breakfast blogger

Whoa, this is one of the best Benedicts I’ve had around the Ottawa area…

Sam Snead’s is in Chateau Cartier at 1170 Aylmer Road. There was a brunch available, but we decided to order from the menu instead.

That’s one tasty hollandaise they’re using there, lemme tell ya.

And a little view from above…

Shhh, don’t tell anyone that I took some fancy jams home! \(^o^)/

T’was around $11.

Psst… Don’t look now.. but I think your breakfast is watching you…

Thanks to Cute Overload once again.

Just imagine if it smelt like bacon too ;-)

You can get one here… via Nerd Approved.

Yup.

Converse Chuck Taylor All Star Hi Top Cabin Eggs and Bacon Red/Off White shoes. Get ‘em while they’re hot. Amazon.com via J-Walk.

Wow.

This is what happened when you play with PlayDoh right after breakfast.

Here we have a fried egg, ham steak, fries and a ketchup on the side. I tried for some baked beans but they just looked like dog kibble.

 I think Im going to institute a 2 hour buffer time between such activities from now on.

…Breakfast in bed on a Sunday morning while watching Coronation Street with my girlfriend. Sorry, no pics, the battery is dead in my camera :-(

The lady and I were recently in Charleston, South Carolina to attend a wedding. Since downtown Charleston is a peninsula, we were surrounded by salt water -so I knew we would probably be eating a lot of seafood. What I didn’t know was that we could eat seafood 3 meals a day, every day!

We were extremely lucky to know, and stay with, an actual Charlestonian, who invited us to stay with him and his wife at his mother’s home in Mount Pleasant, just across the Arthur Ravenel bridge - the longest suspension bridge in the Americas. Not only did we save money by not staying in a hotel, but we were fortunate to be able to enjoy the southern hospitality of our friends mom.

On our first morning in Charleston, when I stumbled out of bed and into the kitchen, I heard voices coming from the back porch. I wandered out in my PJs to discovered that our hosts were already awake, sipping coffee and enjoying the view. This is what we woke up to every morning:

After about an hour of relaxing with a coffee and the New York Times, as well as some serious amateur birdwatching with some binoculars, breakfast was served. Shirley, our lovely hostess, made us a real Charleston breakfast: Shrimp ‘n’ grits.

Some people don’t really like grits, which is basically corn porridge, and very similar to polenta, an Italian specialty. The real difference here was that Shirley didn’t make regular grits, she made a cheese grits casserole, so it was gooey and savory - like what you’d imagine grits to be if they were really good, which these were.

Here’s the recipe, straight from Shirley’s copy of Charleston Receipts:

And, of course, my empty plate.

During my daily parousal of one of my favorite sites, Cute Overload!, I came across one of the cutest breakfast products I’ve ever seen:

 Egg Pants!

And to think, there is 3 dozen poor, unpantsed eggs sitting my my fridge right now! Thanks Cute Overload, for adding a little much needed cute to my breakfast! 

I think I need some of these for Christmas. *hint hint*

 Me and my partner in breakfast had the chance to get out for a bite on Saturday. It was a horribly miserable, gray, rainy ugly day and we thought it a good idea to go walk about downtown Penticton!

 I’m always on the lookout for somewhere new for a nosh and it occurred to me that we have a large fancy resort hotel right on the lake that I have never even been in before, so off we went to Magnums on the Lake!

 It was dead quiet at a little after 8 in the morning, but cozy. The bubbly waitress gave us a little quiet table in back, right beside one of the floor to ceiling windows that looked out on Okanagan Lake.

I took a seat on the comfy bench with the throw pillows and fitted my lap with a real proper cloth napkin. Just outside our window was “Chef Chris’ Herb Garden” so I knew any herb on my breaky would be fresh.

 As miserable as it was, it was still nice to look out across the lake while dining. There was a gap in the rain and a couple rainbows showed themselves for a while too. No I don’t have any pictures, I hate rainbow pictures. I find them tacky for some reason.

 After a quick parouse of the reasonably priced menu, I opted for something a little out of the ordinary; a smoked salmon, goat cheese and chive omlette, pan fried potatoes and multigrain toast.

 My partner opted for something a little more tradtional and had two eggs poached meduim, back bacon, multigrain toast and pan fried potatoes.

 I totally enjoyed the pan fried potatoes and got a little giddy when I broke into my omlette and found a big creamy rich center of melted goat cheese. *drool*

 It was a wonderful break from the everyday eggs and toast I usually have and for just a fleeting moment, I felt just a little spoiled having such a nice breakfast in such a beautiful setting. I will definatly be a repeat customer!