Healthy Breakfast Ideas: Eggs & Beyond

[Math Is Hard]

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.

 

[Evo]

Cheese-garlic-grits casserole rocks! That was a staple of Sunday brunches during my childhood.

Mmmmm, sounds yummy! I need grits now.

 

[brewnog]

I just can't take everyone going on about grits!

Is there any way I can make grits?

 

[Moonbear]

Grits?

GRITS?

Somebody is going to 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. Yanks don't eat grits, southerners do!

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.)[/size]

 

[Moonbear]

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]

Grits?

GRITS?

Somebody is going to 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.

 

[Evo]

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.

 

[brewnog]

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 going to have to go round to Auntie Evo's...

 

[Danger]

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.
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]

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.

 

[hypatia]

Homniy grits are made from field corn soaked in lye, until 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.

 

[Evo]

Hominy is nasty stuff, it is the only thing I will not eat. It smells like old sneakers.

 

[Pengwuino]

Muesli, yoghurt, bananas, OJ, toast (with Marmite!), grapefruit...

whats... half of all that? You brits sure don't eat much :D

 

[brewnog]

whats... half of all that? You brits sure don't 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]

Hominy is nasty stuff, it is the only thing I will not eat. It smells like old sneakers.

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.

 

[hypatia]

Yes, grits are made from milled hominy corn. Any other kind of corn that's milled is called corn meal{two thumbs up for corn bread}.

 

[Evo]

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.

 

[Moonbear]

Yes, they are but the nasty part is thrown away.

Must be. They just left the tasteless part.

 

[Evo]

Must be. They just left the tasteless part.

(takes away Moonbear's diplomatic immunity)

Them are fightin' words!

 

[Gokul43201]

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]

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.

 

[brewnog]

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.

 

[Evo]

What are scotch pancakes?

 

[brewnog]

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.

 

[Evo]

Yeah, ours are pretty thick. I like to put either chili or tuna salad on my pancakes.

 

[Huckleberry]

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.

 

[brewnog]

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.

 

[Evo]

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]

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.

 

[brewnog]

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?!