So this morning Princesca and I were eating breakfast and I mentioned that I thought it might be neat for us to experiment with different ethnic breakfasts... we've done plenty of experimentation with international cuisine for dinner, so much so that a number of favorite dishes have made it into our 'usual' meal rotation--examples include feijoada (Brazil), turos czusza (Hungary), frappe coffee (Greece) and cafe cubano (Cuba).
I started with wikipedia and although there are plenty of articles about ethnic cuisines, many of them make no mention at all about breakfast. So I figured I'd try polling Languish.
Oh, and if anyone is interested, for breakfast I had bacon, fried eggs, a hash brown, scrapple (which if you've never heard of it, is kind of like white pudding with cornmeal instead of oatmeal), and coffee with almond milk.
Coffee, boiled egg (sometimes), dark bread with turkey sausage, müsli with soy fruit yogurt.
Oatmeal porridge, a stable Danish breakfast. Served with raisins and milk. Maybe add butter and/or cinnamon sugar, depending on how dark and cold it is outside.
Quote from: Liep on June 16, 2012, 08:39:42 AM
Oatmeal porridge, a stable Danish breakfast. Served with raisins and milk. Maybe add butter and/or cinnamon sugar, depending on how dark and cold it is outside.
Sounds like a typical breakfast I'd have as a kid on weekdays. Weekends we typically had 'English' type breakfasts like what I mentioned in the OP.
On a related note, Dole has started labeling their organic bananas (yes I know, I know, 'organic' is a farce) with the actual farm they came from. The bananas we got yesterday came from a farm called Asociación Bananeros Orgánicos Señor de Chocán San Vicente Piedra Rodada in San Vicente, Sullana, Piura, in northern Peru. :)
I rarely eat breakfast since surgery, unless I'm out of town. In that case I'll have orange juice, café con leche, and something to eat like buttered toast and/or croissants.
Meat on meat sandwich with a glass of meat.
Quote from: Caliga on June 16, 2012, 08:31:35 AM
Oh, and if anyone is interested, for breakfast I had bacon, fried eggs, a hash brown, scrapple (which if you've never heard of it, is kind of like white pudding with cornmeal instead of oatmeal), and coffee with almond milk.
That is a lot of food.
Obviously I'm not a foreign type person, but I've started drinking an Odwalla smoothie for breakfast at about 9:30. On the downside, it has a lot of sugar, but that also gives me a kick to keep me going until lunch time (I usually eat around 11:45, which I know is a lot earlier than some foreigners). I've also cut out all coffee, and for me the sugar is an effective caffeine alternative.
Either cereals/müsli with milk or yoghurt or rolls/croissants/bretzels with butter or nutella.
Quote from: alfred russel on June 16, 2012, 09:08:52 AM
That is a lot of food.
During the week my typical breakfast is a banana and espresso.
150g muesli with 250g full fat milk, coffee.
Every other day I have instead 125g weatabix or another wheat-based cereal with 200g full fat milk, coffee.
I usually don't eat breakfast but if I do it's something like egg and bacon or dinner leftovers. Sometimes coffee with a good helping of unsalted butter in it. :licklips:
Feijoada isn't a breakfast meal. It's like a Sunday lunch :mellow:
I don't often have breakfast. Normally it'll be either porridge and honey or my amazing homemade bread and honey :)
Anything is a breakfast meal if you eat it for breakfast.
For example this morning I had a leftover pork and bean burrito from last night's dinner.
Quote from: Maximus on June 16, 2012, 11:07:47 AM
Anything is a breakfast meal if you eat it for breakfast.
For example this morning I had a leftover pork and bean burrito from last night's dinner.
Yeah but feijoada's a massive stew of multi-meats and beans with rice, casava flour, a salad and oranges. It's not leftovers, I've had leftover curry for breakfast. But in terms of cooking a feijoada takes hours of slow cooking. So chances are your breakfast's the toast you had while putting it all on the hob :P
Fair enough.
I can't sit around- much less work- for hours before breakfast. Meri likes to make these big brunches when we have weekend guests. I love the food she puts on but I usually have to eat something before it's ready.
It depends but usually something along the lines of a croissant (or some other fancy bread) with ham or cheese, eggs (fried, scrambled or hard boiled), and coffee.
I usually have Japanese style buns, basically bread with different condiments: BBQ pork, corn, potato and bacon, sausage, minced chicken, curry, red bean paste, chestnut paste, etc. Sometimes I have oatmeal or museli with skimmed milk. I usually don't drink anything for breakfast (which is considered odd).
Once a week I have a HK style big breakfast. A bit of a mix and match between western and Chinese. There is a western plate with eggs, ham and bread. Then there is a Chinese bowl with different kinds of noodle in soup. Could be pasta in tomato broth, could be traditional Chinese noodles, or Japanese instant noodles.
Sometimes we have a dim sum breakfast during weekends.
Shanghainese breakfast is cool once in a while. They like to have soy milk, dumplings, sticky rice rolled with spicy cabbage, shredded pork jerky, pancakes with spring onion and egg.
Traditional Cantonese breakfast is congee with fried Chinese bread. A local HK favourite is the "pineapple" bun that has absolutely nothing to do with pineapples. It is a round shaped bun with a kind of crispy and sweet toppings. A lot of people like to put a thick slice of butter inside the bun and heat it.
Traditional Japanese breakfast is usually steamed rice with a huge variety of pickels, plus congee, tofu, egg and fish. I used to have really low opinion of Japanese breakfast, until I had some really good ones at some ryokans. Japanese breakfast is usually easy to digest.
I had Singaporean breakfast with a colleague once. It was some kind of soy sauce with a half-boiled egg which was mixed with the soy sauce and then slurped.
That was the only time I had Singaporean breakfast during my time in Singapore. :P
I loved the cream-cheese with salmon or ham'n egg bagels when I lived on Long Island.
Quote from: Sheilbh on June 16, 2012, 11:03:29 AM
Feijoada isn't a breakfast meal. It's like a Sunday lunch :mellow:
I think when Cal says he has it for "dinner," that can include Sunday lunch. :mellow:
Dinner is just the chief meal of the day.
Acceptable salmon/cream cheese bagels in Vienna cost over 5 EUR. :(
Today it is 1 over-easy egg, bacon, peanut butter toast, grape tomatoes and some pummelo.
Quote from: Syt on June 16, 2012, 12:16:00 PM
Acceptable salmon/cream cheese bagels in Vienna cost over 5 EUR. :(
I am not even sure if I can get any here.
If someone craves a bagel and happens to be southern Nassau County, I really recommend this place: http://www.libagelcafe.com/bellmore.asp
Quote from: Sheilbh on June 16, 2012, 11:03:29 AM
Feijoada isn't a breakfast meal. It's like a Sunday lunch :mellow:
Yeah, I know. My comment about feijoada wasn't really connected to my question about breakfast.
Quote from: Caliga on June 16, 2012, 03:46:24 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on June 16, 2012, 11:03:29 AM
Feijoada isn't a breakfast meal. It's like a Sunday lunch :mellow:
Yeah, I know. My comment about feijoada wasn't really connected to my question about breakfast.
I thought you just had massive breakfasts. And I wanted you to know I'd judged :P :hug:
I live near two competing 24 Bagel shops that do good cream cheese-salmon bagels for around £1.20-1.40 :mmm:
Their salt beef's good too.
Quote from: Sheilbh on June 16, 2012, 03:52:14 PM
I thought you just had massive breakfasts. And I wanted you to know I'd judged :P :hug:
Of course you did. This is Languish... what else would you do? :)
We don't have a true tradition of eating breakfast. Most of our food is delivered as a brunch-type, eaten in a big gathering, in family or with friends, talking about stuff, drinking heavily etc... Nowadays, we pretty much adopted the Occidental diet: bacon, frankfurter, omlette, cheese etc... Nothing really original.
Taking the replies as a whole, not enough fibre (roughage) and a bit too much processed read meats ?
Quote from: mongers on June 16, 2012, 04:11:42 PM
Taking the replies as a whole, not enough fibre (roughage) and a bit too much processed read meats ?
That would describe the Western diet in general my friend. :showoff:
Quote from: Caliga on June 16, 2012, 04:13:18 PM
Quote from: mongers on June 16, 2012, 04:11:42 PM
Taking the replies as a whole, not enough fibre (roughage) and a bit too much processed read meats ?
That would describe the Western diet in general my friend. :showoff:
I'm suggesting people look at what they eat and make small changes to improve things a bit. :bowler:
On weekdays, when the kids have to go to school, a bowl of yougurt with musli or oatmeal and raisins on top
On weekends it varies, most often fresh bread or buns with cheese, or jam or honey and tea.
On rare days bacon and eggs
V
I value an hour extra sleep over breakfast
Quote from: mongers on June 16, 2012, 04:11:42 PM
Taking the replies as a whole, not enough fibre (roughage) and a bit too much processed read meats ?
Eating cereal was invented by Will Keith Kellogg to prevent masturbation and leapt upon to support the farming community. Breakfasting on meat and eggs happened for centuries beforehand and has recently been proven to result in weight loss due to feeling fuller so not snacking, and reduced cholesterol.
I eat something different most days. I had a bacon omelette on Saturday, boiled eggs and toast on Sunday (I only eat the yolks) and cereal (Oatibix with milk and honey) today.
A few times a year I'll go out for a full English - two bacon, one sausage, fried egg, toast, fried mushrooms, grilled tomato and baked beans. Usually swiftly followed by a lunchtime pint.
I believe baked beans are considered a vegetable rather than a breakfast item in other parts of the world. I remember it horrifying one American friend.
The blood of Gentile newborns....oh wait i'm not Siegy.
About once a month Some hashbrown or corn beef hash or Chorizo and eggs, otherwise a bagel or cereal.
A cup of coffee with milk and three to five biscuits. I valure sleep over nutrition.
On weekends I add fresh seasonal fruit: we're in the middle of cherry season, and starting peach season here :mmm:
L.
Quote from: Brazen on June 18, 2012, 03:31:57 AM
Quote from: mongers on June 16, 2012, 04:11:42 PM
Taking the replies as a whole, not enough fibre (roughage) and a bit too much processed read meats ?
Eating cereal was invented by Will Keith Kellogg to prevent masturbation and leapt upon to support the farming community. Breakfasting on meat and eggs happened for centuries beforehand and has recently been proven to result in weight loss due to feeling fuller so not snacking, and reduced cholesterol.
Yep.
Most of what passes for breakfast these days is the nutritional equivalent of Halloween candy. Your orange juice? Liquid fructose. Basically soda with some vitamin C. Breads? Crunchy balls of sugar that spike your glucose levels faster than regular white sugar. And then people eat them with skim milk and fat-free cream cheese, just to make sure they spike their blood sugar even more quickly.
Today I had lamb cutlets leftover from dinner last night with a bell pepper and some spinach. Put some EVOO on the spinach to make it more appetizing.
Quote from: Sheilbh on June 16, 2012, 03:52:14 PM
I live near two competing 24 Bagel shops that do good cream cheese-salmon bagels for around £1.20-1.40 :mmm:
We need competition for our local bagel shop, they're good, but £5 for a bagel is just not right.
We have a couple of bagel shops, fortunately. One's "Books & Bagels":
http://www.booksnbagels.com/eng/
QuoteBooks and Bagels – One Stop Shop for Judaism.
In 2004, Books&Bagels, a combination Jewish book store and coffee shop, was established in the Enge quartier of Zurich. Soon it became a popular meeting point for Jewish and Non-Jewish people alike looking to treat themselves to something special. These days our customers come to us not just for our wide range of Jewish literature, Judacia, Toys and their daily Jewish needs and but also for our freshly baked bagels. More than a few people claim that our bagels are the best in town.
Due to the popularity of the store, people from other cities have demanded their very own Books&Bagels too. So far we've opened stores in Tzfat, Vienna and Manhattan.
We have placed our catalogue online, so that you can access Books&Bagels' range of products whenever and wherever you want.
If you can't find the product of your choice, don't hesitate to contact us, we'll be happy to assist you.
For the vast majority of the days, my breakfast is a cup of coffee.
Crepes, French toats & English type with marple sirup.
Baked beans :mmm:
Hey Brazen I think I found the cereal-against-masturbation article.
Quote"Prepackaged and ready-to-eat breakfast cereals began with the American temperance movement in the 19th century. In the 1830s, the Reverend Sylvester Graham preached the virtues of a vegetarian diet to his congregation, and in particular the importance of wholemeal flour. Meat-eating, he said, excited the carnal passions."
[...]
"After Jackson's invention, the Seventh-Day Adventists took up the mission. [...] John Harvey Kellogg...set about devising cures for what he believed were the common ills of the day, in particular constipation and masturbation. In Kellogg's mind, the two were closely linked, the common cause being a lack of fibre, both dietary and moral.
Kellogg experimented in the sanitarium kitchen to produce an easily digested form of cereal. Together with his wife and his younger brother, William Keith, he came up with his own highly profitable Granula, but was promptly sued by Jackson, the original maker of Granula, and had to change the name to Granola."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/nov/23/food-book-extract-felicity-lawrence (http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/nov/23/food-book-extract-felicity-lawrence)
Breakfast cereal, including "granola", was a cynical marketing ploy by religious fundamentalists to destroy your sex drive. :D
Putting a sausage in the mouth would certainly excite carnal passions of certain kinds of people. :unsure:
Quote from: DGuller on June 18, 2012, 08:26:33 AM
Putting a sausage in the mouth would certainly excite carnal passions of certain kinds of people. :unsure:
:face:
No you didnt. :blink:
Quote from: DGuller on June 18, 2012, 08:04:05 AM
For the vast majority of the days, my breakfast is a cup of coffee.
A cup of tea with milk here.
My awesome home-made bread doesn't cause a spike in glucose levels :mmm:
Quote from: Brazen on June 18, 2012, 03:31:57 AM
Quote from: mongers on June 16, 2012, 04:11:42 PM
Taking the replies as a whole, not enough fibre (roughage) and a bit too much processed read meats ?
Eating cereal was invented by Will Keith Kellogg to prevent masturbation and leapt upon to support the farming community. Breakfasting on meat and eggs happened for centuries beforehand and has recently been proven to result in weight loss due to feeling fuller so not snacking, and reduced cholesterol.
I eat something different most days. I had a bacon omelette on Saturday, boiled eggs and toast on Sunday (I only eat the yolks) and cereal (Oatibix with milk and honey) today.
A few times a year I'll go out for a full English - two bacon, one sausage, fried egg, toast, fried mushrooms, grilled tomato and baked beans. Usually swiftly followed by a lunchtime pint.
I believe baked beans are considered a vegetable rather than a breakfast item in other parts of the world. I remember it horrifying one American friend.
And which of us is the fitter one ? :hmm:
The Kellogg anecdote is a good story, but people have been eating grains in one form or another for rather a long time, the Scots and oats spring to mind. :bowler:
Besides, my point wasn't about manufactured breakfast cereals, but about insufficient roughage in the diet and the over consumption of read meats 'our' diets. Are these not real issues ?
Sadly my usual breakfast is a sugar-free Rockstar. On the weekend I get creative though.
Quote from: mongers on June 18, 2012, 10:48:00 AM
And which of us is the fitter one ? :hmm:
The Kellogg anecdote is a good story, but people have been eating grains in one form or another for rather a long time, the Scots and oats spring to mind. :bowler:
Besides, my point wasn't about manufactured breakfast cereals, but about insufficient roughage in the diet and the over consumption of read meats 'our' diets. Are these not real issues ?
Define "fitter" (in any way other than cycling a long distance) :hmm:
RED meat, and indeed eggs, were demonised for their effect on cholesterol, but it has since been found that trans fats and sugar have a far more detrimental effect. Naturally existing cholesterol in food does not enter the blood stream and clog arteries.
Fibre is better consumed through fruit and veg which have loads of other nutrients than cereals, and tend to be consumed in meals later in the day.
Quote from: mongers on June 18, 2012, 10:48:00 AM
And which of us is the fitter one ? :hmm:
The Kellogg anecdote is a good story, but people have been eating grains in one form or another for rather a long time, the Scots and oats spring to mind. :bowler:
Besides, my point wasn't about manufactured breakfast cereals, but about insufficient roughage in the diet and the over consumption of read meats 'our' diets. Are these not real issues ?
If anything, our body should be better at dealing with meat. We've eaten other animals for all our existence while agriculture has been practiced for a fraction of that time.
You can certainly live off an animal-based diet. I'm living proof of it. Haven't been able to eat vegetables or fruits for almost 5 years now -- first due to inflammation, then because I've got a bowel diameter of just 3-4 mm at the scar left after surgery, so any tiny amount of fiber can send me to the ER with a blockage.
Yet despite that blood work results always land within norm. I don't follow any special diet nor take supplements and I'm missing a chunk of small bowel.
Quote from: Brazen on June 18, 2012, 11:13:04 AM
Quote from: mongers on June 18, 2012, 10:48:00 AM
And which of us is the fitter one ? :hmm:
The Kellogg anecdote is a good story, but people have been eating grains in one form or another for rather a long time, the Scots and oats spring to mind. :bowler:
Besides, my point wasn't about manufactured breakfast cereals, but about insufficient roughage in the diet and the over consumption of read meats 'our' diets. Are these not real issues ?
Define "fitter" (in any way other than cycling a long distance) :hmm:
RED meat, and indeed eggs, were demonised for their effect on cholesterol, but it has since been found that trans fats and sugar have a far more detrimental effect. Naturally existing cholesterol in food does not enter the blood stream and clog arteries.
Fibre is better consumed through fruit and veg which have loads of other nutrients than cereals, and tend to be consumed in meals later in the day.
Plus there's new reports saying that Trans fat is actually not that bad.
Quote from: Grey Fox on June 18, 2012, 11:41:42 AM
Plus there's new reports saying that Trans fat is actually not that bad.
Oh, FFS, just make up your mind, people. :rolleyes:
Quote from: DGuller on June 18, 2012, 11:43:08 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on June 18, 2012, 11:41:42 AM
Plus there's new reports saying that Trans fat is actually not that bad.
Oh, FFS, just make up your mind, people. :rolleyes:
I also read one that claimed that Whole Grains aren't good for us either.
Research provided by the Trans Fat Institute.
Quote from: Brazen on June 18, 2012, 11:13:04 AM
Quote from: mongers on June 18, 2012, 10:48:00 AM
And which of us is the fitter one ? :hmm:
The Kellogg anecdote is a good story, but people have been eating grains in one form or another for rather a long time, the Scots and oats spring to mind. :bowler:
Besides, my point wasn't about manufactured breakfast cereals, but about insufficient roughage in the diet and the over consumption of read meats 'our' diets. Are these not real issues ?
Define "fitter" (in any way other than cycling a long distance) :hmm:
RED meat, and indeed eggs, were demonised for their effect on cholesterol, but it has since been found that trans fats and sugar have a far more detrimental effect. Naturally existing cholesterol in food does not enter the blood stream and clog arteries.
Fibre is better consumed through fruit and veg which have loads of other nutrients than cereals, and tend to be consumed in meals later in the day.
Bye whatever yardstick you care to name. ;)
The major issue with processed red meat is the increased cancer risks, and at quite low levels ie above 1 lb of it per week.
Quote from: PDH on June 18, 2012, 11:45:08 AM
Research provided by the Trans Fat Institute.
Yuk, obese gender-conflicted people. :P
Quote from: Caliga on June 16, 2012, 08:31:35 AM
So this morning Princesca and I were eating breakfast and I mentioned that I thought it might be neat for us to experiment with different ethnic breakfasts... we've done plenty of experimentation with international cuisine for dinner, so much so that a number of favorite dishes have made it into our 'usual' meal rotation--examples include feijoada (Brazil), turos czusza (Hungary), frappe coffee (Greece) and cafe cubano (Cuba).
I started with wikipedia and although there are plenty of articles about ethnic cuisines, many of them make no mention at all about breakfast. So I figured I'd try polling Languish.
Oh, and if anyone is interested, for breakfast I had bacon, fried eggs, a hash brown, scrapple (which if you've never heard of it, is kind of like white pudding with cornmeal instead of oatmeal), and coffee with almond milk.
half the time, I don't eat.
The other half, usually 2-3 toasts with either natural peanut butter, sugar free jam or cretons (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretons).
If I eat outside of the house, it will be bacon&eggs (turned).
On Sundays, if I eat, it will usually be bigger: bacon, eggs, sausage, ham and meat pie.