Kevin's Watch

I grew up on oatmeal soaked in milk apples chopped nuts raisins, it was called bircher muesli on weekdays and and a big sunday breakfast of bagels, smoked salmon, cream-cheese, onions, herring fruit and the sunday times.

when i was living in portugal it was farmer cheese toasted on peasant bread with sausage.

the Brits on the coast of portugal ate beans and sausages on thick bread with farmer cheese and tomato

In parts of China they eat dim sum

what is a traditional breakfast in your home, in your country?

Growing up in Scotland, breakfast was usually very simple: porridge in the wintertime with tea and toast, and cornflakes in the summertime with tea and toast.

sometimes it was just tea and toast and maybe a custard cream.
and sometimes it was just tea.

actually sometimes I wouldn't bother getting out of bed!

On Sunday's it was always a Full English breakfast, and The Sunday Post.

Nowadays I live in England and frankly I just eat what's there.
Yesterday I had South African sausage fried with a sweet chilli and garlic sauce, and oven chips.
Today it's bacon butties and a cold beer.
Tomorrow....? maybe tea and toast and a custard cream!

Vegemite on toast.

Vitabrits and milk.

In England in general, people seem to pretty much just eat toast, or variations thereon. I generally don't eat breakfast, but if I do it's usually something toasted - bread, teacake, muffin... It's rare for me to bother cooking a 'full English'.

My family have traditionally had cereals at breakfast, but I'm a hungry man. I eat substantially or not at all.

The Wikipedia page on breakfast says 'traditionally, people in Britain and Ireland have enjoyed a substantial hot meal for breakfast, featuring eggs, bacon, and sausages, accompanied by toast and tea or coffee.' I think most people only have that from time to time, or in hotels. In fact, the Wiki entries on English breakfast and greasy spoons have conspicuously been written by someone who doesn't understand them. Don't even get me started on 'another popular breakfast in England is the kipper' - I've never heard of anyone born after WW2 having kippers for breakfast.

Infelice wrote: Vitabrits and milk.

vitabrits?



I tried to get into grilled tomatoes like everyone was eating at the Traditional English Breakfast but it just came out like mush.

Yeah, they're often pretty mushy. Even when they hold together, they're really just hot tomato slop in skin.

In Germany we usually have toast, crispy rolls, sweet white bread, brown bread or crispbread.

We butter it and put on cheese, ham, cold meat cuts, thinly cut sausage (like mortadella or salami), honey or hazelnut cream/chocolate spread.

Sometimes we also have scrambled or soft boiled eggs.

We usually have coffee with it.

Some people also like the usual cereal suspects or muesli with oat flakes, dried fruits and milk.

Vader wrote: hazelnut cream/chocolate spread.

NUTELLA...............yum

CovenantJr wrote:Don't even get me started on 'another popular breakfast in England is the kipper' - I've never heard of anyone born after WW2 having kippers for breakfast.

I don't know if this is the same as the Jewish deli kippers, but if so, I love kippers with onions and eggs as a treat for breakfast once in a while. And I was born quite a few years after WWII, thank you very much...

CovenantJr wrote:Yeah, they're often pretty mushy. Even when they hold together, they're really just hot tomato slop in skin.

Sounds appetizing.

My dad always had to have bacon, eggs over easy, (white) toast with butter, and coffee for breakfast. Sometimes Mom would work in some juice, I think. For me, breakfast on school mornings was cereal (usually cold and pre-sweetened, but sometimes oatmeal, or Farina with cinnamon sugar on top) and grape juice. I'd have to drink the grape juice first, or the heavily-sweetened cereal would burn out my taste buds and make the grape juice taste funny.

Weekend breakfasts ran the gamut from pancakes to eggs to pastry to a slice of apple pie. Hey, Mom said it was okay! It was healthy -- it had starch and fruit! I also went on a Pop-Tart kick for awhile in my teens.

These days, sadly, it's usually NON-sweetened cereal and skim milk, low-sodium V-8, and Irish Breakfast tea. Growing up sucks.

I rarely eat breakfast anymore, but sometimes we'll do breakfast as the evening meal. Then, it's biscuits and gravy with sausage, eggs either scrambled or over medium. Occasionally I like pancakes or waffles with maple syrup.

The typical breakfast here in the south will always involve something fried. So, sausage and bacon are very popular. Sandwiches made from either biscuits or dried toast, with scrambled eggs and either sausage or bacon sell really well in fast food restaurants.

On a cold snowed in morning, my mother would cook fried chicken with gravy and biscuits and fried potatoes. Man, that was some good eatin'.

In case anyone is wondering, my cholesterol is 140.

Mmmm...biscuits with sausage gravy....

aliantha wrote:Mmmm...biscuits with sausage gravy....

My wife makes the best. Come visit sometime and I'll prove it to you.

dlbpharmd wrote:

aliantha wrote:Mmmm...biscuits with sausage gravy....

My wife makes the best. Come visit sometime and I'll prove it to you.

You're on!

aliantha wrote:

dlbpharmd wrote:

aliantha wrote:Mmmm...biscuits with sausage gravy....

My wife makes the best. Come visit sometime and I'll prove it to you.

You're on!

can I come too????? biscuits and gravy is my fave!

rdhopeca wrote:

aliantha wrote:

dlbpharmd wrote: My wife makes the best. Come visit sometime and I'll prove it to you.

You're on!

can I come too????? biscuits and gravy is my fave!

Sure!

You people... Biscuits and gravy...

Aliantha, remind me what 'over easy' means. I know I figured it out while I was over there, but I've forgotten. It's going to drive me mad if I don't recall.

In fact, tomorrow morning breakfast will be biscuits with scrambled eggs on top, with gravy on top of that! i am inspired!

CovenantJr wrote:You people... Biscuits and gravy...

Aliantha, remind me what 'over easy' means. I know I figured it out while I was over there, but I've forgotten. It's going to drive me mad if I don't recall.

They're fried eggs, cooked on both sides but flipped so as not to break the yolk -- hence, "over easy".

Dude, did you *try* biscuits and sausage gravy when you were here? I bet not -- I bet you didn't get anywhere near the South. Trust me when I say that biscuits and sausage gravy is one of the best dishes to come from that region of the country. Grits I can take or leave, but if biscuits and sausage gravy is on the menu, I'm there.

Oh, and Rob -- I'll be over directly.

CovenantJr wrote:You people... Biscuits and gravy...

I've never had biscuits and gravy............its a southern thing for the most part but it looks yummy.

You know what I love.........breakfast in a diner at 3am after a night of play. Nothing absorbs alcohol like food at 3am. Doesnt matter what you have for breakfast as long as you are sitting with a bunch of equally impaired friends and long as the diner is sufficiently greasy.