The Official Breakfast Thread

[TripletDaddy]

(except I get rye toast). This thread is getting me hungry for the weekend.

I texted my wife and told her that we should have breakfast for dinner tonight. oh yeah baby!

[hostile]

I texted my wife and told her that we should have breakfast for dinner tonight. oh yeah baby!

We we're visiting my wife's sister in South Texas. After a long day of traveling around nobody was interested in sitting in a restaurant with tired kids waiting for dinner. Instead we stopped by the grocery store and I made buttermilk blueberry pancakes and fried up some bacon. Huge success.

[Flystripper]

I went to that place and didn't love it. Maybe I'll have to try something different next time I go.

huh...weird. What did you have?

[Jeff Lebowski]

We we're visiting my wife's sister in South Texas. After a long day of traveling around nobody was interested in sitting in a restaurant with tired kids waiting for dinner. Instead we stopped by the grocery store and I made buttermilk blueberry pancakes and fried up some bacon. Huge success.

Homemade or from a mix?

If the former, please share a recipe.

[hostile]

Homemade or from a mix?

If the former, please share a recipe.

Homemade, off a recipe that I have modified from some magazine. It is my kids favorite.

2C all-purpose flour
4t sugar
1t kosher salt
1t baking powder
1/2t baking soda

2C buttermilk
4T melted butter
2 eggs
vanilla (I pour it out of the bottle a second, probably around 1T)

Blueberries (I use fresh, but you could use frozen)

Mix the dry ingredients together. Melt the butter (slowly, so it doesn't separate or get too hot) and add to the eggs, then mix in the buttermilk and vanilla. The egg yolks help to incorporate the butter and milk so they don't separate.

Mix the liquid into the dry ingredients with several whisks - leaving a few lumps is fine.

Cook over medium heat. I use a cast iron skillet lubricated with butter. Add the blueberries and then flip over after about 4 minutes, cooking for an additional minute or so. Serve with maple syrup and bacon.

EDIT: This makes enough to feed 2 adults and 4 kids (ages 4-11) - about 12 pancakes. I use a 1/3 C measuring cup to pour the batter into the skillet.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Thanks, hostile.

[Pheidippides]

My favorite breakfasts growing up were the sourdough flapjacks my granddad made. He had a start that was probably going on 30 or 40 years old by that point, kept from his younger days, and it was magnificent. With chokecherry syrup they were great.

I experimented with a start myself and it wasn't bad, but not as good as his (the start was made naturally by leaving flour and water out on my counter).

[MarkGrace]

My favorite breakfasts growing up were the sourdough flapjacks my granddad made. He had a start that was probably going on 30 or 40 years old by that point, kept from his younger days, and it was magnificent. With chokecherry syrup they were great.

I experimented with a start myself and it wasn't bad, but not as good as his (the start was made naturally by leaving flour and water out on my counter).

I remember this one. Didn't DDD try it out or something?

[old_gregg]

My favorite breakfasts growing up were the sourdough flapjacks my granddad made. He had a start that was probably going on 30 or 40 years old by that point, kept from his younger days, and it was magnificent. With chokecherry syrup they were great.

I experimented with a start myself and it wasn't bad, but not as good as his (the start was made naturally by leaving flour and water out on my counter).

I remember this one. Didn't DDD try it out or something?

amish friendship bread buds!

[MarkGrace]

huh...weird. What did you have?

Can't even remember, which probably isn't a great sign because I remember just about everything else I ate on that trip and still dream of the cochinita pibil torta I had at Xoco. We went with some friends that were really hyping the place, and it's not like it was bad, we just didn't think it was great. I remember thinking the menu had a lot of sweet stuff (chocolate, caramel, sugary stuff) and I'm not as into sweet breakfast foods. I don't think I had anything sweet, but my wife and our friends did.

[Flystripper]

Can't even remember, which probably isn't a great sign because I remember just about everything else I ate on that trip and still dream of the cochinita pibil torta I had at Xoco. We went with some friends that were really hyping the place, and it's not like it was bad, we just didn't think it was great. I remember thinking the menu had a lot of sweet stuff (chocolate, caramel, sugary stuff) and I'm not as into sweet breakfast foods. I don't think I had anything sweet, but my wife and our friends did.

my favorite thing on their brunch is the blt eggs benedict but I am also a fan of sweet breakfast since I have it so rarely and they have some very fun combinations. I have never met anyone that didn't like that place.

[MartyFunkhouser]

Baking bacon in the oven instead of frying it up, you will thank me later. The fat get perfectly and uniformly rendered. Put it in the oven when you are cooking whatever else you are planning on having with breakfast.

http://culinaryarts.about.com/od/breakfastcookery/ht/bacon.htm

[Eddie]

Baking bacon in the oven instead of frying it up, you will thank me later. The fat get perfectly and uniformly rendered. Put it in the oven when you are cooking whatever else you are planning on having with breakfast.

http://culinaryarts.about.com/od/bre...y/ht/bacon.htm

I agree with the in the oven method.

Just remember to take it out a little early - the bacon will continue to cook more than you think it is going to.

[TripletDaddy]

bacon baking in the oven is also how you get it nice and flat.

[filsdepac]

Baking bacon in the oven instead of frying it up, you will thank me later. The fat get perfectly and uniformly rendered. Put it in the oven when you are cooking whatever else you are planning on having with breakfast.

http://culinaryarts.about.com/od/bre...y/ht/bacon.htm

For me, there are pros and cons. I like that my place doesn't smell like bacon for the entire day when I cook them in the oven. But I like cooking my eggs in the bacon fat, which I'm sure one could transfer from the pan, but it's not the same.