Foods You Enjoy for Breakfast that are non-typical
yes, prompted by that other breakfast thread.... i do like many 'typical' breakfast foods, but i also like some non traditional ones, especially leftovers.
top on my list would be cold leftover pizza. on a warm summer morning (or almost any morning in Honolulu) it really hits the spot. just love it for breakfast. i go out of my way to make sure at least a slice or two is leftover after having pizza the night before.
pie - my favorite is apple, and most of the time pecan is too sweet, but in a pinch it will do. If i liked pumpkin i am sure it would be on my list.
stew - one of the best reasons for owning a microwave is heating up things like beef stew for breakfast.
spaghetti - or other similar pasta dish. again the microwave is a hero.
oddly enough sandwiches are not on my list, although there should be a law that leftover turkey, ham, or roast beef must be reserved for the making of sandwiches, but for me thats snack, lunch, or even dinner food, not breakfast.
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Just finished a delicious breakfast of beer-battered fried fish.
I'm allergic to eggs, most fruits, and on steroids. Therefore, I'm allowed to have whatever I want for breakfast. In fact, I think that I might have some nachos for a snack after I manage to choke down the nutritional shake that helps with the bone pain side effects.
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im guilty of this constantly. It grosses people out, but i fail to understand how sliced tomato on toast is a perfectly acceptable breakfast while spaghetti (essentially the same concept-- tomato + starch) is "disgusting".
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Matzo ball soup. Matzo balls have chives added to the batter and are stuffed with a spiced
ground veal. Add home made chicken broth with thin slices of carrot and celery. Savory soup; savory heaven. Also love soft scrambled eggs covered with Wolf Brand canned chili and chopped scalliions. Melt grated cheese over all and enjoy.
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polenta is one of my faves for breakfast, cake or creamy style
also love meatball sandwiches
anything spicy works for breakfast for me! stuffed peppers and chili are definitely a favorite as well!
or bbq.... mmmm
finally, if i can add either: peanut butter, chocolate, or cinnamon to it, it is fair game for breakfast for me
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cold pizza of course
cold leftover meatloaf
cold chicken dipped in cold bbq sauce (I prefer KC Masterpiece)
leftover spaghetti (two ways); mixed w/sauce and eaten cold, or mixed w/sauce and fried in butter then sprinkled w/parmesan
cold chicken or turkey salad made with cranberry mayo
leftover cold cheeseburger patty dipped in cold ketchup
cottage cheese topped with thousand island dressing and sprinkled w/sunflower seeds -
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Macaroni and cheese
Soup- usually potato or broccoli
Leftover pizza, warmed up.
Birthday cake.
Pumpkin pie from thanks giving
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Grilled conch with garlic, 2 over easy, fresh habanero salsa on the side, and a breakfast beer.
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re: sunshine842
"make mine cracked and fried, and you drink my beer, and you're on.
Or grits n grunts."
-----------Interesting, I didn't get the impression you fancied savory breakfasts apart from British-type stuff like sauteed tomatoes, mushrooms, etc. I guess you also don't mind adaptations/substitutions for the poster's b'fast here... ;-)
(Heh, ‘grunts’ are not conch pieces, grits is not salsa. Just sayin’.)
Sounds like a nice b'fast anyway, whichever variation.It’s interesting that the two foods you mention together and select [and as named] have cultural associations with Bahamian folks or Key West Conches.
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re: huiray
I don't, in general -- but yes, grits 'n' grunts is a traditional Bahamian breakfast, as is cracked conch. I lived in the Bahamas for a while a long, long time ago...but frankly haven't had either of them before lunchtime since then.
And cracked conch is typically breaded with crushed saltines...I'm not substituting as much as just choosing another variation on the same theme, and if I left most of the salsa (which I would) it's still not exactly a substitution.
Still can't drink beer before noon, though. Just can't. (Bloody Mary or a Mimosa? I'm all over it, but no beer)
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re: FoodFuser
When I was a kid, we used to get cinnamon peanut butter toast with tea on special occasions. You have to make it just right, though. Toast the bread just good and toasty, slather it with butter, spread it thickly with crunchy peanut butter, and sprinkle it all over with cinnamon and sugar.
My current favorite non-typical American breakfast is an Indian dish called Sabudana Khichdi. I was first served this dish when I stayed at the home of a Hindu friend. Tapioca pearls are soaked and prepared with black mustard seed, turmeric, cumin, cilantro, lemon juice, peas, and freshly roasted peanuts. Mmm mmmm!
Veggo, you are not playing fair with the grilled conch mention! At least not to those of us nowhere near an ocean. I always have grilled conch with garlic over grits with over medium eggs and salsa when we visit Grandma's each summer. My mouth will be watering for a taste of that breakfast for days now.
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re: TexanGert
A common breakfast when I was growing up spending summers in Atlanta included the previous day's catch of fried bass and bluegill, with us kids fighting over the crunchy tails and fins. Another breakfast fave was fried chicken livers and gizzards- my Atlanta- born and raised dad is still making them at almost 80, along with pecan waffles.
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My favorite winter breakfast is canned pumpkin, sprinkled with cinnamon, nutmeg, and brown sugar. I stir in a tablespoon of cream if I have any, and top with crushed nuts or dried fruit.
My partner particularly enjoys sweet and spicy dried anchovies tossed with ramen and Sriracha.
Our usual breakfast is scrambled eggs mixed with whatever leftovers we have on hand- bits of onion and mushroom, meat, fennel, leeks, even leftover hot wings shredded.
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Soup -- maybe my favorite. Split pea, chicken noodle, beef barley, French onion (made at home.)
Savory, easy to eat/heat and not sweet in the a.m. - can't do sweet so early any more. My own McMuffin with veggie sausage patty, English muffin and sometimes cheese. Leftover spaghetti's always great, pizza is a given. Leftover dressing from Thanksgiving w/ gravy....awesomely awesome.About the only thing I haven't had for breakfast might be a tossed salad.
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We have a Christmas morning tradition where I bake spareribs (oven baking is not BBQ but will do in a pinch) so they are done around 9:00 a.m. Then served traditionally with white bread and a Blood Mary.
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re: sunshine842
I wouldn't have thought the egg noodles/leeks/fennel I suggested would be "uptown". ??
((shrug)) I myself don't like white bread, and was thinking aloud about other things to use besides the bread.Sorry if you consider it hoity-toity to think about pairing oven-baked ribs with something other than white bread and 'wrecking it' that way.
@Leper, just ignore this exchange. I trust you enjoy your nice meal every Christmas.
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re: huiray
Personally, I'd leave out the spare ribs *and* the white bread, and let you make egg noodles/leeks/fennel with something completely different. But it's Leper's tradition, so for the purposes of this thread, I'd leave it as it is.
And no, I don't think you were being "hoity-toity." Maybe a little "uptown," but that's not a bad thing.
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re: sunshine842
It ought to have been clear (in context) that I was thinking about Leper's breakfast as adapted for myself. Leper is perfectly free to do as he wishes. I was commenting on his breakfast, just as you commented on my latest posted breakfast earlier in this thread - as something you would not do and can't understand - which I accepted as your opinion. I'm puzzled why you jumped down my throat in this case and accused me of wrong-doing.
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Cold pizza and root beer is the breakfast of champions!
One of my favorites from high school was the morning after a fried chicken dinner. I would take a couple pieces of chicken and pull off the meat, mix it with some of the gravy (we're southern we always make gravy) and heat it up. Mix with a couple of biscuits or pieces of toast and you've got a FANTASTIC breakfast!
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A breakfast burger. Take one left-over, cooked, hamburger patty, two slices of buttered, white bread toast, strawberry jam and ketchup. Warm hamburger patty in microwave and assemble into a breakfast burger. I'll have one a couple of times a year. It's a comfort food from childhood.
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I love to have Natto (fermented soybeans) for breakfast, which is not at all typical in the U.S.
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re: Tripeler
I retain a firm image of mornings at McDonald's in Japan,
where the bins were stuffed full of Filet-o-Fish.I far preferred natto and miso and dried fish and a ration of fiddleheads,
but for them, I had to go elsewhere.But still, those McD's mornings were not wasted, were fun,
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re: AsperGirl
Most commercial natto comes with a liquid seasoning packet that is based on soy sauce and bonito stock. I mix it in, stir up the natto to make it creamy then put it on top of hot rice. I suppose I have become used to the flavor, and the smell, because I don't find it off-putting at all. I might add that it took several times of eating natto to become used to it, but like blue cheese, once you come to like it you find you really love it. Good luck. Is it available where you live?
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Breakfast today:
Steamed (boiled) rice with liver and pork lap cheong steamed in the rice,
Sour mustard and pork spare ribs soup.
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Ah, but now's the time to let go of the family secret:
"Haggis."
Well not exactly the BBurns variety, but something I find quite close:
steel-cut oat meal cooked slowly until there is barely any water left--gloppy/soupy--into which is added ANY savory leftover from the night, or week, before.Meat, fowl, seafood, lumpy gravy, veggies, Asian, whatever you have on hand, coarsely chopped into bite-sized pieces stirred in, till warmed through.
A tablespoon or two of congealed fat from a roast, even bacon, gives added flavor.
If you want to get fancy, add a gently poached egg to the top of each serving.This is my idea of a great breakfast.
Serve with salt, pepper, and low sodium soy sauce.
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I can't eat first thing in the moring and I don't do regular breakfast food except for maybe ham biscuits or sausage gravy and biscuits. I just finished a bowl of half runner beans and new potatoes along with a tomato for my breakfast this morning. I also like a bowl of leftover cornbread and buttermilk for breakfast
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re: Passadumkeg
As it is in southern AZ. I like the white, DH vacillates between white and red. I really get cravings for menudo if I haven't had it in a while.
Is NM menudo different from Tucson menudo? I would have said Arizona menudo but i don't think i"ve even heard the word spoken in the Phoenix area.
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We usually have a Norwegian frukost bord on Sunday's, open face sandwiches w/ herring, sardines, salami,cheeses. thin slices of tomato, peppers and cuke. We generally begin w/ Norwegian gjeitost ( a sweet brown goat cheese) on a buttered Wasa flat bread and topped w/ slice of hot boiled egg. and end w/ jam, and butter on a Wasa.
( just made for a Chow buddy, Dogracs, an old Dumkeg family favorite, French toast topped w/ liverwurst and real maple syrup. Don't knock it 'till you try it. Sweet and savory. -
Brown rice with cubed mozzarella, let it melt a bit before eating. I don't think rice for breakfast is unusual. Sometimes we have congee with dried fruit and nuts.
Agree with pickled and smoked fish for breakfast. Good stuff but have some mints handy.
If I happen to be in a diner then a cheese burger and fries is good choice
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I've been hooked on the spicy noodle bowls for breakfast recently. I blame Bourdain.
Quick, easy, cheap, and a huge variety has become available in the area in recent years. I'll sometimes substitute a healthy dollop of sambal and a dash of soy sauce for the heavily sodium laden seasoning packets included.
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re: laststandchili
Lately I like the rice-noodle based ones more than the ramen-based ones. The rice noodle hot soups seem like a natural for breakfast because they are light, not heavy at all. In either, I'll poach an egg and/or some tofu. You can always add in cold pieces of any protein or veg left over from the nught before, like steak sllces & a few green beans.
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some interesting replies when the topic came up last year:
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I've been experimenting with different foods for breakfast. I am liking salmon burgers (Pacific) for breakfast with toast. I also like those small sweet peppers and or cherry tomatoes with breakfast. And I like a BLT when we finally get local tomatoes available. I also like a grilled cheese or grilled peanut butter sandwich for breakfast.
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re: Will Owen
I admit that Trident makes the salmon burgers I eat for breakfast--or lunch. Both Mr. Sueatmo and I like them for other meals too. Your way of eating them sounds wonderful. I'll have to try wasabi mayo. Never had that. And there is no reason why I can't take my low carb toast and make a sandwich out of the salmon burger.
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re: EWSflash
Yes from Costco and from my regular grocer. The brand is Trident. The Costco ones are really big. The ones from the grocer are smaller. I grill them on my handy dandy cast iron grill pan. They are pretty natural, but they do have salt. I love having them in my freezer ready to be pulled out and grilled.
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I think my very favorite non-standard breakfast has eggs in it, but its best version is fried cakes of leftover mashed potato, with the eggs on top, and over that some of the leftover meat heated up in brown gravy. OR leftover chicken (if that's what we had) in chicken gravy. And then everything gets chopped up, whereupon Mrs. O averts her eyes and shudders (or did, back when I was still eating that kind of thing). Biscuits on the side.
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re: Will Owen
My mom used to make the best potato cakes- mix leftover mashed potatoes with a lot of flour and a couple of eggs, add salt, pepper, and a healthy sprinkling of chives, slap by big spoonfuls into a buttered hot skillet, turn when browned on the bottom. Oh my gosh they were good. I may have to break my own rule and make mashed potatoes this weekend in the middle of a 107-degree heat wave just so I can make some potato cakes.
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A cheeseburger with a hot cup of coffee makes a remarkably good breakfast--especially at a dive diner.
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re: Leper
I remember doing the exact same thing for one full year in college for breakfast every morning, and even infrequently thereafter. Great ratio of protein to carbs to start the day. Never could find someone to make mine for me at 8am, though.
Edit: Suppose you'd call what I did a patty melt actually. I used potato bread pan fried in extra virgin on one side.
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When I was a kid, my mom would make My-T-Fine chocolate pudding and serve it hot for breakfast on a cold morning...she would call it "chocolate soup"...haven't had it in years but boy was that good!!
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re: Cakegirl
Fried rice. At my husband's request, I now make way too much steamed rice for dinners with the intention of keeping the leftovers for frying the next day with an egg. It can be simple, just a lot of black pepper, some salt and sesame oil, or more elaborate, with green onions, a leftover meat, mushrooms, whatever veggies we have hanging around, etc. I've also turned leftover steamed rice into congee the next day, which is a great blank canvas to take other leftover proteins.
I'm not that keen to eat leftover dinner for a second dinner, but I'll happily down them as breakfast the next day. My husband will stop eating a pizza when there are a few slices left, just to guarantee cold pizza for breakfast the next day, much like a poster above said.
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I eat just about anything for breakfast, be it savory or not.
About the only savory item that I do not typically eat for breakfast is soup.
But everything else is probably fair game, from leftovers, to desserts (like cold pie), to ice cream, to fruit, pastas, steak, seafood, etc.
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Left over fried Catfish from the night before...warmed a bit on a griddle....Hot Coffee!
This time of year, when HG tomatoes are rolling in the back door...Biscuits & Tomatoes...Cut open the biscuit...add a little butter and a honkin slice of fresh tomato, S&P and eat like a sandwich....I also like lots of sliced tomatoes with Grits, eggs, bacon, etc...Yum Yum!›6 Replies-
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re: JEN10
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I've never eaten "breakfast food" for breakfast. Today I'm going to have chili. I'm not eating cake or ice cream these days, but if I were, I find both perfectly acceptable first meals in the morning. I'm eating eggs again (scrambled or omelets only) after being sick of them for about three years, but I don't necessarily eat them for breakfast.
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KaimukiMan, I am with you on the leftovers. Most anything will do as I am not a huge fan of traditional breakfast foods. If I go out I always look for a place that will serve from the lunch menu at breakfast. Sometimes this puts a damper on getting the meal out as quickly, but hey I am worth the wait right? A favorite was a chicken Buffalo sandwhich with onion rings.
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If you define 'breakfast' as the day's first meal, but not necessarily early in the morning.....well - then I guess I'm pretty flexible as to what goes in my mouth.
I tend to just have coffee before I wake up '-), but a couple hours later, the sky's the limit. While I often will make such typical things as scrambled eggs and a grapefruit on the side with a glass of milk, my "breakfasts" these last days ranged from
whole grilled trout/mackerel
spicy Thai dim sum & larb
sushi
fried fish with potato salad.Again, my 'breakfast' is everyone else's lunch probably (time & meal-wise), but it's MY breakfast.
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I haven't done it in years, but when we were kids, a big piece of cake from last night's dessert in a bowl with milk. (yes, I hear the collective gasp. We lived.)
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