Breakfast of Champions

[Hoax]

Coconut = good
Raw "fresh" tomato = balls esp. because cutting them is fucking immpossible.

[Merusk]

Some of you guys sound like a bunch of 12 year olds with your eating habits.

How can you dislike a good insalata caprese?  Seen this recipe done kabob style with cherry tomatoes.  Just as good.

That looks really damn good. I'm going to have to give it a try in the next few weeks. Thanks.

Coconut = good
Raw "fresh" tomato = balls esp. because cutting them is fucking immpossible.

If you can't cut the tomato, your knife isn't sharp enough.  It's really just that simple.

[Lantyssa]

Some of you guys sound like a bunch of 12 year olds with your eating habits.

How can you dislike a good insalata caprese?  Seen this recipe done kabob style with cherry tomatoes.  Just as good.

Being Celiac and Lactose Intolerant (likely due to celiac) means most of the normal American Diet is BAD and  prevents me from eating the majority of the things I do like.  Having taste buds that don't function like the rest of humanity is simply a cruel joke played on me by the universe.

I'm probably worse than a 12 year old.

[Strazos]

At least you have an excuse.

The closest I come are the tomato dlices in a jar filled with oil and stuff...yum.

[Arnold]

Breakfast = protein shake. 

To those that don't eat breakfast, you should really try to start.  There are MANY benefits to starting the day off with breakfast. 

I've just started doing this based upon your recommendation to do it in another thread as part of my new regime. I haven't eaten breakfast regularly in 20 years, so it has been interesting to try again. I usually have a couple of Eggos and some of that microwavable pre-cooked bacon (which is surprisingly low in fat/calories for bacon). I have a godawful 7 a.m. class that I need to get out of my house by 6:20 or so twice a week. I got the shakes for those morning so I can drink it on the way and not have to get up any earlier that I already do. If you have a good recipe for protein shakes that are a good day-starter, I'd love to hear it.

I quit eating breakfast in high school, because I found it made me ravenous by 10am.  If I didn't eat anything, I was cool until lunchtime rolled around.  Nowadays, breakfast is a treat for me, like dessert is to some people.  I work in a restaraunt and on the weekend day shifts, when we do mostly prep and have few customers, someone gets breakfast duty.

BTW, recent scientific studies have shown that hungry rats fare better on tests of intelligence than ones who are sated.  It appears that being hungry puts one in "hunting mode", where the organism is more alert.  So much for those state funded breakfasts for schoolchildren to make them better students.  They might be ok if the kids were getting steak and eggs for breakfast, but you know that is NOT what the state is shelling out for.

[Endie]

Mmm fresh tomatoes, with just a bit of salt.

I eat almost any vegetable raw vs cooked...

While I agree that fresh tomatoes are delicious (as are sundried tomatoes, sunblush tomatoes and just about every other form) it's quite important to eat cooked tomatoes too, as that's the best way to get lycopenes, which some (not all) studies conducted so far have shown may help prevent cancers of the lung, stomach and prostate.  The best way to cook them is lightly fried in olive oil, which is (with garlic and basil) God's Own Delicious.

Luckily for the astonishing number of picky fuckers in this thread, tomato ketchup and tomato-based pizza topping also provide good sources of lycopenes.

PS While I'm preaching, both women and men should drink non-pasteurised pomegranate juice every day, especially once they get into their thirties.  I have it as part of my breakfast as often as I can.  Evidence is emerging that it's pretty useful in combating the appearance and then growth of various cancers, most impressively prostate cancer.

[MrHat]

Best way to eat a tomato:

Get a fresh mountain tomato (the fuck off large ones that are slightly green).

Cut whole in top.

Fill with lichorich alcohol (aarak in arabic).

Put lots of pepper an salt on the top.

Let sit for 30 mins.

Cut into slices.

Enjoy!

[Paelos]

Best way to eat a tomato:

Get a fresh mountain tomato (the fuck off large ones that are slightly green).

Cut whole in top.

Fill with lichorich alcohol (aarak in arabic).

Put lots of pepper an salt on the top.

Let sit for 30 mins.

Cut into slices.

Enjoy!

That "Arak" stuff is terrible. I had some with my Lebonese friends and it looks like freaking semen in a glass. I can't imagine it enhancing the flavor of a tomato.

[Sky]

Go with Hunt's ketchup. Based on America's Test Kitchen, I recently switched from Heinz, which is more sweet. Hunt's is a bit more vinegary, a nice change imo. Heinz is a bit thicker, so if you need it to stick better, that still might be the way to go.

Tomatoes...I don't buy the ginormous freaks that are a pale shade of pink. I get romas or the ones that come on the vine. The vine tomatoes don't have the huge stiff cell walls of the freakmatoes, but they have a lot more flavor. Nothing like homegrown, but I've found them to be the best easily available.

I really base my entire menu around what looks good, I rarely know what I'll eat before I hit the market. Peruse the various areas to see what is looking fresh and tasty and work up something from there. Even with a decent bin of veggies, I still have to go through it and find the very best specimen, I may be a bit obsessed with fresh and pristine ingredients (which my girlfriend likes to point out, is a good thing).

I also shop for dinner every day so I have fresh stuff, I might buy one day ahead if I'm going to use frozen veggies. I never let stuff sit in the fridge more than three days, I'm also a master of slipping leftover ingredients into recipes.

[Lantyssa]

PS While I'm preaching, both women and men should drink non-pasteurised pomegranate juice every day, especially once they get into their thirties.  I have it as part of my breakfast as often as I can.  Evidence is emerging that it's pretty useful in combating the appearance and then growth of various cancers, most impressively prostate cancer.

Yes, because I live in fear of getting prostate cancer...

 

[WayAbvPar]

PS While I'm preaching, both women and men should drink non-pasteurised pomegranate juice every day, especially once they get into their thirties.  I have it as part of my breakfast as often as I can.  Evidence is emerging that it's pretty useful in combating the appearance and then growth of various cancers, most impressively prostate cancer.

Yes, because I live in fear of getting prostate cancer...

 

I live in fear of getting a prostate exam, much less cancer.

[Nebu]

I live in fear of getting a prostate exam, much less cancer.

The line we used to hear from the upperclassmen in med school: If you're getting a prostate exam from a male physician and feel two hands on your back, it's time to get a new physician. 

[WayAbvPar]

I live in fear of getting a prostate exam, much less cancer.

The line we used to hear from the upperclassmen in med school: If you're getting a prostate exam from a male physician and feel two hands on your back, it's time to get a new physician. 

Or at least a reacharound!

[Lantyssa]

I think my point was missed.

[Paelos]

I think my point was missed.

You don't have balls, we got it. Frankly, it went without saying. 

[Triforcer]

Lay off, like 80% of the board still thinks she's a gay man. 

[Hoax]

I thought she was an extremely tolerant panda, way to ruin things for me Triforcer...

[Sky]

I live in fear of getting a prostate exam, much less cancer.

In one of the Science mags (Discovery, SciAm, PopSci, I forget which) there was a GREAT article. There is a new fiberoptic probe that's the width of a human hair. Should be rolling out to commercial use in the next several years, just in time for my probing! And may I say it's about time the best way to check for such a popular cancer isn't a centimeter thick tube jammed further up the wrong place than even people who enjoy that kind of thing would ever want. Go go science!

[Riggswolfe]

Breakfast = protein shake. 

To those that don't eat breakfast, you should really try to start.  There are MANY benefits to starting the day off with breakfast. 

I've just started doing this based upon your recommendation to do it in another thread as part of my new regime.

I just wanted to ditto this. I eat Oatmeal and wash it down with a Diet Dr. Pepper. I now have a 100oz humongus jug on my desk that I feel about halfway with water also based on that thread.

And yes, I've noticed a difference. Since that thread I've lost almost 20 pounds due to changes I've made: eat breakfast, drink lots of water, soup for lunch, pretty much whatever I want for dinner.

BTW, my dreambreakfast is pancakes, scrambled eggs, toast, and lots of bacon, much like some others in this thread.

[WayAbvPar]

I live in fear of getting a prostate exam, much less cancer.

In one of the Science mags (Discovery, SciAm, PopSci, I forget which) there was a GREAT article. There is a new fiberoptic probe that's the width of a human hair. Should be rolling out to commercial use in the next several years, just in time for my probing! And may I say it's about time the best way to check for such a popular cancer isn't a centimeter thick tube jammed further up the wrong place than even people who enjoy that kind of thing would ever want. Go go science!

Nice! I shouldn't be needing regular exams for a couple more years (had one once already, and while it wasn't as bad as I had feared, it wasn't anything I want to make a habit of), so I will hold out hope. Yay technology!

[Yegolev]

The problem is you have to have home-grown tomatoes.

I grew up eating things that we grew ourselves.  Those fresh tomatoes were the basis for my dislike.  For reference, I can eat an onion that I pull from the dirt, and could do the same to corn if I was hungry enough.

[Murgos]

If  you are pulling ears of corn out of the dirt I would have to say that someone is playing a joke on you and I certainly wouldn't eat them.

[MrHat]

If  you are pulling ears of corn out of the dirt I would have to say that someone is playing a joke on you and I certainly wouldn't eat them.

/lol

@ Riggs, what thread?  Oh, and I wish I had more appreciation for soup.  But I don't, I'm a sandwich man :(

[Furiously]

Go with Hunt's ketchup. Based on America's Test Kitchen, I recently switched from Heinz, which is more sweet. Hunt's is a bit more vinegary, a nice change imo. Heinz is a bit thicker, so if you need it to stick better, that still might be the way to go.

Hunt's tastes much better as a condiment on burgers, I'm not sold on it for fries yet. I also made the switch based on Cook's Illustrated.

[Strazos]

Speaking of fries, I love mayo on fries. Holland sold me on that.

[Nebu]

Speaking of fries, I love mayo on fries. Holland sold me on that.

I can barely eat a small french fry let alone drenching it with more fat.  I don't know how you guys can eat that stuff.  I guess 15 years of low fat eating has turned me into a fat pussy.  Anything deepfried will make me sick after more than a couple of bites.  Especially with the film it leaves behind in your mouth. 

[Furiously]

You shouldn't eat deep fried stuff cold.

[Yegolev]

If  you are pulling ears of corn out of the dirt I would have to say that someone is playing a joke on you and I certainly wouldn't eat them.

I considered rewording my post but decided to leave that opening.  Touche.

[Murgos]

If  you are pulling ears of corn out of the dirt I would have to say that someone is playing a joke on you and I certainly wouldn't eat them.

I considered rewording my post but decided to leave that opening.  Touche.

HTH  :-D

[Endie]

Speaking of fries, I love mayo on fries. Holland sold me on that.

It was Belgium for me.  He started slathering it on from something that looked a little like a Mr Whippee ice cream nozzle and I was like "whoa there" in my In-Scotland-We-Add-Ketchup-or-Chippy-Sauce way.  But I was sold at the first bite.

The other impressive thing is that you buy your chips in Belgium - much as in Holland - from a kiosk staffed by a bloke who speaks at least four languages.  I tried ordering in my stilted German, swapped to French when I remembered we were in the Walloon south then found myself addressed in reply in perfect English.  Turned out he spoke Dutch too, but then speaking German and Dutch is like speaking English and Doric, just with more throat-clearing sounds.

[Strazos]

Ah, but did you make it up to Brussels, and have the Mussels?

[Sky]

I guess 15 years of low fat eating has turned me into a fat pussy. 

That came out differently than you intended, methinks.

Hunt's tastes much better as a condiment on burgers, I'm not sold on it for fries yet. I also made the switch based on Cook's Illustrated.

I think I agree, based on Heinz's thicker consistency. I don't use ketchup/mustard/mayo on burgers, I cook juicy burgers and pile on tomatoes, mushrooms, onions, cheese, whatever.

We broke in the grill for the season last week with a couple great steaks but this past weekend we did Splendid Burgers. Fried onions/garlic/fresh thyme/bacon/worcester/salt/pepper mixed in with the burger. Used 85% lean because of the bacon fat, they were still super juicy. Melted swiss plus a nice slab of tomato on a fresh kaiser.

[Furiously]

Try mixing in some crumbled blue cheese next time.... Made some bambi burgers with deer meat, bacon and blue cheese and they were delicious.

[Murgos]

I usually just crumble the bleu cheese on the top as they are finishing up.  I use 80% lean beef, also.  Any less than that and you really end up with dry tasteless burgers.

[Mortriden]

Speaking of fries, I love mayo on fries. Holland sold me on that.

Bingo!

It was the English that got me doing this.  "We don't have catsup Yank.  Try this."