What's your favorite breakfast?

[dreamshark]

Okay, to be honest, mine is bacon and eggs and buttered toast with a big glass of orange juice, but unless I’m in the middle of a 2-day bike ride I can’t really justify eating something like that. So I’m experimenting with healthier menus for those ordinary office days. Cereal doesn’t do it for me – I need some protein and fat to keep me going ’till lunch time.

Here’s a wonderful recipe I invented yesterday and loved it so much I made it again today. Yumm.

Sesame French Toast
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Soak a large piece of whole-wheat bread in 1/4 cup liquid egg with a dash of cinnamon and nutmeg. Sprinkle one Tbsp of sesame seeds on each side. Cook until crispy on the outside on a very hot griddle with just a spritz of cooking spray. Top with 1/4 cup Greek yogurt, 1/4 cup canned cherries or mandarin oranges, and maybe a Tbsp of sugar-free syrup.

Even with sugar and milk in my coffee, this whole breakfast is under 400 calories, and it’s SO GOOD! The sesame seeds not only add extra protein, they also add enough healthy fat that I don’t feel an urge to slather the whole thing with butter.

Best of all, it doesn’t take any more time than frying an egg.

Comments

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

That sounds really good. The sesame seeds are a genius idea.

My favorite breakfast has hash browns, toast, jelly, eggs, waffles, pancakes... I love breakfast.

K.

[ckd]

Ooh, I'll have to try that myself.

My "comfort breakfast" is the significantly less healthy Eggs Benedict, though that's not my day-to-day choice. (Granola, or another other fruit+cereal type of thing; Trader Joe's has some nice options.)

[mplsvala.livejournal.com]

I should care about healthy, but I don't really. I love the full traditional breakfast, eggs, hashbrowns, bacon, sausage, dry toast (maybe jelly). I am an egg freak. I love them and can eat them even when my stomach is dicey, which was the case for years. But if you accept an offer of eggs from me, you never know what will be in them. Onion and bacon bits are as simple as I go. Sometimes they turn out like omlets, sometimes like egg foo young (sp?), but never the quite the same twice.

Interesting that the french toast works without any milk, I wouldn't have thought to try it. Ha ha, now if I'm out of milk I'll give that a shot. Thanks.

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

I don't eat in the morning. I'm not hungry then. It's one of the things that changed about instantly (in less than a week) when I left home to go to college; after 17 years of getting up for breakfast each morning, and liking the food well enough, I suddenly stopped eating breakfast in favor of sleeping a bit longer.

Sometimes I have breakfast at conventions, if I'm up that late. Steak and eggs often. Or sometimes some kind of Tex-Mex skillet breakfast with eggs and sausage and salsa and potatoes.

[barondave.livejournal.com]

My Power Breakfast is standard American fare: Steak & Eggs (rare on the steak, over easy, hash browns, muffin), coffee. OJ if I can get it. If I have my fill, this usually counts as lunch as well.

Ham may be substituted, or a hamburger patty. Bacon starts the lessening process down to a regular breakfast (and hence doesn't include lunch). Sausage is right out. I don't do sugar, so rarely use jelly and rarely (but sometimes) have pancakes or waffles.

For quick meals in the am, I confess to an Egg McMuffin or Breakfast Croissant (ham or bacon; fast food sausage makes me sick).

Your recipe reminds of a breakfast they taught us in camp, lo these many years ago: Rocky Mountan Toast. Take an egg-sized hole out of a piece of bread (you can eat the bread). Butter the bread, and place it in a frying pan until that side is toasted. Flip the bread, then break an egg in the hole. Cook until the egg is done and/or the other side is toasted. You can flip the toast one more time to seal the egg and cook the yolk. Advantage: You don't need silverware or a plate (if you cook the yolk) and don't need any seasonings this side of butter. Distribute a few napkins and you literally have a bunch of happy campers.

[mle292.livejournal.com]

Cereal with vanilla soymilk (Silk or Cub Generic only, 8th continent tastes funny) is way better than cereal with cow milk. I have no idea why, but the flavors complement much more effectively, and it tastes much richer.

Much, much more than cereal, I love my big Sunday morning breakfasts of about a million calories - Diced potatoes, eggs, tomatoes, green peppers and all the leftover vegetables from the week.

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

If I could have any breakfast that I know of, it would be the Tonga Toast from the Polynesian Resort at Walt Disney World, and some thick-cut just-to-crisp-stage bacon. And a mimosa.

My most common breakfast at home is two slices of whole wheat toast, with no-sugar-added jelly/preserves on one and crunchy peanut butter on the other. I also like Cheerios, skim milk, artificial sweetener, and sliced banana.

Eating breakfast out, I like a veggie omelet, especially if it has avocado.

[carbonel]

I have several favorite breakfasts:

* There's the one I have just about every morning -- Greek-style 2% yogurt with berries, sweetened with a bit of liquid cyclamate, and served with a latte. That's about 300 calories and full of calcium.

* My favorite local restaurant breakfast is one of the egg and hashed browns options at Uptown Diner. They make the best hashed browns I've ever had. That, of course, has a zillion calories.

* My favorite visiting-my-family-in-Chicago breakfast is Sunday brunch -- lox and bagels and cream cheese, with a side of scrambled eggs cooked with onions and mushrooms.

* My favorite restaurant-in-Chicago breakfast is the salami and grilled onion omelet at Sanders, in Skokie.

* And that entirely leaves out bacon, which is one of my very favorite foods, not to mention french toast or waffles with real maple syrup. Any breakfast that includes those is generally worthwhile.

* Also, dim sum.

[pameladean]

I'm barred from most traditional breakfast foods because I don't eat eggs, meat, or dairy. However, I adore a couple of the vegan breakfasts at the Hard Times Cafe. They have a biscuit breakfast with a vegan sausage patty and gravy and hash browns and scrambled tofu that's staggering, and if you don't want quite that many carbs, there's the Helter Skelter, which has tofu scrambled with onions, garlic, broccoli, cauliflower, potatoes, and I think some bell pepper, with whole-wheat toast on the side.

At home I eat soy yoghurt with strawberries followed by either cereal or, more often, something like leftover lasagna or aloo gobi or tofu fried rice.

P.

[dreamshark.livejournal.com]

Some of my favorite healthy breakfasts are vegan.

My default quick breakfast is what I call "Peanut Fruit Toast." Just whole wheat toast with peanut butter and whatever fresh fruit is in the house sliced on top. Bananas seem to be the fruit that most people associate with peanut butter, but I find that combination to be overly sweet and gooey. I think the best fruits to eat with peanut butter are strawberries and kiwi fruit.

I also discovered that cereal makes a much more acceptable breakfast when fortified with 1/4 cup freshly toasted sunflower seeds. This works with both hot and cold cereal. Not only does it provide crunch and flavor, the extra fat and protein seems to take care of my main objection to cereal as a meal (hungry again an hour later).

[jiawen]

Eggs Benedict at Al's Breakfast. Their rendition is the archetype by which I judge all other Eggs Benedict.

My Favorite Breakfast

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Japanese breakfast: fish, pickles, rice, etc.

B

Re: My Favorite Breakfast

[dreamshark.livejournal.com]

Ew. You probably like German breakfasts too, with all those pickled things and unfriendly hard rolls. Personally, I think breakfast should be warm and toasty, not hard and pickly.

Re: My Favorite Breakfast

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

I don't really like American breakfasts. If I'm forced to eat American-style breakfast foods, I like something like heuvos rancheros.

B

Liquid Egg?

[eileenlufkin.livejournal.com]

This does sound good. Is liquid egg regular egg out of the shell, or something else?

Re: Liquid Egg?

[dreamshark.livejournal.com]

Oh, you know, Egg Beaters and the like. I guess the generic term is "egg substitute" but this strikes me as a misnomer because it's real egg. Most of the brands are just egg whites with color added to make it look more like beaten egg. A few brands have a little bit of yolk as well, but the general idea is to produce something essentially fat free. You can actually make omelets out of them, but they tend to be rather tasteless omelets. However the stuff is great for cooking with.

If you don't like the idea of egg substitute you could certainly use a fresh egg instead. A natural egg is more trouble though - you have to beat it or blend it first to get a smooth consistency and add a little milk to thin it out, and there you are with another bowl to wash. I like the simplicity of just pouring the liquid egg out of the carton right onto the bread.