Breakfast?

Yes. It's the most important meal of the day.

16 (32%)

I can take it or leave it.

21 (42%)

Skip it.

10 (20%)

Hell no. I'm never up before lunch.

3 (6%)

Total Members Voted: 23

[Lindsey]

What type of berry goes with chocolate and coffee?

Raspberry.

Definitely this.  Now I have a craving for raspberry mocha coffee. 

[mikehz]

I picked up some egg nog flavored protein powder this morning. For this holiday season shake, the berries get replaced with some canned pumpkin and nutmeg/cinnamon substitute for the coco.

[Laetitia]

I picked up some egg nog flavored protein powder this morning. For this holiday season shake, the berries get replaced with some canned pumpkin and nutmeg/cinnamon substitute for the coco.

What a cool idea! I made a big batch of pumpkin butter at halloween, and the kids are getting tired of pumpkin muffins & pancakes.
**editing shopping list**

[Lindsey]

I picked up some egg nog flavored protein powder this morning. For this holiday season shake, the berries get replaced with some canned pumpkin and nutmeg/cinnamon substitute for the coco.

What a cool idea! I made a big batch of pumpkin butter at halloween, and the kids are getting tired of pumpkin muffins & pancakes.
**editing shopping list**

What's pumpkin butter?  And if you have a pumpkin muffin recipe, I'd love it if you'd share.  A friend of mine made pumpkin cheesecake dip that she served with 'Nilla Wafers at her Halloween party.  I haven't made a batch yet, but it sounds good.

As for breakfast, I had a sausage patty (beef), egg, and cheese on toast for dinner.  It was good. 

[Laetitia]

I picked up some egg nog flavored protein powder this morning. For this holiday season shake, the berries get replaced with some canned pumpkin and nutmeg/cinnamon substitute for the coco.

What a cool idea! I made a big batch of pumpkin butter at halloween, and the kids are getting tired of pumpkin muffins & pancakes.
**editing shopping list**

What's pumpkin butter?  And if you have a pumpkin muffin recipe, I'd love it if you'd share.  A friend of mine made pumpkin cheesecake dip that she served with 'Nilla Wafers at her Halloween party.  I haven't made a batch yet, but it sounds good.

As for breakfast, I had a sausage patty (beef), egg, and cheese on toast for dinner.  It was good. 

If you've ever had apple butter, it's like that, only pumpkin. Fresh pumpkin and ginger gets simmered with cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, molasses and raw sugar, etc for at least 12 hours, then pureed. It's thick enough to spread on toast, but also mixes well into just about any recipe in which you would normally use applesauce, regular canned pumpkin or mashed bananas.

Oh - and it's great with cranberry chutney & brie.

For pumpkin muffins, I tried a recipe over at Food Network's website a few days ago for Pumpkin Banana Muffins. From the Ellie/Healthy Cooking chick. They were fantastic. I cheated slightly & sprinkled mini chocolate chips on top with the pumpkin seeds, but that was just so I could put them in lunchboxes.

[Bill Brasky]

Chutney.  And Brie.  And hot wings.  Slathered in marmalade, and some Sweedish fish.  .....and a slimjim.  And a fuckin beer.  Is there any stew left?  Hmm...  Figures, I work all night, you bastards sit home eating beef stew, and I have to make my own dinner out of chutney and sweedish fish.  I know its breakfast, for YOU, Joy, but it's dinner for me.  Fifteen years, Joy, I been digging that hole, at night.  For nine cents an hour, twenty six hours a night.  In my previous life, and this one, and what thanks do I get?  A dinner of candy sprinkled with pine nuts and then right back out the door to do it again, but first the dog has to shit, so I have to take him out before I leave.  BAM  Uralp!!!  Yike, yike  yike...  Yeah, take that fucker, I'll take you out, I 'll take you out the hard way, we'll go outside, motherfucker, and when we get there I'll kick you til you shit, now go lay down 'til I'm ready.  Fucker...   I'm sick of that dog, Joy. 

[Laetitia]

Brasky, sorry to leave you with nothing but a sugar coma. So, just for you...

Shakshuka: Simmer rough chopped onions, tomatoes, green and red bell peppers, along with a finely chopped jalapeno with a can of crushed tomatoes, tablespoon of brown sugar, salt & pepper for 1 hour. Add spices along the way. Oregano, thyme, marjoram - to taste. Toss in a bit of chili powder and crushed red pepper if you want it spicier. When the veggies are getting to the consistency of a thick stew, carefully crack eggs (2 per person) onto the top of the mixture. Don't break the yolks. Allow the whole thing to simmer for another 5-10 mins, depending on how well done you want the eggs. Serve with bread.

Made this the first time a little over a month ago, and is now requested at least once a week, plus for sunday morning breakfast.

[Porcupine_in_MA]

I'm on my way to Joy's...

[mikehz]

Brasky, sorry to leave you with nothing but a sugar coma. So, just for you...

Shakshuka: Simmer rough chopped onions, tomatoes, green and red bell peppers, along with a finely chopped jalapeno with a can of crushed tomatoes, tablespoon of brown sugar, salt & pepper for 1 hour. Add spices along the way. Oregano, thyme, marjoram - to taste. Toss in a bit of chili powder and crushed red pepper if you want it spicier. When the veggies are getting to the consistency of a thick stew, carefully crack eggs (2 per person) onto the top of the mixture. Don't break the yolks. Allow the whole thing to simmer for another 5-10 mins, depending on how well done you want the eggs. Serve with bread.

Made this the first time a little over a month ago, and is now requested at least once a week, plus for sunday morning breakfast.

Sounds fantastic! I'm going to try this soon.

[Bill Brasky]

That sounds great.  That kind of thing is the stuff I'm trying to think of when I'm walking around in a store drawing a blank.  Also makes me want to do jambalaya for some reason.  I went surprisingy traditional today and actually shopped for some groceries, I haven't been very domesticated lately.  I got this killer looking Delmonico and some stuff to soak it in, including a habanero which ground to paste and mixed into the marinade.  Its gonna rock.  Tomorrow, its gotta soak a day.   

[Desirey]

I like breakfast but on weekdays I just don't get up early enough.

[The Champ]

100g oats + 400g milk + 3mins microwave = win.

[mikehz]

Brasky, sorry to leave you with nothing but a sugar coma. So, just for you...

Shakshuka: Simmer rough chopped onions, tomatoes, green and red bell peppers, along with a finely chopped jalapeno with a can of crushed tomatoes, tablespoon of brown sugar, salt & pepper for 1 hour. Add spices along the way. Oregano, thyme, marjoram - to taste. Toss in a bit of chili powder and crushed red pepper if you want it spicier. When the veggies are getting to the consistency of a thick stew, carefully crack eggs (2 per person) onto the top of the mixture. Don't break the yolks. Allow the whole thing to simmer for another 5-10 mins, depending on how well done you want the eggs. Serve with bread.

Made this the first time a little over a month ago, and is now requested at least once a week, plus for sunday morning breakfast.

Tried it this morning. Like it. Will repeat, probably next week.

[Bill Brasky]

That sounds great.  That kind of thing is the stuff I'm trying to think of when I'm walking around in a store drawing a blank.  Also makes me want to do jambalaya for some reason.  I went surprisingy traditional today and actually shopped for some groceries, I haven't been very domesticated lately.  I got this killer looking Delmonico and some stuff to soak it in, including a habanero which ground to paste and mixed into the marinade.  Its gonna rock.  Tomorrow, its gotta soak a day.   

Broiled it last night, small grease fire.  no big deal.  Minor smoke inhalation.  I'm fine. 

Steak rocked.



The whole fuckin sonofabitch literally caught on fire.  Don't laugh, I'm not exactly a fucktard in the kitchen.  This things about an inch-and-a-half, marinaded.  I put them on foil on the pan, and it always gets a little soggy, this allows you to cook fat ones without drying them out, I hate red. 

So, theres smoke and I'm watching, smoke happens, and its spitting little puffs of sizzle flame, no big deal.

Its getting some hard black on the fat,      flip,             back under the broiler.

It cooks a while longer, and I'm watching it, it's sputtering little poofs of flame, then a bigger one, and I hesitate. 

Then, boom.  My steak is an inferno. 

FUCK!  Smoke is now billowing out of the oven, the fat is boiling fire.  My steak is in a boiling, flaming lake of fire. 

--------I need to interject one thing here, this is a wall mounted unit, face high.  If I pull that fucker, I can't dance around it, it's like looking into the freezer, not the sock drawer. 

So, I slowly pull the flaming wreck out on the wire rack, carefully....  Carefully...  Flames are huge, this fucker is on fire.   The broiling pan is coated with aluminum foil, holding the burning lake of fat like a bird bath of flame, and I grab my fork, reach into the flames carefully, snd spear the steak.  I lift it from there over to a plate, and plop it down.  The entire room is fully engulfed in smoke, its at least four feet thick from the ceiling. 

So I went in the other room and ate it, one of the best goddamn steaks I ever had. 

[mikehz]

Are you going to offer that up as a recipe?