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

[Susan in FL]

Just after I was saying how I don't eat breakfast often, it's been three days in a row.

This morning I invited a friend/colleague over before she went to work. She loves French Toast and I made Orange French Toast, assembled last night and baked this morning, with Johnnybird's Toast Dope sprinkled on it before baking. We ate it with butter and maple syrup on it, and I was in sugar shock the rest of the morning.

[snowangel]

Liverwurst sandwich with onions, spicey mustard, mayo, and fried onions on a flax seed roll.  Perfect easy way to start the day.

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Great minds think almost alike. Toasted Acme sourdough, smeared with Malle Dijon and liverwurst. Mine was easier and faster to assemble.

[hayasaka.k]

... <== me drooling over liverwurst sandwiches. I don't know why I never thought of having it for brekkie before!

Today was a gorgeous fall day! Bright, but not too bright. So carefree, in fact, that indecisiveness called things even with a half roasted tomato, half smoked salmon omelette. Toppings and fillings in no order: gruyere, parmesan, thyme, dill, parsley, and capers. The parental units arrived home from a friend's garden with the baby tomatoes the night before. I gave them (the tomatoes, not the p.u.'s) overnight neutrality before tossing them up in evoo and sopping up the remains with fresh (buttered) parmasan toasts while contemplating the greater aspirations of the goodies before me.

[Knicke]

This morning: leftover cilantro polenta - cheese - pinto bean casserole thingy from last night's dinner. And a glass of milk.

It was goooooooooooood.

[yushoe]

2 hardboiled eggs and a banana... protein and potassium

[intraining]

chicken sandwich with mayo

[tejon]

Chopped Fuji apple topped with Greek yogurt (yay, Trader Joe's!) and chopped roasted almonds. English breakfast tea with a bit of turbinado sugar added in. Needless to say, I got up before anyone else.

[redfox]

Breakfast lentils: lentils cooked with onions, garlic, and peanuts, served at room temp with yogurt and more crispy onions on top. Moka coffee with steamed milk.

[NulloModo]

Long flax roll with soy nut butter, tahini, dessicated coconut, and BBQ sauce on it. Then placed under a broiler open face to let the coconut brown.

[suzilightning]

leftover au gratin potatoes from dinner last night - with ketchup

[redfox]

A slice of leftover thin-crust pizza with caramelized onions and mushrooms from last night, the usual coffee suspect, and a Honeycrisp apple.

[Tess]

Oatmeal cooked in milk with Vermont maple syrup. Leftover baked pears.

Edited October 16, 2004 by Tess (log)

[malarkey]

scrambled eggs with harissa, croissant from Cafe Besalu, double short caffe latte.

M, still on the harissa habit

[Susan G]

Leftover skillet cornbread with butter and chokecherry jam. Hot mug of herbal tea.

[lovebenton0]

I'm not a big breakfaster either but love it when I have it.

This morning I was starving. Two sm'eggs (what I call that real egg stuff in the cartons), scrambled with red onion, a bit of leftover braised pork steak and potato. Stuffed in flour tortilla quarters and topped with salsa verde. Coffee. Mango/lime juice.

[percyn]

Smoked Duck breast with free-range, hormone-free, farm-fresh egg, over-easy in some duck fat and clarified butter (hey, nobody said this was diet food !! Actually since breakfast seems to be a weekend meal for most of us, why not splurge ??)

Seriously, if you have not tried the D'Artagnan smoked duck breast, run to your grocer or order it from the D'Artagnan website, it is just fabulous. I usually eat this for breakfast (instead of beacon) or sometimes get their duck (leg) confit.

Cheers

Percy

[Richard Kilgore]

Frittata of onion, red bell pepper, garlic, potato, oregano and basil, S&P with marscapone beaten into the eggs. English mufin with a tart orange marmalade. Small pot of Moka.

[mighty quinn]

triple shot cappucino. period!

[lia]

I made my daughter's chocolate chip and came up with this method to avoid the melted chocolate on the skillet: Pour the pancakes and sprinkle on the chips, then dab on a bit of batter on each chip before turning each one.

ooh, thanks for the great idea...this morning I made buttermilk pancakes and i made S/O's with bananas. I make these pancakes in a cast iron pan and when i flipped the banana pancakes, the banana left some residue so the subsequent pancakes stuck a bit.

My favorite part about this breakfast is not the pancakes themselves (which are delicious) but all the Stuff i serve with them: maple syrup, lemon curd, Nutella, various jams and marmalades.....S/O sticks with the Sarabeth's Peach Apricot, but I have to have a little bit of everything (one at a time) on each one.

[andiesenji]

You can also sprinkle granulated maple sugar on the top of a pancake just prior to flipping it over. The sugar carmelizes and is just yummy. (sorry, to those who object to using words like "yummy", but it really is!)

I sprinkle it on my "mock" French toast, which is bread pudding, baked in a loaf pan then chilled, sliced and cooked on a griddle. Quick, no mess and the flavor is exactly the same, only better.

[yushoe]

leftover chicken fingers and french fries at 3 in the afternoon

[Susan in FL]

Smoked Duck breast with free-range, hormone-free, farm-fresh egg, over-easy in some duck fat and clarified butter (hey, nobody said this was diet food !! Actually since breakfast seems to be a weekend meal for most of us, why not splurge ??)

Seriously, if you have not tried the D'Artagnan smoked duck breast, run to your grocer or order it from the D'Artagnan website, it is just fabulous. I usually eat this for breakfast (instead of beacon) or sometimes get their duck (leg) confit.

Cheers

Percy

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What a wonderful breakfast idea. Thanks for the recommendation of the D'Artagnan smoked duck breast. I'm drooling again... The eggs you cook rule!

This morning Russ made us sandwiches of sausage, egg, and cheese on toasted bread, with some of our big sage leaves in between the sausage and the cheese.

[msphoebe]

I'll be having a repeat of last night's quick supper: A sandwich made of rosmarino, provolone and garden-fresh tomato (the last one!) on ciabatta, lightly spread with Dijon on one side and mayo on the other.

Fabulous!

[Susan in FL]

Scrambled eggs, olives, scallions, and cilantro, over an avocado half, garnished with a dollop of salsa; and Bloody Marys.

Msphoebe, what is rosmarino?

Edited October 17, 2004 by Susan in FL (log)

[msphoebe]

Rosmarino is ham, "massaged" with dried rosemary, then oven roasted. Imported from Italy. Has a fantastic flavor! New find for me...I bought it at Costco in the imported meat/cheese refrigerated section. Highly recommended!