It can be a struggle to get through the second half of the day.
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Or so we’ve been told. I don’t like eating first thing in the morning. I like to start the day with coffee, then a few hours later, some yogurt and fruit or a protein shake. I like breakfast foods, but I’d rather have them for dinner. If I ate a stereotypical American breakfast so early in the day I’d need a nap. And maybe a defibrillator.
Reading this article in AFAR, my breakfast habits are more Australian or Argentinian than American. But I’m intrigued by Malaysia’s nasi lemak sweet coconut rice garnished with some combination of anchovies, cucumbers, roasted peanuts, hard-boiled eggs, and a spicy Malaysian hot sauce. Hold the anchovies. And Myanmar’s mohinga, a fish broth base loaded with rice noodles, lemongrass, ginger, onions, and chickpea flour and is sometimes topped with fried fritters, split chickpeas, or boiled eggs. That sounds like a lighter, delicious first meal of the day.
How do you break your fast, deadsplinters?
I always make a latte first thing, that’s a given. Lately I’ve been wandering back downstairs for something around 10:30/11. Today it was half a left over pulled pork sandwich. A lot of times I’ll make a scrambled egg with cheese. I like being at home for breakfast, but I miss going out to lunch!
Best thing abut going out for lunch is no dishes.
So. Many. Dishes. Two people live in my house. We run the dishwasher almost every day. I started using little paper plates for snacks because it was getting ridiculous. I’m eating cheese and crackers off one now.
We’ve been running the dishwasher a lot more here too. I started buying the “paper” plates made from sugar. Have you seen those? Lessens my guilt.
I have not seen those, but I will check them out!
They’re compostable. They have straws too, and they hold up better than paper straws.
> Lately I’ve been wandering back downstairs for something around 10:30/11.
I did that too for a while this spring. then the pounds started marching in! so, I stopped! 🙂
Breakfast for Dinner is a serious thing in our house. I also agree with the nap thing.
Waffles for dinner, yum.
dinnertime here….im making a sunday roast…coz fuck monday…dis second sunday
typically tho…i have a continental breakfast…wich is to say…coffee and a cigarette
(also woah…i got a seriously beefy font going here as im typing…wierd)
Back when I smoked I called that the breakfast of champions, lol.
lol..tbh…often as not it keeps me going till dinner (with a coffee top up or two along the way)
its what im used to
that said….if someone else makes it for me…im always up for a full english
That’s happening to me too but your comment showed up roman, not bold, so I’ll give it a try.
I love breakfast for dinner, and sometimes (leftover) dinner for breakfast. When I was right out of college I was broke and used to eat corned beef hash (out of a can) and eggs for dinner two or three nights a week. Delicious! Of course that was before my metabolism left me for someone else’s body (I can only assume) and my blood pressure was of no concern.
My son and father loved “Who Hash”, and I would fry some Mary Kitchen corned beef hash up nice and crispy on the outside for them. You brought back a fond memory for me.
My dad liked corned beef hash but I never tried it. I’m glad you had a nice memory. We can use all the smiles we can get these days.
Leftover cold pizza for the breakfast win!
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Me and my wife ventured out to the Cracker Barrel this weekend and, I don’t know if it’s the fact that we hadn’t had an opportunity to dine-in, but it was some damn good breakfast. The menu is way smaller now (naturally) and I wonder if it’s had a positive effect on the quality of what they’re making, because while Cracker Barrel is rarely a bad move, this time blew us all away.
Might just be that quarantine life talking, though.
I haven’t eaten there in years, it so generic. The Applebees of breakfast. Maybe you got a good franchise.
I honestly think it has a lot to do with the fact that the menu is smaller. Especially since we went specifically during breakfast times.
I kinda want to see if a lot of restaurants have paired down what the offer. I know lots of fast food places have to streamline the process but I’d bet there’s lots of restaurants with ginormous menus only doing, like, half of what they normally do.
Then again, half of a Cheesecake Factory menu is still a decent sized young adult fiction novel.
That’s why Waffle House is so good. And I will fight anyone who disagrees. Small menu, and even the different items are just variations of the same food.
We considered going to Waffle House but figured that they were either only carryout or that seating would be so limited we’d have to wait forever.
Coffee from a gorgeous french press [https://frieling.com/product/the-frieling-french-press/] and during the week I eat hot cereal, oatmeal, steel cut oats or brown rice farina, with muesli on the top for crunch. Weekends, coffee with toast and on Sunday, soft boiled eggs, toast and sausage or bacon. I’m not sure when or why I became so rigid in my breakfast habits.
I might try the thing with anchovies though, I just found salt packed anchovies at igourmet. Love me some anchovies. [sings happy song]
I will occasionally do a breakfast rice with raisins and brown sugar if I have leftover rice. And I love soft boiled eggs with toast, but not for breakfast!
oooh, a noodle or rice bowl with a soft boiled egg on top!
yum!
I fill a 30 ounce water bottle with coffee and cream at 6:45 in the morning and drink it all day. No lunch, we eat dinner early, between 4 and 5 PM. Not because we are old people (debatable), because Keitel is often at work by 4-5 AM, and so we are in bed early.
During the week, pre-lockdown, I would have a breakfast burrito and coffee. Now, during the lockdown, I have a breakfast burrito and juice. The burrito is smothered either with Garcia’s green chile sauce or with Monroe’s red chile sauce. I’ve been doing this for years and it has never, ever gotten old.
On Saturdays it can be cereal or an English muffin, or an egg and toast. On Sundays it’s bacon, an omelette (with goat cheese and roasted red peppers that we grew last year), Eng muff and juice with Mrs. Butcher.
Yes, I am a creature of habit.
My father ate the same lunch for most of his adult life- a half cantaloupe filled with cottage cheese. And he never got tired of it.
A goat cheese and red pepper omelette sounds delicious.
We used to do blueberry pancakes on Sundays, with blueberries from our bushes. But Mrs. Butcher didn’t want them anymore, so we switched to French Toast, until she didn’t want that anymore, so now we’re on omelettes and I plan to hold the line because beyond that lies madness.
I usually take Mrs Butcher’s side but this time I’m with you.
Waffles.
Your wife wants waffles.
She’s taking a circuitous route to get there, but trust me, she wants waffles.
…for practical purposes my breakfast is most often of the coffee-with-a-side-of-more-coffee variety
…but given the time for such things I will admit that I haven’t grown out of the english breakfast…or at least part of one…generally things like mushrooms or tomatoes aren’t going to fit in the pan with the quantity of bacon I can happily plow my way through but a couple of sausages & fried eggs I can find space for
…in smaller quantities (one egg, no sausages & less bacon) breaking the yolk allows for turning the whole thing into a fits-in-a-bap (bread roll) option if you need to carry it as you eat
…however the US taught me an important lesson about the conjunction of bacon, pancakes (which I still think of as drop scones) & maple syrup…so that’s an option
…but my favorite “continental” breakfast is one I associate with France…pain au chocolat (or just a still-warm fresh baguette with a slab of chocolate wedged in it…accompanied by (& this is the key) literally a bowlful of coffee
There’s no way I could eat an English breakfast so early. And I’m not really a pancake fan. But I can see myself eating the pain au chocolate accompanied by a bowlful of coffee. I do love bread.
…I think to truly appreciate the value of the English breakfast you first need to put yourself in the mindset of living in what is for much of the year basically a not-warm, likely-raining kind of a place…the extra calories are all about keeping you warm until lunchtime & reassuring you that getting out of bed wasn’t a mistake
…mind you…it generally helps if you have somewhere to go or something you need to do that isn’t sitting at a desk…otherwise a day that starts with that kind of plateful can involve a whole lot of not-moving?
eh….i always figured the key to really really apreciating a full english
is a massive hangover
(edit)..course…im also the kind of idiot that stumbles into a pub at 11 am and orders his full english with a pint
…that is a completely respectable thing to do
…& they are like manna from heaven to the hungover
Going to an all night diner after the bars closed was a big thing in my younger days. I think we did it more to keep the party going than because we needed food, but it was fun and the grease supposedly helped with the following morning’s hangover.
That makes sense.
I love eggs benedict but have to limit how often I can do that. My wife makes cottage cheese pancakes which are light and amazing but way too much work for normal breakfast. Right now I have been so busy just do coffee and cereal. My main computer just died and I am struggling to replace or repair. I think I need a beer break not a coffee break! Anybody out there have recommendations of high end computer rig builders? Amazon doesn’t seem to have what I need from any trusted builders.
I love Eggs Benedict for brunch. We’ve got a regional chain that does fantastic variations – a green chili, cheddar corn cake with chorizo, poached egg and queso, another with crab, Hot Brown, and a veggie.
I’m afraid I can’t help with the computer rec but approve of the beer break.
my usual is a big bowl of cold cereal and whatever fruits I got on hand. a couple times a week it’s eggs sunny-side up with tea. I love soft-boiled eggs!
Soft boiled eggs are the best eggs. And my favorite part of ramen.