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

[rarerollingobject]

Rhubarb and stem ginger crumble. With buffalo yoghurt on the side.

[Kim Shook]

Cheese biscuits with bacon jam. No photo.

You.are.killing.me.

[rarerollingobject]

A sticky rice zhoong from my local Thai grocery. They make a couple different varieties, but since I don't read any Thai, it's always a bit of a roulette as to what I'll end up with (which I like!)

This one was lemongrass sausage, peanuts, shiitake mushrooms, caramel pork, dried shrimp and little nuggets of chilli. Yum!

[percyn]

WOW! Wish I had a local Thai grocery. This reminds me of the sticky rice I ate in the streets of Bangkok.

[Kim Shook]

RRO – Except for the mushrooms, that sounds incredible to me! Is it served hot or cold?

I dreamed this up for breakfast this morning:

Breakfast bruschetta – toasted French bread slices, tomato jam and bacon. This is a keeper – definitely worth doing again and again.

Served with poached eggs:

Probably a little overdone for some folks, but perfect for us.

[C. sapidus]

Rhubarb and stem ginger crumble. With buffalo yoghurt on the side.

Sounds scrumptious - and fruit is always a healthy choice I say.

Fun with odds and ends . . . and how to avoid cleaning the garage.

Leftover potatoes, chopped up and fried with a sauce of chipotles, tomatoes, garlic, pepper, cumin, cinnamon, and Mexican oregano. When the hash cooled down I scrambled in some eggs and then topped the lot with more Mexican oregano and Gorgonzola cheese.

[SobaAddict70]

Eggs fried in French butter, sunnyside-up, served with crispy toast and heirloom tomato salad.

I make some variation of this just about every weekend the entire time that tomatoes are available at the Greenmarket. Usually serve the eggs on top of the salad (which in turn is spooned over the toast).

It's my favorite way to eat breakfast.

Heirloom tomato salad: 2 small to medium-sized heirloom tomatoes, diced; 1 small cucumber, diced; 1 shallot, minced; juice of half a lemon; 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil; salt and pepper, to taste; chopped fresh herbs (I used oregano and garlic chives, but other choices such as parsley, tarragon and basil are great, too). Combine all ingredients in a small bowl. Stir, then use as desired.

[percyn]

Nice breakfasts all.

Today, I decided to make an Indian/Parsi style Eggs - Akoori

[robirdstx]

Maybe not the most conventional of breakfasts, but delicious all the same.

Chicken Salad and Avocado on Honey Wheat made a nice cool start to what is going to be another very warm day.

[SobaAddict70]

Zucchini and heirloom tomato "hash" with poached farm egg.

[Kim Shook]

Soba – beautiful tomato salad and I really like the idea of serving it atop toast. Kinda like a breakfast panzanella.

robirdstx – sounds like a GREAT breakfast and I love chicken and avocado together.

Breakfast this morning was a little freezer-organizing produced bit of serendipity:

Some of my MIL’s Hot Cross Buns from Easter. They were still delicious and tender.

[kayb]

Salvadorean breakfast cakes, aka quesadillas (I always thought a quesadilla was a tortilla with cheese and other fillings!), courtesy of the Food52 gluten-free cookoff recently. I did not have the called-for rice flour, so I used masa harina, which gave them a nice corn muffin-ish texture. With ripe strawberries and strawberry yogurt.

[Jan Virtanen]

I made baltic herring curry for breakfast.

[Blether]

I made baltic herring curry for breakfast...

Looks great - appetizing and very nicely shot ! How did you go about making the dish ? Did the Baltic herring start out raw-pickled ?

[Jan Virtanen]

I just made some coconut milk base with some spices, cumin, curcumin, urfa pepper, ginger root, garlic etc. Then i gently simmered it until fragrant, and put the fish on pan and poached 2-3mins more and put it under a broiler for a minute. I kept the spices very mild, so the creamy coconut milk still tastes like what it is

I took the picture before broiling. Fish was fresh, i just seasoned it S&P and some lemon. I rolled it becouse i figured that way it wouldnt cook too fast.

[Blether]

Don't tell me you boned 'em yourself.

[Jan Virtanen]

Usually i buy my herrings whole But not this time. I like to have the roe, so i buy them whole. Another nice little fish is smelt. Its local fish here, but somehow very underappriciated here. Whenever i see it, i buy many kiloes, and make rollmops out of them, and panfry. Its truly great little fish And the roe is beautiful.

[Blether]

I've tangled with the odd herring myself. How do you use the roes ? And while we're at it, where are you, exactly ?

[Jan Virtanen]

I live in western Finland. I usually mix the roe with smetana and bunch of herbs. Very traditional. Then maybe roll it into gravlax if i have some. Sometimes i just eat it by the spoonful. Its actually my favorite dessert Do you have some more creative ways to use roe?

[percyn]

Interesting breakfasts all.

I stuck with a classic today - Steak and Eggs

[Blether]

I live in western Finland. I usually mix the roe with smetana and bunch of herbs.... Do you have some more creative ways to use roe?

Smetana ? I had to look that up

The only way I've used roe in my own cooking is the way you see linked in my last post - and of course that's milt, or 'white roe' as it's called. We get the true roe in Japan in New Year's cooking, and occasionally in sushi. I don't find the hard style served at New Year to be very palatable (unappealing mouthfeel, and tastes like cricket bats, to my mind), and run-of-the-mill stuff of the same character laid on sushi rice isn't any better. Now and again, though (like I did yesterday) you come across a good (i.e. a non-preserved ?) one, and I think it's also herring roe that's sometimes served up on the seaweed to which it was found naturally attached, and that's more reliably worthwhile.

The fish you had certainly looked beautiful. Which kind of roe/'roe' are you talking about ?

Edited July 9, 2011 by Blether (log)

[Jan Virtanen]

The sacks are very small, 2kg of fish makes about 100 grams of fisheggs. I just clean it rinsing, and salt it and after that mix with full fat smetana and let it sit in fridge little while. Some herbs too.

[Blether]

I don't see myself going about souring heavy cream, but with off-the-shelf sour cream, that sounds like something I'd like to try.

[gfweb]

Scrambled eggs, sausage and fried potatoes. Old school.

[kayb]

Scrambled eggs, sausage and fried potatoes. Old school.

gfweb, nothing wrong with old school!