What's your favorite breakfast?

[Flaxbee]

If you like breakfast, that is.

Just watched "Top Chef" (as an aside, I don't really like the host or the celebu-judges, but some of the challenges are interesting) and the elimination challenge was making a breakfast. Now I'm starving.

I LOVE breakfast foods, pretty much any time of the day.

I like a mix of sweet and salty - pancakes with eggs (over easy or hard boiled or scrambled...), eggs with some sort of veggie meat product thingie (Boca products), or waffles with cottage cheese. Or, I love potatoes, eggs, some sort of faux-veggie-meat hash product and of course, excellent toast. Not light anemic toast, but almost burned, dark toast - wheat, rye or pumpernickel - with butter.

Fresh orange juice. Good coffee.

How about you?

[BarenakedLady]

1. Coffee (n/t)

[Flaxbee]

2. so what time do you start thinking about food?

do you have a hard time eating before noon? My ex-bf was like that - on weekends I'd want to make these huge piles of pancakes and eggs and he'd just turn green and plead for nothing but coffee.

I was EXTREMELY spoiled as a child - Mom would bring me big breakfasts - eggs, pancakes, oatmeal, whatever - every single morning until I went to college. It became such a part of my day I still have to have something in the morning, even if it's just coffee and a banana - can't function otherwise.

[BarenakedLady]

6. Well

Atm I'm having a bit of an "issue" with food. But before (when I was a relatively normal person :crazy:) I couldn't really eat until noon or later.

[Beausoir]

3. Absolutely, without a doubt, Eggs Benedict.

With real hollandaise, of course. And some fresh wedges of lemon.

Nothing like it. I adore it. It would probably be my last meal if I had to make a choice.

[deadparrot]

4. Depends...

If I'm in the mood for sweet, a Belgian waffle with strawberries and whipped cream.

If I don't have a sweet tooth, an omlette with tomatoes and mushrooms. :9

[Flaxbee]

9. see, I can never decide, so I order or make both sweet AND

salty... ;-)

[crim son]

5. Just coffee.

Food in the morning always sounds foul.

[SPKrazy]

7. Toast and Tea!

or maybe some coffee, cappucino is nice

caffeine please

and a little something to absorb the acid in my stomach that will create is all I ask:rofl:

[Kali]

Pizza! Duh.

[Flaxbee]

11. well, yeah - that too

though the pizza rarely lasts long enough in this house to become breakfast...

[Kali]

15. Tell me about it! If we eat at the pizza place the leftovers rarely make it the drive home!

[Jean Louise Finch]

8. Oh yummmmmm

I also love breakfast. Have you ever been to Melbourne, Australia? Hands down the best and greatest breakfast I've ever had. It's worth the plane ticket just to go to the Hot Poppy.

My perfect breakfast: Good, crunchy sourdough toast with butter and vegemite, topped with runny poached eggs. Roasted mushrooms, spinach and tomatoes on the side, and maybe a little avocado. A big fresh-squeezed grapefruit juice and a perfectly made black coffee.

My other favorite simple breakfast is Wheat Chex with unsweetened soy milk. That is heaven.

[Flaxbee]

10. OH. MY. GOD.

now I'm reaaallly hungry. That sounds amazing. Never been to Melbourne, but I'll make a mental note of "Hot Poppy" just in case I ever get there...

[Jean Louise Finch]

13. I made myself starving, too!

I am salivating all over my desk. Hee hee.

Melbourne has the best food of any city I've ever been to; it's got good everything, but the breakfast (especially for me, Breakfast Adorer) really blows everything else out of the water.

[Left Is Write]

12. I love big, traditional style breakfasts including eggs, meat...

some kind of bread (English muffin, bagel, toast, pancakes, coffee cake), cheese, juice or fruit, and coffee; however, what I eat the vast majority of the time is whole grain cereal with 1% milk and a couple cups of coffee.

[Flaxbee]

17. same here - usually oatmeal (with raisins and/or nuts) or cereal

and always fruit, either berries or bananas. I'll make a big breakfast any time I've got time, which isn't often....

[Flaxbee]

14. (I'm adding to my first post... kinda) I also really like "European"

breakfasts -- when I've been in Italy, Finland, even in Turkey and Russia, breakfasts come with flatbreads, cheeses, olives, cucumber, salami and other sliced meats... and this hotel in Porvoo, Finland had the best oatmeal/porridge/hot breakfast cereal I've ever had in my life. And divine croissants. The breakfast buffet at the Astoria Hotel in St. Petersburg is also incredible. My favorite part of my first trip to Russia - breakfasts at the Astoria, afternoons in the Hermitage.

Sigh.

[Kali]

18. oh yeah - Turkish breakfast - olives and cheese, yum

and that cherry/honey preserve. And the tea! And soups for breakfast in Asia. I love "regular" food for breakfast.

[Jean Louise Finch]

29. And quince paste in turkey!

Oh, that is truly glorious. I should have thought of the white cheese/olives/breads/hard-boiled eggs and other treats that I ate in Turkey and on a totally random jaunt to Azerbaijan. There is something to it; ESPECIALLY the apple tea.

Here in Thailand, the best breakfast is something called "bammi haeng" which is egg noodles, peanuts, chili, sprouts, and a bit of sugar with homemade fish balls. oh, it's a happy and divine thing, but my perfect breakfast is still what i outlined above!

[gr8dane_daddy]

16. Born and raised in Texas...

Huevos Rancheros con frijoles y papas.

[Kali]

19. oh yeah and Mexican breakfasts!

Hey I'm getting hungry.

[Flaxbee]

21. hot tortillas, scrambled eggs with cheese and peppers, and

salsa - divine.

Have to go to the grocery store tomorrow!

[u4ic]

24. Mine's similar!

scrambled eggs with lots of mushrooms, green onion, red and green peppers, (and sometimes kielbassa), sprinkled with cheese, put in a warm (rice) tortilla, and add lots of salsa.

Another is a spinach, mushroom, potato and onion frittata.

:9

[Phillycat]

38. I had that for dinner last night!

With sour cream and cheese. :9

[BreweryYardRat]

20. Proper Southern food.

Grits with scrambled eggs and sausage mixed in, plus biscuits and donuts.

Problem is, eating that constantly will make you fat.

[Flaxbee]

22. my husband is from South Carolina - introduced me to

grits with cheese. Good stuff.

I was a big donut fan for a while, now not so much... though Krispy Kreme is everywhere I turn (we're now in NC)!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

23. I love breakfast!

At home, it's nearly always the same......

Orange juice while I assemble the rest.......

Then, a big glass of skim milk, and a slice of (usually) whole wheat toast, smothered in peanut butter and jam......

Sometimes a piece of cantaloupe or some berries with my toast......

Coffee afterwards, while I read the paper...

I love my breakfast!

:hi:

[Flaxbee]

25. peanut butter on warm toast so the pb gets all melty --

very very good, too!

I'm suprised no one's mentioned bagels and cream cheese, or bialys -- another favorite of mine, though after moving from NYC I haven't had many good bagels. Can't find a decent one where I live, unfortunately!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

27. Once in a blue moon I will have a toasted bagel..........

Cream cheese and lox are a little slice of heaven!

We have an excellent bakery near here where their bagels, and their bread, not to mention all their baked goods are just outstanding!

:9

[Tyo]

26. Japanese

White rice with dried seaweed and natto, a slice of grilled salmon or cod, miso soup, salted radishes, green tea.

If I'm going Western, I like grits with butter and molasses, scrambled eggs, grilled sausages, and chicory coffee.

Sometimes a Bloody Mary is nice.

[Jean Louise Finch]

30. natto!

oh yum! I get fierce glares whenever I order it, but I think it's just divine and have heard that in Japan it's a breakfast thing. I'm very keen indeed to try it out. And salted radishes sound like heaven.

I am now the most starving person in the world. This thread is killing me!

[Tyo]

36. Natto is the greatest

We are going to try making our own. You can buy the culture.

[Missy Vixen]

28. I love breakfast, too

My favorite? Scrambled eggs with cheese. A couple of strips of bacon. Hash browns, crispy. One pancake. Maybe some orange juice. My husband makes breakfast on weekend mornings as a treat for me.

I'm in heaven, and I'm not hungry again till dinnertime.

Julie

[sarge43]

31. BLT, home fries, orange juice and coffee

Bacon crisp, but not burnt, whole wheat lightly toasted, fresh lettuce and juicy tomatoes, smear mayo. Home fries cooked in olive oil with diced peppers and onions, oj fresh squeezed. Skull popping coffee.

[noonwitch]

32. Big Boy's breakfast buffet

Every once in a while, not all the time.

[MissMillie]

33. scrambled eggs w/ salsa

slice of wheat toast w/ orange marmalade.

coffee


:hi:

[cobalt1999]

34. When I lived in New Zealand

I got used to eating spaghetti for breakfast. It's quite good as a breakfast and you can make dinner with the leftovers becoming breakfast.

[Binka]

35. Special K, Low Fat Cottage Cheese, & Salsa W/ Tabasco Sauce

In a big ole bowl! I never eat after 6 pm so I am starving in the morning. Breakfast and Lunch are my major meals with 2 or 3 fruit or veg snacks along the way. I'm 47 and I have eaten this way for the past 20 years. I am 5-9 and 127 pounds. I also run between 45-65 miles a week. Heavy fatty foods make me ill. Food is fuel to me. I have never been a "comfort" eater.

Try my fav breakfast! It looks AWFUL but tastes GREAT.

[mainegreen]

37. Dutch Babies

[Phillycat]

39. Everything bagel, toasted, lox, whitefish salad, cucumber, red onion

and capers.

OH YEAH. :drool:

[Rambis]

40. Full Irish with Pic

[GenDem]

46. Loved the Irish breakfast!

with one exception...the blood pudding. Tried it...hated it.

My favorite breakfast here in the states is - a vegetable frittata w/ asparagus, mushrooms, onions, green peppers, and lots of swiss cheese. Yummmm!

[slackmaster]

41. Mushroom and cheese omlette, avocado, salsa, grapefruit

Coffee, black.

[montanto]

42. Olive Garden isn't open for breakfast.

other than that, breast milk and a few smokes.

[jobycom]

43. Grits and a glass of OJ. nt.

[cwydro]

44. I love ALL breakfasts

had a bowl of Cocoa Krispies today...and then a hard boiled egg when I got to work.

[Mrs. Venation]

45. Biscuits and Sausage Gravy

That is ambrosia!

[dysfunctional press]

47. currently- it's the McDonald's #2 w/medium coke...

i've become addicted.

that being said, the Salmon eggs hollandaise at the tre kronor at the corner is probably one of the best things going, tho.

[Saphire]

48. here in south texas: chicken and quacamole taco's....Mmmmm!

[bearfan454]

49. 2 over easy,

ham, hash browns, toast and coffee.