The most important meal of the day!

[Missy Hellfire]

Following on from my thread enquiring of people's appreciation of kippers http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?54579-Kippers it got me wondering about breakfast.

I think that breakfast is my favourite meal of the day although in the week I am guilty of skipping it when I am in a rush to get to work. At the weekend however I love to indulge myself in a decent breakfast. I favour the Full English breakfast, the contents of my plate usually consisting of sausages, bacon, eggs (fried or scrambled), tomatoes, black pudding, occasionally a piece of fried bread should the mood take me and a good strong cup of breakfast tea completes the picture. On occasion, the full breakfast is eschewed in favour of kippers with egg and toast or eggs benedict. One breakfast indulgence that I shan't forget was on the Orient Express, crumpets with scrambled egg, smoked salmon and caviar, washed down with champagne. Bliss!

Fellow loungers, what is your favourite breakfast and why? Do you prefer a traditional, time honoured repast or are you modern in your tastes? Also, the fried breakfast is a time honoured British tradition; does the place where you are from have a traditional or favoured breakfast?

I look forward to seeing your replies!

 

[John in Covina]

Breakfast is a great meal I rarely get to indulge in. Having a selection of eggs in a variety of styles is great, though I love pancakes, waffles and french toast too. I can wander over the merits of bacon or sausage but also love good corn beef hash. I enjoy eggs benedict but also love some of the Mexican twists on breakfast too.

I have had the cream of rice in Oslo Norway that will knock your socks off. In the winter i won't turn my nose up at hot cereals.

Now and then there is something warm and soothing to soft boiled eggs with buttered toast.

In the USA many coffee shops and diners have part or all of their breakfast menu available 24 hours a day because they know that breakfast is comfort food and most is both quick and easy to prepare.
In the morning many fast food places have inexpensive breakfast offerings with some type of egg sandwich at the head of the list.

For me coffee is a much needed component.

One place that i usually get breakfast is when in Las Vegas. I normally drive in early in the day.o some sight seeing, register. go out for more sight seeing and wind up asleep exhausted pretty early in the evening. The next morning I am up and get to the buffet sometimes before they open. Here like at the Gold Coast the food is fairly fresh, well made for buffet food and there is a wide variety of choices. You can get an omelet at the omelet bar. They have regional and international specialties along with all of the usual breakfast items. OJ, coffee and a milk, and the sampling begins.

I'm hungry now.

 

[Yeps]

For me, breakfast is pretty much just coffee and some cookies or a granola bar. Some fruit is great if I have it, but I normally don't.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I have the same breakfast every day -- two eggs, scrambled (without milk), three strips of bacon, a buttered english muffin, and a very strong cup of Red Rose tea. The eggs are always New England brown eggs -- "brown eggs are local eggs, and local eggs are fresh."

Saturday mornings I go out to breakfast, and have two eggs, scrambled, a side of sausage, buttered white toast, and a cup of Lipton tea. Variety is the spice of life.

 

[Pompidou]

My usual breakfast is just a cup of coffee. Sometimes I like to go down to the diner and get bacon, eggs, sausage, toast, homefries, and pancakes - their house big breakfast platter that I can't remember the name of.

 

[Puzzicato]

I did a whole blog post about breakfast recently! http://foodycat.blogspot.com/2011/02/most-important-meal-of-day.html My husband works away during the week, so our time together on weekends is particularly important, and since I am a food=love kind of girl that means we eat a lot! Since that post I have also made eggs benedict, scrambled eggs with smoked salmon and ham & eggs.

 

[Smithy]

Missy,

Way back in the dim, dark days, well 2007 actually I started a thread for brekkie with the exact same title...

http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?20689-The-most-important-meal-of-the-day!&highlight=

Funny to see it again, my breakfast tends to be a lot healthier now, and bacon and eggs ends up on the plate as a monthly treat.

Cheers.

 

[scottyrocks]

During the week its a bit rushed, but on the weekend, I usually make eggs - I LOVE eggs - scrambled, easy-over, soft-boiled, rocky-mountain style ('eggy-toast' for you east-of-the-ponders), or poached. I like them with bacon, usually turkey bacon, whole wheat toast with butter and American or cheddar cheese.

Sometimes we make pancakes, and if I'm lucky I manage to scrape up some bagels with cream cheese and nova scotia lox, or egg salad and lox and tomatoes.

Coffee with everything.

 

[Missy Hellfire]

Smithy - Apologies for duplicating your thread, I did a search for breakfast related threads but I obviously didn't search effectively enough!

I do love eggs, the best I have had was a Two Fat Ladies (wonderful cookery programme) recipe that involved seperating off a few whites and using more yolks, so very tasty! In fact I may pop to the shops early tomorrow and get mysef a box of eggs...

Puzzicato - With the food=love thing I know exactly what you mean as I am just the same!

 

[Smithy]

Smithy - Apologies for duplicating your thread, I did a search for breakfast related threads but I obviously didn't search effectively enough!

No worries Missy. My old thread had run its course so it's nice to see a new one sparking some new discussion.

All this talk has prompted me to make poached eggs on toast for brunch!

 

[HoosierDaddy]

OK..now I'm good and hungry for breakfast..!
Is it acceptable to have breakfast for dinner? Well..I'm going for it! Yum Yum..

 

[LizzieMaine]

You can gauge whether or not a town or a neighborhood is truly civilized by whether it has a diner, cafe, or lunch room that serves breakfast 24 hours a day. Added livability points if there are non-ironic signs on the wall advertising "2 Eggs Any Style."

A proper breakfast requires a proper newspaper, too. The Boston Globe is as much a part of my breakfast as the bacon.

 

[Pompidou]

You can gauge whether or not a town or a neighborhood is truly civilized by whether it has a diner, cafe, or lunch room that serves breakfast 24 hours a day. Added livability points if there are non-ironic signs on the wall advertising "2 Eggs Any Style."

A proper breakfast requires a proper newspaper, too. The Boston Globe is as much a part of my breakfast as the bacon.

My town has a diner - Daybreak Diner. It's pretty sincere, I think. It meets all your requirements except 24 hours. I wish it were. There really aren't any places to get food 24 hours a day. I'm hoping to crack that market myself. I'm a big fan of after hours eating, and hopefully I'm not alone. I like to read while I eat, but a full newspaper feels unwieldy to me, so I usually use my phone as an e-reader to the same end. I need my daily news and coffee, and I love bacon.

 

[scottyrocks]

Is it acceptable to have breakfast for dinner? Well..I'm going for it! Yum Yum..

We used to go to IHOP once a week for dinner. Most often, it was a pancake-n-omelet affair.

 

[fluteplayer07]

I love breakfast, but rarely have the time for it.

I took a little trip out of town today, to this great restaurant which I try and frequent whenever I have the time. I ate off their breakfast menu today, and got the Huevos con Chorizo. Delicious! Local eggs scrambled with their homemade chorizo, over handmade local tortillas. I ordered a side of breakfast fries (which come fried with bell peppers and onions) and some of their homemade green pepper salsa. The best breakfast I've had in a long time!

Anyone in MI has to eat at Zingerman's once in their lives... A culinary mecca.

 

[rue]

Breakfast for me during the week is 8 o'clock coffee and either a poached egg on dry toast or cereal (Kelloggs corn flakes or Quaker Oatmeal Squares). I make a bacon egg and cheese sandwich for my husband every morning for him to eat on the way to work and my daughter eats either cereal or whatever I made to last for the week like coffee cake or bacon and cheese scones. On the weekend, when we eat together as a family, it's any number of things.... french toast, pancakes, biscuits and gravy.... etc. We love breakfast in this house

 

[LordBest]

At home I have porridge with milk and honey on weekdays, English Breakfasts on weekends. My ideal breakfast is the aforementioned English Breakfast with devilled kidneys, seldom manage that though. Can't face much cooking until after I've had a pot of tea and an English Breakfast, by which point another would seem rather extravagent.

At university I have a protein drink, as anything cooked in the communal kitchen comes out tasting of curry for some reason.

I loath cereals, excluding my mothers homemade muesli mix. I have a particular aversion to Weeties, the smell of them with hot milk makes me physically ill.

 

[BinkieBaumont]

Im ever-so boring two soft boiled eggs and two slices of toast cut in to soldiers every day

 

[Adcurium]

I love breakfast but don't have it much during the week. Well, I drink coffee from the moment I wake up until I leave the office at the end of the day, but I only eat 2 days or so, during the week. Usually something like a banana and nutella (which compliment French press coffee perfectly!).
On Saturdays, after gymnastics or swim class or whatever my daughter is up to that day, we go to one of our many local diners for a full breakfast. Sundays are usually croissants from our local coffee shop (the best I've ever had, outside of Paris, btw). And they taste best outside on my back deck.

 

[FRASER_NASH]

Porridge made with milk, maple syrup and sometimes a dash of Scotch yum!