The perfect breakfast
Three fried eggs with a slice of homemade bacon and two cups of fresh milk - perfect.What's yours?
shareOmelette, french toast, sausage, bacon and hash browns smothered and covered.
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Omelette, french toast, sausage, bacon and hash browns smothered and covered.
shareSteak and eggs with toast and steaming , hot, black coffee.
A close second : biscuits and gravy with the same steaming, hot, black coffee.
Ever notice in all the old movies they ate eggs any chance the got.
Steak and eggs or ham and eggs.
They always had it in the fridge or ordered it when they went out.
Hey, one of the best sources of protein there is. Two dozen of the large on my shopping list for tomorrow.
shareI have nothing against eggs at all.
I eat quite a few myself.
I was just curious as to why so many people in the older movies ate this.
Was this a luxury in those days or was it more of a general staple?
It seems rich or poor they all ate this in the movies.
I never really noticed. I know in a lot of westerns, beans seemed to be a staple.
shareIt seemed like when they went out or when they came home
from a night out they always ended up making eggs and whatever they had.
Beans were definitely always a staple in westerns.
Also when the did order a steak at a saloon it was huge.
It always hung over 6 inches on the metal plate.
Those must have been the days.
It seems logical that eggs were also a staple. A lot of settlers on the frontier had chickens.
shareI know it totally makes sense.
I think about this every time I see this in a movie.
I really don't know why this bothers me.
Not really bothers me but is on my radar.
I always think "you're rich, why are you ordering eggs?"
A lot of people seemed to always have ham and bacon in the icebox.
Maybe I was just born in the wrong era.
Not only that but as free range the chickens can live off the land requiring little input. Of course free range is nothing new and is only a pretentious modern interpretation of living of the land versus being confined. Most people just three generations ago could not afford pork or beef on a regular basis so they ate chicken. Look at any old TV show or movie and most of the time they ate chicken.
Beans were a Western staple because as dry they would carry in the sack quite well w/o spoilage (before being cooked). The thing that amazed me was they way in movies they would whip up what they called stew but probably those ingredients are different than what we think off. No beef as that would not keep in a sack but probably shot a squirrel or rabbit for the meat plus the carrots and potatoes travel pretty well for a few days.
Chicken continues to be one of the best and most economical sources of protein available.
shareYes,but the ones who are raised in open spaces,feed with natural food.
shareBiscuits,in the morning?
shareYeah, why does that seem odd to you ?
shareMy breakfast, when in serious training: 8 ounces of oatmeal, cooked in water, with a pinch of salt, craisins and bee honey; followed by three fried sunny-side up fried eggs with a large scoop of corned beef hash in their center. 20 ounces of water, a fresh banana, and 10 ounces eof black coffee, plus a Centrum male multivitamin, Ginseng, a Zinc supplement, a Vitamin D supplement, and Vitamin E supplenent, to support my cardio/musculature training.
shareI don't know about Romania but in the UK a biscuit is a different thing.
It is what you guys call a cookie.
Your biscuit is similar to what we call a scone!
They do look very similar.
shareI don't know about Romania either, but anytime I hear/read "biscuit" I think of what you call a biscuit. Probably because it's close to the word we use (biskvita). The cookie to me is very specifically those round chocolate chip type of biscuits.
I'm going to go and presume that "biscuit" has been in the English vocabulary for a while, so I wonder how it went from the UK usage to what Americans call a biscuit.
Yes it's the same here.
The only thing I'd call a cookie is a soft choc chip overly sweet (but delicious) um..cookie.
This from Wikipedia
The Old French word bescuit is derived from the Latin words bis (twice) and coquere, coctus (to cook, cooked), and, hence, means "twice-cooked".[5][n 1] This is because biscuits were originally cooked in a twofold process: first baked, and then dried out in a slow oven.[6] This term was then adapted into English in the 14th century during the Middle Ages, in the Middle English word bisquite, to represent a hard, twice-baked product.[7] The Dutch language from around 1703 had adopted the word koekje ("little cake") to have a similar meaning for a similar hard, baked product.[8] The difference between the secondary Dutch word and that of Latin origin is that, whereas the koekje is a cake that rises during baking, the biscuit, which has no raising agent, in general does not (see gingerbread/ginger biscuit), except for the expansion of heated air during baking.[citation needed]
When continental Europeans began to emigrate to colonial North America, the two words and their "same but different" meanings began to clash. The words cookie or cracker became the words of choice to mean a hard, baked product. Further confusion has been added by the adoption of the word biscuit for a small leavened bread popular in the United States. According to the American English dictionary Merriam-Webster, a cookie is a "small flat or slightly raised cake".[8] A biscuit is "any of various hard or crisp dry baked product" similar to the American English terms cracker or cookie,[7] or "a small quick bread made from dough that has been rolled out and cut or dropped from a spoon".[7]
I don't know about you but I'm no wiser having bread that!
"Further confusion has been added by the adoption of the word biscuit for a small leavened bread popular in the United States." Yes it has. But I guess a good take away is "It's the Dutch's fault."
shareBiscuits and gravy is an American thing that I've always been curious about. A similar thing for me is Yorkshire pudding drenched in gravy. Nothing beats it.
shareIt's amazing how a dish with just a few simple ingredients can be so delicious, hearty and filling, especially during a winter morning.
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Three fried eggs, sunny side, up with sausage and bacon, with a side of pancakes and orange juice.
Or:
Eggs Bendict!
Mmmmmmm!
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It depends, sometimes I like something sweet like cereal or a pastry roll. I remember being in a hotel in Spain once and they served all sorts of cake for breakfast. Yummy! Other times I prefer something hearty like scrambled eggs with bacon and toast. I like tea, but it doesn't always work that well for me in the morning, so I prefer juice, maybe pear.
But almost always I just eat a granola bar or something, I'm usually not that hungry.
No breakfast
No lunch
Two or three heavy cocktails after work
Dinner (of whatever) in the evening
Oh Mr.Shogun tut tut(shakes head in dismay)
Do I have to go all motherly on you? I will you know,just ask Dewey.
I know i know mum!
And i never ask that guy anything
Never a straight answer from Dewey!
She will you know.
She'll scold you, tell you to clean up your mess, tell you that you were raised better.
Then she'll turn around and give you a great big hug.
She's a good lady.
Im certain of it
The good ones are like that...and lets face it a dummy like me deserves frequent scoldings
Shes tops:)
He'll get it.
Some kids take a little longer.
He's just doesn't like the fact that I'm the favorite of your kids.
A little sibling rivalry is a good thing.
BTW, I cleaned my breakfast plate this morning so I'm going outside to play.
Crepes, ideally with real rosehip marmalade, but any other jam type thing works.
French toast with white cheese for the crunchy crust and the rest dipped in just plain ol' sugar.
Also, I still like to eat popara on occasion. For those of you who don't know what that is, it's basically bread, torn/cut into pieces, mixed with white cheese, and then soaked into hot milk. I add about a kilo of sugar in it as well.
A kilo of sugar? I used to add sugar into milk too when i was younger,but i stopped doing it.It tastes bad with sugar
shareIs white cheese the same as cottage cheese?
Rosehip marmalade sounds wonderful,I used to give my daughter rosehip syrup and water when she was a baby.
I'm not sure about popara! I guess it's a comfort food of sorts?
I don't think I've ever had cottage cheese, but I don't think they're the same. It's similar to feta.
I guess it is a comfort food. It definitely is an acquired taste. Like boza! Another thing you might have at breakfast time.