Breakfast of Champions

[WayAbvPar]

Mayo is ok, but tartar sauce is far superior. Especially good garlic-y tartar. Mmmmmm.

[Johny Cee]

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.

If I'm going to grill burgers....  Put ground beef in a mixing bowl.  Throw in some spices,  some chopped up onions.  Dump in some sauce for flavor:  soy, teriyaki, worcestire, whatever.  Mix it by hand for a while.  Then make your patties.  Mmmm.

[voodoolily]

I'm really hungry now, thanks a lot. My fave brekkie is eggs benedict. Or as I like to call it, "eggs with benefits". I ate it almost every day on my honeymoon, which, in combination with multiple pina coladas daily (also love ALL cocnut products), caused me to gain 5 pounds in a week. My favorite breakfasts usually are some combination of breakfast burrito, pork products and fried taters with ketchup, but I have become a recent fan of simple fried eggs over medium with toast. The runny yolks are gravy! And biscuits & gravy is something I always get if they're offered at hotels. Can't help myself. I make pretty stellar B&G at home sometimes.

I recently tried making my own ketchup from pureed sundried toms, canned toms, chipotles and some other accoutrements (brown sugar, vinegar, Korean chili paste, S&P), and it's pretty good with oven-fried fingerling taters w/sea salt and cracked pepper.

I love every food I've ever tried except osso bucco. Too cartilage-y, and I don't care for marrow. Tripe is also not my favorite, but I'd prolly eat it again in pho if it was put in front of me. Not bad, just not anything to write home about. Kinda like calamari, but sorta crunchy.

I make smoothies sometimes on weekends if my tummy is too iffy from overindulgence the night before: some combo of frozen berries, peaches, and mango, fat-free yogurt, splash of apple juice (for proper emulsion) and a scoop of Trader Joe's soy protein. Blitz. Done. But for that many calories I could just have real food, so I try not to do it all the time.

[Strazos]

Eggs Benedict FTW. My mother has made it all of twice.

She refuses to make it again. Also, I sure as hell am not going to make it. 

[Trippy]

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.

As if it's not artery clogging enough to fry them twice in beef fat. And people think we're weird for deep frying Snickers.

[Abagadro]

Stop talking about fries. One of the reasons I needed to lose weight was my really lousy diet that consisted mostly of fast food. I haven't had it in 3 weeks and I'm really starting to get the DTs.

[Calantus]

Mmm fresh tomatoes, with just a bit of salt.

The problem is you have to have home-grown tomatoes.  They've genetically engineered supermarket tomatoes so they're so firm and nasty they aren't worth eating.  Fucking corn's getting the same way.

You know what I hate about tomatoes these days? We get these ones that have hard bits running through the center of the tomato most of the way down from where the tomato connects to the plant (I am obviously a botanist). I mean, fuck, tomatoes are meant to be soft not firm with hard bits in the middle. Pisses me off no end. I can no longer eat normal tomatoes in most foods because it's just a tasteless, wet, texture-hell of a thing wedged in otherwise fine food. It's now right alongside pickles, beetroot, and pineapple as my "things that do NOT go in a burger" list, only I don't eat the tomato seperate like I do those other things. If I can get my hands on on some nice tomatoes that are actually ripe and full red I go to town though. I also can't eat whole cherry tomatoes anymore, I'm the most unlucky person in the world with these things, if there's a bad one in a batch it will be in the container we buy and it will be on my plate. You can only bite into so many rotten pieces of hell before you can no longer bring yourself to try it. I cringed right then as I thought about biting into one.

The only food I truly hate in all forms is parmesian cheese. Just the smell of that nasty stuff makes me want to throw up.


My favourite breakfast is to oil up a pan, drop in some butter, and then cook up chopped bacon, onion, and garlic. Towards the end I throw on some soy sauce and when it's done I put it on a sandwich with a slice of cheese. It makes me feel like I'm going to have a heart attack shortly after, but it sure tastes good! My usual breakfast is whatever cerial I'm not sick of that week. Usually rotating between cornflakes, rice bubbles, wheat bix, and cheerios. Most days I just really don't like eating before midday but I force myself to eat something I can ignore as I eat it and those cereals fit the bill. I haven't had coffee for years because I realised one day that I hadn't had any drugs for months and figured I might as well do without them permanently. At the same time I hadn't had a soda or cordial (I think you guys call it cool-aid? basically flavoured sugarwater) for a while and when I had a coke it was like coating my mouth in sugar syrup which was not pleasant. The only thing I drink now is water and the odd milo (milk mixed with a malt powder), and the very odd single beer when offered at a friend's place.


EDIT: Holy food essay Batman! I was kinda writing this while doing other things, adding a bit here, a bit there. I didn't realise it was getting so big, honest. :P

[Endie]

The only food I truly hate in all forms is parmesian cheese. Just the smell of that nasty stuff makes me want to throw up.

Even fresh parmesan, by which i mean still in the block rather than grated?  Grated parmesan in a container is vile stuff, utterly unrelated to the real thing in taste, smell or texture.

If you don't like Parmesan, have you tried gran Padano or pecorino?  The latter in particular is the king of Italian hard cheeses, sweet and salty and gorgeous eaten sliced with fruit (especially with freshly-picked grapes at ten at night as a desert after a meal eaten under the stars on an Umbrian hillside.  Pretentious, moi?)

[Yegolev]

The only food I truly hate in all forms is parmesian cheese. Just the smell of that nasty stuff makes me want to throw up.

My favorite parmesan is the stuff in the cardboard tube.  Jeff Smith says it tastes like the cardboard it comes in, and I can only say that I must hate good things because I likes me some processed cheese powder.

[Calantus]

The only food I truly hate in all forms is parmesian cheese. Just the smell of that nasty stuff makes me want to throw up.

Even fresh parmesan, by which i mean still in the block rather than grated?  Grated parmesan in a container is vile stuff, utterly unrelated to the real thing in taste, smell or texture.

To be honest I couldn't tell you, the only stuff we have had for a while is the stuff in the container, and I'm not certain if we've had anything else. I'll have to pop down to a deli and ask for a sample sometime.

[Bunk]

Parmesan tastes a hell of a lot better than it smells.

Eggs Bennie - the secret is learning a quick cheater version of the sauce. Hollandaise/Bernaise sauces are way to much work, learn a good easy substitute - a simple white cheese sauce works - and you've got eggs bennie as often as you like.

I've been eating All Bran Rat Turds for the last while for breakfast. I'm much more regular now.

[Murgos]

I love every food I've ever tried except osso bucco. Too cartilage-y, and I don't care for marrow. Tripe is also not my favorite, but I'd prolly eat it again in pho if it was put in front of me. Not bad, just not anything to write home about. Kinda like calamari, but sorta crunchy.

I'm 99.44/100 % sure that tripe shouldn't be crunchy.  In Pho or otherwise.

[Bunk]

Yea, I wondered about that too. Any I've seen in Pho looks more slimy than anything.

[Lantyssa]

If I'm going to grill burgers....  Put ground beef in a mixing bowl.  Throw in some spices,  some chopped up onions.  Dump in some sauce for flavor:  soy, teriyaki, worcestire, whatever.  Mix it by hand for a while.  Then make your patties.  Mmmm.

Gods yes.  Even without the bun (and good toasted buns make the burger *sob*), this is the way to go.

Fries deserve mustard.

[NowhereMan]

Assuming Pho=Vietnamese breakfast thing, there shouldn't be anything crunchy in it (besides the bread things). This is based off what they actually eat in North Vietnam.

Also

Fries deserve mustard.

No. Chips deserve better than that, give them mayonaise.

[Sauced]

Assuming Pho=Vietnamese breakfast thing

Pho=Vietnamese beef noodle soup, possibly the best thing ever.  I guess I would probably eat it for breakfast, though.

[voodoolily]

Assuming Pho=Vietnamese breakfast thing, there shouldn't be anything crunchy in it (besides the bread things). This is based off what they actually eat in North Vietnam.

Bean sprouts are crunchy. Tripe has a texture that is toothsome, not slimy.Not really crunchy like an apple, but definitely has bite.

ALso, I don't know how all you people get so far in life with the palate of a 5-year old. Hell, I grew up white trash and still developed a sense of taste.  

[Murgos]

Tripe is intestine/stomach lining.  You could compare it to squid or octopus but not if they're fried and it's also not even nearly that chewy.  I wouldn't say it was slimy either though.

Anyway Pho Quyen is Vietnamese beef noodle soup, Pho is just soup.  Pho Quyen when done well is awesome.

[stray]

I wish I could spell it out in Thai, but Pho Quyen is called (transliterated) "Guee Teel" or something like that. Or maybe that's the name of the rice noodles they use (which tend to be thicker than Vietnamese stuff I've had). My mom makes it all the time. Good stuff.

[MrHat]

Uh, for breakfast?

[schild]

I've had pho for breakfast.

There's Nothing wrong with that.

[NowhereMan]

I taught Engilish in Hanoi for about 8 months, Pho Bo (beef) for breakfast works well. Plenty of chilli sauce and it gets you quickly acclimatised to the heat and humidity.

Also I've recently been converted to chicken livers done Middle Eastern style. Chopped up and fried with a bit of salt, white pepper and cinammon then some balsamic and lemon juice. I throw in a bit of paprika if I feel like spicing it up a bit. With some warm bread, hummus and some fresh olives and tomatoes it is delicious.

[MrHat]

Fuck you for making me miss home.

Must.Find.Lebanese.Restaurant.

Also: "acclimatised", that's the first time I've heard or read that word.  I'm so ignorant.

[Selby]

Uh, for breakfast?

According to several Vietnamese people I've asked, pho is supposed to be breakfast or lunch food.

[schild]

I woke up around 5pm today and had Los Dos Molinos for breakfast. It's the only meal I've had. But nothing quite beats incredibly spicy food for breakfast.

[Bunk]

Deffinately lunch around here, though quite a few of the Pho places are 24 hours. What I get blown away by at these places though is the portions - the small is still about half a gallon of soup. Oh, and avoid the meatballs option - still not sure what the hell those were made of. I think I'd be more likely to try the tripe than those meatballs again.

Oh, and those chicken livers mentioned above sound good. I've only had them done as pate.

[schild]

Meatballs are a mixed back at north american vietnamese restaurants.

Tripe is ok.

But it's really all about straight beef pho. No tripe, no balls (not a pun? hohoho), and no miscellaneous other parts. Not because their bad, but because the straight beef slices just go fucking awesome with hot sauce. Rooster sauce. Pick your poison.

[WayAbvPar]

hot sauce. Rooster sauce.

I have it on good authority (VDL) that the correct name is cock sauce. And it is pure love.

[Yegolev]

If I am eating it, it is rooster sauce.  You people are welcome to gobble all the cock sauce you want.

[Hoax]

hot sauce. Rooster sauce.

I have it on good authority (VDL) that the correct name is cock sauce. And it is pure love.

Sirracha?  No I have no fucking idea how to spell it.  I know the sauce of which you speak on most days I'm too white for it.

Also to someone earlier in the thread.

Pineapple on burger = win
Pineapple on pizza = fucking bullshit

[stray]

My dad used to tell me and my bro that the Pho meatballs were monkey balls.

[Furiously]

hot sauce. Rooster sauce.

I have it on good authority (VDL) that the correct name is cock sauce. And it is pure love.

I have a bottle in my fridge and I'm positive it's cock sauce. I know because my wife won't let it touch her mouth....

[WayAbvPar]

hot sauce. Rooster sauce.

I have it on good authority (VDL) that the correct name is cock sauce. And it is pure love.

I have a bottle in my fridge and I'm positive it's cock sauce. I know because my wife won't let it touch her mouth....

Classic.

[Johny Cee]

Is it evil that I was waiting for Lantyssa to say something about cock sauce to provide Merusk with another sig quote?

[squirrel]

I've had pho for breakfast.

There's Nothing wrong with that.

Not at all. Especially if it's a nice fatty Pho. Like Ramen the fattier the meat the better the soup. And yeah from what I know it's a late breakfast/lunch food traditionally although I'll eat it anytime.