Breakfast!

[purpletigron]

After a happy hour bimbling around the garden in the early sun, I'm in for breakfast.

I'm having fresh home-made bread, N's home-made strawberry jam, and home-grown fresh black peppermint tea.

I'm lucky :-)

What's your ideal breakfast?

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[artela.livejournal.com]

What's your ideal breakfast?

Lunch :-)

(I don't do breakfast *g*)

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Heh. D & G both prefer to start the day with brunch around 11am. My snoo doctor implied that could be a symptom of an incomplete chemical changeover, either problems with shut-down of melatonin production, or the start up of corsticosteroids? In other words, you all might feel more like breakfast if you had gardening therapy, I suppose :-)

[artela.livejournal.com]

Yup, 10:30-11:00 is when I normally start to get hungry... which normally means I'm hungry until just gone 12noon as by that stage it's close enough to lunch to not have something extra *g*

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

It's not clear to me that not wanting breakfast is the same as not needing breakfast. I think that one thing which has helped G to stop putting on weight is to have me bring a tempting breakfast, since I'm awake from 06:00 anyhow :-)

[artela.livejournal.com]

Actually, it can be the same thing. I do not want food that early in the day. Being presented with food that early in th day soemtimes makes me feel ill. All I can cope with first thing is a mug of tea.

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

You know what? I'm exactly the same ... but in the evening! I sometimes literally feel too sick to eat after about 20:00, which is about when my snoo doctor reckons that my melatonin production is kicking in. But it doesn't mean that I don't need the nourishment... if I do, I have to have something like a smoothie or a smooth soup to drink.

[carandol.livejournal.com]

My ideal breakfast doesn't happen very often. I think of it as a "German Breakfast"; I don't know whether it's common in Germany as a whole, or only in the subculture I move in when I'm there. It usually happens on a Saturday or Sunday morning. You invite everyone round for breakfast, and lots of people cram in round a table too small for them. And there are various sorts of rye bread, and white rolls hot from the bakery, and different sorts of cheese, and jam, and various other spreads and pates, and fresh fruit, and fresh coffee, and herb tea, and lots of convivial conversation, and it goes on from about 10am until 2 or 3 in the afternoon.

But most days I just have muesli or porridge.

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes! I was only thinking about the food, not the situation! Although, the garden in early sun is also very good :-)

[mylescorcoran]

I like variety, particularly the chance to try something different when I'm not rushed in the morning. Though freshly baked bread with butter and jam is pretty hard to beat.

What's bimbling? How does one bimble?

[revdode.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure but I'd guess its something to do when you are not croggled.

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

It would be hard to bimble whilst croggled, I think.

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

It's what the Flooger does when it's sunny and he's sleepy but still wants to sniff around the garden. Only vaguely purposeful, but happy, wandering. I think I picked it up as a term from a good friend whilst still at College :-)

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

Home made spelt bagels, still warm, with either cream cheese and strawberry jam, or cream cheese and smoked salmon. Either way, the cream cheese is essential.

Or Eggs Assisi -- poached eggs with smoked salmon and hollandaise sauce. (No muffin, please.)

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Oooo! I'd love to try your bagel recipe. I've managed reasonably good imitation bagels using Laurel's Kitchen Bread Book - the results were declared 'nicely chewy, definitely more than toroidal bread, but still not quite right...'.

Is the egg recipe your own construction, and does it have any relationship to the new Pope?? :-)

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

There's nothing special about my bagel recipe -- it just uses spelt flour instead of "normal" flour. If you have a recipe you like, use spelt instead of wheat and there you go. The recipe I use comes from The Joy of Cooking (an American cookbook) if that helps.

And no, the egg recipe is one I first had at a little cafe in Invercargill. Eggs Assisi is love. (No, no fanatical devotion to the Pope.)

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Ah! I have Joy of Cooking...

Hmm - couldn't find Eggs Assisi recipes on the Web, which is why I asked :-)