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Those supplying recipes for porridge / hot oats have forgotten the maple syrup.
That's because all that is required whne cooking porridge is oats, water, and salt!
Some people may wish to add milk or sugar, or even honey or jam or maple syrup, in the privacy of their own plate. There is no accounting for the tastes of Some people. But such contaminants do not belong in the cooking pan. ![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif)
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May I suggest using milk instead of water in the cooking of it?
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I will eat instant artificially flavored oatmeal just because it's hot and filling and the oatmeal tends to have a little more mileage than some other carbohydrates.
Surely that is laden with sugar? "Quick oats" are just as fast to prepare (less than three minutes in the microwave) and have zero sugar provided you don't add any -- which I'm sure you don't.
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Originally posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe:
May I suggest using milk instead of water in the cooking of it?
Only if you want to be Deeply and Profoundly Wrong ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
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I've been using wild oats, and second choice is large flake.
Quick oats is to oatmeal, as teabag is to tea. Both are processed beyond what is required.
And salt is never required.
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Quick oats is to oatmeal, as teabag is to tea. Both are processed beyond what is required. And salt is never required.
Don't get me wrong -- I agree! But if it's a choice between quick oats, which are oats and nothing else, and instant oatmeal, which is oats and sugar and flavorings and God only knows what else, I'll take quick oats.
I also agree about the salt, which I never use.
As for milk -- try it. The oats come out extra smooth and creamy, and oh so delicious. Actually I use half and half.
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Breakfast is my one unmissable meal of the day. I have cereal (bran flakes and dorset cereal's fruity muesli) with milk, an apple and a mug of hot water, followed usually with coffee. I stick to a regular breakfast seeing as I love breakfasts so much that when I go to one of those hotels where they have a breakfast bar with lots of choices, I am driven slightly insane by the decision making dilemma or else slightly obese by the irrepressible desire to have some of everything. Add choice into the mix at home and I'd be as round as I am tall (hmm... heading that way anyway, by the look of it).
I love cereal. I love continental breakfasty things. I love toast. I love full English. I love eggs. I love porridge. I love fruit. I love the indulgence of things like pancakes for breakfast which I experienced in Canada or yogurt for breakfast which I had in Israel, or pastries for breakfast like I had in France. I am a breakfastoholic.
I have breakfast before going to work, regardless of how early that means I have to get up (5.30 am if I'm on an early shift) - my downfall is that most of my colleagues don't, and then stop for a breakfast break at around nine. Well... it'd be unsociable of me not to join them, wouldn't it?
Lunch - take it or leave it. Dinner - take it or leave it. Supper - no thank you. But breakfast. I could rival a hobbit when it comes to breakfasts.
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Breakfast is supposed to be the most important meal. Get a good breakfast in you, they say, and you'll do /be / feel better all day long in so many ways.
Maybe I'm backward. If I eat absolutely nothing in the morning -- the only thing in my stomach besides the morning round of pills, plus a smallish cup of coffee with a great big dollop of condensed milk or cream and a teaspoon of sugar -- I don't crash and burn before lunch time, and I want to eat less food, total, all day long.
OTOH, if I eat a decent breakfast, paying attention to fewer carbs (and those complex) and higher proteins as I should, I love it, but will be ravenous by lunch time and a zombie about 3 p.m.
I haven't figured myself out, in almost 50 years. Maybe I won't, ever.
Cold pizza from the night before is a staple breakfast from college/young parent days. The Football God is actually happy with that, too.
I like oatmeal, using a rolled oat or some other quicker-cooking oat-only form. Drop a fistful of that in a bowl, add a teaspoon of butter, a teaspoon or two brown sugar, a dash of salt, maybe a half cup of condensed milk or cream, microwave about 2 minutes... that'll do it.
If I have time/money to go out for breakfast on the way to work, I usually hit the little diner across the bayou from home. It's gotten to the point where waitress Cindy remembers me and my "usual": a cup of real coffee followed by several of decaff, eggs over medium, buttered toast, occasionally bacon or country ham.
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Oatmeal or leftovers from last night. Tea.
When I have some time, I do a cholesterol-free omelette. When I have lots of time, it's puttu podi with spicy mung dahl. And tea, did I say that?
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Janine, I'm thinking a pond difference here but you say half a cup of condensed milk? Down here condensed milk is like a refrigerated honey and flows very slowly. Do you mean evaporated milk which is creamy and runny, only slightly heavier than ordinary milk? Either way is far too sweet for me but I'm interested in what you are actually talking about.
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Condensed milk! I don't think I've seen condensed milk since the 1970s! Nostalgia trip!
We used it for baking and sometimes spread it on bread instead of butter. Well actually when we were kids we waited till our Mum wasn't looking and stuck our fingers in it and sucked them. If you opened the tin and didn't use it all it actually went solid after a day or two. You could cut it with a knife. Its hard to imagine putting it in tea or coffee. Or even wanting to.
Evaporated milk was much more common, mostly put on fruit or other sweet foods as a cheap cream substitute. You might get away with it in coffee but it would be horrible in tea. Still see it around sometimes, but its almost gone.
I guess fridges have almost killed it off. Most peopel we knew didn't have fridges when I was a kid. Which is why we used tins of evaporated or condensed milk. They keep in warm weather when bottled milk would go off.
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Breakfast is pretty random here, especially if we're up very early in the morning. DP has a hard time eating when she first gets up...she needs at least an hour to work up from coffee to food. Most mornings we settle on Cheerios and milk, or yogurt, or steel-cut oatmeal. Every so often, though, especially if we have some sort of early appointment/commitment that delays breakfast, we'll go to a local diner we like and eat a more substantial meal -- I like pancakes or the standard egg/potato/toast breakfast; DP usually orders the latter too.
What we COULD have for breakfast if I'd get up early enough: popovers. We both love them, and I'm fairly successful getting them to "pop" properly.
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While we're on the topic of hot cereals made with milk, couscous with milk and a little butter is nice for a change of pace sometimes. I also like grits (are they known in England?).
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Due to my ealy wake up time, 5am, I tend to have a breakfast bar of some kind and a coffe. I cook for a living so can get food at work.
At weekends I have what I fancy.
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Originally posted by ken:
That's because all that is required whne cooking porridge is oats, water, and salt!
The salt is a matter of preference. No way would I be able to eat porridge if it had salt in it. I despise the stuff.
There should also be a choice between water or milk.
If I were to eat porridge I would have oats, milk, and honey (but not sugar).
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This thread got to me so we had "breakfast" for dinner last night. One dozen fried eggs for the three of us, ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif) a huge stack of wheat toast and a full skillet's worth of home fries ( 3 diced potatoes and a large onion fried in butter until crispy).
Then it dawned on me that there's been no potatoes mentioned. No hash browns? No home fries? Is that just a Yank thing like grits?
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Originally posted by WhateverTheySay:
I despise the stuff [salt]
So did I. After 25 years of eschewing the stuff like poison I now have thyroid dysfunctionality. That's not a biggie, but it will serve me right for listening - once only - to pendulum wobbling chook consulting entrail juggling naturopaths.
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Massive cup of black coffee without sugar, and a whack of home-made fruit salad.
Means a weekly routine chopping up pineapple, strawberries, raspberries, grapes, and mixing in blueberries and blackberries when available, and storing that in the fridge, then eating with a bit of yogourt after a 45-minute brisk walk along the beach and back each morning.
Occasionally, smearing peanut butter on a banana and eating it.
I like toast and waffles with peanut butter and jam, but that makes me look like a walking bale of hay, so I don't eat that any longer.
Oh, yeah, watermelon and musk mellon or canteloupe in the fruit salad when available, as well.
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We used it for baking and sometimes spread it on bread instead of butter. Well actually when we were kids we waited till our Mum wasn't looking and stuck our fingers in it and sucked them
Ken, that's what I know as condensed milk and it's still used for baking, eg caramel slice. But Janine said half a cup with oats and I just can't imagine that. Evaporated milk is still readily availble and I know some who use it instead of cream. Not me. I definitely don't use skim evaporated milk with coconut essence which is sold down here as a substitute for coconut milk.
I was just surprised to see Janine mention either in regards to oats. I don't even use ordinary milk on oats.
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Originally posted by Zappa:
After 25 years of eschewing the stuff like poison I now have thyroid dysfunctionality.
Sorry to hear that. But that would be from idodine deficiency, no? Iodized salt is a good way to get the necessary iodine into your diet, but there are other ways -- many vegetables are rich in iodine.
My hypothyrodism is due to having had a virus infection of the thyroid gland -- thyroiditis, they called it.
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Then it dawned on me that there's been no potatoes mentioned. No hash browns? No home fries? Is that just a Yank thing like grits?
I mentioned them. I have a thing for potato cakes, fresh off the griddle, dripping with melted butter and sprinkled with a little salt.
I'm not sure that people here make hash browns at home but you can get them in some places if you have breakfast out.
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Originally posted by Twilight:
This thread got to me so we had "breakfast" for dinner last night. One dozen fried eggs for the three of us, a huge stack of wheat toast and a full skillet's worth of home fries ( 3 diced potatoes and a large onion fried in butter until crispy).
Then it dawned on me that there's been no potatoes mentioned. No hash browns? No home fries? Is that just a Yank thing like grits?
Yesterday's boiled spuds chopped up or mashed potatoes fried in the bacon fat are magnificent! Potato cakes are good too.
There are those who serve chips with fried breakfasts. Avoid these people of low taste.
btw: does any else detest the prefix 'full' to English/Irish breakfast? One egg, one rasher of bacon and one sausage is not a full anything.
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
btw: does any else detest the prefix 'full' to English/Irish breakfast? One egg, one rasher of bacon and one sausage is not a full anything.
No, but that's not what I've ever had when I've ordered the "full", wherever I've been. You've been shortchanged. The components on offer are generally egg (fried or scrambled), sausages, bacon, tomatoes; baked beans, potato cakes/hash browns; black pudding, mushrooms; fried bread and/or toast.
Basically they should tell you what they mean by the term and you opt out of the elements you don't want. It tends to be a generous sort of meal that sets you up for the day IME.
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Originally posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe:
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Originally posted by Zappa:
After 25 years of eschewing the stuff like poison I now have thyroid dysfunctionality.
Sorry to hear that. But that would be from idodine deficiency, no? Iodized salt is a good way to get the necessary iodine into your diet, but there are other ways -- many vegetables are rich in iodine.
My understanding is that NZ soils are lacking in iodine, hence vegetables grown here are probably lower in iodine too than those grown overseas, which is why it is added to table salt.
My breakfast is usually fish with multi-grain toast or whole grain oats with milk and cinnamon (sorry, Ken, but it stops me using sugar) or a couple of eggs.
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Then it dawned on me that there's been no potatoes mentioned. No hash browns? No home fries? Is that just a Yank thing like grits?
I love hash browns. I'll have them on a cooked breakfast for lunch occasionally.
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My partner has very clear ideas of what constitute breakfast vs. lunch/dinner foods, and she refuses to eat the "wrong" food at the wrong meal. This means, for instance, that during her time in Maine she never partook of the common baked-beans-for-breakfast option there -- because for most people in the US baked beans are for dinner, not for breakfast. Pancakes or an omelet for a quick and easy supper? Not a chance.
By contrast, I have no problem eating dinner leftovers for breakfast the next morning. Pizza even. When I was younger I actively disliked many standard breakfast foods, and even now if I'm faced with the choice of, say, cold cereal or a cold chicken leg from the night before, I'm inclined to go with the chicken.
The other morning I horrified DP (not deliberately, I promise) by eating macaroni and cheese for breakfast, while she ate yogurt and toast. I didn't care. My parental training regarding the starving children in Biafra and the wasting of good money by throwing food away is just too strong for me to send a cup of mac-and-cheese to the compost pile.
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Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and I'm a breakfast person ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
My breakfast is usually something from the toaster, always with fresh black coffee, no sugar. Like most parents that are trying to get kids off to school, I will tell you that breakfast sitting down in an absolute luxury.
I can't come at fruit in the morning, I always enjoy two of three pieces of fruit at lunchtime, but breakfast fruit just doesn't do it for me. Cereal likewise, it's a desperate morning if I have cereal. Breakfast in a cafe is a rare treat.
The best breakfast is the full one, bacon, sausage, eggs, tomato, mushies. And I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned the the crowning glory of a fry-up... fried bread ![[Axe murder]](graemlins/lovedrops.gif)
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... for most people in the US baked beans are for dinner, not for breakfast...
That's obviously where they started going wrong. ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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Pancakes or an omelet for a quick and easy supper? Not a chance.
Those aren't breakfast foods here though. Lunch or a light dinner more likely. Same goes for doughnuts or waffles and so on - not that common at breakfast here. Yogurt and pancakes and fruit salad are much more likely as a lunchtime snack or the second course of an evening meal than they are at breakfast.
Semi-seriously, the only standard breakfast foods in Britain that you almost never eat at other times are porridge, and cereals-with-milk, and perhaps fried bread and the still rather foreign-feeling but now very common croissants.
The most common breakfasts by far are tea (apparently about 60% of Brits have a cup of tea in the morning) and toast and cereal (about 40% each with toast being just in front). The cerals are moslty just breakfast foods but toast is a default snack at pretty much any time; and beans on toast, or fish fingers on toast, or egg on toast, or cheese on toast, or sardines on toast, are rather cliched kids meals at tea-time - and so adults revert to them when wanting something to eat late at night, its comfort food.
The various components of the "full breakfast" - the eggs and bacon and so on - are all eaten at other meals as well though maybe assembled differently. And not that many people in fact eat that stuff for breakfast in Britain - probnably a lot less than one in ten on any given day.
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Originally posted by ken:
(apparently about 60% of Brits have a cup of tea in the morning)
So few?
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Originally posted by ken:
(apparently about 60% of Brits have a cup of tea in the morning)
So few?
That's every morning...
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
There are those who serve chips with fried breakfasts. Avoid these people of low taste.
Unless of course in a sandwich with butter and salt and tomato ketchup. That's truly sophisticated cuisine!
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Originally posted by Cryptic:
The best breakfast is the full one, bacon, sausage, eggs, tomato, mushies. And I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned the the crowning glory of a fry-up... fried bread
I mentioned it as an option, although it's not one I personally like. The Full Breakfast is popular round here at the weekends - lots of places serve it and they're usually packed out on a Saturday. Tea is still popular but herbal teas are increasingly mainstream.
It's a great thing on a holiday too, especially if they have a buffet bar where they have the extended full range*, plus cereals, fruit salads, yogurts, cream, toast done to your own satisfaction with a choice of jams, freshly brewed coffee, not a tinned tomato or mushroom in sight, and no limit on how much of it you eat.
* too many items to name.
Interesting how tastes change. Kedgeree used to be popular, and I have seen that on a menu at one place I stayed in (along with devilled kidneys), but it really is a rarity now.
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Originally posted by Anna B:
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(apparently about 60% of Brits have a cup of tea in the morning)
So few?
But coffee is the first thing in the morning drink, at least for me.
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My favorite thing to do while living in England was take the once weekly bus (after I learned to wait for it on the proper side of the road)from the village to Banbury, where Littlewoods served a "pick five for one low price" breakfast.
Brilliant.
Ken: If you have pancakes for the second course what is the first course? For that matter would someone explain to me what the English mean by "course?" All the time I lived there I was confused by restaurant signs saying things like "Five Courses for 20 pounds" or some such.
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For that matter would someone explain to me what the English mean by "course?"
If the food you are eating requires a different plate (and possibly cutlery) to the previous lot*, then it is another course. If a different wine is served, then it's definitely a different course.
Breakfast, of course, divides into -
Aperitif: Fruit juice
Starter: Cereal or porridge or fresh and/ or dried fruit
Main: Bacon, eggs, sausages, haggis, mushrooms, tomatoes, fried bread, fried potatoes, fried potato bread.
Dessert: Toast with marmalade.
*within the same meal.
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<mutters> ... and black pudding and potato cakes, then toast with a whole gallery of jams to choose from as well as Marmite. </mutters>
All this talk of breakfast is making me want some!
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Ariel, mashed potato cakes and eggs on offer here for supper.
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Originally posted by ken:
(apparently about 60% of Brits have a cup of tea in the morning)
So few?
But coffee is the first thing in the morning drink, at least for me.
It does seem that more Brits drink tea at home though. Going by sales and by surveys. Coffee tends to be a more social out-of-doors drink. On average, on the whole, with lots of exceptions.
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Thanks, Firenze. I finally understand.
We stayed in a B&B in Holyhead one time and, the next morning, saw cereal and milk (only) on the buffet. Wondering why everyone else was just having tea, we filled clear up on cereal. Then the big hot breakfast of eggs & bacon etc. came out of kitchen. ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
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Originally posted by Ariel:
I mentioned it as an option
Oops - missed that one! Fried bread is good enough to mention twice though...
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I am a disaster area in a morning if I do not eat quite soon after crawling out of bed. The usual drill here is fall out of bed, fall over the dogs, let them out and make a pot of coffee. Two slices of the Missus' breakfast bread, which contains stuff like spelt flour, rye flour, raisins, cinnamon and ground cloves and then I can look at the day with only a moderately jaudiced eye. However, on Mondays (and when on holiday) it is a case of get up late and have a fry up - usually bacon, egg, sausage, mushrooms, tomatoes, and toast. There are variations on this theme when travelling due to the availability of things like haggis, white pudding, kippers, smoked haddock, etc..
At Uni breakfast was usually either leftovers, or bread and honey, or porridge with a pot of tea. Porridge for me has to have salt in it - raisins can be thrown in it, but definitely no sugar. The leftovers thing led to breakfast being pizza and the last can of beer on occasions! Election nights always ended with bacon butties and the hair of the dog. Nowadays I omit the hair of the dog in deference to the missus.
At a recent meeting, the Spikes had won on the litugical arrangement and both Matins and Communion were before breakfast. I was forceably reminded how much I dislike having to be sociable before I have eaten. I was amazed that I did not bite anyone.
As it has been mentioned several times, I have to say that I now have to hope that no-one puts Splenda in anything I eat or drink as I have a nasty reaction to the damn stuff.
PD
[ 29. June 2012, 06:42: Message edited by: PD ]
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Originally posted by ken:
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Originally posted by WhateverTheySay:
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Originally posted by Anna B:
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(apparently about 60% of Brits have a cup of tea in the morning)
So few?
But coffee is the first thing in the morning drink, at least for me.
It does seem that more Brits drink tea at home though. Going by sales and by surveys. Coffee tends to be a more social out-of-doors drink. On average, on the whole, with lots of exceptions.
Yes, I think so. Possibly because there are lots of fancy coffee variations which most people don't have the kit to do , whereas even if you're making the very best tea (rather than just a bag in a mug which is what I usually have) it only requires a kettle, pot, and strainer, so you can do it at home.
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