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I think that dog is high. What a stoner. LOL!

God forbid you ever try to pass of breakfast foods for any meal past 11am. I have been adamantly against breakfast for most of my life unless it entails the leftover delicacies of a past dinner. In today's world I don't have the time to prepare a hot, savory breakfast that would suit my taste, so I have been subjugated to the lousy, processed garbage that all to often serves as American breakfast. I do however enjoy warm savory breakfast classics like biscuits with sausage gravy or a good bowl of grits (who would ever guess I was born and still live in NJ). But until I can somehow find the time and energy to prepare these kinds of dishes in the mornings, my hatred for breakfast will continue.

Breakfast is necessary, and should be delicious!

I love the full English or Irish breakfast (particularly the blood pudding), but unfortunately that doesn't work for every day. I try to have a fry-up breakfast only once a week, usually on Saturday or Sunday. This week it was Mexican sausage with scrambled egg and cheese on a tortilla.

Mostly, though, I try to mix up my breakfast with either oatmeal, cereal, or fruit.

The constant, though, is that I need good (and strong) coffee.

I most relate to this quote about breakfast from Hunter S. Thompson.

"Breakfast is the only meal of the day that I tend to view with the same kind of traditionalized reverence that most people associate with Lunch and Dinner. I like to eat breakfast alone, and almost never before noon; anybody with a terminally jangled lifestyle needs at least one psychic anchor every twenty-four hours, and mine is breakfast. In Hong Kong, Dallas or at home — and regardless of whether or not I have been to bed — breakfast is a personal ritual that can only be properly observed alone, and in a spirit of genuine excess. The food factor should always be massive: four Bloody Marys, two grapefruits, a pot of coffee, Rangoon crepes, a half-pound of either sausage, bacon, or corned beef hash with diced chiles, a Spanish omelette or eggs Benedict, a quart of milk, a chopped lemon for random seasoning, and something like a slice of Key lime pie, two margaritas, and six lines of the best cocaine for dessert…. Right, and there should also be two or three newspapers, all mail and messages, a telephone, a notebook for planning the next twenty-four hours and at least one source of good music…. All of which should be dealt with outside, in the warmth of a hot sun, and preferably stone naked."
HST

Weekday breakfasts are quick; usually just toast and peanut butter with a cup of coffee or can of Diet Pepsi (yeah, I like my caffeine carbonated, thank you!).

But weekends were made for big, leisurely breakfasts at my favourite diner. Their breakfast burrito (the size of a football!) and homefries smothered in cheese curds and hollandaise sauce (oh mouth-gasm!) is one of my favourites.

A bagel breakfast feast is also another popular one. 2 or 3 type of bagels with a variety of cream cheeses and bottomless cups of coffee.

Mmmmm ... c'mon weekend!

I MUST have breakfast within one hour of waking up. During the work-week I eat healthy breakfasts - fresh fruit with a little soy milk, some whey protein, a sprinkling of oats & flaxseeds. Sometimes on the weekend we'll go all out and enjoy bacon & eggs with spinach & cheese. Occasionally, we'll have something very indulgent like cranberry bread french toast or corn meal pancakes. And when we travel and eat out for breakfast, all bets are off! Bring on the grits, steak & eggs, pancakes, lobster eggs benedict, etc. I'm fairly certain that breakfast must be served in heaven. :)

Favorite and most delicious meal of the day. Fact. I love hot buttery bagels, a cup of coffee, and some sliced fruit. And sometimes I love warmed rice with scrambled eggs mixed in and ketchup. Oatmeal, yum. Granola, yogurt, and honey.

Usually though my breakfast needs at least a little salt in it, and it always needs a cup of black coffee. Quiet and a book/newspaper rounds it out.

Breakfast is my absolute favorite meal of the day, not only because it's delicious but because it's bonding time with my family. So I really look forward to the weekends when I can do it right--spinach & cheese omelettes, birds in a nest, french toast, hash browns & eggs.... the list goes on. I always eat breakfast during the week too, since I wake up starved (breastfeeding & therefore still eating for 2), but it's cereal & yogurt or boiled eggs & whole wheat toast instead. And my one cup of coffee, or you do not want to be within 10 feet of me.

I love breakfast, but like many others, I tend to rush it during the week - I grab a coffee and some fruit, and cross my fingers I get to finish it all before work gets crazy.

I'm actually not much of a lunch person. I almost never eat a real meal for lunch, instead I nibble while doing other things. (That goes for weekdays and weekends alike.)

As for dinner, I like to sit down to eat leisurely. Most of the time, though, I eat breakfast foods.

nice work! loved your food diary this week at nymag as well...it's awesome eating vicariously through you.

Had to laugh, "manifesto" is one of the most pretentious words around. Why do people feel compelled to insert it into almost everything?

My favorite winter breakfast is capellini with mushroom jar sauce.

I know it sounds weird...but measure out 2 oz. of capellini (TJ's)...spoon about 2 tbsp. of jar sauce (your choice) into the bottom of a bowl...cook pasta for 1 min. in a small pan of boiling water...drain...plunk into the sauce...nuke for 1 min. to let the pasta absorb the sauce...then top with grated parm-romano (TJ's - keep in the freezer).

You start the day feeling warm and well-loved in less than 5 min.!

I'm a big fan of breakfast. On weekdays I either have eggs and toast or pumpkin oatmeal and on weekends I prefer to pig out on something more unhealthy like eggs florentine or stratta. I get very grumpy when I'm stuck with nothing but oatmeal on a Saturday!