I’m planning on getting up early on New Years and making a special breakfast for two.
Our ‘default’ at-home breakfasts might be scrambled eggs, maybe pancakes, maybe homefries or a veggie hash. I want to ‘up the game’ a bit.
Any thoughts? What do you love for breakfast, but maybe takes just a little too long, or takes an extra trip to the grocery store? Sadly, if it ever walked on land or flew through the air, it’s not an option.
Sausage links with maple syrup. Eggs, scrambled, topped with a bit of shredded cheddar cheese. White toast with butter, cut diagonally. Orange juice.
I almost never have all seven of these items at the same time.
Hard to pick a favorite. I’d offer three:
Hash brown potatoes topped with fried eggs. Bacon on the side.
Biscuits topped with sausage gravy and a fried egg.
Savory steel cut oatmeal flavored with thyme, topped with crumbled bacon and - yup - a fried egg.
Cheese sandwich/bagel and cream cheese, bacon, smoked salmon, a really nice cup of tea.
Yeah, I know, it’s simple. It’s still my favorite.
The spouse likes a “scrambled mess” omelet with eggs (duh!), bell peppers and mushrooms with toast.
For Christmas morning my sister made a stada with spinach and gruyere.
I make an egg bake : a bag of frozen hash browns then egg , cheese and whatever poured on top. Bake until done
Brian
My GF makes these breakfast muffins that I absolutely love.
Basically, muffins stuffed with sausage, egg and cheese. Topped off with cinnamon butter while it’s still warm.
I agree that it’s hard to pick a favourite. Saturday breakfasts are usually freshly-grated hashbrowns topped with two over-easy eggs, with bacon on the side.
On the rare occasion we go out (‘Why go out, when you cook so much better?’ she says!) I like chicken-fried steak. I’ve made this at home. If that counts, even though I don’t make it often, then I’ll have to go with chicken-fried steak, hashbrowns, sausage gravy, and over-easy eggs.
A big skillet of potatoes, veggies, sausage and cheese, with two eggs over-easy on top. When you break the eggs, they cover the skillet in eggy deliciousness.
And my all-time favorite drink, the mimosa.
Yeast raised Belgium waffles.
I have a nice French toast casserole I like.
Dutch Baby’s are easy, but impressive. Ditto for popovers.
Buttermilk blueberry pancakes, smothered in melted butter and real maple syrup, with breakfast sausage, bacon, and ham on the side. Served with a pot of strong black coffee and a jug of orange juice.
My go to is pretty simple. I fry a few eggs hard with cheddar cheese on top and then some fruit (usually a banana or grapes). To switch up I sometimes have sunny side eggs with toast and fruit.
Two eggs, over easy.
Three strips of bacon.
One piece of whole grain toast.
Fresh fruit of some sort.
Hot tea with milk.
(Any more bread, meat, etc, would be too much for me!)
Bagels and lox. some onions and capers if you like.
I do a killer oatmeal.
Bring two measures of apple juice to a boil, add raisins to plump, and season with aromatic spices like cloves, allspice, cinnamon. Add a measure of regular oats, and keep stirring it on high heat constantly until as thick as you like it, the oats will be al-dente like in granola. Top with brown sugar and sour cream. Takes about five minutes. (If I don’t have any apple juice, I use little packets of apple-cider mix which I keep on hand for that purpopse.)
Also, French Toast is a great no-fuss quickie.
This time of year, ,when I always have cranberry whole-berry sauce, I stir that into pancake batter. Or, mix cranberry sauce with sour cream for pancake topping, instead of syrup.
Big bowl of creamy grits, topped with shredded cheddar, topped with a couple of over-hard eggs, topped with a couple strips of bacon. Buttered sourdough toast on the side. I have this at least twice a month; more often in the wintertime.
I love thisfor breakfast, with slight variations: peaches instead of the apples and raisins, and I’ll use equal parts of cinnamon and nutmeg. It’s a huge hit in our family.
Two eggs, over medium. Can’t handle runny whites! But, runny yokes, yeah!
Flop them on top of hash brown potatoes, add salt, pepper, Tabasco sauce and mix.
Buttered (the real stuff) sour bread toast to help the eggs, etc. on to the fork.
Some JD sausage patties also with Tabasco sauce.
Freshly ground coffee.
If there is toast left over, top it with jam. Wash down with more coffee.
Odds of me having all the ingredients at one time? Zero.
If I had all the ingredients, odds of me preparing it, zero. Just ain’t no fun eating it alone.
My favorite is homemade, soft pretzels. They’re a bit labor-intensive and require some planning, but they make a great breakfast.
Second is Eggs Benedict. This is our traditional Christmas breakfast. I’m still perfecting the “poaching many eggs at one time” but I’m pretty good with the hollandaise.
Most common and yummy is a bacon/egg/cheese sandwich.
The pretzels would meet your “never walked/flew/etc” requirement, btw.
Breakfast sandwich: english muffin, butter, marmite, onion, poached egg, summer sausage, hot sauce, 5 year old cheddar, sun-dried tomato
Oat groats with maple syrup (from our own tree) and cinnamon (from someone else’s tree) on the side.
Spicy V-8
Espresso
Puff Pancake with lemon and sugar, orange juice, Greek coffee.
