I like breakfast. After years of hearing how breakfast is the most important meal of the day, I am having some on a regular basis. Eating a decent breakfast symbolizes a resistance to the morning rush to get up and out ASAP. Breakfast isn’t just a meal; it is taking time to take care of one’s self.
My usual breakfast consists of eggs and oatmeal, a diet I got from The Personal Trainer. Happily I like both so it doesn’t get tiresome. Some mornings Someone makes me scrambled eggs from egg whites with one yolk. On other mornings he prepares three hard boiled eggs for consumption at work. Either way I eat oatmeal, “the breakfast of nincompoops”. Or course there is always tea, hot or cold. If you are tired of tea than you are tired of Life.
A full sit down brekkie implies it is the morning of something exceptional like I am on holiday viz. I don’t have to rush anywhere. Breakfast or brunch goes from being a meal to an event. On these occasions I like a “traditional breakfast” of eggs, toast, juice and fresh fruit in season (no rubbish). As a treat I may eat some nasty but oh so tasty sausage – or better yet – bacon. The gods may drink ambrosia, but they eat bacon for breakfast.
Someone doesn’t care for eggs and he’d rather eat rats in Tewkesbury than oatmeal. What he likes are pancakes. If he is makes breakfast, we have pancakes. He likes syrup on his cakes; I like jam.
Hashed browns are always welcome, especially with hot sauce.
On weekends we like to go to Sweet Tomatoes for breakfast, which allows us to read while we eat. Someone reads his “Vanity Fair” and I read medical journals.
Next month for my birthday I will make some breakfast coffee cake. I have a recipe I learned in junior high school when I took ‘Home economics for bachelor living” :
One egg
3/4 cup sugar
1 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup milk
1 T. melted butter
some sugar/cinnamon mixture.
Beat the egg and the sugar together. Combine the flour, baking powder, and salt. Alternatively mix them together with the milk. Pour into a greased 9 inch cake pan. Sprinkle on the sugar/ cinnamon; dribble onto the top the melted butter. Bake at 15 to 20 min. at 375°
20 comments
June 21, 2011 at 7:12 PM
Jay
There is no oatmeal in my future. _ The eggs and bacon await.
June 21, 2011 at 8:10 PM
Urspo
Eat your damn oatmeal!
June 21, 2011 at 10:48 PM
anne marie in philly
thanks for the recipe!
no oatmeal here either; eggs/canadian bacon/cheese and OJ, pancakes with REAL maple syrup, or a turkey sandwich on 12 grain bread get my day moving. and cawfee, always cawfee (said in my best philly accent).
June 22, 2011 at 1:13 AM
Nik_thegreek
I generally prefer savory stuff for breakfast (ham, cheese, eggs). I wouldn’t easily go for the pancakes with syrup or even jam.
Last Sunday the boyfriend made me a bagel with salmon and eggs. It was very delicious. I was able to eat though after finishing a bowl of various bitter-tasting-very-good-for-me fruit. Yes, he is trying to force feed me more fruit…
June 22, 2011 at 1:59 AM
Buddy Bear
My family is from northern Europe, so I was raised on oatmeal porridge and I still love it! Somehow, it gives me the greatest pleasure to see my teenage children now making oatmeal porridge for themselves. And of course, none of that “rubbish”, over-sweet, artificially-flavoured instant oatmeal in a package. This is the proper stuff, large-flake oatmeal soaked in hot milk the night before, then cooked.
June 22, 2011 at 3:09 AM
Will
I have loved oatmeal from a child. My mother, a truly horrific cook, tried to palm instant oatmeal on me as anything that involved cleaning a pot was anathema to her. Fritz makes quite gorgeous oatmeal. Breakfast is an important meal here. His Southwest Egg Dish, discovered while on a white water rafting trip to Taos, NM a decade ago, is one of the most popular things he makes for family, friends and for groups renting the Center for functions.
June 22, 2011 at 4:16 AM
Tiger Chanter
Love oatmeal! Have it every morning! And what about vegetarian sausage? Would The Trainer allow that? There are some tasty versions on the market!
June 22, 2011 at 5:08 AM
Urspo
I remember eating links made by Morningstar? With hot sauce they were my favorite breakfast item.
June 22, 2011 at 5:11 AM
Urspo
I used to eat them a lot; you remind me to see if they are still around – I forget the names of the 2 companies who made them Morningstar ?
June 22, 2011 at 11:28 AM
Tiger Chanter
Morningstar Farms. I think that Boca is the other well known brand.
June 22, 2011 at 6:50 PM
Urspo
Morningstar! That’s it! I used to eat their products a lot – I will look for them.
June 22, 2011 at 4:32 AM
Richard Gabriel
Breakfast is my favorite meal! Followed by a nice BM. [Am I being too crass?] 🙂 LOVE Sweet Tomatoes too . . . ! This weekend is St Pete Pride . . . big parade and street fair . . . going to start it out with a nice breakfast!
June 22, 2011 at 4:57 AM
Cubby
You and Someone can come to our house and fix breakfast any time you’d like. And we won’t say no to oatmeal.
You didn’t mention Bloody Marys. They make your bacon and eggs even more enjoyable 🙂
June 22, 2011 at 5:08 AM
Urspo
we ADORE bloodys!! They make breakfast really fab!!
June 22, 2011 at 5:12 AM
AjohnP
I have oatmeal every morning at work. (real oatmeal, not the packets of crap they pretend is oatmeal). On the weekends, I’ll have cereal (I’m a raisin bran fan – and a poet) but occasionally Jim will make eggs and bacon as a treat….and usually there ‘happens’ to be one extra piece of bacon, which always goes to Scooter!!! 🙂
June 22, 2011 at 7:36 AM
Bill J
Your combination of oatmeal and eggs sounds divine. Just the right combination of protein and complex carbohydrates to motor on through the day.
I used to make a big batch of the steel cut oatmeal on the weekend and ‘nuke it during the week. Alas, I have been overcome by inertia and laziness and substituted a peanut butter sandwich on toasted whole wheat bread. It is portable and goes well with coffee, but the nut fats are doing me no favors.
At my house, lox and bagels with thinly sliced red onion and cucumber are the official Festival Breakfast.
June 22, 2011 at 7:49 AM
Rick/CJ
We can consume soooooo many calories at breakfast then we are screwed for the day. I’ve been eating cottage cheese with fresh berries and some raw oatmeal. If I cook it I have to have sugar and a bit of butter on it. I will have to try your coffee cake recipe.
June 22, 2011 at 7:51 AM
ronzorro
Breakfast yes, but a light breakfast. In fact a light lunch and a light dinner. Occasionally, when I eat out I’ll pig out but the last few years I cannot eat the large restaurant portions. I used to eat the big breakfasts with eggs, scrapple (look it up), bacon, toast, orange juice and cereal. If I did that now they would have to roll me out Humpty Dumpty like. Nice post. Always interesting Dr. Spo. Thanks for sharing.
June 22, 2011 at 8:03 AM
Raybob
Yum! I am in hearty agreement.
August 26, 2011 at 8:05 PM
Ron
What? No scrapple?