I don't remember (and couldn't find it in the archives), if we've discussed breakfast. My favorite thing for breakfast is leftovers, unless Gary's got time for breakfast, then we have oatmeal with bananas. It the eating together that makes that good.

This morning I had a couple very fresh eggs, green pepper out of the freezer, with just a smidgeon of cheese grated on it and some sprouts, it was delicious.

What do eat for breakfast? What's your favorite hot cereal? Any special recipes?

-- Cindy (SE In) (atilrthehony_1@yahoo.com), February 07, 2001

Answers

I love 7-grain cereal in the winter time and then with the leftovers we make bread! YUM! In the summer when we have an abundance of eggs I love wild onions or wild mushrooms and scrambled eggs! YUM! I love to steam some poke greens and tiny baby poke shoots in water then double rinse and scramble eggs in with that. It is a lot like an asparagus quiche. You can also add cheddar cheese on top and let it melt. We also have had breakfast burritoes with flour or corn tortillas filled with scrambled eggs, cheese, hash browns and sausage! good served with picante sauce. My husband never eats breakfast, I tease him about his Dr. pepper and twinkie that he gets on the way to do Dairy rounds. Yuck! He is obnoxiously healthy too! You can't tell him that it is bad for him. His grandpa ate pie and coffee for breakfast all the time and lived to be almost 90. I told him that when he dies all of the preservatives in the twinkie will probably keep him going for another 10 years or so and no one will even notice that he croaked!~

-- Nan (davidl41@ipa.net), February 07, 2001.

My favorite is a corn meal and rolled oats stirabout with a little sugar and bacon on the side.

-- Jay Blair in N. AL (jayblair678@yahoo.com), February 07, 2001.

We like a thing called horsemash. It's like stovetop granola. We got the recipe from a homeschool site. Start with 1/2 cup honey and 1/2 cup oil in a fry pan. Heat till bubbly and add 7-8 cups oats and any additions you like. We usually add pecans or nuts we have on hand. Keep mixing it around until it is slightly toasted. We serve the first batch warm but use it later as cold cereal. Adjust the honey and oil to your taste.

We also like fresh eggs and homemade bisquits with honey or gravy. Oh. and the last few weeks I've been using a recipe out of C-side for a hot wheat cereal mixed with whatever you like. It's 1/4 cup wheat flour with 3/4 cup water brought to a boil for 1 min. Keep stirring or it gets lumpy.

There are other things too but those are the most requested here!

-- Denise (jphammock@msn.com), February 07, 2001.

Guess I'm old fashioned I still eat eggs, grits, bacon and toast. Sometimes we switch out livermush for bacon. The wife likes maple sausage and toast. My daughter..cereal & milk and a glass of orange juice.

We believe in a good breakfast. :-)

-- Kenneth in N.C. (wizardsplace13@hotmail.com), February 07, 2001.

Oatmeal, a banana and a cup of coffee is the norm here. Occasionally it's an onion, spinach and 3 cheese omelet with a cup of coffee.

-- Bob Johnson (Backwoods_Bob@excite.com), February 07, 2001.

I suppose we are not mainstream. Most of our "vittles" are homemade, but some are "storebought" Anyway, Maggie and I decided that we did not really care about what others considered "normal". This morning she had chicken soup and I had grits for breakfast. As a dyed in the wool northerner, I absolutely love grits! (I also love hominy, which I make myself). Can any of you folks residing in the "South" give me a recipe for making grits? GL! Brad the Maineiac.

-- Brad (homefixer@SacoRiver.net), February 07, 2001.

enything cooked in a skillet with gravey on it. Bob se.ks.

-- Bobco (bobco@hit.net), February 07, 2001.

Sat. at our house is Apple Pancake day. Sauted sliced apples (in an oven safe skillet)in butter with brown sugar, cinnamon or nutmeg (sometimes I just use pumpkin pie spice) until soft, not mushy then pour your pancake batter over the top and place in the over at 350 until brown on top and cooked through. Flip it onto a plate, so the apples are now on top. We have that with warm maple syrup, bacon and fresh fruit. GREAT!

School days my daughter wants poached eggs on toast. WOW! not the typical 8 year old, but she probably gets a better breakfast than most.

-- jennifer (schwabauer@aol.com), February 07, 2001.

oatmeal cereal, home made granola cereal,home grown bacon and eggs or sausage and eggs, potato pancakes!!!, omlets with whatever I can find. Sometimes just toast.

-- michelle (tsjheath@ainop.com), February 07, 2001.

Malt-o-meal makes a "honey nut cheerio's" type of cereal that I can eat for months on end. Love that stuff. Better then the "real" thing, you get a bolster-sized bag for about 4.00 and best of all: no cheerio burps!

-- Soni (thomkilroy@hotmail.com), February 07, 2001.

We don't have a breakfast routine, but have a variety of favorites, including: cubes of baked sweet potato, covered with pureed peach or apricot, topped with sliced almonds (it's fantastic- better than it sounds); I like smoothies made with homemade yogurt and a variety of fruits and fruit juices combined with a dollop of honey and a bit of cinammon, nutmeg, and ground ginger; oatmeal and banana, with fresh squeezed OJ; the boys especially love cornmeal sticks with butter and honey from their beehives; pancakes with either honey or pure maple syrup; amaranth waffles; and occassionally I like scrambled eggs with some combination of onion/scallion, green or red peppers, cheese, alfalfa sprouts, or (my favorite) lentil sprouts. When the strawberry fields open in a few weeks we'll have fresh strawberries every morning (and noon, and night!).

-- Elizabeth (ekfla@aol.com), February 07, 2001.

I'm such a failure!!!!!! My granny fixed me a good breakfast every day till I got old enough to move out on my own(then she would still call to see if I had breakfast and invite me over). I have a confession to make....I don't eat breakfast. I am not a morning person. I get up and get some kind of caffeine loaded beverage and sit around bleary eyed for about an hour...except when I work on the dairy then I grab a drink and milk cows while I'm bleary eyed :o). Lunch is my first meal of the day. My kids like cereal.....I know I'm hanging my head in shame now. I do fix a good hot lunch and dinner though. Ya'll have really got me feeling guilty.....everything ya'll have listed sounds so good!

-- Amanda in Mo (aseley@townsqr.com), February 08, 2001.

Around here it's grits,fried eggs,bacon or sausage on the weekends and what ever we can grab during the week. My Mom and I both have to leave to go to work at 4:30 a.m. so everyone else has to fend for their selves!!

-- Sandy(FL.) (MANDARINHILLBILLYS@prodigy.net), February 08, 2001.

We like hot cereals in the winter. Sometimes it's oats, sometimes it's millet, sometimes it's wheat. For those of you who do not have much time for fixing breakfast you can prepare any hot cereal the night before. Just put however much you want of the grain in a good thermos[such as a Stanley] and cover with 1 inch of boiling water, cover tightly and you have hot cooked cereal in the am. Sometimes we have apple pancakes[we love the recipe in the Deaf Smith Cook Book] and sometimes poached eggs and toast or an omelet. I like fried cornmeal mush with butter and maple syrup. We don't eat pork but there is some very credible turkey sausage on the market and we have that occasionally. We also eat a LOT of yogurt in the summer. And I LOVE pie for breakfast!

-- Artie Ann Karns (rokarns@arkansas.net), February 09, 2001.

Sausage gravy on biscuits, fried potatoes and onions, blueberry pancakes with hot maple syrup, all stuff grown or made here. We love our breakfast. Biggest meal of the day.(most of the time)

-- diane (gardiacaprines@yahoo.com), February 09, 2001.

Oh, I forgot our favorite cereal. Cream of wheat cooked with a handful of dryed fruit. We dry cherries, blueberries etc.

-- diane (gardiacaprines@yahoo.com), February 09, 2001.

You guys are all making me so hungry. I,too, have no time for breakfast on workdays. I can't seem to roll myself out of bed early enough. I feed the animals and get ready for work and that's all the time I seem to have. I usually have my breakfast around 10:30 during my break at work. It's whatever I could grab from the cubboard or refrig and stuff in the lunch bag on my way out the door.

-- cindy palmer (jandcpalmer@sierratel.com), February 10, 2001.

My family's favorite breakfast? Either: homemade biscuits fresh from the oven topped by my sweeties yummy sausage gravy, or crisp bacon and pancakes topped by real maple syrup.

-- Anna Ravenscroft (revanna@hockey.net), February 12, 2001.

Y'all have me starving and it's8:25 P.M. here in easy central Ia. It all sounds soooo good. I'm afraid I'm one of those who don't find time for breakfast. Long about 10:30 I'm finally hungry. Don't find the good stuff you're talking about tho'. Our main meal is supper and we very often have breakfast type foods for supper. Really hits the spot.

-- clare bsldwin (clare_baldwin@hotmail .com), February 12, 2001.

Through the week, cold cereal or oatmeal. At least one day on the weekend, hot home made biscuits, bacon, gravy and our hens fresh eggs. It would hurt our girls feelings if we didn't eat eggs once in a while. Has anyone tried the Pillsbury frozen biscuits? We love them. They are frozen separately so you can take out one or two, you don't thaw them, and I swear they would fool my mom into thinking they are home made. Jo Ann

-- Jo Ann Weaver (hillfarm3@peoplepc.com), February 13, 2001.

We don't do breakfast either. We get up at 4:30, make coffee, go outside and do the stove, make DH's lunch, and he's out the door at 5:15. I don't usually get hungry till 10:00 or so. Love oatmeal and toast, not much to clean up. We have our eggs and hashbrowns for dinners during the week. We had pancakes twice this week for dinner. Sat. and Sun. we have breakfast together. My favorite breakfast is pumpkin pie, a whole one just for me.

-- Cindy in Ky (solidrockranch@hotmail.com), February 13, 2001.