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

[TMus1111]

Inspired by Varmint's Food Blog which conjured up memories of the summers I spent in Winston Salem, NC - and since shrimp was on the menu for dinner yesterday, bought some extra and had shrimp and grits and toast. What an incredibly - simple - delicious meal.

[txaggie]

Monday's breakfast was blueberry buckle (Cook's Illustrated recipe) using blueberries that we picked Sunday afternoon. Tuesday's breakfast was leftover buckle!

[ludja]

Lightly sugared and sliced strawberries and bananas in heavy cream with a piece of rye toast.

[percyn]

Made scrambled eggs with Maitake mushrooms and smoked cheddar....was in a hurry, so no pic...sorry.

[little ms foodie]

after reading varmits blog I had to have biscuits!!

bacon chedder biscuits and some watermelon

[jscarbor]

Any suggestions for a breakfast for 18 people some of which are kids during a lake vacation. Evidently we are supposed to be in charge of 1 meal per group/family. I was thinking of doing 1 or 2 different things as the main dish and a couple sides. What kind of main dish for a big mixed group?

[SushiCat]

I had to share - sorry no photos but you can picture it if you try ...

Love fruit salad

Layered the following:

Raspberries, blueberries, halved cherries, apricots, golden kiwi

In the middle somewhere added a dollop of whipped cream

served it in our Love bowls - they are glass and large and it looked gorgeous sitting in there. Tasted divine as well.

I love summer and summer fruits!

[percyn]

Yesterday - Maitake scrambled eggs topped with Moroccan Lamb and a side of smoked duck (ahh...the world is in balance again )

Today - Croissant with Swiss cheese and Serrano ham. Side of fried egg for me.

Edited July 10, 2005 by percyn (log)

[M. Lucia]

Homemade waffles! with butter and maple syrup, juice, coffee

[Patrick S]

The Little One requested french toast this morning:

[Siren]

made some scrambled eggs using left over cilantro chutney from a local place... added some center cut bacon and crumbled potatoes...

[Susan in FL]

Yesterday Camilla, Morten's girlfriend, flew back to Denmark and for breakfast, Russ cooked to order... Eggs any style, scrapple, ham, bacon, potatoes. This was her last meal with us before her flight. We had another pound of scrapple unopened from what Morten brought to us from Delaware, and we "encouraged" her to try it before returning home to Denmark after her first trip to the U.S. Her comments, with her lovely accent: "It's OK".

Note the absence of sunlight. Dennis is passing by, but not hitting us this weekend, thank goodness for us.

This morning Morten left to drive up to Delaware. He'll be in the country for at least the rest of the summer. This morning was our first just-the-two-of-us meal in a long time. It's all good.

...discovery of a great flavor combination, scrapple topped with a slice of baked fresh beet and an egg.

[Chufi]

A big bowl of watermelon chunks and strawberries.

[Ling]

the Frog Commissary carrot cake, and leftovers from dinner last night (coconut curry beef brisket)

[Ericanyc]

Yesterday - Eggs Florentine with Blood orange Hollandaise, Roasted potatoes with shallots

This morning - Blueberry Muffins I made on Saturday with Fresh eggs and berries from the farmers market.

I wandered into this thread accidentally and spent waaay too long drooling over everyones breakfast, especially the photos.

Now I have to go catch up on an hours worth of work

[percyn]

the Frog Commissary carrot cake, and leftovers from dinner last night (coconut curry beef brisket)

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Ok, I need the recipe for the Coconut Curry Beef Brisket. Is it like a dry version of Thai beef curry?

[Staximo]

This morning: half cup of milk, cereals and a slice of "pastiera napoletana" that I made for Easter and then put in the freezer!

These are the small version of pastiera (I used a muffin pan)

[Alinka]

Looking at everybody's breakfast makes my mouth water. My favorite meal of the day! Today I had leftover homemade pain au chocolat and a slice of brioche (three days old - the results of my not-so-successful experiments in the kichen ).

But here's what I much prefer when I'm not too hungry to actually make a sandwich (whole grain bread, cream cheese, avocado, salmon):

[Susan in FL]

But here's what I much prefer when I'm not too hungry to actually make a sandwich (whole grain bread, cream cheese, avocado, salmon):

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Ahhh yes. I'll take that anytime. Great picture, as well!

[Ling]

the Frog Commissary carrot cake, and leftovers from dinner last night (coconut curry beef brisket)

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Ok, I need the recipe for the Coconut Curry Beef Brisket. Is it like a dry version of Thai beef curry?

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Sorry to disappoint, but my curry-making skills are pathetic. I just use Glico, add some Indian "curry" powder to the pot, and add most of a can of coconut cream.

[Ann_T]

My idea of breakfast is more like Lings. Something sweet. But my husband loves a big breakfast. Unfortunately he can't have as many eggs as he would like too. Thankfully he doesn't mind scrambled eggs made with just egg whites. Actually I do cheat a little bit and make them with four egg whites and about a teaspoon of yolk. I had homemade salsa and some of the pinto beans leftover from the dinner I made the other night so I made him a Tex Mex breakfast. Instead of toast he had some warm corn tortillas.

[Ling]

It was my day off today, so I woke up and made 2 batches of shortbread. Big, buttery slabs covered in Valrhona Manjari chocolate. 2 cups of coffee. Delicious way to start the day.

[percyn]

Ling sounds good...Valrhona Manjari is my favorite.....so did you eat the whole thing?

Yesterday I made scrambled eggs topped with Maitake, drizzled with Chaoshou dumpling oil and a croissant on the side. Call it an East meets West breakfast

Then I got hungry and ate the Chaoshou dumplings.

Today I made a similar breakfast of scrambled eggs, maitake, chives and a side of smoked duck breast.

ETA - Also tried a piece of famous grilled sticky buns

Edited July 16, 2005 by percyn (log)

[Ling]

1 cup of butter for 12 cookies, and I ate 4 cookies...so I only ingested 1/3 cup of butter (plus a few ounces of chocolate.) I'm kind of watching my weight.

Manjari is my favourite for drizzling over cookies, and I like Guanaja for baking. I also like Scharffen Berger semi-sweet for straight eating, and bittersweet and unsweetened for baking.

Breakfast today was a croissant, and an apple struesel muffin. (And then I spooned some peanut butter straight from the jar and ate it with chocolate...sssshh! )

[Alinka]

Blueberry Pancakes for Saturday morning... Why can't I eat this fluffy tenderness every day?

My favorite recipe comes from Cook's Illustrated.