Breakfast 2023

[blue_dolphin]

3 hours ago, C. sapidus said:

Yesterday’s farmers market bounty and breakfast

 

 

That looks amazing but I am shocked, so shocked to see you post a breakfast without chorizo.....perhaps I can't make it out....or maybe it's on the side?  🙃

[rotuts]

@Tropicalsenior 

 

so now it makes sense .  that guy from NYC

 

of all places 

 

couldn't wait for his bells to ripen , or he got GBP for more or less nothing ..

 

no  wonder I remember them from college ,  I disliked them 

 

but was hungry ,

 

eventually I just gave them up I just gave them up

[Tropicalsenior]

4 minutes ago, rotuts said:

I disliked them 

I like green bell peppers. In fact I like them very much, but having been a breakfast line cook for several years, I have cooked a few tons of OB potatoes and I don't care if I ever eat them again. I don't even like hash browns.

[Ann_T]

Moe and I shared a platter of wings done on my new grill.

 

Ordered a new gas grill and is was delivered yesterday.

Had planned to grill last night but postponed until this morning. 

No sides.

[MaryIsobel]

On 8/13/2023 at 12:40 PM, Tropicalsenior said:

I like green bell peppers. In fact I like them very much, but having been a breakfast line cook for several years, I have cooked a few tons of OB potatoes and I don't care if I ever eat them again. I don't even like hash browns.

Hashbrowns are not something I normally order in restaurants because they are never they way I like them; shredded, mostly crispy bits with a little bit of creamy potatoes here and there. I can very rarely make them the way I like in my own kitchen, so many variables. I also don't deep fry which I suspect may be the method for the ones I truly liked.

[Tropicalsenior]

55 minutes ago, MaryIsobel said:

. I can very rarely make them the way I like in my own kitchen

To me, the very best hash browns are made with russet potatoes cooked 3/4 of the way and then shredded and used within 24 hours of the time they are shredded. Then they are fried on a hot grill, or griddle, in a special butter flavored oil that seems to be only available to restaurants. The best place to order hash browns is in a very busy restaurant where they put them on the grill ahead of time and use them up as they need them. That way they have time to get crispy. If you order them in a slow place they will flop them on a super hot Grill, turn them and serve them. They don't have time to get crispy and cooked all the way through. Some frozen hash browns are okay but most are no better than the plastic bag that they come in. I don't even try to make them at home because I don't have access to russet potatoes.

[weinoo]

Spent a long weekend up in the Adirondacks, at a friend's "camp." Made spaghetti one night, so the leftovers were important.

 

 

Amatriciana frittata aka spaghetti pie.  With some additional chorizo and scallions thrown in.

Edited August 15, 2023 by weinoo (log)

[Kim Shook]

I guess most everyone knows that I was in the hospital for a week back at the end of June.  I’ve spent most of the time since recovering and trying to regain my energy and strength.  I’ve perused the posts here, but haven’t really commented or done much more than offering “likes” and giving updates in the “How are you doing” thread.  I apologize for the plethora of meals, but I’ll do a big drop off and then I’ll be all caught up (wait ‘til you see the dinner post! 😁). 

 

Country ham and cheddar omelet:

 

With and English muffin and a pear:

 

A neighbor had a huge load of plums on her tree was sharing:

We had plums with almost every breakfast and snack for a couple of weeks!

 

Biscuits (frozen), one with tomato and the other with sage sausage:

 

One morning I microwaved some frozen chicken dumplings we got from Costco:

They were great – really flavorful and lovely, tender dough. 

 

Toast – one piece with my beloved Little Scarlet strawberry preserves, the other with a fried egg, and strawberries:

 

Different morning, different dumplings.  These were soup dumplings we got at Trader Joes:

They tasted good and had a decent amount of broth, but the wrappers were unpleasantly tough. 

 

Must have been channeling my mother this morning.  Scrambled eggs and raisin toast was her regular Waffle House order: 

 

Tomatoes on toast was a childhood favorite:

 

A Lidl pain au chocolat and hard cooked eggs:

 

My favorite method of cooking a breakfast sandwich is grilling rather than using toasted bread.  I love the crisp, buttery outside and the tender, soft inside.  Ham and egg:

Just behind is lurking some mandarin orange segments.  Food Lion is stocking some of the best of these I’ve had in years.  I’m eating at least one a day.  Weird timing, but they’re good now. 

 

A Lidl croissant and strawberries:

 

 

The 14^th was Mr. Kim’s birthday.  Last week, @Smithy mentioned trying some Rhodes frozen cinnamon rolls and said they were surprisingly good.  The ones that she got were the quick kind that only needed a 40 minute baking time from frozen.  I thought that since it was a work day, these with some good bacon would make the perfect birthday breakfast.  Well, all I could find was the regular kind – that needed a few hours of thawing/rising.  BUT – the directions indicated that you could do it overnight in the refrigerator.  Yay.  So, I put them in the pan in the fridge after dinner and let them do their thing.  Which they didn’t 😡.  When I checked them at 8am, they not only hadn’t risen, but they were also still frozen.  Sigh. So, this was breakfast instead:

Eggs, produce stand tomatoes, Benton’s bacon, and toast. 

 

A few hours later, I finally pulled these out of the oven:

 

 

I mean, they were wonderful.  And I thoroughly enjoyed my alone time with them 😁.  But it would have been nice to offer the birthday boy a sweet indulgence.  Anyway – we’ve been eating them for breakfast and snacks and he took them to share with a friend today and there are still 4 left (I should have cooked only half a bag – did I mention I’ve been fuzzy headed since I got out of the hospital?).

 

 

Yesterday:

A perfect little apple (I've been finding bags of these tiny, crisp apples at Publix recently), a cream biscuit leftover from Mr. Kim's BD dinner, OM egg, and sage sausage.  

[Ann_T]

Too hot to turn on the oven yesterday so baked a small loaf of rye in the new grill.

 

We sampled the smoke chicken breast on rye last night

 

and Moe wanted it again for breakfast this morning.

[Kim Shook]

This morning:

Hummus, pita, and a mandarin orange.

[Duvel]

20 hours ago, Kim Shook said:

I apologize for the plethora of meals, but I’ll do a big drop off and then I’ll be all caught up (wait ‘til you see the dinner post! 😁). 

I will NOT apologize for wanting every single one of those breakfasts 🥰

[rotuts]

@Duvel 

 

thank you for Taking a Stand.

 

Im right behind you .

[RWood]

Bought a loaf of Trader Joe’s cinnamon sugar bread. Worked great for French toast.

[blue_dolphin]

Grilled peaches and green beans from Ottolenghi's Flavour. Excellent combo of flavors and textures. 

The grilled peaches and beans are tossed with mint, lemon juice, almonds, goat cheese and a drizzle of honey.  It's supposed to be a side but I served it over polenta. 

[Kim Shook]

This morning:

Because sometimes all you want is an egg with a runny yolk and heavily buttered toast to sop it up with.  

[Kim Shook]

Jeez, I go from not posting for weeks to following directly after my own post! 😉

 

I was in the mood for a soft egg sandwich this morning.  One egg, omelet-style with American cheese:

 

Topped with some butter-frizzled deli ham:

 

On buttered soft, white bread.  With a potato cake on the side:

[heidih]

27 minutes ago, Kim Shook said:

Topped with some butter-frizzled deli ham:

 

Interesting. I thought i smelled bacon one morning but it was my neice doing that with thin sliced deli ham. She has repeated it frequently for her breakfast sandwich.

[liuzhou]

老友粉 (lǎo yǒu fěn), Old Friend Noodles. I posted the origin story of the name here. Rice noodle signature dish of Nanning, Guangxi's capital.

 

 

 

[Kim Shook]

@heidih – I don’t always have already cooked sausage or bacon and don’t want to make it in the morning, but I almost always have deli ham.  Frying it up in a little butter produces a great breakfast meat, I find. 

 

This morning was a gingerbread waffle from the freezer:

[Senior Sea Kayaker]

Eggs with green onion, fish peppers and zucchini flowers over toasted naan with tomatoes and cherries.

 

[Deephaven]

On 8/21/2023 at 2:38 PM, Kim Shook said:

This morning:

Because sometimes all you want is an egg with a runny yolk and heavily buttered toast to sop it up with.  

Sometimes?  That is the only meal I will eat more than once every few weeks....and it could be daily.

[liuzhou]

 

小笼包 (xiǎo lóng bāo) with chilli dipping sauce.

 

[Katie Meadow]

2 hours ago, liuzhou said:

 

小笼包 (xiǎo lóng bāo) with chilli dipping sauce.

It looks like they survived delivery. We tried takeout XLB in Asheville NC when we were both sick, and they really didn't hold up well. Much better on site.

[Katie Meadow]

2 hours ago, liuzhou said:

 

小笼包 (xiǎo lóng bāo) with chilli dipping sauce.

 

It looks like they survived delivery. We tried takeout XLB in Asheville when we were both sick but they definitely lost something in travel. Better on site.

[Mike.12lu]

hiii looks yummy all of that, makes me hungry😁