breakfast blogger

First off, I want to congratulate Az on her last post which got featured on a link roundup on boing boing! Great stuff! We managed to survive a 4000+ surge of hits over a few days last week.

Things have been nuts for me the past few weeks with the new house. For one thing, the kitchen is such a mess half the time, I can’t find room for the griddle to cook myself a decent breakfast! Yikes!

So it’s awesome that a breakfast joint pretty close to where I live opened up not too long ago here in Hull. It’s a small place run by a friendly lady and always has a Journal de Montreal available for me to read when I go. This is a biiiiig bonus in my books. They’ve got a wide variety of breakfast items on the menu, including healthy fare.

I didn’t go for the healthy stuff this particular time that I went… but it sure was yummy:

33 Saint Joseph Blvd, not far from Alexandre Taché. They’re only open for breakfast and lunch. Super yummy!!!

HELP ME! I’ve crafted again! The making of the fried egg pillow for Peabody has inspired me to make more. I have since made an egg pillow for myself, a sausage, a piece of bread, a piece of toast and my faves…

…the short stack of pancakes with removable Velcro attached cakes, syrup and butter.

There is also lettuce, tomato, swiss cheese and a mustard splat to make sammiches with the bread. But they aren’t very breakfasty.

I sometimes work as an actor at the Canada Border Services Learning Center , where I take part in training simulations. I cannot discuss the situation further as I think I may have signed an agreement about it and I don’t want to lose this part time job, which is sometimes pretty cool, and sometimes pretty boring.

We start pretty early in the morning, but luckily there is a cafeteria where we can fill up a take-out tray with all sorts of breakfast foods for only $3.18. There is buffet style warming bins filled with scrambled eggs, hard-boiled eggs, pancakes, french toast, bacon, sausages, ham, baked beans, and I can’t even remember what else, There is a cool toast station where you choose your bread and put it in the giant conveyor-belt toaster. There are refrigerated bins filled with fruit, yogurt, etc. there is cereal, oatmeal, etc. Basically, almost anything you could want is here.

I don’t have great photos of the cafeteria because I am pretty sure they don’t want any cameras in their learning center. I’m sure if I asked for a meeting with management and explained my situation, they may have agreed to let me photograph their cafeteria. Instead, I just snapped a quick one when nobody was looking.

There is only so much you can eat at 8:00am. I had two eggs over-easy, half a slice of french toast, 1 slice of bacon, 2 sausages, 2 pre-fab hash browns, 2 slices of marble mild cheddar, and some red grapes.

But I ate it all.

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Thank-You Internet.

I think one of my favorite things about summertime in the Okanagan is the produce. There is such a wondrous array of designer apples and oddly colored veggies available at any of the zillions of roadside stands that is just boggles the mind. One of the favorites so far this summer has been the purple baby potatoes. There is nothing different in the taste, it’s only the rich purple color that makes it unusual.

I think one of the kindest things you can do for a potato is to eat the leftover taters from dinner the night before, for breakfast. In our home we always go out of the way to make extra just for a quick pan fry in the morning. This particular morning I happened to have some red, yellow and purple baby spuds relaxing in the ol’ ice box from our steak dinner the night before. A quick, rough chop and into a pan with far too much butter and we were well on our way to a tasty breakfast.

I don’t know if purple spuds are common elsewhere, but here they are a once a year deal here and I can’t help but be somewhat silly about having something bright purple on my plate. After they are nice and browned I tossed them with some fresh herbs from my garden and served them up wtih some over medium eggs and a couple slices of squirrelly bread.

Mmmmmm Pretty!

Burp!

Here’s another bacon site I came across recently: Bacon Unwrapped.

I love their tagline “Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.”