breakfast blogger

One of our ultimate breakfasts.

Eggs from our CSA, scrambled with swiss chard also from our CSA.

Home fries (potatoes from the CSA!) baked, not fried. I guess I need to call them something else. A few months ago, we unfortunately had to eat at a Cheesecake Factory in the USA, or some restaurant that looked just like one…I can’t tell…you know the type…in a shopping mall, crap on the walls, uniformed waitresses…very happy…very large portions. I noticed a lot of menu items were named “Santa Fe”, like “chicken Santa Fe” or “Santa Fe Salad”. There did not seem to be a clear style that unified these items, and I thought that to be a great example of American marketing. So I will call these Home Fries Santa Fe.

Bacon from the quarter pig I bought from our CSA. Delicious. Thick. Artisanally smoked without any extra chemicals.

Salted tomato slices, from the CSA.

Unbelievable. I cannot believe I used to buy vegetables from the grocery store.

Each year we get a little closer to the farm, and this year was no exception. Last week, we finally hooked up an illicit connection for raw milk. Yes, unpasteurized, non-homogenized milk, from a real cow.
You know it’s non-homogenized when you see that line separating the milk from the cream. The farmer also threw in half a pound of raw milk butter. We don’t usually drink milk in our home, mostly becasue it gives my wife stomach problems and it gives me mental problems. Pasteurized milk is dead white water. If I’m going to drink milk, it has to have all the ‘good’ bacteria that it was given. Anyone who thinks raw milk is dangerous is insane - now that we have stainless steel milking machines, sanitary procedures, and refrigererated trucks, there is absolutely no need to boil the life out of our milk.

After a big glass of raw milk each, we got to work on our veggies, which are almost all from our CSA at Cadet-Roussel. We boiled some potatoes for home fries and sauteed garlic scapes, swiss chard, and mushrooms (the only veg not from the CSA) for the eggs.
Once boiled, the potatoes got thrown into a cast iron skillet with some chopped onion, butter,and olive oil. We also threw half a pound of bacon from Oscar’s Smokehhouse onto our flat top, and as that artisanally smoked bacon gave up some grease, we used it to further lubricate the home fries.

Once the veggies were properly sauteed, we added the eggs (also from the CSA), some Cabot extra sharp cheddar, and a tablespoon of raw milk, and scrambled it up. Garnished with kamut toast from our local bakery, here is the finished plate:

Here are our plates, finished:

Sounds like a good way to start the day to me! Check it out here!

Fellow BreakfastBlogger Muffin made her own bacon cookies here. (edit: link is no longer good… see comments) The pictures are to die for.

I’ve just found out that Muffin is going through an unspecified illness at the moment. Let’s all wish her the best and a quick recovery. We’re thinking of you babe! Get well soon!

Wow, it’s been a slow couple of months here, hasn’t it? Well here is why: my comment moderation section broke… I get some sort of Internal Server Error when I try to moderate comments.

Another issue that I’ve been having is the fact that I’m super busy working on my house. I’ve been taking lotsa pictures of the work I’ve been doing and JFlo has been bugging me to start a house renovation blog! I’m not sure if I have time to do that, but it’s something to think about.

I’m still very dedicated to breakfast, and things will probably pick up eventually once I work through this comment moderation problem. I’ve found a way to go through each unmoderated comment one by one. There were over 3000 and I’ve got that widdled down to 1500 now. I’m hoping that I won’t lose any of the new comments, but it’s possible that I lose some as I get closer to having all of these sorted out.

I’ll update once I’m done- I’m hoping that the problem is because of a badly formatted comment that the server gets borked on when it sees it. I’m hoping with this alternate method of going through them will get rid of it and things will be back to normal.

As for breakfast news- well, I find myself these days having a traditional breakfast during the week and easing off on the weekends with healthier breakfasts. Still not the healthiest, but I’m addicted.

Hang in there folks and don’t lose your coolness.

Every once in a while, I come across a sweet find. This weekend I was at Home Sense in Kelowna I came across these beauties and almost squealed out loud. Circus animal pancake molds.

They came in a pack of 3 for about $12. There is an elephant, a lion and a seal with a ball on his nose. They are non-stick and pretty sturdy.

I just whipped up a batch of my fav pancake mix and filled em up!

I was worried about the tails and such breaking off when I removed the molds, but it is really good non-stick. They turned out beautiful!

Due to some careless flipping on my part, the seals ball fell off his nose

But after dressing them up in some butter and syrup,

they were more than enough to WOW my little man at the breakfast table.

He ate the whole plate worth!

*burp*

…Is how hard it is to compare food from the nutritional information on the boxes. Take this example here- two different styles of Melba Toast, with info for TWO different amounts! WTF! Do I really need to bring a calculator to the damn grocery store to make a proper comparison? It gets pretty damn frustrating when you’re standing in the food isle doing mental gymnastics trying to figure out which food has more calories in it. I’ve lost it and gone on a rant about this on more than one occasion.

I mean seriously, WTF.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is what grinds my gears. Goodnight.

KateBelle sent us this pic from when she was in Banff!

I’m having a hard time trying to imagine what these taste like!

Thanks KB! ;-)

WTF BBQ?

Or maybe it makes you black!

via reddit. reddit discussion.

Holy shlamoley, it’s been ages since I’ve posted- oh well, owning a home throws you lots of unexpected surprises sometimes and I’ve just been plain busy. But fret not, I have plenty of breakfast goodness (or not) to share…

I saw this at the grocery store last week and snapped a shot-

I dunno ’bout you, but if I’m going to have something like this, I’d rather make it myself or have one hand made for me…

Out of curiosity, I flipped the box around to check out nutritional info:

I think that’s about what you’d expect for something like this. That long list of ingredients is kinda scary though :-/

Well spring time is here and the mountains of snow around me are slowly melting away– I’m dying to eat outside again. Let’s hear it for some spring time breakfast adventures!

Ya know what I love? A big hot bowl of cream of wheat with LOTS of lumps in it.

Ya know what I DON”T Love? Having to scrub the lumpy cream of wheat pot after.

*burp*