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

[andiesenji]

Looks good andiesenji....did you make the dough yourself or is it from a readymade mixture?

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Made from scratch.

The batch makes 4 good-sized loaves. I usually divide it into loaf portions and freeze them after the first rise. The dough keeps well in the freezer for about a month.

[Susan in FL]

With my morning coffee, half a bagel left over from yesterday, toasted, with the pictured mango marmalade on it. The Floribbean line of tropical style condiments is really good.

[Chufi]

Brunch today after a long walk/run was first, a glass of Victory Storm King Impy Stout.

Then we had soft scrambled eggs with sour cream and caviar, potatoes fried in chicken fat, bagels and lox and the trimmings, and cheap bubbly (to match up nicely with that cheap caviar).  It tasted wonderful, though.

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wow Susan I could have your brunch for dinner!!

[mukki]

Hi pattimw!  Thank you, yes -- the pancakes are very light and fluffy, and above all very easy to make:

Blueberry Pancakes

1 cup all-purpose flour

1 Tbsp. sugar

2 tsp. baking powder

1/4 tsp. salt

1 beaten egg

1 cup milk

2 Tbsp. melted cooled butter

4 oz. fresh blueberries

Mix the first four ingredients (dry)  together.

Blend together the wet ingredients then add to the the dry all at once.  Stir just until slightly lumpy, you don't want the batter to be too smooth.

Pour about 1/4 cupfuls onto a hot lightly buttered skillet/griddle.  Then drop blueberries into pancakes - I used about 6-8 blueberries for each pancake. Flip when bubbles have burst.  I like high sides on my pancakes and I get them fairly high with this recipe.

The batter makes about 8 pancakes. This morning I had them with warmed maple syrup but they're extra special with blueberry syrup! Didn't have enough to make some!

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That is the same recipe I use (except my original called for oil instead of butter, which works great) and it makes the BEST pancakes!

[spaghetttti]

Mukki, I think that's a very good and easy pancake recipe, have you tried it using buttermilk? Real comfort breakfast fare!

This was a special request from my husband:

Roti paratha fried in french butter together with an egg on top. Thanks again, Ling, for that scallion pancake recipe!

[percyn]

Whoa !! That looks delicious....

[jrt]

Then we had soft scrambled eggs with sour cream and caviar, potatoes fried in chicken fat, bagels and lox and the trimmings, and cheap bubbly (to match up nicely with that cheap caviar).  It tasted wonderful, though.

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Whoa... sorry to go a few posts back, but that looks fantastic. I'm a sucker for roe & caviar, though; is it wrong to ask what you spent on it? Eggs looking that beautiful and edible and purportedly cheap are always something I'm looking to get my hands on.

By the way, you could fry my hand in chicken fat and I'd eat it with a grin.

Editing to say: by 'eggs looking that beautiful' I mean to refer to the fish ones, not the chicken would-bes.

Edited February 9, 2005 by jrt (log)

[TJHarris]

This morning it was an omelet made from last night's left-over Mu Shu Pork.

Very tasty and a bit spicy!

[Susan in FL]

Whoa... sorry to go a few posts back, but that looks fantastic.  I'm a sucker for roe & caviar, though; is it wrong to ask what you spent on it?  Eggs looking that beautiful and edible and purportedly cheap are always something I'm looking to get my hands on.

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Not wrong at all... It was just the Romanoff Whitefish, I think it was seven or eight dollars for two ounces. We noticed how nice looking those eggs were as soon as we opened the jar. I think it was better than usual this time.

[percyn]

Scrambled eggs w/green onions, cilantro and smoked duck

OK, its been a while since I had some smoked duck for breakfast and this poor little smoked duck breast was sitting in my freezer for some time (expiration date a month away).

I wanted to add some greens to the eggs and already had some chopped up green onions and cilantro (mixed together), so I decided to sauté them in some duck fat and add them to the eggs. Topped with some chives from my herb garden.

[Susan in FL]

Looks good, as always! I look forward to the weekends for your breakfast and dinner posts.

[Susan in FL]

Another good thing about this thread is that there is natural light during the daytime for photos!

I'm working on my close ups, so I tried a Percy Style Scrambled Egg Photo. I also tried for the first time adding some cream cheese to them. Very good! With them, the potatoes were fried in chicken fat again.

All Florida-grown fruits

And, my shot of edible flowers from our garden, which served as the centerpiece on this morning's table.

[Ling]

Now I'm craving blueberries. Those ones in your picture look especially plump and juicy.

[Chufi]

Looks good, as always!  I look forward to the weekends for your breakfast and dinner posts. 

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Me too (this is percyn she's talking about).

Today I caught myself thinking when I switched on the computer: "Ah, it's weekend, I wanna see a percyn egg-close-up".

But Susan, it looks like percyn is getting some egg-close-up-competition!! great photo!

Edited February 13, 2005 by Chufi (log)

[lexy]

Now I'm craving blueberries. Those ones in your picture look especially plump and juicy. 

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me too! and, living in Canada, it'll be about 6 months until I see any local ones around here

[percyn]

Looks good, as always!  I look forward to the weekends for your breakfast and dinner posts. 

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Me too (this is percyn she's talking about).

Today I caught myself thinking when I switched on the computer: "Ah, it's weekend, I wanna see a percyn egg-close-up".

But Susan, it looks like percyn is getting some egg-close-up-competition!! great photo!

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Awwwhhh...

You know, I don't have a patent pending on the close-up photography, so feel free to use that method .

I like it because it is an interesting perspective of the meals we cook/eat, which is normally not evident to us but perhaps to our pets (no wonder they beg so much)

Today was one of those rare occasions when my wife wanted me to make her some breakfast too, so I made her some scrambled eggs (a bit stiffer than I normally like it) w/ green onions, cream cheese and cheddar, with a side of Canadian Bacon and Waffles (store bought).

I had an omelet with green onions (scallions), cilantro, Italian flat leaf parsley, shitake mushrooms and some Fourme D'Ambert, which in hind-sight, I should have cut back on a bit, so as not to over-power the dish.

We also enjoyed a sweet, juicy pineapple I cut up

Cheers

Percy

P.S : Bring out that macro camera lens if you have one.

Edited February 13, 2005 by percyn (log)

[andiesenji]

At 10:00 a.m. this morning I began a 24-hour fast, required for a medical test, among a battery of several I will have tomorrow.

When something like this is in the offing, one does need to stoke up a bit on something that will keep one feeling satisfied for some time.

So, I made corncakes:

I also had earlier cooked some homemade bratwurst. (please excuse the variable sized sausages, I was doing it without help and occasionally one got away from me or I twisted one a bit short, and this was the end of the batch. The brats are simmered in apple juice for 40 minutes. They are then fully cooked and can be eaten as is or incorporated into a dish.

I cut them into thin slices, sauteed them and then added eggs to make an omelet.

I forgot to take photos of the omelet as I was trying to get it finished while the corncakes were still hot.

Yummy! Now I can survive until tomorrow evening with nothing but water.

[Ling]

I had mochi covered with coconut.

[Susan in FL]

Impressive, Andie! That is quite an ambitious undertaking. It all looks really good.

I hope your tests turn out OK. What will be the first thing you eat after that long fast?

[andiesenji]

Impressive, Andie!  That is quite an ambitious undertaking.  It all looks really good.

I hope your tests turn out OK.  What will be the first thing you eat after that long fast? 

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I don't know yet if I will have any restrictions on the types of foods I can have.

I dreamed about food all night, not eating, but preparing.

For some really strange reason, I found myself in Australia, visiting with friends and being asked to prepare some really odd things but can't recall now what they were. Weird

(I have never been to Oz.)

The other dream had me in an enormous kitchen, sort of like the one in "The Great Race" (the Tony Curtis/Jack Lemmon/Natalie Wood one).

more weird

The oddest thing was that I never got to taste anything - every time I was going to try something, I was interrupted. Frustrating, even in dreams.

[snowangel]

My typical breakfast is toast. Diana and Peter (the big and little kids) decide what they want to eat in the am). Heidi has BF at school at part of OT.

But, for Diana, Peter and I, toast is our most favorite.

This morning was especially beautiful. We had a heavy, wet snow last night, so when I woke and opened the shades to the door on the deck, this is what I saw:

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For breakfast (this is merely 1/2 slice; the slices are too big for the toaster, so we cut them in half), we had toasted Acme sourdough. I washed mine down with Peet's darkest and greasiest beans. My mom has just returned from Berkeley, and brought us a duffle bag of Acme and a very nice stash of Petes.

Toast. I love it. I could live on it, and did, throughout a miserable pregnancy.

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The butter is Hope Butter.

I hope I remember to post photos of a typical weekend breakfast in our house!

[yushoe]

scrambled eggs with cream cheese and onion confit.... yum

[PurpleDingo99]

Lately, ive been having chorizo and eggs (scrambled together with cumin and chilli pepper, with some sour cream on top) with some cut up sausage, like Adell's chicken and apple. Its good stuff, but not very photogenic becasue I use those tacky paper plates.

[little ms foodie]

The last two days have been a piece of toast with sliced avacado and salt and pepper. Yum!

[little ms foodie]

this morning we had toasted slices of baguette topped with slices of grilled chorizo and fried quail eggs. So cute and tastey!! We were at Pike Place market last night and the items were our impulse buy!