Entries tagged with 'breakfast'
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The English breakfast is a massive undertaking. While its exact composition varies across the British Isles, ordering a full fry-up will get usually you bacon, eggs, sausages, potatoes, baked beans, mushrooms, tomato, and toast, at a minimum. And on this piled-high plate sits the brekker’s most notorious member—thick slices of black pudding. Translation? Blood sausage. Good morning, indeed. I’d lived in London for several months before I first tasted black pudding. The idea of blood sausage had never appealed to me, and since I cooked for myself in my little flat kitchen, I hadn’t yet confronted the full-on breakfast. Until I visited an Irish friend, that is. He opened his refrigerator one morning to find it nearly empty. “All...
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Blueberry French Toast from Shopsin's. Photograph from roboppy on Flickr. As your new Serious Eats breakfast correspondent, ready to take you on a journey of the pre-noon delicious, I feel the need to first defend my favorite meal of the day. As meals go, breakfast is a polarizing one. In this country, at least, no one denies the need for lunch or dinner. But for many otherwise serious eaters, breakfast is overlooked or under-enjoyed—a granola bar gobbled in the pantry, a drive-through cup of coffee, or nothing at all. There’s a litany of typical breakfast excuses: "I’m not hungry in the morning." “I don’t have time for a full meal." "My stomach complains if I eat before noon." Some...
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May the dark parts of the toast be with you. Available at Star Wars Shop for $54.99. [via Wired] Related Online Toaster Museum Scan Toaster 'Prints' onto Bread Photo of the Day: Death Star Melon...
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Consider this: everything we eat today must be pumpkin-shaped (that includes the stem), starting with breakfast. Rachel of My Sisters Cucina made these pumpkin-shaped pancakes with Bisquick, then added orange and green food coloring for a realistic effect....
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Photograph by .mands. on Flickr Fewer Japanese people can get skinny these days. With bananas the hot new diet trend, it's hard to keep them stocked. Over the last year, the Japanese division of Dole has increased shipments by 25-percent, but still fails to keep up. The Banana Diet regimen includes: a raw banana and glass of room-temperature water for breakfast, then basically anything thereafter, except sweets and limited alcohol. Once Asian celebrities started endorsing the banana diet, the yellow fruit got hot. If you're eating a banana right now, you're probably not in Japan....
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rd.com Breakfast means different things to different people, as Reader's Digest points out. For sumo wrestlers, it's a bulk-up food called chanko-nabe (chunky stew of vegetables, noodles, and meat or seafood). In rural Cambodia, school children digest morning lessons with a bowl of rice and split peas. The rest of us non-sumo wrestlers, non-Cambodians often hit up cereal (part of a $9 billion business) or a fruit smoothie. Do you have a favorite breakfast specific to your lifestyle or region?...
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Photograph from omadsa on Flickr I am not vegan, but would totally eat these. Over at the blog Method, they used soy butter and soy milk for the crepes, and mixed berries, apple cider, and honey for the pink drizzle. Soy products in a classically French recipe? My inner mad scientist is fascinated to see this actually worked....
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Photograph from KitAy on Flickr In the October issue of Saveur —in between the exploration of muesli, Francine Prose’s essay on eggs, and the other features woven together as part of the magazine’s special breakfast issue—is a look at a now rare but once ubiquitous creature: the morning eye-opener. Many people may consider Bloody Marys and mimosas de rigeur for weekend brunches, but the world of breakfast cocktails is much bigger than most may think. As David Wondrich points out, many nineteenth-century cocktails were designed to be consumed well before the sun was over the yardarm, and were utilized to help the drinker brace up during the morning after a long night....
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Yesterday, Starbucks launched a new "breakfast sandwich" called the "piadini," inspired by the Italian flatbread-like "piandina" usually filled with meat and/or cheese and eaten at lunch or snack time. Starbucks' piadina introduction was basically screaming for a comparison, and once we got real Italians involved, the taste test results weren't pretty. Initial reaction from Giancarlo Quadalti and Maurizio DeRosa: skepticism. A call up to chef Giancarlo Quadalti of New York's Teodora, Celeste, Bianca, and Fiore—he is from Ravenna, Italy, the home of the piadina—inspired a serious chuckle on the other line. He was equal parts intrigued and frightened. Starbucks is really attempting what sweet, hunched-over Italian women make at streetside kiosks? When we brought him and his good friend,...
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