Breakfast! The most important meal of the day (2004-2011)

[Kim Shook]

Corinna – glad to know I wasn’t the only one with layering problems with the coffee cake. I didn’t think that the filling tasted too sweet (I thought it was balanced by the cake layers), but felt that the topping had a bit too many chocolate chips for my taste. Next time, I’ll probably eyeball it and use less.

rarerollingobject – Mr. Kim would adore those zucchini fritters! He’s the chilehead in the family. I am decidedly NOT, but I will be stealing the halloumi idea!

Yesterday’s breakfast:

Scrambled eggs w/ chives, sausage and English muffins with my favorite Little Scarlet strawberry preserves.

[robirdstx]

Eggs didn't appeal to me this morning, so I just had the sides!

Fried Ham and Hash Brown Potatoes

[Ann_T]

I swear - pretty much every one of your posts gives me a hankering. Not just the chiles (although that's a good start), but your flavor combinations always sound enticing.

I agree with Bruce.

Kim, your Coffee Cake looked great to me. As does your sausage and scrambled eggs.

We had roast beef last night for dinner and Moe had a roast beef sandwich for breakfast.

[rarerollingobject]

. . . EIGHT chopped Thai birdseye chillis, the ear-ringingly hot ones.

I was in (blissful) hell eating these.

I swear - pretty much every one of your posts gives me a hankering. Not just the chiles (although that's a good start), but your flavor combinations always sound enticing.

That's so lovely to hear..the highest compliment possible for a greedy-guts such as myself!

And Ann_T, a roast beef sandwich with mustard sounds like the breakfast of champions to me!

This morning, however, was a fairly pedestrian bowl of bircher muesli, or at least, steel cut oats soaked overnight in milk. I don't mind them not cooked, they go nice and chewy.

Topped with a little brown sugar, pistachios, ground cinnamon, ginger, crushed green cardamom, and black pepper for the requisite zing. And some totally unnecessary rose petals, because they're pretty, and they go with the Persian thing I was going for.

[Ann_T]

I don't eat cereal but Moe does. He would love your breakfast Rarerollingobject.

Ham steak, shredded potatoes and farm fresh eggs.

[SobaAddict70]

No pix, because I'm at work.

1st breakfast, shortly after getting up: protein shake

2nd breakfast, as I type this: fried egg sandwich with cheddar and bacon on a toasted kaiser roll, OJ and a banana

[Ann_T]

Made Moe an open faced omelette

topped with roasted Campari tomatoes seasoned with fresh thyme and Parmesan.

[andiesenji]

No pix, because I'm at work.

1st breakfast, shortly after getting up: protein shake

2nd breakfast, as I type this: fried egg sandwich with cheddar and bacon on a toasted kaiser roll, OJ and a banana

Are you a secret Hobbit? "First breakfast, Second breakfast, there were several other meals. I forget....

I have made batter for popovers which are going to be baked early tomorrow morning.

Photos will be posted if I can remember..

Edited April 14, 2011 by andiesenji (log)

[pastameshugana]

Recovering from being ill and not eating for three days, eggs on toast.

Toasted the bread in butter in the skillet, then sauteed onions & tomatoes, runny eggs and the last of my cave-aged gruyere.

Too bad I couldn't finish it! The tomato and gruyere was a really nice combination.

[Katie Meadow]

Not being a breakfast person beyond anything that can be put in a toaster, I had breakfast for dinner the other night, which would make a great breakfast for breakfast.

The current issue of Bon Appetit (on Epicurious I assume) has a very good recipe for Bacon and Leek Risotto with poached egg. I made it and served it with a fried egg instead--but with a runny yolk--and it was delicious. It requires less butter and cheese than most risotto. Having this for breakfast using leftover risotto would be a snap.

[rarerollingobject]

topped with roasted Campari tomatoes seasoned with fresh thyme and Parmesan.

Oh, that looks delicious. I know Campari is a variety of tomato, but it's given me an idea..to roast tomatoes in a little Campari (the alcohol). I think the sweetness of the tomatoes would really balance out its bitterness nicely. Going to try, anyway.

Toasted the bread in butter in the skillet, then sauteed onions & tomatoes, runny eggs and the last of my cave-aged gruyere.

Love the egg yolk porn.

The current issue of Bon Appetit (on Epicurious I assume) has a very good recipe for Bacon and Leek Risotto with poached egg.

Also sounds very appealing..the sweetness of melted leeks is one of my favourite flavours ever..

Breakfast for me was a cardiologist's dream: scallion pancakes, fried in duck fat. And because I can never leave anything alone, I doctored some up by brushing one side of a cooked pancake in Chinese sweet bean sauce, chilli oil, and leek flower sauce and then smacking it back down into the pan, onto an egg.

This is sort of a cheat's approximation of a jianbing egg crepe, a pretty common street snack in Beijing. Sometimes I break up yutiao (crispy crullers) into the centre for crunch or fry a wonton skin till crispy first and sandwich it between the pancake and the egg.

[heidih]

RRO can you elaborate on leek flower sauce- the dish is a real tease for the hungry

[rarerollingobject]

RRO can you elaborate on leek flower sauce- the dish is a real tease for the hungry

heidih, just snapped quick photo for you:

The ingredients on the jar read: Leek flower, ginger, salt. And that's pretty much how it tastes; sweetly oniony, salty and piquant. I use it in a lot of things, including non Chinese fare, as it really adds oomph.

[Kim Shook]

Ann – Mr. Kim looks over my shoulder often here and ALWAYS notices your pictures. He would like to know if Moe would like a breakfast buddy.

pastameshugana – hope you are all better now! Your breakfast looks lovely and I agree Gruyere and tomatoes have a special affinity!

Katie – that risotto sounds fantastic. Alas, it isn’t on epicurious.com yet, so I just put Bon Appetit on my shopping list. I have to make that dish!

rarerollingobject – ok, I just added Leek Flower Sauce to my shopping list, too!

Breakfast this morning:

Fried eggs, sausage and frozen croissant. I get these croissant from The Fresh Market – they are much better than any ‘fresh’ ones that I can get from a store and don’t have to be thawed – just baked from frozen.

[robirdstx]

Katie – that risotto sounds fantastic. Alas, it isn’t on epicurious.com yet, so I just put Bon Appetit on my shopping list. I have to make that dish!

Kim - found it here. And I printed it out and put it at the front of my to-do binder. Thanks Katie!

[rarerollingobject]

Kim Shook, those croissants are so cute!

Breakfast here was another entry in my Anthology of World Pancakes; Korean pajeon. Scallion pancakes with prawns and thinly sliced calamari, cooked till crispy and then eaten with a dipping sauce of crushed garlic, soy sauce, sesame oil and rice vinegar.

[heidih]

Kim Shook, those croissants are so cute!

Breakfast here was another entry in my Anthology of World Pancakes; Korean pajeon. Scallion pancakes with prawns and thinly sliced calamari, cooked till crispy and then eaten with a dipping sauce of crushed garlic, soy sauce, sesame oil and rice vinegar.

I really want just a nibble off the side of the plate please- so what did you use as your binder and starch and did you just pan fry in a coat of oil?

[SobaAddict70]

RRO can you elaborate on leek flower sauce- the dish is a real tease for the hungry

Agreed.

[Kim Shook]

robirdstx – thank you so much for finding the risotto recipe and bringing it to my attention. I found the issue of Bon Appetit, but couldn’t find the risotto recipe, so I didn’t buy it! I’m so pleased!

roundrollingobject – I DID, however, find the Leek Flower Sauce at our Asian grocery and can’t wait to find a million things to do with it! Your pancakes are gorgeous and sound delicious! I don’t know that I’d be ready for them for breakfast (referencing the Cultural Standards of Breakfast thread) - but I’d love them for dinner!

[rarerollingobject]

I really want just a nibble off the side of the plate please- so what did you use as your binder and starch and did you just pan fry in a coat of oil?

I use a traditional recipe my Korean friends taught me, no doubt passed onto them through generations of ancient familial culinary wisdom....packaged pajeon mix! Heh. It's pretty much just wheat and rice flours, seasoned with onion, pepper and garlic powder, with some baking powder I think. I have used all purpose flour before, but the rice flour and baking powder in the mix makes them lighter and crispier. You can see the package here. I just mix it with water myself, but you can mix with egg and water.

I also sometimes make kimchi jeon, chopping kimchi finely and adding it to the batter.

RRO can you elaborate on leek flower sauce- the dish is a real tease for the hungry

Agreed.

Thanks!

roundrollingobject – I DID, however, find the Leek Flower Sauce at our Asian grocery and can’t wait to find a million things to do with it! Your pancakes are gorgeous and sound delicious! I don’t know that I’d be ready for them for breakfast (referencing the Cultural Standards of Breakfast thread) - but I’d love them for dinner!

Excellent! Some (non Chinese) things I use it for: stirred into vegetable soups just before serving, stirred into eggs to make omelettes or scrambled eggs, spread onto chicken salad sandwiches, stirred into risottos (would maybe make an amazing addendum to Katie's leek and bacon risotto!), spread over lamb chops before or after grilling..such a good condiment.

[C. sapidus]

RRO - I am greatly enjoying your worldwide pancake tour.

Probably another cardiologist's dream, but hit the spot: ham and fried egg over toasted English muffin slathered with butter and blue cheese.

[Katie Meadow]

I'll say one thing for you breakfast people: you are most of you cheap dates! The promise of one runny golden yolk and you're ready to kiss an egg.

[SobaAddict70]

I'll say one thing for you breakfast people: you are most of you cheap dates! The promise of one runny golden yolk and you're ready to kiss an egg.

Nope.

Wild mushrooms (oyster mushrooms, morels, black trumpets) and spinach over crispy sourdough toast, with poached farm eggs.

[percyn]

Nice breakfasts all!

One more to add to the collection of gratuitous yolk shots

Fried Egg w/Smoked Turkey Snausages

[robirdstx]

The leftover rice from last night's dinner went into this fried rice using Ming Tsai's recipe for Traditional Mandarin Fried Rice. I didn't have the Chinese sausage so used his recommended sub of crumbled bacon.