Most Memorable Breakfast

countryboy

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I bought oatmeal with the best of intentions. It's still in the cupboard. I just cannot make myself cook and eat it. My Dad used to make it everymorning and he would call us and say breakfast was ready. None of us every ate it and he would tell us we were nothing but a bunch of bloomin' ijots. (I did not misspell that word - that's how he said it). I don't know why he continued to make it. I guess he figured that one day we would eat it. I don't think anyone ever did other then him.
My husband got us off to a great start tonight. (I hope it's a start and not a start and an end). He suggested last night that maybe we would go for a walk today. He promised that when we got settled into our new place we would walk. It's been 5 months but tonight we did it. We walked a long ways but - we did 30 min. It was good. I thought our legs would be tired but I stand for 8 hours in a day at work and hubby must walk around the place he works and do night checks so I guess that helps. We'll probably miss tomorrow since I work from 2:30 to 10 PM Have to go buy new shoes in the morning.

VI - You never know...you might work up an appetite for big bowl of oatmeal in the morning after all that walking! :lol:
 

VanIsle

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Do all men do that? My husband refers to things as "your stove, your fridge, your floor etc. The only thing I hear him refer to as his is the TV! Even when he talks about our kids he says "your sons" like as though someone else was the Dad.
 

countryboy

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oh I forgot, drizzle a little organic maple syrup on top.

Mmm..my mouth is watering. OK, I'm going to "jazz up" tomorrow morning's oatmeal...I usually have it rather plain, at least compared to yours...I cook some chopped apple with cinnamon first, throw in the oatmeal, cook it slowly, and then top it with plain yogurt, some milk, a couple of teaspoons of psyillium, a dash more of cinnamon, and drizzle with honey. The psyillium husk is sort of a supercharged fibre...keeps me very regular.
 

talloola

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Do all men do that? My husband refers to things as "your stove, your fridge, your floor etc. The only thing I hear him refer to as his is the TV! Even when he talks about our kids he says "your sons" like as though someone else was the Dad.

just the guys who don't have a clue in the kitchen,
it is like a foreign place to them.
 

VanIsle

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oh I forgot, drizzle a little organic maple syrup on top.
Why would you buy organic maple syrup? Maple syrup is as Canadian as hockey. Sorry - it just strikes me as odd because it seems it would pretty much be organic without buying it that way.
 

VanIsle

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just the guys who don't have a clue in the kitchen,
it is like a foreign place to them.
No, my husband cooks and he's a good cook. He cleans up as well. He just always refers to all that stuff as "mine".
 

talloola

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I had a breakfast with german people once, didn't not like
the 'european' style eating.

cold cuts, bread, coffee,not much that was very healthy, or
that I like to eat for breaky.
 

countryboy

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I had a breakfast with german people once, didn't not like
the 'european' style eating.

cold cuts, bread, coffee,not much that was very healthy, or
that I like to eat for breaky.

That's not indicative of all European breakfasts though. However, I found that cold cuts and bread thing to be really good for a hangover, back in my...uh, carousing days. I sometimes overdid it on the beer and a solid waker-upper like that seemed to put everything back in its rightful place.
 

VanIsle

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I had a breakfast with german people once, didn't not like
the 'european' style eating.

cold cuts, bread, coffee,not much that was very healthy, or
that I like to eat for breaky.
Doesn't sound like anything I would have either. Hubby is on the Canucks forums. You go on there don't you?
 

talloola

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That's not indicative of all European breakfasts though. However, I found that cold cuts and bread thing to be really good for a hangover, back in my...uh, carousing days. I sometimes overdid it on the beer and a solid waker-upper like that seemed to put everything back in its rightful place.

maybe the break absorbs all of the leftover alchohol, and
the meat, (don't have a clue).
 

talloola

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Doesn't sound like anything I would have either. Hubby is on the Canucks forums. You go on there don't you?

I haven't been going there much for a few months now, it
seems to be full of kids being dumb back and forth with
each other, but there was a few adult sounding people.
I should start going there again. Tomorrow.
 

Dexter Sinister

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Yeah, it's good eats, and it's a three minute walk from my doorstep. ;-)
I know that restaurant, it's one of my favourites. One of these days our paths are going to cross. :cool:

My favourite breakfast is still the ol' cholesterol special: two eggs over easy, sausages, hash browns, buttered rye toast... mmmmmm... and LOTS of coffee. Had it this morning in fact, with my best buddy at a nearby restaurant called Melrose Place, after which we went to our favourite hardware stores, bookshops, and lumber yards. That's a good day. But the most memorable has to be a Chinese one I was at years ago in Saskatoon with some of my favourite people. It was a dim sung, they call it, which would probably translate best as brunch, and we went with a guy from Hong Kong with the improbable name of Fun Tung. He knew all about it, understood what would appeal most to North American tastes, and knew exactly what we should all try. It was magnificent, I loved everything I tried (small amounts of dozens of things) and it took almost three hours. Now that's a serious meal. Good food, good friends, good times, doesn't get any better than that.
 

talloola

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I know that restaurant, it's one of my favourites. One of these days our paths are going to cross. :cool:

My favourite breakfast is still the ol' cholesterol special: two eggs over easy, sausages, hash browns, buttered rye toast... mmmmmm... and LOTS of coffee. Had it this morning in fact, with my best buddy at a nearby restaurant called Melrose Place, after which we went to our favourite hardware stores, bookshops, and lumber yards. That's a good day. But the most memorable has to be a Chinese one I was at years ago in Saskatoon with some of my favourite people. It was a dim sung, they call it, which would probably translate best as brunch, and we went with a guy from Hong Kong with the improbable name of Fun Tung. He knew all about it, understood what would appeal most to North American tastes, and knew exactly what we should all try. It was magnificent, I loved everything I tried (small amounts of dozens of things) and it took almost three hours. Now that's a serious meal. Good food, good friends, good times, doesn't get any better than that.

I love dim sums, anytime my oldest daughter and I travel
to victoria for a couple days of shopping, we go to
china town for a dim sum.
 

SirJosephPorter

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I can think of several memorable breakfasts.

The full English breakfast: Eggs, bacon, British bangers (why are they called bangers? Something to do with after effects, I was told), fried bread, tomato, toast.

North country breakfast: Black pudding and mash. What is black pudding? You don’t want to know. It tastes great, though.

Norwegian cold table.

Robby Burns breakfast, haggis and turnips.
 

countryboy

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I can think of several memorable breakfasts.

The full English breakfast: Eggs, bacon, British bangers (why are they called bangers? Something to do with after effects, I was told), fried bread, tomato, toast.

North country breakfast: Black pudding and mash. What is black pudding? You don’t want to know. It tastes great, though.

Norwegian cold table.

Robby Burns breakfast, haggis and turnips.

I think black pudding is basically blood, no?