Entries tagged with 'breakfast'
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Starting Tuesday, March 3, Starbucks' take on the value meal: For $3.95, you can get a tall latte and oatmeal, the latte with a slice of reduced-fat cinnamon swirl coffee cake, or drip coffee with a breakfast sandwich. And make way for two new breakfast sandwiches: bacon with egg and Gouda, and ham with egg and cheddar....
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"I realized that they really weren't kidding about the fiber." Growing up, I was one of those lucky kids who got to have any breakfast cereal they wanted: Fruit Loops, Cocoa Krispies, Apple Jacks. Nothing was off-limits. So you'd think that, after years of consuming massive amounts of sugar first thing in the morning, I'd still have a serious AM sweet tooth. But in fact, just the opposite happened—these days I crave plain Cheerios, Weetabix, and, more than anything, Fiber One. Recently, Betty Crocker, which is owned by parent company General Mills, debuted a new line of Fiber One products including toaster pastries, granola bars, shredded wheat, and baking mixes for pancakes and muffins. It’s all part of their ingenious...
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100 - [10L - 7F + C(k - C) + T(m - T)]/(S - E) A lot of heavy lifting for a pile of butter sponges and syrup pools, but that's what a "maths teacher" in the UK says is the key to pancake greatness. L = number of lumps in the batter C = consistency F = flipping score k = ideal consistency T = temperature of the pan m = ideal temperature of pan S = length of time the batter stands before cooking E = time the cooked pancake sits before being eaten A commenter on Buzz Feed, though, discovered that setting "S" to ten years would yield near-perfect results. So maybe just go back to...
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The Simple Dollar Money management blog The Simple Dollar shows you how easy it is to make bulk breakfast burritos filled with beans, eggs, and salsa that are cheap and fairly healthy. In about an hour you can make 32 burritos for $0.72 each. Freeze them until needed, at which point you can easily microwave them back to life. [via Lifehacker]...
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Do anthropomorphic bowls of oatmeal give you great joy or nightmares? J. Anzalone of the blog Paintbox shares her smiling oatmeal art. If they start talking, then we should probably have a separate conversation. [via BoingBoing] Related Fast-Food Oatmeal: The Good, the Bland, and the Goopy [Serious Eats New York] What Do You Put in Your Oatmeal? [Talk] Mark Bittman's Savory Oatmeal with Scallions and Soy Sauce...
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When they are not slaying dragons or saving distressed maidens, superheros keep busy working on cereal endorsements. Batman, Spiderman, and the Hulk have all been tied to sugar-coated flakes or O's. Many of them have even forayed into Pop-Tarts. Gotta pay the cape and skin-tight suit dry cleaning bills somehow. If you want to move beyond breakfast and eat like you have unprecedented powers all the time, check out the Super Hero Food Index, which includes the expected fruit snacks, popsicles, and cheese crackers. [via Coldmud] Related Cold Cereal Confessions [Talk] Indiana Jones Eats Chocolate Cereal Before Raiding Temples In Videos: Food Commercials of the '80s, Nerd Cereals Edition...
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Every city has its local institutions—and small New England cities tend to be particularly devoted to their own. But hometown pride only partly explains the wild popularity of The Friendly Toast in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. There’s the décor: the bright red walls of this kitsched-out eatery are a veritable gallery of mid-century Americana, with plastic sculptures of Dick and Jane perched over the open kitchen, “Enjoy Life With Miller!” signs, and KFC-brand shades on the hanging lights. There’s the late-night schedule: open 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Monday through Thursday, but 24 hours all weekend, never shutting its doors from Friday morning through Sunday night. And then there’s the food. The Friendly Toast serves the most eclectic array...
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You asked, we ate. I grabbed one of Dunkin' Donuts' new Waffle Breakfast Sandwiches and then a McDonald's McGriddle joint—DD's obvious inspiration—for comparison. First impression while placing both unwrapped sandwiches side by side: Looks like we're getting a bigger sandwich from Dunkin', I thought. But then we unwrapped them, after the jump....
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Mochachocolata-Rita You might not live in Hong Kong, but surely you can relate to the joy of finding a charming little place that seems to have taken shelter from the winds of change: Last weekend, I accidentally found this charming old cafe just beside the hideously renovated Western Market in Hong Kong's Sheung Wan district.... I bet such an old place should have a regular crowd of customers, where everybody knows each other's names, chit chats about the golden olden days of Hong Kong, the Brits, the economic crisis, their biggest mah jong win, the flat-chested girls/skinny boys they went after/who went after them. Sliced beef noodles topped with fried egg (pictured) are a standout, says Mochachocolata-Rita. Hoi On...
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If you see a breakfast menu where the omelets are made of seagulls' eggs, beware. As the blog Umami Mart points out, seagulls' eggs are not really eggs at all, but a Japanese snack called "kamome no tamago." It's cake filled with bean paste and surrounded by white chocolate. Similar to a real egg, there are textural contrasts (between the coating, cake, and bean), and they're high in protein (thanks to the bean). But they probably don't taste as good with hash browns....
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