Your Favorite Breakfast....

[polly4711]

Hello all.... I find myself often eating strange items for breakfast, but preferring this to "traditional" breakfast foods....

I recently spruced up something traditioal and it got me all excited... Hot oatmeal with Yogurt mixed in. It's so yummy and very filling without laying heavily in the tummy.

Others of my favorite include toast with a sweet potato spread on top, with a piece of grilled chicken and green beens (as a sandwich).


::::: Tell me what you do....

[papaver]

greek yogurt with muesli, fresh blueberries and honey....hmmmmmm.

[Zen]

Oatmeal with peanut butter and banana or cold pizza.

[papaver]

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sandwich n° 1: yum!
sandwich n° 2: yuck!
sandwich n° 3: hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
sandwich n° 4: oooooohhhhhmmmmmmmm :D

[TxDoc]

Mornings when I'm going to work:
eggs, bacon, hash browns, sausage, bread. Sometimes if I have time to turn on the deep fryer then I replace the sausage with fried chicken breast. If I have fresh avocados in the house I add a few slices.
Mornings when I am off from work and I can go ride: :D
Pasta with tomato sauce or meat sauce or egg sauce, and parmesan cheese on top.
Ok, now I am hungry again...

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

My favorite breakfasts are when we go to Ralph's Pretty Good Cafe in our little town, which we do about three times a week. Great latte, great croissants...
We like it way better than going out to dinner, plus it's our chance to visit friends and neighbors. Everyone does table hopping at Ralph's...
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[tulip]

clafoutis aux pommes. It's like a big puffy apple pancake. It's very easy to make, and you can make it with cherries or pears, too. I like it with warm apricot marmelade. I can't forget my cup of Irish Breakfast tea with milk and sugar.

[Zen]

Cap N' Crunch, Fruit Loops, Rice Krispies

[Susan Otcenas]

clafoutis aux pommes. It's like a big puffy apple pancake. It's very easy to make, and you can make it with cherries or pears, too. I like it with warm apricot marmelade.

Recipe, please!! :D

[Susan Otcenas]

I'm a big fan of hot cereal for breakfast.

My typical breakfast is:

1) a bowl of hot cereal (oatmeal or one of the Bob's Red Mill grain cereals like 5 Grain with Flaxseed or 10 grain) with sunflower seeds or toasted soynuts on top.
2) 1/2 grapefruit
3) cup of tea

This is my breakfast probably 6 days out of 7. Sometimes I might have a bit of non-fat yogurt as well, or a different kind of fruit.

Susan

[Aint Doody]

uncooked oatmeal and uncooked steel cut oats with fresh fruit (preferably blueberries) and walnuts and 1% milk. On the run--Wasabrod with peanut butter or Nutella

[7rider]

::::: Tell me what you do....

Toasted and buttered bagel or english muffin with melted cheese.

[tulip]

Recipe, please!! :D

I don't have a recipe; I just make it. I learned from my mother, who learned when she was an au-pair in France in the early 1960s. Here's what I do. It's a particularly good way to use up apples. You can also used cherries or pears. I've never tried the pears, but I bet it would be delicious.

peel and cut the apples, however many you have. Saute them in a bit of butter until they are soft. You can add some cinnamon if you like. You should saute them in a cast iron skillet or Le Creuset type enamel cast iron dutch oven thing because the whole thing is going to go into the oven.

make a batter from flour, milk, eggs (or egg substitute if you prefer), a pinch of salt, a bit of sugar, and vanilla. Since I don't have any vanilla right now, I used some whiskey and it was great. It's just for flavoring.

Mix all that into a thin batter, the consistency of heavy cream.

While all this is happening, set your oven to 450.

When the apples are pretty soft, but not mushy, pour the batter over the apples and put the whole thing in the oven.

Bake until it's puffy and toasty-brown on top. It depends on how much you make, but I think I typically bake it for about 30 minutes, but it depends.

The puffiness will go down as it cools, but it's still really good. You can eat it while it's hot, or let it cool. Since I live alone, I always have leftovers for the next morning.

It's very good with maple syrup, or warm apricot preserves or something like that. It would also be good with vanilla yogurt.

[Tuckervill]

Aint Doody, to you not heat it up, either? I just pour hot water over my old-fashioned oats, which doesn't really cook it. But I like it hot.

Karen

[malkin]

I stir rolled oats into my yogurt and put fruit in it.
But I don't eat it until I get to work, because I feel better that way.

[Brandy]

3 egg whites and one whole egg, scrambled and either:

bagel with cream cheese and jam

whole wheat toast with peanut butter and jam

[PamNY]

clafoutis aux pommes. It's like a big puffy apple pancake. It's very easy to make, and you can make it with cherries or pears, too. .

Sounds yum. There's a cherry clafouti recipe in my Vegetarian Epicure book. I love it, but I totally am impressed that you make it for breakfast.

I have kefir mixed with grape juice and boosted with whey protein powder. Plus half a peanut butter sandwich. Or Nutella, but I'm usually not responsible enough to have that in the house.

Pam

[hipmama]

In cold months I love scrambled eggs with black beans and hot sauce, either on its own or rolled into a wrap.
Also- steel cut oats cooked in a crockpot overnight with nuts and cranberries in there.
Warmer months, whole grain breads with nut butter and fresh fruit- bananas and granola-
homemade yogurt sundae- layer yogurt with frozen berries, fresh berries, bananas, granola, etc.

[sundial]

Special K with protein, a few banana chips, mac nuts, and a teaspoon of Nutella on the side. Or, a slice of bread with some Nutella and natural peanut butter mixed together.

[skinimini]

I'm really pretty regimented (and boring) with breakfast. 3-4 days per week, just whole grain cereal, skim milk, and fruit. On the days I work out at the gym, either peanut butter toast, and sliced bananas or two poached eggs and wheat toast.

However, 2x per year (Christmas and Easter), I cook a big southern breakfast--homemade buttermilk biscuits, stone-ground grits (cooked the slow way), poached or scrambled eggs. When I became a vegetarian the breakfast meats left (along with the milk gravy made with bacon drippings). No one in my family has ever complained about the lack of bacon and sausage. My biscuits with jam are too good!

[cosc]

I've eaten Cascadian Farms Organic "Honey and Oat Granola" for breakfast most mornings for a couple of years. I put in cranberries or fresh fruit. The cinnamon raisin variety is awful.

[surgtech1956]

I like oatmeal with an english muffin(with PB) or french toast. I started working a different shift, 6:30a-5p. I haven't been eating before I leave for work(leaving the house 5:50a) and usually have time at work around 7:30a and have bringing cold cereal, or english muffin w/PB or yogurt. I'm going to make a batch of oatmeal for a few days, bring it to work and heat it up. Anyone know how oatmeal warms up?

[OakLeaf]

It warms up fine, although you may want to dilute it with a little more water before cooking. Usually if I make steel cut oats I make several days' worth. It's too much cooking for just one day's breakfast.


Anyway, my breakfast: on cold days, oatmeal with PB and raisins or other dried fruit. On warm days, cold cereal with a handful of nuts and fresh fruit.

[Susan Otcenas]

Tulip - thanks for posting your method. It sounds fabulous. I don't have the proper type of pan, however, so I'm out of luck for the moment...

[alacarte]

My usual breakfast is an egg and egg whites scrambled with spinach and a laughing cow wedge. I also toast up a couple of mini pitas from Trader Joes.

[seychelle]

-Whole grain toast with natural peanut butter (hate any other kind), skim milk
-Oatmeal made with skim milk and added natural peanut butter and fruit - either blueberries, cranberries or banana
-Cappuccino and lately light orange juice with calcium

[ZenSojourner]

Sometimes I like milk toast for breakfast - cheap white bread toast, crumbled up into warm milk and butter.

Other times I like oatmeal with a little milk, fake sugar, and 2 pieces of buttered toast and a large glass of milk

Or rice krispies with bananas cut up into it (and fake sugar). With milk.

Or if I'm feeling particularly industrious, I'll make upma, which you can think of as curried cream of wheat. you fry up spices - mustard seed, neem leaf, cumin seed, a little bit of urad and chana dal, in a little oil. Add some onions and potatoes diced really small. when that's about cooked add tomato puree and simmer (make sure the potatoes are done before the next step). Then add water and cream of wheat. I eat it with soy sauce, a really nasty habit I picked up from my ex, it's like putting ketchup on your cottage cheese to Indians. But that's the way I learned to eat it, so that's what seems normal to me.

I almost never have that much ambition in the morning though.

[cylegoddess]

Im going to make that apple thingie, with quinoa flour. It sounds like apple cobbler! Yum! Maybe with cherries...
I dont eat much, when Im riding to work.
Two bananas and a bottle of apple blackcurrant. but for tea( 11 am) I have fresh veggies cut up( my current fave is radish, garlic, carrot sprouts, green bell peppers,tomato, cucumber and any thing else that strikes my fancy) with four tablspoons of hot okra curry poured over as dressing( the spicier the better as its flavors the veggies more), Oh and some halumi.( Fried cheese, like a grilled cheese without bread. I cant have grain).
Now that is cold, Im going to need a hot brekkie and that sounds like a good idea.( that apple thingie) Does it microwave well?Ihave to get up at 530 amanyhow to get to work on time, so Im not cooking it!

[Caroline]

Before a 100k+ epic weekend ride in the mountains I would have porridge with dried fruits and tea and a banana. Sometimes I'd just have a couple of slices of toasts with scrambled eggs instead.
On a work day ,,, just tea and toasts :)

[kacie tri-ing]

I love breakfast! Sometimes I go to bed looking forward to it!

2 eggs and toast, or oatmeal with peanut butter, or cereal, or or or....mmmmmm I would much rather just have breakfast 3 times a day!

[Karma007]

My daily breakfast is toast, soymilk and fruit, or Kashi GOLean, soymilk and fruit, but my FAVORTIE breakfast is Lemon Cornmeal Waffles with Blueberry Sauce, or if I'm out waffles with strawberries.

[bmccasland]

but my FAVORTIE breakfast is Lemon Cornmeal Waffles with Blueberry Sauce, or if I'm out waffles with strawberries.

Oooo that sounds good! Do you have a recipe for the lemon cornmeal waffles? preddy pleeeasssee?:p

[Karma007]

Oooo that sounds good! Do you have a recipe for the lemon cornmeal waffles? preddy pleeeasssee?:p

You bet! I'm at work right now, but it's on my to do list. They're vegan, but don't contain anything unusual. The leftovers are awesome toasted...okay, now I'm craving them. Maybe Sunday...

[Reesha]

There was a time when I would have a slice of ezekiel bread with raw honey and almond butter-- so delicious!!! It was the perfect companion to two eggs. Alas, I'm trying to cut back on the carbohydrates that aren't from fruits and vegetables!

[shootingstar]

I love breakfast! Sometimes I go to bed looking forward to it!

2 eggs and toast, or oatmeal with peanut butter, or cereal, or or or....mmmmmm I would much rather just have breakfast 3 times a day!

Some of you have amazing breakfasts. The only time I've ever made any egg dish for breakfast would be when we have an overnight guest...if they wanted it. If I make scrambled egg (which really is homemade egg foo young with veggies thrown in) or similar, it's for supper.

I'm hopelessly lazy and robot-like for breakfast. Sorta the same with minor variations: Usually 1/2 c. of microwaved oatmeal with abit of skim milk. With cup of tea. Sometimes with fresh fruit.

Or if we happen to have certain ingredients in fridge..melted soy cheese on a small slice of bakery bread.
Next few breakfasts this wk., I will savour multi-grain saffron and pecan baguette slices. Very interesting bread!

[surgtech1956]

Just bought some Instant Maple/Brown Sugar Cream of Wheat, its actually pretty good. I've never had cream of wheat.

[Kalidurga]

I have a new favorite breakfast, courtesy of Cafe Nola (http://www.cafe-nola.com/kitchen.html) (one of my favorite Maryland coffee shop/cafes): Eggs Benedict Portabella-- poached eggs, mozzarella cheese, and spinach on a portabella mushroom cap, generously dressed with hollandaise... Oh my :p

[Kelly728]

Peanut butter and banana sandwich
oatmeal with a banana
cottage cheese mixed with yogurt
egg whites, a bit of cheese and spinach, a dash of OLD BAY on a pita
...but my guilty pleasure is frosted mini wheats

[podium junkie]

Breakfast for me during the week is oatmeal with diced apples, flax seed and walnuts. Keeps me full for hours.
If I'm in a real rush, I'll just toast a couple of Blueberry whole wheat Eggo Waffles and smother them in butter and maple spread. Takes a whole lot of willpower to eat just two. A bagel with butter or cream cheese will do in a pinch also.
Used to love French Toast, or a nice cheese omlette on the weekends but have recently developed an allergy to eggs.:(