I have never understood the use of bougie as an insult. My mother's fondest hope was that I would grow up to be able to be bougie. Do you know how much bag cereal I ate to be able to go to a liberal arts college?
The first thing I’m eating when I hit my goal weight (I’ve lost 113 pounds, no shots, 12 to go!!) and need to up calories to maintain instead of lose is a piece of garlic bread. After an entire year of never cheating once, that is the one thing that I miss the most.
Way to go, Beth! I’ve noticed it for the first time in my life I’m stress eating because of the current political climate. This is something new to me so I have to change it!
Change it NOW. I went through a series of jarring events, including breast cancer, and ended up in cardiac ICU for 3 weeks last May on what should have been my death bed. I just kept gaining weight, an unnoticeable pound at a time, until I damn near killed myself. Now I feel like a million bucks!
I totally agree! I’ve been really vibing on just oatmeal with dried fruit and nuts. Simple, pure, and grains make me feel like I’m connected to humans from 1 million years ago.
That's a pretty big generalization. There are many different cultures within the white community, and they all include food, art, music, and tradition. Are you saying Polish, German, Irish, etc. americans are uncultured? Not all white people are crude, boorish, and unsophisticated.
not all. but most. they elected the stain. I am white, I see our culture. or lack of it. I stand by what I said, no offense except possibly to some white people. sorry not sorry
I have never understood how English muffins got popular in the US while crumpets are hard to find. They were my breakfast staple when I was in Wales for 4 months in 1998, ubiquitous, cheap, and perfect. Trader Joe's has a reasonably close version but they're not quite the same.
The worrysome variable here is “good bread.” What constitutes good bread, something tasty and delicious, something made from whole grain, something made without added sugars? Croissant? Baguette? Sourdough? Pain au chocolat? Tortilla? Pita? Naan? Frybread? Cinnabon?
it doesn’t necessarily work for weekdays but i might start making it a regular part of my saturday breakfast spreads for the family. drop by the market to grab some pastries, keep some smoked gouda and cheddar on hand, slice some apples, prepare some grapes
imho the best gouda is extra aged, so aged that it has some salt crystals in it. that extra aged gouda pairs well with a freshly sliced tomato too. I have been able to find Beemster and Old Amsterdam in US supermarkets
I've been eating that as a breakfast daily for years, I'm not sure what breakfast is faster except for a protein bar on the go. All my items are packaged and ready to plate in seconds. Cucs and tomatoes take 30 seconds. Or you can just open containers for people to help themselves, it's super easy!
Was in Kalamazoo Mi for a while. Had a famous bakery Sarkozy that you get at the local grocery stores. Also had a Belgian/French patisserie that was quite good
Good bread is extremely underrated, at least from where I've lived in the US (mostly a mid-sized Northeastern city). Whenever I see my mother's bought the really good bread from a small farm shop I try to steal as much of it as I can. I suppose I should just drive the 40 minutes to get it myself.
It's just a really good multigrain boulet. Great crust, goes perfectly with soft cheese, jam, or butter, excellent on its own. I'm sure there are decent bakeries closer to home, I just don't know of them.
That does sound tasty. Here's a challenge: make a loaf of bread each week for 10 weeks, if your loaves are not as good as theirs by the end of it, then you can be confident that their bread is worth the drive
When I took my son skiing last year, this plus a meat board and yogurt was the daily breakfast at our hotel and at first I was sad, but after the first day I wondered why the heck we don’t eat this way always.
unless you grew up with Italian grandparents and spent every Sunday eating brunch at around 11ish with hot peppers, cheese, scrambled eggs, bacon, dried sausage, potatoes, iceberg lettuce salad, and a little bit of beer from poppy
well, this is regional right? maybe not where you are or where your family comes from. but where my italian grandparents came from these were their sundays.
Those foods sound great. I now need gluten-free bread, but this morning I ate a whole container of mango wrapped shrimp sushi. I can’t afford to be that decadent often. ;-)
I wholeheartedly agree! Now, if only I could convince my body to let the cheese cross the border unassaulted and that the nuts are not allergens and are, instead, just healthy fat ambassadors, I’d be set.
Here in Thailand, we eat rice and vegetables (various kinds of 'curry') for breakfast. Once you get into the habit, you'll never go back to Western style breakfasts again.
I’m deciding whether to do breakfast or wait out for lunch. I don’t know why it actually matters since it’s just me and no one around to report on my dietary habits.
It’s what we grew up eating both in the Soviet Union and when we moved to the states. Good rye bread, lots of butter, cheese, and some tomatoes/cucumbers usually. We weren’t a big fruit house. Still love it from time to time.
I once stopped into a café in Colorado and was served two thick slices of toast with plenty of butter, with a fried egg on top. With coffee, it was not only sufficient, but perfect.
Every morning this was my delicious breakfast in Slovakia.(1 morning, pleasing us from fairytale America,I choked down runny ick from pile of sunnyside up eggs)The positive side was freshly baked bread,homemade preserves.9am vodka shots,🍒🍓best was raspberry,US had nothing comparable.
A day starter!
Not enough meat. How bout a breakfast of eggs, sausage, bacon, and some potatoes to give you a light and airy feeling for the rest of the day. Or perhaps a stack of actual cake with sugar poured on top of it?
Love breakfast food but for the life of me can’t understand why you’d eat it in the morning
I eat a vegan breakfast.
1/2 a diced apple
1 grated medium carrot
1 serving of raisins
1 serving of chopped pecans
1 serving of hemp hearts
A tablespoon each of lemon juice and brown sugar, and a pinch of cayenne pepper.
Well mixed.
Yet half the Euros on Twitter/BSky think we Americans eat 8 slices of bacon, a steak, 4 eggs, and white bread for breakfast daily. (And processed cheese the rest of the time.)
I still remember when my roommate in college, who’d spent time in a Kenyan boarding school with lots of Europeans, blew my mind by putting yogurt on granola instead of milk. Game changer.
I've been getting into the Instant Pot + dutch oven breadmaking recently. Can eat the rye bread with cheese or eggs all day long. Just need to cook up some apple chutney as well to make it perfect.
Except for German bread isn’t actually very good in comparison to the bread in France. Or San Francisco ;) you have a lot of options made from the same 4 flavorless doughs tied, twisted and topped to look different. So sad when France is right there.
I love German bread! We don't get as good rye or seeded bread here, I don't think. I'm not a fan of sourdough so San Francisco is right out. Never been to France.
San Francisco makes a lot more than sourdough. We have a lot of small artisanal bakeries that make very beautiful handcrafted bread. I lived in Germany for six years and there’s not a bread I learned to love. Or at least not one that I couldn’t find mass produced.
i absolutely love it. traditional american breakfast of eggs, bacon, etc is so heavy and makes me feel awful the rest of the day. love some little fruits and cheeses and juice
My mind is blown a bit cos I've come 'round to believing this with a more recent addition of good🍞.
I bake and, I have an idiosyncratic combination which includes everything but
*cheese*. (I use real dairy in my coffee, to get that *boost*🐄.)
There is a science to eating; food needs to be tasty too.
Agreed. When I visited Peru, we would buy fresh bread every morning and then eat it for breakfast, with olives, cheese, nuts, & fruit. It was so nice. 😋
One thing I learned when I got deployed to Italy was that American bread sucks compared to what you get in Europe. Especially when you buy it fresh from a bakery.
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It would be a big win for us all to change that.
With the 20% Trump Tariff, you can’t afford to bring it in from France or Italy.
Bread everywhere
A little good sourdough rye bread, a bit of butter, a slice of ham and a big wallop of tomato or thinly sliced cucumber - salt to taste.
And they're LEISURELY about it. You drink your many cups of tea or coffee and just snack for an hour. Amazing start to the day.
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https://smittenkitchen.com/2020/10/morning-glory-breakfast-cake/
Or cold leftover Chinese food.
Yeah you're right...
I call it grazing.
I guess cold pizza is completely out of the question then. 😆
I'm a protein-first person.
A day starter!
Love breakfast food but for the life of me can’t understand why you’d eat it in the morning
Grits, Bacon, Eggs
And now I’m craving the breakfasts my mom made for me when I was a kid
1/2 a diced apple
1 grated medium carrot
1 serving of raisins
1 serving of chopped pecans
1 serving of hemp hearts
A tablespoon each of lemon juice and brown sugar, and a pinch of cayenne pepper.
Well mixed.
Must have a tall pipping hot chai too tho
not so much cheese and bread
I bake and, I have an idiosyncratic combination which includes everything but
*cheese*. (I use real dairy in my coffee, to get that *boost*🐄.)
There is a science to eating; food needs to be tasty too.