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What is a healthy breakfast? Eggs? What else? I think eating waffles with butter and syrup everyday is a bad idea, and I am wondering about what I could switch to that is more healthy. Gracie!
fourier jr
Jun4-05, 08:00 PM
pancakes, (real) maple syrup, bacon, sausages, ham, eggs, toast & jam, orange juice, tea. add orange slices for garnish to make it healthy. :biggrin:
Muesli, yoghurt, bananas, OJ, toast (with Marmite!), grapefruit...
A good breakfast is eggs, meat (sausage, bacon, ham) and grits, smothered in Louisiana brand hotsauce. :approve: A healthy breakfast is fresh fruit sprinkled with wheat germ and yogurt...ok, but doesn't always hit the spot. :frown:
Grits?
GRITS?
Somebody is gonna have to explain, before I get it into my little head that you Yanks have for breakfast what we put on our roads...
Justin Lazear
Jun4-05, 08:25 PM
What's this "breakfast" thing you speak of?
--J
Huckleberry
Jun4-05, 08:32 PM
http://www.grits.com/images/head.gif
from the culinary glossary
"Grits is the dried kernels of white hominy (made from corn) eaten as a cereal that is similar in texture to pudding. "
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:7oCroa9XsfIJ:http://www.soulofamerica.com/images2
Brewnog, what is "Muesli" ?
Similar in texture to pudding? What kind of pudding? Black pudding? Yorkshire pudding? Bakewell pudding?!
Are they like porridge? Do you have them hot or cold? Do you put milk on them?
Brewnog, what is "Muesli" ?
If I didn't think you were completely taking the piss, I'd tell you.
"taking the piss" ?
I was asking a serious question.
edit... I wikid Muesli. Looks almost like cereal to me.
Huckleberry
Jun4-05, 08:56 PM
Similar in texture to pudding? What kind of pudding? Black pudding? Yorkshire pudding? Bakewell pudding?!
Are they like porridge? Do you have them hot or cold? Do you put milk on them?kind of like porridge, but with a gritty texture. Not gritty like gravel or popcorn. More gritty in appearance than texture. It is whitish in color and they are eaten hot. They can be eaten with just about anything. Look at the breakfast table in my last post. The bowl has grits and it looks like a pat of butter. All the other stuff is commonly eaten with grits for breakfast. Shrimp is also common and so is chicken, but that would be for lunch or dinner.
Sorry!
Yeah, it's rolled oats with raisins and other assorted dried fruit. Do you guys not get Alpen or anything over there?
kind of like porridge, but with a gritty texture. Not gritty like gravel or popcorn. More gritty in appearance than texture. It is whitish in color and they are eaten hot. They can be eaten with just about anything.
I want some!
If they're good enough for Evo and Huck to champion, they've got to be good enough for me.
SEND ME GRITS! with instructions :blushing:
I have not an idea of what Alpen is.
Huckleberry
Jun4-05, 09:01 PM
I don't eat much grits, but I do like them. They are more of a southern U.S. meal and northern U.S. eats oatmeal. I've always thought grits were more multi purpose and tasted better than oatmeal if prepared right. Many times I've stopped by roadside diners in the south and had some great grits.
I don't eat much grits...
You have no idea how wrong that sounds. :smile:
I have not an idea of what Alpen is.
Okay, well, how about you make your own?!
2 cups rolled oats
3/4 cup diced dried apples
1/2 cup toasted wheat germ
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 cup slivered blanched almonds
1/4 cup sunflower seeds
2 Tablespoons packed light brown sugar
Stick whatever else you want in there too. Put in bowl, pour on milk! Mmmm!
It's very Swiss. Do we have any Swisses here?
I don't like grits, I think each one tastes like what it rhymes with. Oatmeal's the shiz G. With raisins!
That Muesli stuff sounds good! I want some!
Yeah, it's rolled oats with raisins and other assorted dried fruit.
Something is oddly familiar here...
hitssquad
Jun4-05, 09:40 PM
What is a healthy breakfast?This fruit smoothie...
morelife.org/personal/health/smoothie.html (http://morelife.org/personal/health/smoothie.html)
...is pretty healthy, especially if combined with the supplements taken at meals items marked with a B here:
morelife.org/personal/health/his-regimen.html#breakfastpowders (http://morelife.org/personal/health/his-regimen.html#breakfastpowders)
You have no idea how wrong that sounds. :smile:
lol, after I looked that up, it was funny.
GRITS is colloquial for "girls raised in the South."
Oh hitssquad, why did you have to bring up smoothies? :cry: I was just telling the Evo child last night that I needed one.
Grits are the yummiest thing on earth when made correctly, but do not eat them at a restaurant, they subsitute ceiling paste for grits and it's WRONG!!!! :yuck:
"Grits is the dried kernels of white hominy (made from corn) eaten as a cereal that is similar in texture to pudding."NOOOOOO, they're like tiny rice or pastina, they are nothing like a pudding!!! PUDDING??? That guy is NUTS!!!
Obviously another person that has never had real grits cooked properly.
Similar in texture to pudding? What kind of pudding? Black pudding? Yorkshire pudding? Bakewell pudding?!
Are they like porridge? Do you have them hot or cold? Do you put milk on them?They can't be described, they're best with salt, pepper and butter. Or, let them cool, cut them into sticks and fry them. :!!) :!!) :!!)
(I love yorkshire pudding) Did I tell you I'm half English?
KingNothing
Jun4-05, 09:56 PM
The healthiest breakfast for me is one that tastes good, and makes me feel motivated to take on the day. Sure, maple rolls do not help your kidneys and aren't high in fiber, but they make me mentally more healthy, which makes me overall more happy.
fourier jr
Jun4-05, 09:58 PM
I don't like grits, I think each one tastes like what it rhymes with. Oatmeal's the shiz G. With raisins!
That Muesli stuff sounds good! I want some!
Something is oddly familiar here...
mucilage: a gelatinous substance of various plants (as legumes or seaweeds) that contains protein and polysaccharides and is similar to plant gums
??? that doesn't sound very healthy or tasty...
Huckleberry
Jun4-05, 10:14 PM
They can't be described, they're best with salt, pepper and butter. Or, let them cool, cut them into sticks and fry them. :!!) :!!) :!!)
(I love yorkshire pudding) Did I tell you I'm half English?
I've had decent grits at restaurants, but only in the south. I've never had fried grits though. That sounds interesting.
I'd agree with you about the pudding thing. Grits that are overdone get all soft and goupy. They are meant to have some texture. When eaten a person shouldn't be able to squeeze water out of them in their mouth.
Hey, I'm half English too. Hmm, both half English with flipper feet. Do you have any relatives named Greene, or someone from the Mayflower?
I don't believe I've ever eaten a grit. They may not be allowed in Michigan...
I eat fruit, yogurt and oats for breakfast mostly.
GRITS ARE THE BOMB!
Especially with butter and pepper, and eggs over medium. Living in North Carolina as a youngster made me appreciate them. Think we will have some grits this morning for breakfast! (no one is up yet but me)
Oatmeal with a little bit of brown sugar, raisins, milk, and a touch of butter gratifies my stomach till lunch.
I'll assume that Kerrie isn't just going through some crazy pregnant craving phase, and that they are as good as she says.
I've definitely got to get my hands on some grits. Could anyone post me some?! :smile:
I'll assume that Kerrie isn't just going through some crazy pregnant craving phase, and that they are as good as she says.
I've definitely got to get my hands on some grits. Could anyone post me some?! :smile:That's right, you poor English don't have grits. :frown: <shoves a bowl of grits into brewnog's computer>
Math Is Hard
Jun5-05, 01:18 PM
Cheese-garlic-grits casserole rocks!!! That was a staple of Sunday brunches during my childhood.
Another brekkie food I love is slow-cooked steel-cut oats (McCann's). They have such a wonderful texture. They're nothing like that "Quaker Instant Oatmeal" nonsense.
Cheese-garlic-grits casserole rocks!!! That was a staple of Sunday brunches during my childhood.Mmmmm, sounds yummy! I need grits now.
I just can't take everyone going on about grits!
Is there any way I can make grits?
Moonbear
Jun5-05, 01:31 PM
Grits?
GRITS?
Somebody is gonna have to explain, before I get it into my little head that you Yanks have for breakfast what we put on our roads...
That might be the better use for grits. :yuck: Yanks don't eat grits, southerners do! :biggrin:
A healthy breakfast:
A slice of toast with cheddar cheese sliced onto it.
Some fruit with yogurt or cottage cheese and a bread of some sort.
A bowl of cereal (not sugary stuff, but anything that makes your jaw hurt while crunching it will do), with some milk.
Toast, one egg (prepared however you like it), and a slice of bacon (it's not unhealthy to have this once in a while and as long as you're not eating a half dozen eggs at a time).
Rice and beans (doesn't always appeal to American taste, but there are places where that's the usual breakfast fare).
Wash your choice of the above down with a glass of orange juice or milk. (And a pot of coffee...oh, that's for me...it's best for the health of those around me that I get my coffee.)
Moonbear
Jun5-05, 01:38 PM
Sorry!
Yeah, it's rolled oats with raisins and other assorted dried fruit. Do you guys not get Alpen or anything over there?
We very definitely do have Muesli here in the US. Folks, you have to look at that top shelf in the cereal aisle, the one with the healthy, crunchy, jaw-breaking stuff! We have a name brand Mueslix, and it's also similar to Grape Nuts (another brand name), or Quaker's 100% Natural. Even as a kid, that was one of my favorite cereals. I never much liked those sugary cereals with prizes in the box everyone else ate (though I did want the prizes).
Integral
Jun5-05, 01:43 PM
Grits?
GRITS?
Somebody is gonna have to explain, before I get it into my little head that you Yanks have for breakfast what we put on our roads...
Now for your next lesson in Amercanish. Among "Yanks" it is the NON yanks that eat grits. This is pretty much a Southeastern US dish, you will rarely find it served in restaurants in the North or West. Though it is spreading some, the further from the American South that you get the less likely you are to find it.
So in the US the term "Yank" or "Yankee" refers to Northerners. It is more commonly used by Southerners.
Ok, everyone is invited to my house for grits. You really don't know what you're missing (if they cooked correctly!). Some people can make grits taste like wallpaper paste. I still have never had grits in a restaurant that were cooked properly. And NEVER, I mean NEVER put anything sweet on them, that would be like putting sugar on mashed potatoes. :yuck:
Now for your next lesson in Amercanish. Among "Yanks" it is the NON yanks that eat grits. This is pretty much a Southeastern US dish, you will rarely find it served in restaurants in the North or West. Though it is spreading some, the further from the American South that you get the less likely you are to find it.
So in the US the term "Yank" or "Yankee" refers to Northerners. It is more commonly used by Southerners.
I do appreciate these lessons, I had always just assumed that Yanks populated the entirety of the US.
However, I'm still waiting for someone to offer to post me some grits. Do you get them in packets? Are they perishable?
Edit: Looks like I'm just gonna have to go round to Auntie Evo's...
I sometimes seriously wonder how any of you people can survive on the crap you eat. Cereal? Health food cereal?! At least Moonbear and a couple of others are showing a bit of carnivorous good taste. :tongue:
I can't usually afford it, but my favourite breakfast is either 8 or 9 scrambled eggs with onion and toast, or 6 or 7 fried eggs with a dozen or so strips of bacon cooked to the approximate texture of a tire, also with toast. And of course coffee. Lots of coffee.
Usually on work days, though, I just have 3 boiled eggs and 3 pieces of bread warmed up in microwave. Again, with 3 or 4 cups of coffee. If I'm not hungry, I either skip until lunch time or have a peanut-butter sandwich piled with chili powder and salt.
Get away from me with that Muesli, you freaks!
Integral
Jun5-05, 02:20 PM
Humm... If breakfast is the meal you eat in the morning then I generally have a bowl of cereal with some fruit (banana/berries) However...
If breakfast is the meal you eat after sleeping then I usually have black coffee.
Homniy grits are made from field corn soaked in lye, untill its puffy and bleached white. they dry it, then mill it to a corse grind. My Granny use to make it, and people raved about it. I refused to eat it.
Hominy is nasty stuff, it is the only thing I will not eat. It smells like old sneakers. :yuck:
Pengwuino
Jun5-05, 02:56 PM
Muesli, yoghurt, bananas, OJ, toast (with Marmite!), grapefruit...
whats.... half of all that? You brits sure dont eat much :D
whats.... half of all that? You brits sure dont eat much :D
Oh we do. If this had just been a "good breakfast" thread, like Evo, I'd have gone on about fried bacon, sausage, mushrooms and egg, grilled tomatoes, baked beans, fried bread, toast, and black pudding.
But yeah, as Evo mentioned, it's a "healthy breakfast" thread. The two are in direct conflict. (Although Marmite on toast is a meal fit for kings.)
Integral
Jun5-05, 03:15 PM
Hominy is nasty stuff, it is the only thing I will not eat. It smells like old sneakers. :yuck: :confused:
I thought grits were just a form of hominy? I don't get it very often, but do enjoy fried hominy and eggs. I do not believe that I have ever eaten grits.
Yes, grits are made from milled hominy corn. Any other kind of corn thats milled is called corn meal{two thumbs up for corn bread}.
:confused:
I thought grits were just a form of hominy? I don't get it very often, but do enjoy fried hominy and eggs. I do not believe that I have ever eaten grits.Yes, they are but the nasty part is thrown away. :biggrin:
Moonbear
Jun5-05, 04:20 PM
Yes, they are but the nasty part is thrown away. :biggrin:
Must be. They just left the tasteless part. :tongue:
Must be. They just left the tasteless part. :tongue: :surprised (takes away Moonbear's diplomatic immunity) :devil:
Them are fightin' words!
Gokul43201
Jun5-05, 04:31 PM
A good breakfast :
Hot grits with lots of butter, salt and pepper
Heavily buttered toast
A fluffy, buttery omelette with lots of cheese, mushrooms and green peppers
Pancakes soaked with butter and syrup
A couple sausage links
Ignore this if you're not a butter person.
A good breakfast :
Hot grits with lots of butter, salt and pepper
Heavily buttered toast
A fluffy, buttery omelette with lots of cheese, mushrooms and green peppers
Pancakes soaked with butter and syrup
A couple sausage links
Ignore this if you're not a butter person.Evo<-----going to Gokul's for breakfast. :approve:
Evo, Gokul, you might also like to try:
Scotch pancakes, drizzled in butter
Potato cakes (tattie scones), immersed in butter
Hot, fresh crossiants, saturated with butter
Toasted crumpets, buttered.
The crumpets are particularly good, because they have big holes in them (like a sponge), allowing the butter/crumpet ratio to approach infinity, depending on how messy you care to get.
What are scotch pancakes?
What are scotch pancakes?
Also known as drop scones, they're a denser, thicker form of pancake. The mixture has sugar, bicarb, and syrup in it, in addition to the usual pancake ingredients.
Come to think of it, I wonder if British pancakes are different to American pancakes? Ours are akin to the French crepe. I'm thinking that Scotch pancakes might be more similar to American ones.
Yeah, ours are pretty thick. I like to put either chili or tuna salad on my pancakes.
Huckleberry
Jun5-05, 04:58 PM
I see we have another grits fan with Gokul in the thread! Brewnog's scotch pancakes and potato cakes sound interesting. I'd like to give them a go.
American pancakes seem to be a little different. I made some in Mexico and they seemed surprised that they were round. I didn't quite understand that. It seeme dlike it was something they were completely unfamiliar with. They don't eat much bacon either. I had a hard time finding 'tocino' in the super market. I can't imagine life without my BLT sandwiches.
Anyway, pancakes that I'm familiar with are about half an inch thick and 6 inches wide and circular. They can be made from several different grains. They are soft and spongy and soak up all the butter and syrup. I like to eat mine with sliced fruit. Almost any kind will do.
Yeah, ours are pretty thick. I like to put either chili or tuna salad on my pancakes.
Anyway, pancakes that I'm familiar with are about half an inch thick and 6 inches wide and circular. They can be made from several different grains. They are soft and spongy and soak up all the butter and syrup. I like to eat mine with sliced fruit. Almost any kind will do.
You guys should try some real pancakes.
Pint of milk 8oz flour, 1 egg, a pinch of salt, and some melted butter... Blitz it up, let it stand for an hour or two, then fry the hell out of A THIN LAYER in some more butter. The thinner the better. Prepare to throw the first one in the bin.
You should try some thin pancakes.
Pint of milk 8oz flour, 1 egg, a pinch of salt, and some melted butter... Blitz it up, let it stand for an hour or two, then fry the hell out of A THIN LAYER in some more butter.That does sound like a crepe.
Integral
Jun5-05, 05:05 PM
Sounds like we are now moving into the realm of favorite breakfast.
How about fresh biscuits covered in rich chipped beef gravy. The best dried beef is found in the Pennsylvania Dutch country.
And then there is crisp fried hash browns covered in Cheddar Cheese (Tilamook, specifically) with sour cream and salsa and an over easy fried egg thrown in middle. Can't forget the rasher of crisp fried bacon.
These are in no particular order.
How about fresh biscuits covered in rich chipped beef gravy. The best dried beef is found in the Pennsylvania Dutch country.
Sorry, for a moment there I almost thought you said "biscuits in gravy".
WAIT! YOU DID!
ARE YOU ON CRACK, MAN?!
I dunk my Rich Tea in my tea, and occasionally in some hot chocolate, but in GRAVY? For BREAKFAST?!
I think American biscuits are different from what you call a biscuit. :biggrin:
I think American biscuits are different from what you call a biscuit. :biggrin:
So what's a biscuit then?!
I love this conversation.
"I like grits"
"What are grits?"
"They're like porridge"
"No they're not! But I like pancakes"
"I like thick pancakes"
"Pancakes are thin! Do you mean a Scotch pancake?"
"No, a pancake. What's a Scotch pancake?"
"It's like an American pancake"
"Forget pancakes, I like biscuits"
"What's a biscuit?"
What next? Muffins? Don't get me started on muffins...
Huckleberry
Jun5-05, 05:19 PM
We need to have an international PF get together and cook all our favorite foods for each other. I love trying new foods.
I like biscuits and gravy too. I like biscuits best when they have a crispy shell, but are soft and steamy in the middle and can sop up lots of gravy.
So what's a biscuit then?!Big lumps of baked dough. It's a type of bread...kind of.
http://familyfun.go.com/Resources/Cookbook/FeatureRecipeImages/ff1104-jg-biscuits.jpg
Big lumps of baked dough. It's a type of bread...kind of.
http://familyfun.go.com/Resources/Cookbook/FeatureRecipeImages/ff1104-jg-biscuits.jpg
Ahhhh! I know what you mean. I'm not really sure what we call them.
Here is a biscuit (a Hobnob, to be precise): http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/biscuits/media/hobnob.jpg
And here is a half-eaten biscuit: http://www.tanos.co.uk/remote/livejournal/hobnob_half_eaten.jpg
Huckleberry
Jun5-05, 05:38 PM
Oh, that looks like a cookie. No wonder you were thrown by biscuits and gravy. Cookies and gravy would be gross.
Integral
Jun5-05, 05:45 PM
Sorry, for a moment there I almost thought you said "biscuits in gravy".
WAIT! YOU DID!
ARE YOU ON CRACK, MAN?!
I dunk my Rich Tea in my tea, and occasionally in some hot chocolate, but in GRAVY? For BREAKFAST?!
I am guessing this must have come from the german side of my family. Yep bisciuts and gravy for breakfast. Good stuff.
Math Is Hard
Jun5-05, 05:46 PM
One of the things I love about PF is that it promotes cross-cultural understanding. Ah, the tragedies that have been averted!
Just think - I could have gone to England and ordered whipped cream on my pie, and brewnog might have come to the U.S. and dipped his buttermilk biscuit in his tea! :biggrin:
What is a healthy breakfast? Eggs? What else? I think eating waffles with butter and syrup everyday is a bad idea, and I am wondering about what I could switch to that is more healthy. Gracie!
A nice hearty bowl of cereal...Total, although I would prefer the grits
Moonbear
Jun5-05, 05:52 PM
You guys should try some real pancakes.
Pint of milk 8oz flour, 1 egg, a pinch of salt, and some melted butter... Blitz it up, let it stand for an hour or two, then fry the hell out of A THIN LAYER in some more butter. The thinner the better. Prepare to throw the first one in the bin.
I add a bit of sugar to make crepes, but that's the basic recipe. American pancakes, generally, would include those ingredients, plus sugar, substitute some buttermilk for the regular milk, and add baking powder (I don't know what's in baking powder, but it makes things puffy). Oh, heck, I just buy the mix and add milk. They're cooked on a griddle (to me, a scone is something you bake, though it uses a very similar recipe).
I don't know what sort of pancakes Huck has been eating. Mine are nowhere near 1/2" thick! Maybe 0.5 cm on a really fat one.
As for biscuits, those are basically flour, buttermilk, lard, baking powder and a touch of salt. You have to be really gentle about not kneading them too much so they stay light and flaky. And then when they are done baking, you smother them in butter! :approve: Yum.
Yes, what the British call biscuits, we call cookies. Though, sometimes you can find an odd brand here or there that calls them tea biscuits here.
Hard to believe we speak the same language, huh?
Cornmeal muffins are yummy! (I sure hope we all use the same word for muffins.)
Well, except we also have these things called English muffins that nobody in Britain recognizes as anything they've ever seen before. We toast them, and they have nooks and crannies so you can drown them in butter and it doesn't run off! :approve: Even better, put a fried egg, a slice of your favorite cheese, and a couple slices of bacon onto one and eat it like a sandwich! :approve: Now that's a good breakfast! :biggrin:
Huckleberry
Jun5-05, 06:05 PM
I don't know what sort of pancakes Huck has been eating. Mine are nowhere near 1/2" thick! Maybe 0.5 cm on a really fat one. You've got too much water in your mix. The thicker the batter the fluffier the pancake. I like nice, fat pancakes.
Oh, I make those English muffin breakfasts too. Nice and quick and cheaper than the junk at McDonalds. Those are good stuff.
Moonbear
Jun5-05, 06:07 PM
One of the things I love about PF is that it promotes cross-cultural understanding. Ah, the tragedies that have been averted!
Just think - I could have gone to England and ordered whipped cream on my pie, and brewnog might have come to the U.S. and dipped his buttermilk biscuit in his tea! :biggrin:
Oh, a few other food items that have different names in the US and Britain.
What they call chips, we call fries (or French fries). What we call chips, they call crisps.
I haven't the slightest inkling of a clue what bubbles and squeak is, but I hear about it a lot from Brits. None of these are breakfast foods though, at least to the best of my knowledge.
You've got too much water in your mix. The thicker the batter the fluffier the pancake. I like nice, fat pancakes.
Oh, I make those English muffin breakfasts too. Nice and quick and cheaper than the junk at McDonalds. Those are good stuff.The eggamuffin (ok, bad old joke that no one will get)
Has anyone noticed that the food at McDonald's is getting smaller? I actually got an egg McMuffin the other day (I was desparate) and I swear it was the size of a silver dollar. :grumpy:
Moonbear
Jun5-05, 06:09 PM
You've got too much water in your mix. The thicker the batter the fluffier the pancake. I like nice, fat pancakes.
There is NO water in my mix! I ignore the instructions and use milk instead of water. :biggrin: I don't like those thick, cakey tasting pancakes. I prefer them thinner and fried in a bit of oil or shortening (nothing so insane as deep frying, just to coat the pan) instead of on a dry skillet.
Moonbear
Jun5-05, 06:11 PM
Has anyone noticed that the food at McDonald's is getting smaller? I actually got an egg McMuffin the other day (I was desparate) and I swear it was the size of a silver dollar. :grumpy:
I have to be incredibly desperate to eat any breakfast food from McDonalds. If I'm on the road and need to buy a breakfast, I prefer to find a bagel shop.
I hate mcdonalds, but for some reason i keep going back. Breakfast has got to be a nice greasy fry up for me! Unless i am being healthy in wwhich case i skip breakfast.
fuzzyfelt
Jun5-05, 06:15 PM
Hi all, this is my first venture here into general discussion.
Brewnog, I have been living in your very fine country for over a year now and incidentally absoluetly love it, but where do I find some thin bacon that crisps up really nicely for say with eggs benedict? Either I'm an absolute neanderthal and don't appreciate the subtleties of english bacon, or there is something seriously wrong with it. When you buy it, its pale and thick and soft and when you cook it up it doesn't change much!
And if its any help to anyone I grew up calling scottish pancakes 'pikelets'.
Huckleberry
Jun5-05, 06:16 PM
I don't eat at McDonalds anymore. Their breakfast menu always upsets me anyway. It is so expensive and the servings are so small they are unamerican. And I can only get the breakfast menu in the morning and the burger menu in the afternoon. I don't even bother. If I want breakfast I'll go to a 24 hour IHOP.
Are there 24 hour restaurants in England? An Australian woman from Perth once told me she was amazed at IHOP because she had never seen a restaurant open 24 hours.
Echo 6 Sierra
Jun5-05, 06:40 PM
A version of SOS I learned to make a long time ago is:
1# browned hamburger (drained)
1 can condensed cream of mushroom soup
garlic salt, black pepper, and Worchestershire to taste.
Let it simmer till its thick and then spoon over white rice.
Throw on a couple of fried eggs, add some pan fried pork snosages, portugese sausage, fried spam w/brown sugar, or some chorizo fried till its bacon-y, buttered toast made under the broiler OR fried in the chorizo pan and you can hear your arteries seizing up. Wash it down with a glass of milk and you won't need to eat for about 8 hours.
WARNING: After eating the above meal you will most definitely need coffee, preferably a double espresso.
Gokul43201
Jun5-05, 07:07 PM
And then there is crisp fried hash browns covered in Cheddar Cheese Yikes ! :eek: I forgot my hash browns !!
Gokul43201
Jun5-05, 07:08 PM
Hi FiSeconded :biggrin:
Hi fi!
Pikelets is the word I was looking for, thanks!
Moonbear, bubble and squeak is a bit of a speciality! It's a left-over meal, particularly for use on Boxing day, or mid-week when you're trying to finish off lots of food from the sunday roast.
It's basically lots of mashed up veg (potatoes, carrots, cabbage, and anything else you like) with lots of salt and pepper (and some Henderson's relish, but NOBODY here will have a clue about that!), all fried up in a pan.
I used to absolutely adore the stuff, until my mum was cooking it one particularly hungover day. The smell made me retch, and it has now joined eggs and tuna in my "food which makes me retch" category.
Pengwuino
Jun5-05, 07:56 PM
I made hte biggest breakfast burrito a few days ago with the breakfast my mother made. I got this huge tortilla and threw in some eggs, potatos, sausage, salsa... reallllly generously.... oh man that was good stuff. The size is the improtant part though. THe tortilla was bigger then my plate! And i filled it to a point where the 2 ends barely wrapped over eachother :D
hitssquad
Jun6-05, 03:23 AM
The eggamuffin (ok, bad old joke that no one will get)Eggamuffin yeah (http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Eggamuffin+yeah%22).
Oh, I forgot to answer fi's question.
Any half-decent butcher will cut bacon as thin as you like. Problem solved!
Moonbear
Jun6-05, 10:41 AM
Pikelets is the word I was looking for, thanks!
Is that English or Americanish? I've never heard of that before either.
Moonbear, bubble and squeak is a bit of a speciality! It's a left-over meal, particularly for use on Boxing day, or mid-week when you're trying to finish off lots of food from the sunday roast.
It's basically lots of mashed up veg (potatoes, carrots, cabbage, and anything else you like) with lots of salt and pepper (and some Henderson's relish, but NOBODY here will have a clue about that!), all fried up in a pan.
Hmm...sounds like a good leftover type meal. Do you fry it until crispy/browned, or just to heat it? To me, potatoes don't taste good reheated unless something else is added to them. I don't know why, but just reheated by themselves, they seem to have an odd taste to me, sort of like instant potatoes taste. It must be my 1/4 Britishness that makes me like these things (everyone else gripes about British food, but when I was there, I could have eaten in the pubs every night...good comfort food served there, like thick brown gravy on mashed potatoes, and mushy peas are tasty peas...still trying to figure out why you all call them mushy though, they were neither mashed, which is what I was envisioning and fearing a bit when they came with my order, nor cooked to a mushy texture, at least no more so than any peas are).
1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21
Jun6-05, 07:55 PM
i usually start the day riding my bike down the road at 0600 with a glazed donut in one hand and a coffee in the other. i am really good at riding no handed, i can even turn and everything
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singleton
Jun6-05, 08:02 PM
I have a heaping bowl of vector cereal with skim milk, 300ml pure OJ with extra pulp, 300ml wild blueberries, multivitamin, aspirin and omega3 fish oil extract.
I eat that every morning.
Is that English or Americanish? I've never heard of that before either.
I have no idea. Probably British. It sounds kinda Lancastrian, but I dunno.
Hmm...sounds like a good leftover type meal. Do you fry it until crispy/browned, or just to heat it?
As crispy as you like. It's cooked when it all sticks together into a kind of, urm, thick pancake, golden brown on the outside but still squidgy in the middle.
still trying to figure out why you all call them mushy though, they were neither mashed, nor cooked to a mushy texture
Are you sure you had mushy peas, and not just, urm, peas? Mushy peas are amongst the mushiest things in the world!
Did they look like this?
http://www.os42.com/wp-images/mushypeas.jpg
Math Is Hard
Jun7-05, 10:54 AM
Did they look like this?
http://www.os42.com/wp-images/mushypeas.jpg
I'm going to be sick. We need a just about to barf smiley -
somewhere between this :blushing: and this :yuck:
I'm going to be sick.
Yeah, they look so disgusting that I didn't dare try them for the first 18 years of my life.
You only really have them with Fish n Chips.
Chips are NOT french fries. French fries are thin, and cooked in vegetable oil (we have french fries in the UK too). Chips are thick, and cooked (hopefully) in animal fat, although most places nowadays prefer veg oil so that they can sell them to vegematarians.
I'm going to be sick.
Good grief, woman! What's the matter with you? I thought you were a Texan. Throw some red chunks in there and you have guacomoli.
They've always reminded me of the Dentrassi food that Ford Prefect gives Arthur Dent to eat when they first get onto the Vogon ship in the TV series of HHGG.
Moonbear
Jun7-05, 12:39 PM
Are you sure you had mushy peas, and not just, urm, peas? Mushy peas are amongst the mushiest things in the world!
:grumpy: Hey! No, that's not what they gave me. :grumpy: It very clearly said on the menu that whatever the other thing I ordered was served with mushy peas, and that picture is what I was expecting to get, with a good degree of uncertainty as to whether I'd eat them or not, but since they just came as a side, I figured give it a try. I was surprised when they came out as whole peas, and then decided it must have just been an odd name for peas (they are definitely different peas than we have in the U.S. - sweeter). I was cheated out of the true British experience! :mad: They must've heard my American accent and decided to spare me the experience. How truly disappointing. :frown:
Moonbear
Jun7-05, 12:41 PM
Chips are thick, and cooked (hopefully) in animal fat, although most places nowadays prefer veg oil so that they can sell them to vegematarians.
Those are french fries too. That's how my mom always made them. :approve: The skinny ones are shoestring french fries (you can get french fries in a variety of shapes and sizes).
JasonRox
Jun8-05, 11:07 PM
I thought you said healthy breakfast.
I eat... every morning.
2 Egg Whites
1 Whole Egg, but only eat half the yolk
2 Pieces of Ham
1 Bowl of All Bran Cereal
1-2 Glasses of Orange Juice
2 Glasses of Water
I get a wide variety of vitamins and minerals, while keeping it relatively low in saturated fat. I think I get about 1.5-2 grams of saturated fat, for breakfast.
Edit: All Bran Cereal is plain... no milk.
Moonbear
Jun8-05, 11:09 PM
I thought you said healthy breakfast.
He did, but we were still hungry, so went for a good breakfast instead, and then it was lunch time, so we started in on that. :biggrin:
hmmm....
What's breakfast? I've heard of brunch. Coffee good.
Huckleberry
Jun8-05, 11:21 PM
hmmm....
What's breakfast? I've heard of brunch. Coffee good. :bugeye: No breakfast? Not even a bagel and a piece of fruit to go with that coffee? How do you make it through your day?
Moonbear
Jun8-05, 11:37 PM
:bugeye: No breakfast? Not even a bagel and a piece of fruit to go with that coffee? How do you make it through your day?
I rarely eat breakfast. Don't always get around to lunch until 2 or 3 in the afternoon either. I'm usually pretty hungry by then.
:bugeye: No breakfast? Not even a bagel and a piece of fruit to go with that coffee? How do you make it through your day?I don't get hungry until I've been out and about for awhile, and then I avoid carbs/sugars because of blood sugar reasons. Though I put cream in my coffee I do wonder about years of drinking it on an empty stomach. Anyway, I don't eat until lunch on work days. On the weekend, I may have brunch. I'm bad, I know.
Moonbear
Jun8-05, 11:43 PM
And he said a bagel and a piece of fruit! :eek: If I do eat breakfast, a piece of fruit is enough for me, or a half of a bagel (I steal the top half with all the good stuff on it :biggrin:).
Huckleberry
Jun8-05, 11:47 PM
I guess I'll consider myself fortunate then. I eat whatever I like whenever I like. I like fruits and vegetables and meats and cheese and sweets and just about everything really. Okay, maybe I eat too many sweets, but it certainly doesn't show.
for breakfast, I juice some fruit, mix it, drink it, and have a piece of french toast...but we're out of french toast now, so I don't know what to eat tomorrow...
Moonbear
Jun9-05, 12:05 AM
for breakfast, I juice some fruit, mix it, drink it, and have a piece of french toast...but we're out of french toast now, so I don't know what to eat tomorrow...
How can you be out of french toast? Or do you mean you're out of either bread or eggs?
How can you be out of french toast? Or do you mean you're out of either bread or eggs?
I'm out of toaster-cooked french toast...I'll just make my own tomorrow
i wake up like at 5pm everyday so no breakfast for me
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