dental issues mean I will be eating food which can be gummed to death! 😂

[blue_dolphin]

Fennel gratin, cherry tomatoes, sautéed beet greens, toast

Recipes for the fennel gratin and quick sautéed greens with garlic, lemon confit and chili flakes from Taste & Technique

[Kim Shook]

@Katie Meadow – You’ve definitely got my number😄!  @Ann_T’s bread is always lovely, but toasted?  I’m gone.

 

@Anna N – I’m so sorry circumstances are forcing you to eat soft foods, But I must say that your eggs look absolutely perfect – not like invalid food at all!

 

This morning:

A grilled ham, egg, and cheese sandwich, an apple, and because I was having a little chocolate craving, a little German lebkuchen.  I can’t remember if I’ve said this before, but the little BBQ place in my grandparents town was also a café – serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner (small town).  My grandfather would get up at some ungodly hour to deal with the cows and my grandmother would fix him a full breakfast including scratch biscuits.  By the time she went to work (she was a full time office manager) and I got up, he was ready for a little something: a couple of sausage biscuits, an egg sandwich, etc.  If I got up by 9 or 10, he’d take me somewhere for breakfast.  Sometimes it was the beer joint (a secret from my Presbyterian grandmother) which was awful – 7-11 level sausage biscuits that had been wrapped in wax paper all morning.  The only eggs in the place were in brine in a giant jar on the bar!  On the really good days, it was the BBQ/café.  Everything made to order – local sausage, country ham.  I grew up with toasted breakfast sandwiches – meaning eggs, pork, and cheese piled between two pieces of buttered toast.  Good, but brittle.  The breakfast sandwiches at this place were different and it took me until adulthood to figure out why.  Instead of being on toast, they were grilled – like a grilled cheese with buttered bread and the fillings already inside the sandwich.  It was revelatory and I’ve mostly done my breakfast sandwiches that way ever since my dense brain figured it out! 

[Katie Meadow]

13 hours ago, Anna N said:

 

 

Two 6 1/2 minute eggs. Feeding myself for the next few days will be challenging. Dental issues mean I will be eating food which can be gummed to death! 😂

Dental issues are the worst. After a 73 year hiatus I've rediscovered cream of wheat cereal. Really good.  I must have been two the last time I ate it. Slathered with butter, half n half and, what else....sorghum, my new love. Another good soft treat is home made applesauce cooked with something alcoholic and eaten warm with a glop of butter and anything else that melts and is within arm's reach. In other words sorghum. Feel better soon.

[Anna N]

 

Faced with the challenge of feeding myself for a few days without any ability to masticate and without an opportunity to stock some suitable soft foods, I decided to challenge myself.  Well-seasoned rice (ginger, garlic, chicken broth, soy sauce) topped with scrambled eggs, a drizzle of sesame oil and some chilli crisp. Went down very well.

[lemniscate]

46 minutes ago, Anna N said:

 

Faced with the challenge of feeding myself for a few days without any ability to masticate and without an opportunity to stock some suitable soft foods, I decided to challenge myself.  Well-seasoned rice (ginger, garlic, chicken broth, soy sauce) topped with scrambled eggs, a drizzle of sesame oil and some chilli crisp. Went down very well.

Eggs and rice are one of my all time favorites.  My equal soft food fave is eggs over leftover moist stuffing/dressing from holidays.  I just made some dressing in the last couple days and put leftover some mushroom gravy over it.   

[blue_dolphin]

1 hour ago, Anna N said:

Well-seasoned rice (ginger, garlic, chicken broth, soy sauce) topped with scrambled eggs, a drizzle of sesame oil and some chilli crisp.

 

Excellent combination of textures and flavors, with or without those limitations!

 

Another breakfast cobbled together from a couple of veg recipes in Taste & Technique

 

Long-Cooked Green Beans (with @Suvir Saran's tomato chutney in lieu of the Savory Tomato Confiture in the book), Oven-Glazed Shallots, boiled egg, toast, cherry tomatoes.

 

 

Edited March 10, 2023 by blue_dolphin
to add my breakfast (log)

[C. sapidus]

 

Chorizo and egg tacos

[Anna N]

Kimchi and cheese omelette with chili crisp. Very tasty.