Aug. 7th, 2007
on brekkies
Aug. 7th, 2007 12:14 pmMy response to a question about breakfast in another forum:
Breakfast is the holiest of all meals, and Is Not To Be Skipped.
Weekdays, I have coffee and toast every day, and a scrambled egg if I can get away with it.
Weekends are Bob's Red Mill 6-grain mush, or steel-cut Irish oatmeal, or just plain rolled-oats oatmeal, in descending order of preference. Rolled oats are fast enough that they get airtime during the week as well. Sometimes I throw the previous night's rice into the mush for added texture.
Sausage here is pretty good, though I miss polska kielbasa. Ham is very good, but bacon is unimpressive. I recall finding some US brand bacon at Kyoto's Meiji-ya on San-jo, and happily paying triple the US price just for some really-actually-smoked bacon flavor, instead of this ham-flavored belly meat they pass off as bacon here.
Whenever I get back to the USA I make sure and hit a real breakfast food place; I miss greasy spoon restaurants, bottomless coffee, and not having to clean up my own egg-encrusted dishes.