Breakfast?

Yes I do, but not til about nine thirty and not at all with a hangover, can't stomach food then.

This morning I had my usual, glass of juice (peach)and a vitamin pill when I got up, then when I got in here two slices of wholemeal toast, two hash browns and a mug of coffee.

Dream breakfast = scrambled egg with smoked salmon and chives on lightly toasted farmhouse granary bread, accompanied by a pint of freshly squeezed orange juice and a very strong espresso. preferably looking out over the sea. nice.

I heartily believe in it. i get tired without it. i normally have a cup of wildberry tea and peanut butter on Burgen toast. i didn't have breakfast this morning, as soon as i got up i went to the computer lab in a concerted effort to suck the stats cock (i take ILE very very seriously). my perfect breakfast is: blueberry muffin splits oozing with peanut butter and frozen apricot yoghurt ice-cream. mmmm. had blueberry pancakes with fruit salad and yoghrt and maple syrup on saturday morning with mene at capers after our all-niter at the provincial. delish.

museli (home made natch caurrently featuring dried mango and cinnamon), juice, toast with butter and pear and apple spread, fair trade tea

just started believing in it again after several years. makes me much better in the morning (tho still not brilliant) just to have a slice of toast and a juice, or (even better) a bowl of CRUNCHY NUT CORNFLAKES (yum)

This morning, i had, err, a doughnut.

Breakfast is ace, but I don't usually have time to do it properly. I normally just have toast and milk and/or cereal, but I was in a rather confused state this morning and thought half a baguette munched on the way to the station would be an adequate substitute. I was wrong.

Best breakfasts:
1) Smoked salmon, scrambled quails eggs, brown bread and butter, freshly squeezed orange juice and small bucket of champagne
2) Bacon sandwich(no sauce, bread dipped in the bacon fat first) and industrial strength tea
3) 2 fried eggs, 2 bacons, 2 sausages, 4 fried slice, few slices of black pudding, 2 fried half tomatoes, 2potato waffles and baked beans beans followed by toast and marmalade and accompanied by industrial strength tea.

I love breakfast. Most mornings it's toast, caffeine, and OJ and banana BLENDED TO DEATH. I make scrambled eggs with a little milk, butter, huge amounts of pepper and a few shakes of parmesan, but that's only a couple of times a week. Do this and cook SLOWLY (or add a knob of Philly) and presto, world's best eggs.

Yesterday I went to Quiet Revolution for something organic - a bacon sandwich with poached egg on sourdough toast, plus a cappucino. £7! Fiends!

I really like French toast, poached eggs and boiled egg and soldiers but really, the fry-up is my speciality. The bacon must be smoked, the sausage fairly coarse - hooray Cumberlands - and the eggs must be fried sunny side up with LOTS of pepper. Oh, with mushrooms and toast dripping with way too much butter. Chase this with orange juice and some form of coffee. Or, if you are staying somewhere post-hedonism, a Bloody Mary.

I don't do the potatoes for breakfast thing much but home fries with chili is great, bubble and squeak is nice, and hash browns must be totally crispy on the outside.

Cereal? I used to like American Sugar Pops and Honeycomb, but I'm not one of those tartrazine-wired twee indie kids who has to eat sugar cereal for breakfast. Bleurgh! I'm much more savoury.

This morning for breakfast I R having APPLE TANGO and PRINGLES bought from B2 Budgens Express, and mini SUSHI from Boots (Charing X branch). People stared at me with horror. It was ace! I wonder what I shall have for lunch.

I know believing in breakfast is A GooD Thing but you see but in the EXTRA BED TIME vs getting up, peeking into the kitchen to survey the CARNAGE, opening yr cupboard, feeling depressed because the only things in there are LENTILS and a can of PEAS, spreading some butter on BRED if you haf enough time and then being late for work anyway FITE, bed wins.

McDonalds hash browns are odd things. As are their "egg mcmuffins", last sampled one stupidly early morning in BriXtor when extremely hungover. Nyrgh.

I like a bowl of cereal but I'm usually too lazy to eat one.

Balls, I forgot the shrooms.

Smoked bacon is just wrong. I will brook no argument on this point.

Now I need to have something FRIED for lunch, you fecker.

The other day for breakfast I had fried egg, french BRED, cream cheese, salami, industrial strength tea (had to FITE to get milk in there, those kerazee Armenians), carrot preserve and orange juice.

ORANGE JUICE WITH BITS IN IS BAD!

Hmm lunch = fried food or RUMBLERS CEREAL. I've never had any type of pre-packed breakfast cereal, am I Missing Out?

I really miss my Italian breakfasts oh capuccino and treccia al nocioline. in the bar at thend of my road in turin. Also a newyork diner breakfast, eggs, potatoes, bacon.

Best black pudding is stornaway, from th outer hebridees, also availible in the butchers in portree on the isle of skye, also do and incredibel white pudding and fruit pudding.

I'm a great one for well made creamy porrige, with muscavado sugar, butter and salt, or maple syrup.

Scrambled eggs on sourdough with baron's hot pepper sauce

Pete's eats in llanberis or ma shepherds on the A75, pete's also does a mean veggie fry up, superlatives in greasy spoon cookery.

bacon sandwich has to be rind on smoked middle bacon for me, slightly crispy fat at the streaky end, pink juicy flesh at the other, sauce brown or bacon dripping (esp. for brown bread), slightly toasted bread.

naturally yours in earith for sausages although these take far to long to cook because they are so fat.

and scrambled egg should be cooked quickly as possible, just ask Anton Mossiman, for he knows, and definitely not in a nonstick pan neither.

Cafe Pop all day breakfasts! FAINT and also SWOON! They're huge and amazing. And also VEGGIE chiz chiz but yet still tasty.

I disappointed myself last night by failing the VEGAN BUTTER vs REEL BUTTER pepsi challenge. And I have lentils. And was just talking about wicca. I think I'd best go have a fite with the Essex Green to reassure myself I R not being a hippie.

2 points of order.

SMOKED BACON IS KING

ORANGES HAVE BITS IN THEM

thank you

which reminds me of last winter in italy buying 4 kilo bags of blood oranges leaving them on the balcony to let the frost get at them and having icy cold fresh squeezed blood orange juice

which reminds me of last winter in italy buying 4 kilo bags of blood oranges leaving them on the balcony to let the frost get at them and having icy cold fresh squeezed blood orange juice

Wow, that sounds fantastic

Oh Cafe Pop is in Manchester on Oldham St if anyone is interested.

Yeah so WHOT Ed, surely the point of civilsation is to get rid of the mingy bits therefore orinj juice w/o bits = proof that humans are best and also TASTY GOOD!

The fat on smoked bacon tastes nicer; the other stuff grosses me out, tastes too metallic. When I say slowly with the scrambled eggs I mean NOT on burning heat and stirring 75% of the time, or thereabouts. Also if you are using milk you need to go slow or you will get egg sweat. Gross.

Mmmmmmaple syrup. For the French toast. Failing that, jam + knob of butter plus a bit of water to dilute the jam mass.

sarah, I am a hippy and like thing natural, we all must return to nature frolic in the trees and eat the bits in our orange juice

bits in juice = classic, as is cloudy, bitty apple juice, yum.

Orange juice without bits is disgusting, because it's made from not- very-fresh concentrate eg. BRITVIC and is the juice equivalent of UHT milk. Gag.

I have to see evidence that my orange juice was very recently an orange, squeezed personally for me by minions, hence the need for the bits (which are the cell walls holding the juice). Now THAT is civilisation.

uht milk is the bain of civilisation, the spanish could be a great coffee making nation if it weren't for their obsession with uht milk

(great coffee making nations IMHO Italy, greece, turkey, the arabs)

active posters such as myself need the breakfast of champions, which would have to be coffee. beyond that breakfast makes me feel queasy. I know I sound like a loser, but dammit, Di's enthusiasm for the stats cock is contagious, and Mike Hanle y sounds like a good prize. I'll have him for dessert...

are you frightened now Mike y? I just have so much love to share...

Orange juice w/bits, definitely. UHT milk is the semen of Satan.

No bits no bits no bits times infinity with nobs on! Pttthhththththth ect ect. Ah, that's the type of intellectual debate that I like to see. Suzy describes an opressive CLASS STRUCTURE which I would say is NOT civilsation but then agane she is obviously addled by drinking the "bits" feh chiz.

I agree with the UHT sentiments though.

Incidentally, I also wuv hot cocoa and shall be making some tonight. I bet Ed and Suzy could tell me how to make really good hot cocoa but I follow the rules of Hi Monkey!

I wuv the Monkey.

What a silly thread to read at 12.52 when my stomach is about to TURN ME INSIDE OUT AND EAT MYSELF.

Today - "high fibre cereal". For men who think muesli is too rockin'.

Markx

have i expounded my theory that FULL ENGLISH BREKFAST = central reason for decline and fall of British Empire (cf romans and lead piping for plumbing)?

would you like me to?

yes please Mr Sinker sir.

starch before 10 = slumber by 2 = gandhi's busiest time

Your asking will make no difference Mr Brown. Mr Sinker has threatened to expound his theory before and despite enthusiastic requests said expoundage DID NOT APPEAR (qv Hornby, World Music, vector of totality, asoasf...)

CURSES!

the monkey is cute an wuvvable but also very wrong in his making of cocoa.

for a start hershey's mings. for seconds his is a recipe for lumpy cocoa

for standard cocoa get some cocoa (I like green and blacks) make a paste with cocoa and a little milk, make sure it is lump and clump free or you'll have lumpy bits in your cocoa, this is your only chance to avoid them, heat the rest of the milk, don't boil, and then pour the milk little by little mxing as you do to spread the cocoa evenly through the milk, then return to the pan and heat, very slowly stirring continuosly and removignfrom the heat to allow the cocoa to cool slightly every now and again. add sugar or syrup to taste, if you want no bits of sugar at the bottom its best to use a sugar syrup. I like to use muscovado sugar for extra richness

then there is the italian way of making hot chocolate, melt the finest dark chocolate you can find in a bain marie till liquid, stir in a little double cream, and a little milk, often this is steamed before hand, add sugar to taste et voila, should not really be drinkable more spoonable. should almost be able to tur the cup upsidedown without the hotchocolate leaving, Some bars steam their hot chocolate with the capuccino steamer, which makes it a bit lighter. A lot of bars have a little machine with whilry arms and a heating element in them which keeps a batch of this stuff going, ala old school squash amchines

haha horseback boy

my talent is for suggestive compression perhaps yet my chosen vocation pays by the word hence my doom which is mine

I had (no sniggering at the back) four crumpets with butter and jam this morning. Otherwise any of the above sounds good to me.

Recommend kippers (jugged or grilled) with a poached egg and plenty of black pepper.

I did not eat breakfast but David makes me so i eat cereal and fruit

jugged = what, billy?

My favorite is the pear slices, orange juice , gravalox and strong black coffee at 6 am coming out of the snow tunnels on the train form Edmonton to Vancouver.

I have an odd A.M. predilection for Quaker Instant Oatmeal of the Apple-Cinnamon variety, which is unaccountable because the idea of heating milk until it thickens and becomes viscous is, I think we would all agree, utterly vile. But then, those cold Chicago mornings are coming, and Two Packets of Instant Oats are My Only Man.

This morning: iced coffee with a splash of organic half and half, a packet of equal and diet pill, I overslept. I like museli (the Dorset kind in the cello bag is good) with milk or yogurt and some fruit or oatmeal with milk and golden syrup during the week on my way out to work. Weekend brunch I make pancakes or get an omelet, and scrambled eggs with smoked salmon draped over is yummy.

I should add that I am staunchly anti-br--ch (the very word drives me mental to such an extent that I can't even write it out). Waiting an hour to be seated + wading through all the yuppies of the br--ching class + fancified breakfast food like "Whole Buckwheat Pancake with Mango-Chutney Salsa" or "Scrambled Eggs infused with Rosemary" = HUGE DUD.

Semolina porrige with currants in it. But not until 11am.

Lately I have been eating lightly toasted wholegrain bread with English butter and my friend Pippa's plum, orange and walnut jam which is yum. On an average morning when friends have not lately been generous, it's no sugar Alpen. Always a cup of tea, the colour bricklayers like it, and always Yakult. I thought it was going to ming but Yakult = yum! This morning I was hit by boyfriend-coming-in- a-week-bugger-bugger-diet fear so I just had the Yakult.

Usual = 2 cigarettes and 2 coffees. Sometimes toast... cold buttered with vegemite. Ideal = 2 coffees and 2 cigarettes made for me and served in bed.

Jugged kippers, trad way of cooking so house does not smell fishy. Recipe here.

Hoorah, proof that Mark S is not the source of all knowledge ;-)

Breakfast is v. important. ideally, on a weekday I'd like either breakfast tacos (eggs, potatoes, cheese and salsa) or oatmeal with fruit, soy milk and honey. Usually though I just have time to grab amuffin at 7-11.

On weekends we'll go out for a great diner breakfast: me - eggs, hashbrowns, biscuits or pancakes *or* migas (scrambled eggs with corn tortilla strips, tomatoes, onions and cheese served with refried beans and rice); hank: chicken fried steak, eggs, hashbrowns.

yum, breakfast.

billy dods you crowed too soon: that link goes nowhere

ALRIGHT them Sam, tell me all about refried beans. What are they, what do they taste like, why do people eat them and am I right to be afeared of them? NB you may expand on the whole kultchur of Tex-Mex as you wish.

Breakfast = evil. It always makes me ill.

This morning I had a banana, an apple and 2 slices of bread. Plus vitamin shit stuff. Cod liver oil and garlic and Lysine-L.Sometimes vitamin C tablets. I also drink 2 glasses of water before I do anything(apart from getting out of bed(obviously)).I don't know why I bother though. My skin seems determined to look like I have POX. I'm really fucking hungry though now. I haven't eaten since 8 and it's 4 now. Perhaps this is why I'm shaking.

Get Chinese takeaway. The remainders can be had for tomorrows breakfast. Yummy breakfast = last nights takeout mmmm.

My face has changed colour. Rest of body = normal skin/fur delete according to yr PHANTASIES but face = RED as if have been attacked with brillo. I do not understand this. It happens without my knowledge and USUALLY on days when I need to have pictures for ID cards taken. Today I haf escaped lightly as no-one can see me hidden behind the monitor in the office anyway. Fun for whizzing up and down on swivel chair hoo hoo.

mark s: the link works, it's the stylesheet on the page which is missing. turning off stylesheets or javascript temporarily in the browser fixes it.

Refried beans are good. Pinto beans (usually, sometimes black) cooked normally then put in a skillet with a bit of lard, mashed up and fried. Depending on where you get them they can be a bit stiff or they can be runny. They're great to scoop up with rice and your main dish inside a tortilla. Is that a good explanation?

Texmex food is the best. Tortillas with everything, rice and beans (the rice is also cooked in a skillet with tomato sauce, onions and garlic) and always salsa. yummm salsa. I can eat this cuisine three meals a day and often do.

Do they normally come in tin form, or are tinned refried beans false refried beans? I only ask because it was a tin that some Americans left in our flat that seemed to cause Sarah's fear.

Yeah you can buy them canned but those aren't very good. they're too salty and well, canned. all canned food should be feared.

Apart from Heinz sponge pudding.

that there Billy Dods is bang on the money there, in fact I might have to buy a chocolate one on my way home now

ah suzy the juice merchants have snookered you too! think on the physics of the situation: bits = less room for juice! also = desperate appeal for highbrow rusticity and we don't need that do we??

breakfast for tracer most mornings: bacon egg and cheese on english muffin. yes, my will is made out.

Breakfast is of course fairly godlike. Weekday mornings, though, I merely usually have a blueberry bran muffin from this local company that makes such things (tasty and cheap) and orange juice. It's enough to tide me over to lunch. I used to be a cereal fanatic but a few years back some bad tummy rumbles led to a temporary cutback on dairy things. I've since recovered but don't see the need for cereal much anymore aside from visits home, where I can always be assured there are Cheerios in the house.

When it comes to proper breakfasts on the weekends -- num! -- there are a variety of good places around here that make various combinations of pancakes, waffles, eggs, omelettes, fruit, etc. which I semi-regularly indulge in. Having just discovered black puddings in my last jaunt over, they're damn good -- I'd rather them than American sausages, thanks.

A heavenly breakfast? Hm. My grandpa's dollar pancakes (small and tasty, thank heavens we kept the recipe), a bit of bacon, fresh OJ and maybe a danish or something in my parent's dining room looking out across Carmel Valley.

mr smythe has same breakie as me, though i normally have it at around 2pm, so it's proper to say i don't do breakfast.

Lately I forget to eat. It is really bad. I don't have breakfast. If it's a working day, then I will have lunch. However if I am meeting up with friends or on holiday; I sometimes forget to eat till it's four pm!
Perfect breakfast is sex, natch. ;-)

I believe in breakfast! I normally have either Crunchy Nut Cornflakes, Weetabix or shreddies (yuck), this morning I continued my Cruncy Nut Cornflake addiction. My perfect breakfast would be muffins with melted butter and strawberry jam.

the monkey emailed me

I never eat breakfast. it ticks off mummy something awful. While she was away I could enjoy my breakfast free days but now it's all "that's not normal", "no wonder you had shingles"

No wonder I had shingles.

My only excuse for the bits in the orange juice is I LOVE ORANGES. And freshly-squeezed just TASTES NICER. No pseudo-rusticity for me, no sir, Mr Tracer Hand.

What did the monkey write, Ed?

Steak and eggs overeasy, with home fries, any time of the day is way good. I usually have a bowl of frosted mini-wheats in extra rich milk.

The best breakfasts are where you don't have to be anywhere or do anything for the rest of the day.

Yeah well suzy your freshly squozen stuff cannot compare to when the help peels an orange and squeezes it over my open mouth. MMMMmmm! :)

(for the rest of you - taking sides: Calcium Orange Juice vs. Grovestand Orange Juice vs. Grovestand Ruby Red Grapefruit Juice vs. HomeStyle Orange Juice vs. Orange Grapefruit Juice vs. Orange Juice with Calcium and Extra Vitamin C vs. Orange Juice with Double Vitamin C and Extra Vitamin E vs. Orange Tangerine Juice vs. Orchardstand Apple Juice vs. Original Orange Juice vs. Ruby Red Grapefruit Juice vs. Ruby Red Grapefruit Calcium Juice vs. Ruby Red Orange Juice vs. Tangerine Orange Juice vs. Tropical Orange Juice vs. Golden Grapefruit Juice vs. Pink Grapefruit Juice vs. NEW Valencia Orange Juice)

I believe in it. I normally have Easy Mac. This morning I had a cup of miso soup and toast with Snickers Peanut Butter on it. That wasn't the best combination, especially when I spilled the soup on the toast. My perfect breakfast is either Easy Mac or monkey bread.

What is Easy Mac? It sounds worrying.

the monkey said:

'you're right about the cocoa, ed, unfortunately, good cocoa is hard to come by in the states. my cocoa recipe does make lumpy cocoa... sometimes. i was going for the whole spirit of the cocoa making experience.

yours charmingly,

monkey'

A flat white and two pieces of toast, one with marmite, t'other with honey.

usually i wake. smoke 1/2 cig. gulp of coke. breakfast..i would love waffles with fresh blueberries and a glass of orange juice..

breakfast w.rainy = perfect (toothpaste and a bucket of scabs) but impossible as by the time i arrive from hackney to dunedin it is tomorrow tea-time

I am thinking of moving to Prince Edward Island, is that closer to Hackney?

Yes, but its boring out there.

Bridge is super cool though.

there was a tv programme abt prince edward on tonite: he does not deserve an island in my opinion

I am thinking of moving to Prince Edward Island.

Cool. Why there in particular?

Because I've dreamed of it ever since I used to watch Anne of Green Gables.

On that show, I think they had porridge for breakfast.

My ideal breakfast:

― felicity, Monday, 8 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)