Breakfast 2024

[Senior Sea Kayaker]

A few recent breakfasts.

Eggs cooked over a mix of onion, mushrooms and hot and sweet peppers and finished with chives, cilantro and Thai basil with tomatoes and toasted baguette.

Egg, chorizo, aged cheddar and herb sandwich with tomatoes (from a dwindling supply of slowly ripening tomatoes brought in at the end of the season) and mix of orange and apple.

 

Edited November 13 by Senior Sea Kayaker (log)

[Neely]

It was warm this morning 22’ C at 8.30am so we had breakfast outside. Grilled cheese on toast over tomatoes. 

[C. sapidus]

Fried coconut rice with sausage and leftover ginger chicken

 

[weinoo]

 

Pain perdu.  Challah from Party Bus Bakeshop.

[Senior Sea Kayaker]

Soft scrambled herbed eggs over gravlax and toasted WW English muffins.

With tomatoes and a mix of last summer's blueberries and blackberries.

 

[Shel_B]

English "Pizza" Muffins: Yesterday I made a pasta sauce using whole Calabrian peppers packed in olive oil. I used a pepper and some of the oil, along with fresh and roasted garlic, to make the sauce which I used on the English muffins this morning. The muffins were toasted, sauced, and grated Reggiano was generously applied over the concoction and then browned in the countertop oven. Beverage of choice was Nepalese Himalayan Black tea.

 

Edited November 17 by Shel_B (log)

[Smithy]

Cheese toasties with a smear of mayo and mustard, and a topping of (over-)roasted tomatoes. The tomatoes and accompanying onions were so badly overdone that I couldn't bring myself to share them on the Preservation topic, but when added to warm cheese they're usable. 🙂

 

[Okanagancook]

No picture but we have taken to having dim sum dumplings on NFL Sundays.  Purchased at our local “international “ store except for the pot stickers which we make….have never found ones better than what we make.

Cooked on perforated oiled parchment paper in the CSO on Supersteam at 350 for 18 minutes.  Served with soy-vinegar-chili in oil dipping sauce.  A bowl of canned mandarin oranges to finish.  Delicious.  The purchased dumplings are quite costly due to the labour-intensive nature of making them. But, i think it is worth it as they are well made with generous stuffing.  Plus we like supporting local merchants.

[Ann_T]

 

For breakfast, Moe just wanted a few slices of cold roast chicken and a few slices of toasted baguette.

I baked four baguettes last night from dough that had been in the fridge for 4 days.

And I had roasted a couple of chickens on Sunday.

They were a good price so I bought two specifically to go into the stock pot after they were roasted.

Broth is in the fridge ready for a pot of soup. I saved one of the whole breasts for sandwiches.

[Senior Sea Kayaker]

Day 15 of waking up to a rainy day. Egg, mushroom, cheddar and herb with a squirt of sriracha on a WW English muffin with a cup of soup.

 

 

[Shel_B]

I'd run out of one of my favorite breakfast hot sauces, and it arrived yesterday, so this morning I had a healthy dose on my potatoes. Ahhh ...

Ingredients: Carrots, Onions, Vinegar, Red Habanero Peppers, Garlic, Salt and Lime Juice.  It's not too hot, and I don't know the Scoville rating.

Edited Friday at 03:00 PM by Shel_B
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[Neely]

No cooking involved but this was breakfast,. It’s one of those mueslis that contains lots of dehydrated berries. With cold milk … it was OK but a bit sweet. 
 

[liuzhou]

I ordered this olive, bacon and cheese ciabatta loaf online (actually I ordered two) and they arrived at 8:30 this morning when I was setting up my coffee machine for my morning fix of caffeine. Perfect time for breakfast to turn up.

 

 

 

Lovely bread infused with olive oil flavour. I just ate it as it came. Got through half a loaf. Here's one slice.

 

 

 

[Smithy]

1 hour ago, liuzhou said:

I ordered this olive, bacon and cheese ciabatta loaf online (actually I ordered two) and they arrived at 8:30 this morning when I was setting up my coffee machine for my morning fix of caffeine. Perfect time for breakfast to turn up.

 

 

 

Lovely bread infused with olive oil flavour. I just ate it as it came. Got through half a loaf. Here's one slice.

 

 

 

 

That looks delicious! I had the idea that olive oil was rare in China. Is this a specialty bakery item? 

[liuzhou]

5 hours ago, Smithy said:

 

That looks delicious! I had the idea that olive oil was rare in China. Is this a specialty bakery item? 

 

When I first came to China in 1996, olive oil was impossible to find. I first found a bottle on August, 23rd 2005. I only know the date because I took my first ever selfie holding the bottle to send to family and friends, some of whom had lamented my serious deprivation. Since then it has become commonplace but not of great quality but great expense. This one is the best I've found but is even more expensive, being imported from Italy. It's also from a cooperative rather than a massive multi-national distributer of oils which could be from anywhere. 

 

 

Much of the olive oil sold here is used for skin care by my lady friends, I think. No one I know cooks with it. I never use it in Chinese dishes. Totally unsuitable, but I use it in western food, of course.

 

I've never seen it here in bread before except when I've baked the bread myself.

 

My olive bread and its oil

 

 

Edited 8 hours ago by liuzhou
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[Katie Meadow]

@liuzhou I hope there's no margarine in it.

[liuzhou]

3 minutes ago, Katie Meadow said:

@liuzhou I hope there's no margarine in it.

 

Certainly not. I haven't eaten margarine since the 1950s. I try not to eat industrial effluent!

 

Never seen margarine in China. Finding butter is hard enough. 

[MetsFan5]

On 11/17/2024 at 8:59 AM, Shel_B said:

English "Pizza" Muffins: Yesterday I made a pasta sauce using whole Calabrian peppers packed in olive oil. I used a pepper and some of the oil, along with fresh and roasted garlic, to make the sauce which I used on the English muffins this morning. The muffins were toasted, sauced, and grated Reggiano was generously applied over the concoction and then browned in the countertop oven. Beverage of choice was Nepalese Himalayan Black tea.

 

I make a similar version after a night out. 
 

English muffins drizzled with olive oil, smeared with Don Pepino’s pizza sauce, a sprinkle of sea salt and a ton of shredded mozzarella.  
 

Done in the toaster oven. 

[Senior Sea Kayaker]

Egg, potato, aged cheddar, habanero, green onion and Thai basil wrap with the first of this season's clementines (when they start showing in the 5 lb. cases).