Breakfast 2024

[C. sapidus]

Zucchini and shiitake mushrooms with chile habanero, garlic, lime juice, black pepper, basil from the garden, and Mexican oregano, somewhat tamed with coconut milk. Zucchini was salted beforehand, which I prefer.

 

[blue_dolphin]

Used leftover end slices of the seared tuna I had for lunch yesterday's lunch to make a sando with a slaw dressed with yuzu kosho mayo on a toasted brioche bun.

Apologies for that unsightly end piece up front.  It tasted fine but I could have turned around for the photo 🙃

[Neely]

Breakfast this morning was a tender omelette, meaning it was barely cooked with tiniest amounts of fish sauce and soy sauce, with chilli crisp and coriander.

 

[blue_dolphin]

I used smoked sablefish to make the sable butter from Gabrielle Hamilton's Prune and used it in the Asparagus with Sable Butter from the same book.

Topped with a fried egg.  There was also toast, not pictured.

[Kim Shook]

On 4/21/2024 at 2:34 AM, liuzhou said:

This breakfast topic has been running for years and has always been the least active of the Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner topic trilogy.

 

My theory is that even the most adventurous eaters tend to be most conservative at breakfast. We all tend to fall back to a handful of favourites which we repeat over and over again, perhaps due to lack of time to be more adventurous or simply a preference for familiar comforts first thing in the morning. Dinner is when I get most adventurous.

 

Breakfasts are said to be the meal travellers and ex-pats struggle with most. I moved from Britain to China 28 years ago and, although 90% of my meals now are Chinese, for breakfast I still tend to fall back to the old favourites – bacon, eggs, toast etc. 

This is most definitely me.  I’m fairly open to “different” things later in the day (within reason), but for breakfast, I want my toast, eggs, and meat (mainly pork) and sometimes something sweet – pancakes, cinnamon rolls, etc.

 

UPDATE: Well, I had this all ready to post back on 4/29, but I ended up in the hospital that night through yesterday.  Sigh.  I’m home and doing better now, but I’d better post quickly before something else happens 😉!

 

Once again, I’m having to say sorry that I’ve been absent for so long.  I’ve had more health issues.  I seem to just be starting to get past my second bout of pneumonia since January and the COPD is still kicking my butt.  All three of us have had upper respiratory stuff for the past week or so, but only Jessica and I advanced to pneumonia.  Mr. Kim was lucky enough to avoid that.  Which meant, of course, that he ended up taking care of us!  Poor fellow.  Anyway, I haven’t been doing a lot of cooking in the past couple of weeks.  If I dated my meals, you’d see that they go back to the beginning of April.    

 

A few assorted breakfasts – they are a combination of Mr. Kim (bless him) and me when I felt up to it:

Eggs and leftover pancakes and ham.

 

Easter eggs, ham, and toast.  The eggs were cooked together.  One has NO green and the other does 🙄.

 

Toast, scrambled eggs w/ cheese, and the last of the Easter ham.  I ended up buying another small ham.  We had a LOT of @Tropicalsenior’s fabulous mustard sauce left! 

 

Eggs, ham, toast, and Watergate salad. 

Grilled bacon, egg, and cheese.

 

 

Grilled ham, egg, and cheese:

 

Ham, egg, and cheese on a croissant.

 with tots:

 

Campari tomatoes on toast, sliced bananas with raw honey, and fried ham.

 

ET bagel with whipped cream cheese.  I love whipped cream cheese, but I’m usually too cheap to buy it 😁. 

 

Lidl croissant dug out of the freezer, split and toasted, sage sausage, fried eggs, and a cut up pear. 

[blue_dolphin]

15 minutes ago, Kim Shook said:

I ended up in the hospital that night through yesterday. 

I'm so glad you are back home, @Kim Shook!  
No need to apologize or feel like you have to “catch up” unless you want to. I don’t eat a big evening meal so I rarely post in the Dinner topic and even if I did, I could never keep up with all the posts over there!

[Neely]

Hope you are feeling better @Kim Shook

 

@liuzhou said

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This breakfast topic has been running for years and has always been the least active of the Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner topic trilogy.

 

My theory is that even the most adventurous eaters tend to be most conservative at breakfast. We all tend to fall back to a handful of favourites which we repeat over and over again, perhaps due to lack of time to be more adventurous or simply a preference for familiar comforts first thing in the morning.

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The familiar comfort food I fall back on is usually Vegemite on toast …after all I am an Aussie… but don’t feel it photo worthy but here it is. 

 

A more adventurous breakfast is the following  mushrooms and tomatoes on toast with a dollop of avocado and sprinkled with my pomegranate seeds. Both of these breakfasts are fine by me though I do usually prefer to include an egg somehow. 

 

[liuzhou]

On 5/4/2024 at 10:25 AM, Neely said:

The familiar comfort food I fall back on is usually Vegemite on toast …after all I am an Aussie… but don’t feel it photo worthy but here it is. 

 

Well, we all know Vegemite is a pale imitation of the real thing - Marmite! 🤣

 

 

Actually, I can source both here online. Not cheap though. I usually opt for Marmite out of habit, but when it's out of stock, will happily buy Vegemite.

 

About a decade their was a really annoying Aussie veggie here for about a year. She complained about not being able to able to find Vegemite in China and I suggested the alternative. She screamed at me that she couldn't eat Marmite because "I'm a  vegetarian!", her answer to  every question. She point blank refused to accept that both are vegetarian. When, another time, she was going on about her eating disorder yet again, I mentioned that the Dalai Lama isn't vegetarian and she burst into hysterical tears. Even her boyfriend thought she was an idiot.

 

Another friend, also Australian, a lovely, knowledgable and witty man just looked at her and quietly said "Calm down, mite."

 

No, I didn't miss-spell 'mate'.

 

 

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[Neely]

@liuzhou She sounds like a fun person…Not. 
When I lived in UK I happily switched to Marmite although visitors from AUS who stayed with me knew to bring a jar of Vegemite. Hah! 

[Senior Sea Kayaker]

The first of my oyster mushrooms 110 gm. (grown on a mix of old substrate, straw and sawdust).

Sauteed in butter and incorporated into a herb (chive, parsley and dill) omelet. I picked up some kiwis last week and was a little surprised at the size. This one was 126 gm.

 

 

[pastameshugana]

We stopped at a nice little place called the Red Door Cafe for brunch while taking some friends to the airport, I ordered the 'Dippy Eggs':

 

 

Soft eggs, with pieces of Mozzarella, a tangy tomato salsa, chives, bacon, and sourdough soldiers. It was very nice! Of course, presented in the little egg carton was a nice touch.

 

[blue_dolphin]

Char sui bao I picked up at the local farmers market 

[Katie Meadow]

25 minutes ago, blue_dolphin said:

Char sui bao I picked up at the local farmers market 

One of my weaknesses. Never seen them at any farmers' market, so I have to go to Oakland Chinatown for my fix. Parking is horrendous, so we don't go very often, only when we really crave char siu or roasted duck or the best fresh pot sticker skins and fresh noodles. 

[C. sapidus]

Breakfast tacos with zucchini, roasted Poblano, and cubed kielbasa. White onion, habanero, garlic, cilantro, feta, half-and-half, and an egg.

 

[blue_dolphin]

Beans on toast, inspired by the recipe for Garlicky Great Northern Beans with Broccoli Rabe over Toast from Joe Yonan's book, Cool Beans. 

Rancho Gordo caballero beans and garlicky broccolini on toasted multigrain bread with chili oil and pecorino Romano.  

 

 

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[blue_dolphin]

I really enjoyed yesterday's beans on toast so I had almost the same thing today. Beet greens as the veg and Rancho Gordo ceci neri (black garbanzos) as the bean:

 

[liuzhou]

Fried sea duck egg with locally made blood sausage.

 

 

 

[weinoo]

 

Toasted bagel, half w/avocado, half with goat cheese.  Served with coffee + OJ.

[Ann_T]

I forgot to post pics of the moussaka I made on Sunday.

Moe had a piece yesterday for breakfast and decided he wanted another piece today for breakfast.

Topped with a poached egg.

[C. sapidus]

I want that moussaka @Ann_T!

 

Sauteed green bean and kielbasa tacos with chile habanero, shallot, garlic, egg, feta, and cilantro. Lovely hot and fruity flavor.

 

[Senior Sea Kayaker]

A few recent breakfasts.

Haddock and potato fishcakes, sauteed mustard greens and mushrooms, runny egg with sriracha and a tomato.

Egg, chorizo, mushroom, shishito and lettuce on WW (sloppy looking but tasty) with a pear and a shot of V8.

 

 

[Neely]

Breakfast this morning was upgraded canned baked beans. Added onions a little mince and more tomato paste and chilli . Egg of course.

 

[pastameshugana]

16 hours ago, Ann_T said:

 

This looks ridiculously good, and Mrs. M and I decided it will be on the menu soon!

 

[Ann_T]

@Kim Shook, hope you are feeling much better.

 

 

Baked a sourdough rye yesterday and made Moe a Schwartz's Montreal Smoked meat sandwich for breakfast. 

 

 

 

[Senior Sea Kayaker]

Egg salad sandwich on WW with shredded romaine. I added some Boursin to the eggs.