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Post by Cornflake on Sept 1, 2024 8:43:45 GMT -5
I've mentioned that last year, I was directed by the doctors to start each day with a high-protein breakfast. One significant discovery I've made is that you can put almost anything edible in a breakfast burrito. On Friday it was hash browns, scrambled eggs and cheese in a flour tortilla. Today it was leftover ropa vieja and scrambled eggs in a flour tortilla. (Some variety of ropa vieja is found almost everywhere in the Spanish-speaking world. It's basically shredded beef sauteed with onions, peppers and tomatoes.) I've used chili, prosciutto, chorizo and sausage. Salsa is often a good addition. It's pretty hard to make a bad breakfast burrito although, as I've proved a few times, it isn't impossible.
Anyone else have a favorite breakfast?
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Post by drlj on Sept 1, 2024 8:54:01 GMT -5
I like breakfast. I would rather go out for breakfast than go out for dinner. My favorite depends on the day, but I am partial to omelettes.
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Sept 1, 2024 9:04:38 GMT -5
Mikey likes a good Huevos Rancheros.
Mike
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Post by John B on Sept 1, 2024 9:14:39 GMT -5
I have been the only person up for the last 3 hours. I am hoping someone will get up soon.
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Post by drlj on Sept 1, 2024 9:34:43 GMT -5
I have been the only person up for the last 3 hours. I am hoping someone will get up soon. Make a lot of noise. Dropping a couple pans in the kitchen usually works. |
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Post by howard lee on Sept 1, 2024 9:45:30 GMT -5
I like a couple of eggs, scrambled, salted, peppered, atop a slice of ham with sprouted grain toast.
(I don't have this for breakfast too often; it's usually a fruit shake with lactose-free yogurt, milk, and protein powder.)
Coffee is mandatory.
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Post by factorychef on Sept 1, 2024 9:57:10 GMT -5
White Grits and soft boiled eggs for me. I use Palmetto Farm grits.
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Post by drlj on Sept 1, 2024 10:08:55 GMT -5
Grits when in the South, hash browns or home fries otherwise. Baking powder biscuits if possible. I much prefer them to toast of any kind. Eggs over easy if not in an omelette. Coffee better be good or it’s all ruined. Our favorite place of late is The Honeybee Cafe. It’s a small place run by a family and the coffee is absolutely wonderful.
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Post by Dub on Sept 1, 2024 11:34:10 GMT -5
Egg(s), meat, toast, and coffee. The eggs we currently buy are Vital Farms organic, pasture-raised. They come from the south and are quite spendy for eggs. The Iowa organic, pasture-raised eggs we normally buy haven’t been available for while. I’m guessing they got hit by bird flu but I don’t know. The breakfast meat is locally sourced, uncured, organic, and grass-fed. We buy bacon, sausage links, and bulk for patties. The single slice of toast we have each morning is designed and baked by Fiddlerina. It’s gluten-free and very dense. It contains all kinds of seeds and nuts and is both highly nutritious and quite delicious. I should get Fiddlerina to post the recipe here. We buy Equal Exchange Fairly Traded Organic coffee beans in bulk at the co-op. The coffee we make is about one third French roast and two thirds Ethiopian. We have coffee with breakfast but don’t drink it through the day. I love to make proper French omelettes a la Julia Child but Fiddlerina doesn’t like me sliding the omelette pan violently across her stove top. Usually our eggs are fried in coconut oil, over medium. Sometimes Fiddlerina will make frittatas. We also enjoy soft-boiled eggs cooked by placing refrigerated eggs into boiling water and keeping it at a soft boil for seven minutes forty seconds, then running cold water over them briefly to halt the cooking process. We enjoy preparing breakfast together and have a choreographed dance we do in the kitchen each morning.    |
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Post by Marty on Sept 1, 2024 12:32:41 GMT -5
Just got back from breakfast at the Little Oven. We had our usual Messy Eggs split between the two of us a a single order is massive. Scrambled eggs, ham, bacon, cheese, onion and hash browns all mixed together.
Our favored breakfast place in Key West was the Banana Café. They did lots of crepes both sweet and savory. But the Item I chose every day was the Fruit and Granola Bowl. FRESH strawberries, pineapple, banana, grapes and melon topped with granola and yogurt. Downright yummy. As soon as we got home I got the ingredients and have it every other day. Otherwise my usual home breakfast is yogurt and a toasted English muffin with egg and cheese or peanut butter and cheese or a breakfast burrito.
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Post by billhammond on Sept 1, 2024 13:25:58 GMT -5
Pretty hard to beat cold pizza and beer.
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Post by Dub on Sept 1, 2024 13:37:45 GMT -5
Pretty hard to beat cold pizza and beer. But only if the beer is from last night’s partially consumed can. |
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Post by howard lee on Sept 1, 2024 14:20:45 GMT -5
Pretty hard to beat cold pizza and beer. But only if the beer is from last night’s partially consumed can.
... and is warm.
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Post by drlj on Sept 1, 2024 14:45:03 GMT -5
Pretty hard to beat cold pizza and beer. Some people can’t even look at cold pizza without getting all sick & urpy. Thankfully, I am not one of them. 🍕 |
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Post by Marshall on Sept 1, 2024 15:21:13 GMT -5
Cereal flakes with granola and mulberries.
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Post by amanajoe on Sept 1, 2024 15:32:41 GMT -5
If I'm breakfast burrito-ing, then it has to be chorizo and eggs. Sometimes with whatever cheese is handy, sometimes with a dollop of sour cream.
When it is Sue and I, more often than not, it is eggs, bacon, toast of some kind, and either hashbrowns or grits. (That includes when we are having breakfast for dinner).
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Post by Hobson on Sept 1, 2024 15:56:36 GMT -5
My favorite is probably omelets of almost any type. Mr. H makes perfect omelets and he often throws in whatever leftovers we happen to have. Recently he used chicken saag that I brought home from an Indian restaurant.
But here's something that has protein and can be made ahead. We used to take these on camping trips. I made some a few weeks ago and froze what we didn't eat.
The recipe is from an old Quaker Oats cookbook.
BREAKFAST TAKE ALONGS
2/3 cup butter or margarine
2/3 cup sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1-1/2 cups Quaker Oats (Quick or Old
Fashioned, uncooked)
1 cup (4 oz) shredded Cheddar cheese
1/2 cup wheat germ or finely chopped
nuts
6 crisply cooked bacon slices,
crumbled
Beat together butter, sugar, egg and vanilla until well blended. Add combined flour, soda and salt; mix well. Stir in oats, cheese, wheat germ and bacon. Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls onto greased cookie sheet; bake in preheated moderate oven (350 F) 12 to 14 minutes or until edges are golden brown. Cool 1 minute on cookie sheet; remove to wire cooling rack. Store in loosely covered container in refrigerator or at room temperature. Makes about 3 dozen cookies.
Recipe added to the Library.
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Post by drlj on Sept 1, 2024 16:37:31 GMT -5
Cereal flakes with granola and mulberries. MULBERRIES???🤯 |
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Post by millring on Sept 1, 2024 17:38:05 GMT -5
Dar would tell you I'm boring because I have the same breakfast just about every day. I have to have eggs or breakfast will be the last thing I do all day. I bonk on carbs only. So, summer days I have three eggs over easy, three sausage links, wheaties with blueberries. Winter I have the eggs and sausage, but have oatmeal with raisins and craisins. Sometimes I'll switch to eggs VERY easy, bacon, and grits. It's not pretty, but I chop all that up and eat it like egg, bacon, grits soup. I'll usually have whole grain toast -- maybe my favorite is with too much butter and cinnamon sugar. Sometimes I'll go on an English muffin with marmalade jag.
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Post by howard lee on Sept 2, 2024 10:15:26 GMT -5
Hey! Now you can enjoy the "Goldberg Variations" while you savor your breakfast variations!
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