What did you have for breakfast thread?

The Big Red Button

French toast, made with home-made white soda bread. In bed. I love Sunday mornings!

fussyonion

Fruit 'n' Fibre, orange juice, tea and half an apple turnover.

Hermione*

Breakfasted at one of my favourite cafes, Brother Hubbard's, at the weekend. Chorizo and feta omelette, with rye toast and a really good, smoky tomato sauce, and coffee. So simple yet scrumptious.

MissFlitworth

Hermione* wrote: »

Breakfasted at one of my favourite cafes, Brother Hubbard's, at the weekend.

that place. I can't deviate from the cinnamon scrolls when I'm there to try other things though, compulsively order them (and one for a 'friend' to take home with me) like they'll stop making them if I don't

catrionanic

how do you guys have enough time in the morning to dedicate to these wonderful breakfast concoctions?

I have just about enough time to throw a slice of bread in the toaster then throw it into me.

I hate breakfast anyway. I'm lactose-intolerant and not really a big fan of cereal, porridge, etc anyway. I invariably coerce myself into eating a boring old piece of toast and heading out the door. I'd skip it altogether if my lunch break was earlier than 2.30pm.

MissFlitworth

catrionanic wrote: »

how do you guys have enough time in the morning to dedicate to these wonderful breakfast concoctions?

I'd say there's a lot of weekend/day off posts here. During the week I'm more of a dry-granola-at-my-desk girl.

Dizzyblonde

Yesterday both daughters were here so I made a mixed grill. Please ignore the incinerated sausages (one daughter only eats them that way!) and focus instead on my home made hash brown
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GrahamThomas

Looks lovely Dizzy! What recipe did you use for the homemade hash brown? Its something I've always wanted to try and make

fussyonion

Dizzyblonde wrote: »

Yesterday both daughters were here so I made a mixed grill. Please ignore the incinerated sausages (one daughter only eats them that way!) and focus instead on my home made hash brown

I love sausages incinerated!
Looks yum...starving now!

Dizzyblonde

GrahamThomas wrote: »

Looks lovely Dizzy! What recipe did you use for the homemade hash brown? Its something I've always wanted to try and make

I used the recipe in this article - you have to scroll down a bit. I used butter to fry the onions, then mixed them with the potato in a bowl and put sunflower oil into the pan to fry the hash brown. First time I made it I used butter and it wasn't crisp enough.
I also mashed the potato slightly with a fork.

Seaneh

This morning breakfast was something I've been having a lot lately.

One orange and one banana chopped up and mixed with 3 tablespoons of oats and a big dollop of low fat natural yogurt all washed down with a mug of tea

GrahamThomas

Dizzyblonde wrote: »

I used the recipe in this article - you have to scroll down a bit. I used butter to fry the onions, then mixed them with the potato in a bowl and put sunflower oil into the pan to fry the hash brown. First time I made it I used butter and it wasn't crisp enough.
I also mashed the potato slightly with a fork.

Thanks for that Dizzy, hopefully I'll get a chance to make it over the weekend

April O Neill

Dizzyblonde wrote: »

I used the recipe in this article - you have to scroll down a bit. I used butter to fry the onions, then mixed them with the potato in a bowl and put sunflower oil into the pan to fry the hash brown. First time I made it I used butter and it wasn't crisp enough.
I also mashed the potato slightly with a fork.

You could try clarified butter. You're probably not able to get the butter hot enough to crisp the hash brown, as the butter would burn. But clarified butter has a higher smoke point than most, if not all oils, and you still get a slight buttery flavour.

I started making my own clarified butter a few months ago, and I love the stuff!

Dizzyblonde

April O Neill wrote: »

You could try clarified butter. You're probably not able to get the butter hot enough to crisp the hash brown, as the butter would burn. But clarified butter has a higher smoke point than most, if not all oils, and you still get a slight buttery flavour.

I started making my own clarified butter a few months ago, and I love the stuff!

I always thought life was too short for clarifying butter but maybe not

April O Neill

Dizzyblonde wrote: »

I always thought life was too short for clarifying butter but maybe not

Me too, but it's actually a quick process. You can have it slowly melting in a pan while doing other cooking. Then just skim off the milk solids. You won't get 100% of them, hence the slight buttery taste.

fussyonion

I had cinnamon and raisin pancakes with berries, cup of Kenco, banana and glass of pineapple juice.

April O Neill

April O Neill wrote: »

Me too, but it's actually a quick process. You can have it slowly melting in a pan while doing other cooking. Then just skim off the milk solids. You won't get 100% of them, hence the slight buttery taste.

In addition...

The skimming part is only a ten minute job, seriously.

The only oil I use is olive, I don't believe sunflower oil and co to be healthy. So for frying, it's either olive oil or clarified butter. Obvs you can't fry eggs in olive oil - well, you can but yock - so things like that are where clarified butter comes in. The higher smoke point is very handy too, for cooking steak or other things that need quick cooking at a searing pan temperature.

OK, that's enough about clarified butter.

Chattastrophe!

A big messy plate of eggy-bread (made with homemade white soda bread) ... yum!!

leahyl

Had the nicest breakfast ever yesterday - Eggs Benedict in Liberty Grill in Cork - sublime!

This morning....2 slices of toast

wandatowell

I had a toffeecrisp and a pint of milk

leahyl

wandatowell wrote: »

I had a toffeecrisp and a pint of milk

mmmm nothing like it :pac:

Faith

A homemade flapjack.

That's almost porridge, right?

MissFlitworth

A really very good doughnut & a flat white. Proper yeast one as well with cartoonish Simpsons icing.

Hermione*

Smoothie of coconut water, peanut butter, natural yoghurt, melon, spinach, lime, mint and ginger. Lovely and refreshing.

I knew when I was making it that I was forgetting something. It wasn't until I was out running several hours later that I realised I'd forgotten the oats :eek:

Toast4532

This morning I had poached duck eggs, smokey bacon, brown toast and a cuppa tea. Lovely.

oscarBravo

Bagel with lox and a schmear (:pac:), along with a smoothie of pineapple, kiwi, celery and carrot juice blended with bananas and spinach.

UrbanSea

Beefy barbacoa burrito from Tolteca with white rice, grilled peppers and onions, sour cream, cheese and their hottest sauce

KTRIC

Made my own frappe this morning to quench my ever increasing caffeine addiction.

Four spoons of instant Arabica coffee
Chocolate protein powder
Ice cubes
Banana

Stick it all in a blender for a sec and hey presto !! Turned out very nice, just missing the milk. Can't wait for tomorrow, going to experiment with recipes

hardCopy

Farm fresh egg on a toasted slimbo with some Tex-Mex seasoning

colman1212

On sunday I had 550g minced beef, 5 large eggs, spinach, baby tomatoes, Black coffee with a table spoon of coconut oil.
it was a massive win :eek: