breakfast blogger

Sunday was a gorgeous day to get out and head for the Byward Market in search of brunch. I had wanted to go to Chez Lucien for ages and was worried it would be packed since it’s a small place. My fears, however, were false, and the three of us sat in the front area, surrounded by windows. Ahhh, natural light makes for wonderful photos…

There were just 3 choices… Eggs Benedict, Eggs Florentine, and the one with salmon whose real name escapes me at the moment.

Gen had the Florentine:

And Steve and I both had the Benedict:

And for a closeup:

The potato concoctions were totally awesome, as were the eggs. 8 bucks a pop coffee extra.

In some other Breakfast Blogger news, the post I made back in December about the Bacon Weave, which I can’t take credit for, got noticed by TasteSpotting.com. This brought on quite the spike of traffic and comments on that entry, and some bacon related drama ensued. It is rather amusing, and I urge you to check it out: The Great Bacon Weave Drama of January 25, 2008.

Wow these guys don’t hold back on the bananas…

It was a virtual mountain!

These were taken at the Tuscanos at 710 St Joseph here in Hull. YUM. $8.25.

I bet you will never look at a short stack the same again.

Thanks to Kawaii Not for the giggle.

I’ve got silicone muffin pans, cookie sheets and spatulas and I love them– I’d love to get these for my eggs:

Get some here. Found via the j-walk blog!

Don’t get me wrong, Seattle is also full of late Sunday mornings perfect for breakfast OUT as well. It just seems as though everyone else has the same idea, “lets go get breakfast somewhere!” around 8am, Sunday morning, and by the time us late wakers finally roll out of bed and wipe the sleep out of our eyes, all the good breakfast spots are full, and You’re hungry and don’t feel like waiting.

So this late Sunday morning, I took it upon myself to make a nice, full, farmstyle breakfast for my husband and I.

Nothing special, just french toast, bacon, sausage, some fried eggs, toast for dipping, and over in the corner off camera, some little mini croissants with strawberry jam. A nice cold glass of fruit juice and some milk rounded off the meal, and we ate with smiles on our faces, glad we didn’t bother getting out of our PJ’s this cold January morning in the land of rain and… more rain.

…Though glancing out the window now as I type this, the weather man would make me a liar for not acknowledging the striking blue sky as it peeks from beneath its cloudy cover. Perhaps it too did not feel like waking early and shedding its PJ’s just to beat the breakfast crowd.

Here’s to delicious breakfasts, wherever you are.

-A.

During the holidays, our friend Kate suggested that we make Pannetone french toast, so we did.

We used fresh farm eggs that we got from our CSA farm, which is why these eggs are all different colours and sizes.

We also made home fries. We baked these, not only to make them less unhealthy, but to not have to stir them and/or tend to them constantly. It also frees up more real estate on the stove. We simply threw cubes of potato into a big bowl and tossed them with some oil (olive and veg), salt, pepper, and whatever herbs or spices were handy - oregano and rosemary this time. After about 20 minutes we mixed them around, trying to flip as many pieces as possible.

Here they are in the oven:

We also made an apple compote to eat on the french toast.

Here is some cheese we had with our meal. There was a Comte from France and a Manchego from Spain. We invited a few people for this brunch, and they didn’t show up empty-handed, so there was an assortment of fruit and cheese and other goodies to enjoy before, during and after the Pannetone french toast.

The Pannetone french toast:

Yummy!

For dinner that evening, the lady and I made Pannetone french toast peanut butter banana sandwiches, with maple syrup.

Decadent.

Happy New Year! It’s been a while since I last posted– I had a pretty busy holiday season this year.

I decided to pick up a bag of Organic Corn Flakes a couple of weeks ago..

It’s a bit pricey at around 7 dollars or so, but pretty tasty and worth it in my opinion, especially if you’re trying to avoid processed ingredients. I was pretty blown away when I saw this:

Organic corn meal, concentrated organic grape juice (?!?), and sea salt. That’s it!!

After a enchilada feed 2 nights previous, I found that I had a bit of a surplus of leftover black beans in my fridge. Now I’m a big fan of the delicious little high fiber bean beasties, so why not add them to breakfast. So I did. May I present: spicy egg and black bean breakfast wrap.

I beat up some eggs and mixed in some chili seasoning, chive, salt and pepper and some other spicy stuff and made a spicy scramble.

I pan fried the beans to warm them through and threw the eggs, beans, some old cheddar cheese ( and by old I mean aged. I have issues with moldy cheese) and a splat of hot sauce in for good measure into a nice whole wheat wrap.

Add that to the book du jour and it was a most satisfying and fiber rich mid week breaky.

*Burp!*