Breakfast - The Early-Morning, Polyphonic Food Blog

[monavano]

Leftovers went into making a frittata this morning; eggs (duh!), Pommes Dauphinoise, brussel sprouts, rapini, shredded mozzarella.

Swirled Rye toast with butter and Quaker Valley Tart Cherry Jam

[KMango]

Half coffee beans, half original teeccino, ground together with a few tiny chunks of Penzey's cassia. Instead of my usual goat milk lately, I've been adoring how almond milks plays along so nicely with the cinnamon.

If you don't already have one, an aerolatte will make your morning brew all the more satisfying. Just make sure to warm your milk first, lest foam allude you.

Breakfast? Satisfaction like this *is* breakfast. But the rest of it will come to mind eventually...

[Rovers2000]

Pumpkin Pancakes with maple butter (nothing says its cold and snowy outside like pumpkin )

"Dippy" eggs (for the +1) with 7 grain toast

Lots of black coffee

[monavano]

Fritatta with leftovers; rabe, pommes dauphinoise, smoked kielbasa, blue cheese, parm

Raisin bread

Turkey sausage (Jimmy Dean)

[goldenticket]

For some reason the snowy weather made me more motivated than I usually am on a Saturday morning.

Buttermilk biscuits (Alton Brown's recipe)

Sausage gravy - Smith Meadow Farms breakfast links (I do love their breakfast links)

Counter Culture holiday blend coffee

[zoramargolis]

Bob's Red Mill steel-cut oatmeal cooked with coconut milk, cinnamon stick and vanilla bean, cardamom, nutmeg and ginger

served with butter, grade b maple syrup and heavy cream

Peet's cappuccino

so delicious--like a really good dessert, and a fitting reward after a strenuous hour of snow shovelling.

[porcupine]

Cottage cheese that was still cold 10 hours after the power went out. And water.

[KMango]

3 Ibuprofen

("delayed onset snowness")

(the latest entry)

(at urbandictionary.com)

[DonRocks]

A "Deconstructed Egg McMuffin" at the Tastee Diner.

Okay, well not really, but I could have.

[zoramargolis]

yesterday:

scrambled eggs with onion and home cured/hot smoked salmon

whole grain toast

Peet's cappuccini

[kirite]

yesterday:

scrambled eggs with onion and home cured/hot smoked salmon

whole grain toast

Peet's cappuccini

Today:

Bite sized shredded wheat (Giant)

organic blueberries (Balducci's)

Organic skim milk (Whole Foods)

600mg of calcium with Vitamin D (CVS)

Hmmm!

[KMango]

Steel cut oats cooked in coconut water, a teaspoon of candied ginger, and a hefty punch of salt via the porridge setting of the fuzzy logic rice cooker. Once the cheery chimer chirped, topped with freshly toasted almond slivers.

Take that, winter.

[deangold]

Burrata thickly sliced on Ak Mak crackers with olive oil. Salt & pepper too! Coffee.

[dcs]

A Miami Burger on an everything bagel from the Georgetown Bagelry, one of my favorite bagel stores in the area.

[goodeats]

Blueberry pancakes from a modified recipe from Bread for Breakfast. (Was using up the last of the blueberries....)

[Xochitl10]

Baking powder biscuits with strawberry preserves and orange marmalade

Coffee

[Banco]

I've been bunkered in vis ze kids for a veek. Brehkfäst? Was ist das?

[KMango]

I've been bunkered in vis ze kids for a veek. Brehkfäst? Was ist das?

Iz whut you git when yew givz them bourbon az de mouthwashes.

zzzzzzzzzzzzz

[zoramargolis]

fresh-squeezed oj

eco-friendly bacon

sunny-side-up eggs

toasted homemade no-knead bread--even tastier as toast

Peet's cappuccini

[monavano]

Leftover baked sweet potatoes turned into pancakes this morning. Served with turkey sausage links.

[bettyjoan]

Wow, monavano, those look amazing.

I opted for bacon and a gruyere and caramelized onion omelet. Would have been accompanied by gruyere/walnut bread, but the loaf came out just awful.

[zoramargolis]

oatmeal made with Bob's Red Mill extra thick rolled oats, coconut milk, golden raisins, vanilla bean, spices

served with grade b maple syrup or brown sugar and cream-top whole milk

toasted no-knead bread (not my plan, but by request)

Peet's cappuccini

[hm212]

Killed the challah bread leftovers and made French Toast topped with quick strawberry sauce and chocolate chips. I used the last 1/2 pint of cream and whipped it for a whip cream topping on top.

[deangold]

white kim chee and pickled cuke from H mart.

[monavano]

Chris's Marketplace beef empanadas. I pop 'em in the toaster and they come out hot and flaky every time.

[DanielK]

Hamantashen!! Chag Sameach to all of my brethren.

[KMango]

Green smoothie, featuring a Fuji apple (locally grown), mango, two kale leaves, goji berry powder, almond milk (Blue Diamond), and a couple of fresh Medjool dates to sweeten.

Delicious. And the chem-free, human equivalent of Miracle-Gro.

But next time, an opaque glass.

My kingdom for an opaque glass.

[monavano]

Another "kitchen sink" fritatta- roasted brussel sprouts, steak fries, kielbasa, spinach, mushrooms, compound butter with blue cheese.

Emeril's blue cheese and walnut (pecan) bread. This recipe is worth perusing.

[Kibbee Nayee]

I have kitchen-sink fritattas all the time. They are comfort food brunches.

Many Saturday mornings, it's 3 eggs fried in a goodly 3 tbsp of Karousos extra virgin olive oil, with a sprinkling of kosher salt and pepper, then over easy, and the into a small bowl with a nice sprinkling of feta cheese on top. Black Mayorga coffee. To die for.

Other Saturday mornings, it's scrambled eggs (or egg whites), gently seasoned with sea salt and pepper, and then plated atop shredded shankleesh, the Middle Eastern cheese that will change your life. A wedge of warmed pita with that, some black Mayorga coffee....mmmm....!

[monavano]

Eggs Pulaski

My Polish version of Eggs Benedict, this takes the same English muffing and poached eggs, and adds a mushroom* sauce (white wine, Dijon, cream) in place of Hollandaise, and browned smoked kielbasa (Stackowski) in place of Canadian bacon.

The kielbasa is an excellent rendition of this Polish classic.

*I used crimini mushrooms as they are as close to Borowik's as you can get.

[Anna Blume]

Grapefruit

Coffee

Buttermilk pancakes w maple syrup

* * *

Cracked a pale blue egg from Keswick for the first time to find the bright, orange sun from the past week reflected in the bowl.

(Last time I'll buy the fat-free, organic, grass-fed buttermilk from Natural By Nature, then on sale at WFM. Nothing like Trickling Springs's...or even Safeway's, though I imagine it's the "fat-free" part that is to blame.)

P.S. Leleboo, what I meant is that we ought to start a topic on trite words, i.e., one that ventures beyond the now, trite topic about alternatives to "foodie". I'm inspired to add this coda here because I just typed "grass-fed buttermilk": a phrase that is both trite and inaccurate since it leaves out the cow and its cud.

[leleboo]

P.S. Leleboo, what I meant is that we ought to start a topic on trite words, i.e., one that ventures beyond the now, trite topic about alternatives to "foodie". I'm inspired to add this coda here because I just typed "grass-fed buttermilk": a phrase that is both trite and inaccurate since it leaves out the cow and its cud.

I understood, actually. That thread spun off a "words that bug you" thread that itself digressed so I think we can cobble one together!

[Anna Blume]

White grapefruit

Coffee

Oatmeal muffins (King Arthur recipe requiring lots of buttermilk and overnight soak; good!), one plain w strawberry preserves, the other baked w cinnamon and dried cranberries

[monavano]

Yesterday's farmers market haul made for breakfast this morning.

Ciabatta crostini topped with apricot jam (with a hint of red curry), Virginia ham and Pecorino Toscano.

[KMango]

Confusingly, one of the best omelets of my life.

Broccolini left over from last night, hot peppadew peppers, Jehovah-Jireh eggs.

Flavor boost from Penzey’s Mural of Flavor, sea salt, freshly ground black peppercorn, and a whimsical dash of garlic powder.

(how did this happen?)

(is this not just a random Saturday?)

(why the awesome?)

[Rovers2000]

Omelet with sun-dried tomatoes and goat cheese. Lots of black coffee to wake me up enough to get out to the golf course

[monavano]

Asparagus and artichoke veloute with a Keswick poached egg.

Ahhhh, Spring has sprung.

[bettyjoan]

Yesterday I tried Alton Brown's belgian waffle recipe - texturally the waffles came out great (when the waffle iron was on the highest setting, anyway - we like our waffles on the crisp side), but they didn't taste like much. Next time I'll try Emeril Lagasse's recipe, which involves vanilla and some spices.

[leleboo]

Yesterday I tried Alton Brown's belgian waffle recipe - texturally the waffles came out great (when the waffle iron was on the highest setting, anyway - we like our waffles on the crisp side), but they didn't taste like much. Next time I'll try Emeril Lagasse's recipe, which involves vanilla and some spices.

I have a great lemon brown sugar batter recipe -- I've only used it for pancakes but I'm sure you could waffle it. Talk about flavor. I'll email you.

[KMango]

Garam Masala Banana Bites

This weekend, I noticed four overripe bananas on the counter, adjacent to an ostentatiously firm gala apple. Slapped the apple into the food processor, stirred that into the mashed bananas, added a healthy amount of garam masala, golden raisins, and pumpkin seeds. Spooned onto the trays of the Excalibur (food dehydrator) around 110 degrees. Twenty hours later, banana leather "cookies" emerged.

Sweet, savory, hint-of-hint spicy, with fascinating textures from chewy and crunchy ingredients. Delicious and unusual breakfast, all the more satisfying via produce salvation.

(pic is from yesterday; pre-dehydrating)

(too lazy to break out the camera this morning)

(loving the dehydrator)

[Anna Blume]

Blue egg, poached three minutes

Struan toast

Quark

Blueberries, strawberries and slivers of orange

Two cups coffee w local, creamy, organic whole milk...........

all before a long walk beside babbling creek on the first perfectly beautiful really like spring again day we've had for quite some time!

[bettyjoan]

Nummy yet relatively healthy breakfast sammiches...

Bagel "thins"

Egg beaters

Spinach

Turkey sausage

Swiss cheese

All melty and toasty...nice and filling!

[KMango]

Ezekiel bread cinnamon raisin English muffin, split & toasted, with:

*Bethesda Co-Op's freshly ground crunchy peanut butter

*Food Matters' strawberry jam, from last year's stashes

(Phase 1: Collect Sprouted Grains)

(Phase 2: ?)

(Phase 3: Prophet)

[Rovers2000]

V8...

[monavano]

A hard-boiled egg and lots of bing cherries of unknown provenience (a roadside farm stand in Jersey where most of the produce was disappointingly not local).

[Heather]

Cheerios with milk & banana, hot coffee, and three homemade chocolate cookies.

[monavano]

OK, this is just about the 50th frittata that I've posted! What can I say? It uses up leftovers in the most delicious way. So, this one is chopped, seasoned steak fries, crisped pancetta, feta and sun dried tomato spread, campari tomatoes and basil.

[deangold]

Dunkin Donuts Chocolate Frosted Donut, Coffee, 3 strips of bacon. Bloody mary mix.

[Anna Blume]

Dedicated to I-Love-Summer-Heather:

Cantaloupe

Very hot coffee

Buttermilk corn cakes w blackberries, maple syrup, lemon and dab of sour cream

Yellow corn (and melon) purchased from Garner's Wednesday on granite, no shade, in 105 F heat.

Amazing. Best yet, but personal preference is for yellow vs. sweeter white or bi-color. (Berries microwave-poached.) And whoever told me to go to Takoma Food Co-op for Trickling Spring's buttermilk, thanks!

[monavano]

Cheesy bread-this is on of our favorites from back when we were dating in Richmond, VA. Local stores, including Ellwood Thompson's sold Billy Bread, an amazing loaf. We'd slice it, butter it, top with cheddar, and then bake it off in a toaster oven.

Today, we sliced a loaf I baked yesterday and topped with cheddar and provoline.