My number one breakfast feeling is that I want someone else to cook it while I drink coffee / loll around in the bed, which is a totally valid feeling and not selfish or lazy at all.
make me some breakfast plz
The cutest and possibly overall best thing about breakfast is that when you eat it at an odd time of day, you get to call it something super special, like brunch or brinner. Also you can cover everything in maple syrup if you want to, and no one can really say anything about it. Maple syrup is the ketchup of breakfast. I mean, and so is ketchup.
Other great breakfast things:
+ bed and breakfasts
+ Breakfast at Tiffany’s
+ breakfast beer
+ The Breakfast Club
+ breakfast in bed
You’re going to have a really fabulous time making all of these things! Also we get to imagine everyone cooking in their pajamas, which is really fucking adorable / sexy. Ok anyway! Waffles!
1. Bloody Mary: Laura L.
2. Vegan Ranchero Situation: Stef
3. Vegan Biscuits and Gravy: Stef
4. Choose Your Own Adventure McEggin: Sarah C.
5.Vegan English Muffins: Rachel K.
6. Pumpkin Rolls: Intern Laura
7. Bacon (or Blueberry or Chocolate Chip) Waffles: Laneia
1. Bloody Mary
by Laura L.
My old roommates and I spent many many weekends perfecting the Bloody Mary. When we were too lazy/hungover/poor to go out to brunch, we made it into a meal.
Ingredients
Vodka
Tomato juice (spicy V8 or whatever brand your supermarket has)
Worcestershire Sauce
Horseradish (I couldn’t find a non-creamed version in the UK, so I did without)
Hot Sauce
Lemon wedges
Celery Salt
Pepper
Celery Stick
lots of ice
Optional
Green bell peppers (a good shape for drinking)
Olives
Pickles/cornichons
Fill your glass with lots of ice. Season the ice directly with lemon juice, pepper, celery salt, worchestershire sauce and hot sauce. Pour in your COLD vodka until you can see it just about at the top of the ice, then fill to the top with COLD tomato juice. Poke around at it with your celery stalk, mixing as much as possible (if you are fancy you can shake it); taste it and re-season as needed.
For a tasty edible glass, cut the top off a bell pepper and season the rim with celery salt. Drop in a bunch of olives and pickles, depending on how hungry you are, and pour in your Bloody Mary. This works best when made from a pitcher and you can refill as many times as you want until you get hungry and eat your vodka soaked pepper.
2. Vegan Ranchero Situation
by Stef
OK, there’s one thing you should know. I’m not any kind of expert in the art of Mexican food, but I am an expert when it comes to making a lot of delicious things and then eating them. I’m usually drunk at brunch, but I’m pretty sure “ranchero” is Spanish for “hey, here’s some beans with your eggs,” so I put a lot of things I like on top of a tortilla and made them for you.
As far as I can tell, the ability to put together a delicious breakfast is only going to make you more appealing to your overnight guest, who will probably stick around to see what you’re going to make for dinner.
for potatoes:
2 medium potatoes (I used a sweet potato just to mix it up)
olive oil
salt, pepper to taste
for tofu scramble:
olive oil
3 cloves garlic, diced
1/4 cup onion, diced
2 small mushrooms, diced
1 block extra firm tofu
turmeric
for the base:
3-4 cloves garlic, diced
dried chilis, to taste (optional)
1 large onion, diced
4-6 mushrooms, chopped
1/2 cup grape tomatoes (or dice some tomatoes, or whatever)
1 can black beans, drained
1 red bell pepper, chopped
1 yellow bell pepper, chopped
2 cups baby spinach
for garnish:
1 avocado, diced
cilantro (optional)
POTATOES
1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Wash your potatoes thoroughly and dice into pieces abound 1″ around. Throw ’em into a pan lined with aluminum foil.
2. Sprinkle with olive oil, salt, pepper, maybe some rosemary or something if you’re feeling fancy. Bake those babies to your desired level of crispiness (check and stir them every ten minutes or so). While the potatoes are cooking, you can do all this other stuff on your stovetop, but make sure to leave the oven on when you remove the potatoes so you can heat up tortillas (see below).
finished product!
TOFU SCRAMBLE
3. Pour about 2 tbsp of oil and fry over medium heat. Add 3 cloves diced garlic. I usually put a ton of vegetables in my tofu scramble (tomatoes, bell peppers, kale, swiss chard or spinach, mushrooms), but most of that stuff is going in with the beans so for our purposes we’re only going to use a sparing amount for flavor. Tofu tends to pick up the flavor of whatever you cook it with, so you need a little something. Throw in a small amount of onion and maybe a diced mushroom or two.
4. When the onions are translucent, crumble your tofu into the pan, stirring frequently. Let the tofu cook thoroughly.
5. Add turmeric for that supernatural eggy colour and a bit of flavor. Remove from heat and set aside.
BEANS
6. In another pan, pour some oil and fry over medium heat. Add the rest of your diced garlic and dried chilis (if you’re into that). Once that’s going, add your chopped onion and mushrooms and stir until the onions are starting to get soft.
7. Add tomatoes, bell peppers and beans, still stirring. When everything is heated up properly and starting to smell delicious, feel free to add spinach or whatever leafy green thing you’re into. Cook until your greens are cooked all the way through, then remove from heat and get ready to assemble some BREAKFAST.
8. Hey did you take your potatoes out of the oven? Those guys are probs totally done and smelling awesome. OK, time to throw a tortilla in the oven and brown it for about a minute.
9. Remove your tortilla from the oven and lay that sucker on a plate. Spread your bean and vegetable mixture generously over the surface of the tortilla. Next, add a layer of tofu scramble. Top the whole thing off with potatoes, and garnish with cilantro and diced avocado.
10. Enjoy with hot sauce (to taste). Here, I made you this fruit bowl. What was your name again?
3. Vegan Biscuits and Gravy
by Stef
Biscuits
2 1/4 cup Bisquick
2/3 cup soy milk
Gravy
olive oil
3 cloves garlic, minced
3 pieces yellow onion, diced
2 small mushrooms, diced
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
4 tbsp nutritional yeast
4 tbsp soy sauce
2 cups low sodium vegetable stock
1/2 tsp sage
1/2 tsp thyme
salt + pepper to taste
1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees Fahrenheit.
2. Mix ingredients in a big bowl and knead thoroughly.
3. Form into biscuit-esque globs of deliciousness on a sprayed or nonstick pan and bake for 8-10 minutes or until brown on top.
4. In a saucepan, heat olive oil, garlic, onion and mushroom over medium heat.
5. When the onions are transparent, lower the heat and 1/2 cup vegetable stock, as well as the flour, nutritional yeast and soy sauce. Mix thoroughly. Add the rest of the vegetable stock gradually, stirring constantly.
6. Raise the heat to medium high and bring gravy to a boil, stirring all the while. The gravy should thicken as it cooks. Add sage, thyme, and salt and pepper to your preferred level. If your gravy is too thick, add a little water; if it’s too runny, you can add a little bit of flour. Once it starts to bubble, you’re pretty much done. Serve hot!
This gravy is also ideal for Thanksgiving, when the rest of your family will eat gravy made from a dead bird and will shake their heads and cluck sadly at your weird vegetable sauce. It is delicious, thankyouverymuch.
4. Choose Your Own Adventure McEggin
by Sarah C.
Really whatever you and your guest want. That’s the glory of these little eggers. You can pretty much throw in anything that suits your fancy.
McEggins
1 of each Bell Peppers (red and yellow)
1 bunch Chives
1 container, appx 12 Baby Portobello Mushrooms
4 Leafs Kale
1 medium white Onion
4 cloves Garlic
1/2 cup Shredded Cheddar Cheese
12 Eggs
Olive Oil
Cooking Spray
dash Salt
dash Pepper
1/2 tsp Chili Powder
3 TB Dijon Mustard
Sweet Potato Patties
4-5 Medium Sweet Potatos
1/2 a stick of Butter
Salt to taste
Pepper to taste
2 TB Olive Oil
2 cloves Garlic
Chili Powder to taste
Choose Your Own Eggins
Preheat Oven to 350
The other glorious thing about this dish is that you can pre-prepare the ingredients a day ahead of time if you’re planning on partying all night and know you’re going to want a scrumptious brunch for you and your bed mate and your roommates and their bed mates and the puppies everyone brought over.
With veggies like mushrooms and onions it’s smart to pre-sautee them. So in a sautee pan with garlic and olive oil sautee the chopped mushrooms and onions until just before they’re fully cooked (they’ll cook in the egg a little too). Do the same with the chopped Kale and garlic.
Dice the peppers and chives up and toss them with the other cooked veggies. Spray the muffin tin then throw handfulls of the veggies in the muffin tins no more than half way high. Put all the veggies in if you’d like, or some, or be a really nice host and tailor it to each guest. Your choice. CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE.
Meanwhile, have your roommate (ALEX VEGA) whisk the eggs together with the salt, pepper, mustard, and chili powder. When that’s all whipped up you should pour it RIGHT OVER the scoop of veggies until its about 2/3 full. Feel free to top those adorable little muffin egg creations with cheese and then refrigerate for 10 minutes (I skipped the refrigeration one round and the world didn’t explode, so that might just be a pointless time consuming step) pop that baby in the oven for 15 to 25 minutes or until a toothpick comes out cleanly. Do this until all the eggs and all the veggies have had their turn in the oven.
Sweet Potato Patties
In a food processor use the shredding disk to shred the potatoes into hash. Heat up the olive oil and butter on the stove top and toss the potatoes in flipping it over when one side browns. Toss it with salt pepper diced garlic and chili powder. Remove from heat and let cool and form into small flat patties which you then pan fry until each side is brown.
5. English Muffins
by Rachel
from Vegan Brunch by Isa Chandra Moskowitz
Ingredients
1 tsp yeast
1 tbsp sugar
1 c lukewarm water
2 1/4 c flour (the recipe calls for all-purpose, I used like half whole wheat b/c I’m a hippie, whatever)
1 1/4 tsp salt
3 tbsp butter or margarine at room temperature
Some cornmeal for dusting
1. Put the water in a small bowl and mix in the sugar and yeast, and leave for five minutes or so until the yeast has dissolved. Meanwhile, combine the flour and salt in a large bowl.
2. After five minutes, make a well in the center of the flour mixture and add the yeastwater and also the margarine. Mix together and knead, either via your hands or via a stand mixer/kneading machine, until the dough feels smooth and good.
3. Leave the dough in the bowl someplace kind of warm, covered in a towel, until it’s more or less doubled. This should in theory take about an hour but always takes me two to eight for some reason. I don’t know what to tell you.
4. Preheat the oven to 350, and put a cookie sheet right in there to preheat along with it. Take your dough and dump it out onto a floured surface. Knead it for a minute, then roll it out to about 1/2 inch thickness. Find a cookie cutter and/or drinking glass and/or Mason jar and cut out 3 inch rounds, patting both sides into the cornmeal, which you have possibly poured out onto some small plate situation.
5. Heat a large skillet, preferably cast iron, over medium heat and melt some butter or margarine in it. Toss the muffin cutouts in there and cook for a minute or two on each side, or until it’s golden brown and looks like the bottom of an English muffin. Once both sides are browned, open your oven and put these directly onto the hot cookie sheet, and let them bake for 6-10 minutes. Note: this is not complicated, but you do kind of need to think about your timing. You’ll need to be doing these in batches, and you really do have to put them in the oven right from the skillet, so don’t start browning the next batch until the one before it is about to come out of the oven. The first time I tried this I had all these cute little browned discs that just sat there and waited for like ten minutes, and then they stayed little brown discs in the oven because they didn’t rise. (Still tasted good, though.)
6. Take out of the oven and cool before eating. (Try to do this, at least.) This recipe makes kind of a lot, and the possibilities are endless! Jam and butter? Mini pizzas? Some sort of eggs benedict situation? (I vote for this one!) They also freeze well, so no need to panic about eating a dozen English muffins in two days. (Although that would be okay too.)
6. Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls
by Intern Laura
Pumpkin is the best flavor in the history of flavors. It transcends season (unless your close-minded grocery store insists that it doesn’t and refuses to carry it between December and September) which is why I’m making these guys even though Spring is poking it’s sweet head around the corner. There’s also A LOT of butter in this recipe which means you know it’s going to be good.
for the dough
1/4 cup of water
1 package of yeast
1 cup of milk
1/2 cup [1stick] of butter
1/2 cup of sugar
1 15-ounce can of pumpkin puree [or make your own]
1 1/2 teaspoons of kosher salt
5 1/2 cups of flour
for the filling
1/2 cup [1 stick] of butter
1 cup of packed brown sugar
2 teaspoons of cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon of ginger
1/2 teaspoon of nutmeg
for the icing
4 ounces of cream cheese
1/4 cup [1/2 stick] of butter
1/2 teaspoons of vanilla
1 cup of powdered sugar
First take care of the yeast. Just as a reminder in case you forget how to work with it, your water should be a little warmer than your skin and you should dissolve a pinch or two of sugar before adding the yeast so that it has something to eat so it can grow. Wait about 10 minutes and you should be good to go.
Warm the milk and butter on the stove until the butter melts. Pour it into a really big bowl and stir in the sugar until it dissolves. Once it cools down — not before! you will kill your yeast — you can add the yeast/water mixture and the pumpkin.
Add the salt and all the flour at once. Yeah, you read that right, 5 1/2 cups. I would advise abandoning spoons and just going for it with your hands. It’s going to take a while to get all the flour incorporated, but once it’s all together, stop! Don’t mix it anymore than you have to.
Cover the dough and let it rise for 1-2 hours. If you’ve got time to let it rise for two hours, punch it down at the 1 hour mark.
Flour your workspace and plop half the dough down onto it. Form it into a vaguely rectangular shape and roll it out until it’s about 1/2 an inch thick. Don’t have a rolling pin? I bet you have a whine bottle. It’s a pretty sticky dough so you can flour your hands, the rolling pin, or the surface again whenever you need to.
To make the filling, melt the butter and stir in the brown sugar and spices. Spread half of this onto your dough. Roll the dough up unto a log and then slice it. Instead of using a knife, grab some thread/dental floss/sliced up bits of grocery bag (I did this) and loop it under your dough. Pull it up and around and tightly so it slices right through. Lather, rinse, repeat with the other half of the dough.
At this point, you’ve got two choices, you can refrigerate your rolls a la Pillsbury (and refrigerate your icing in a little container. This would probably be a really cute present for somebody.) and bake them later or you cook them now. When you’re cooking them, butter the pan, plop them in pretty close but with enough room to rise and wait 30 minutes (1 hour if they were refrigerated). Bake for 20-25 minutes on 375°F and rotate the pans halfway through cooking.
For the icing, cream the butter and cream cheese before adding the powdered sugar and vanilla. If you’re having trouble mixing it, set the bowl on the surface of your oven so that it heats up the butter and cream cheese. Resist the temptation to add milk, that’ll make it too runny when you go to put it on the rolls. Wait five minutes after they come out of the oven before icing them.
7. Bacon Waffles
by Laneia
Here’s the deal: waffles are better than pancakes because they let you know when they’re done and there’s no flipping or anything. To make waffles even better, you should add bacon. Let’s talk about that.
Bacon
8+ slices of bacon (I like applewood smoked)
brown sugar
Preheat oven to 375 and spray a cookie sheet with that weird spray stuff that may be made of actual Teflon, who knows. Maybe you should just use parchment paper. So! Lay the bacon on the sheet and sprinkle brown sugar on top like it’s your job. Just cover the bacon in brown sugar. Cook for 10-15 mins or until the bacon is crispay. Don’t put it on paper towels to drain — use a cooling rack.
Crumble the bacon and add it to the waffle batter. Use any waffle recipe you like. Seriously, it’s not even a big deal which waffle recipe you use. Oh my god this is so good.
Tips
+ I always substitute half of the flour for whole wheat flour and make the other half unbleached all-purpose, so I think you should do that, too.
+ If you want buttermilk waffles, add an extra egg white (or two) so they aren’t as dense.
+ Waffle bars are fun: Get a lot of mix-ins ready and give everyone a small bowl of batter to add their favorites to. Banana + chocolate / white chocolate chip was a success, as well as bacon + chocolate chip.
+ Because you can only make one or two waffles at a time, put them in a 200 degree oven when they’re done. This will keep them warm and also make them extra crispy.
Hello I am starving! Please talk to me about breakfast.
So this may defeat the point of the DIY thing since it’s premixed ingredients and whatnot, but I suggest making the waffle batter with Bisquick. It’s quite delicious.
I’M STILL WAITING FOR A GLUTEN FREE GET BAKED. I KNOW YOU CAN DO IT, I KNOW 50 LESBIANS WHO EAT GLUTEN FREE. KRISTA FROM EFFING DYKES CAN DO A RECIPE. YOU HAVE NO WAY OUT OF THIS!!!!!!!
Oh and, please?
FUCK YEAH I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING
I’m always like “oh this looks tasty but I can’t eat it cause I have 8904328958943 food allergies”. Approximately.
It’s true, Marika is allergic to all the things. So far I’ve determined that she can eat rice, bacon, lettuce, pickles, hamburgers and water.
Hamburgers with no buns, in case you gaydies need clarification. SLAB OF MEAT. People give me weird looks when I order.
It’s true. I have witnessed this girl eat a pile of hamburger patties, lettuce and pickles off of wax paper :D
Sooo I’m the only person who brings her own GF bread to restaurants so she can eat a burger normally?
Mmm’kay…
I have considered such but it’s impractical while traveling, like when I go to visit the Chicagostraddlers. Also attempting to moderate my gluten free bread consumption cause it’s SO DAMNED EXPENSIVE. But I love me some Udi bread.
This reminded me of a friend of mine, who once deconstructed a McChicken (or some other McDs burger) completely before eating it piece by piece. She didn’t even realise she was doing it until I asked her about it.
Shark week eh?
here is my fave gluten free breakfast recipe EVER (i hope you aren’t vegan):
GF GERMAN PANCAKES (some people call them baby dutch pancakes or something)! German pancakes in general are amazing and they come out better than other baked breakfasty things in a GF version. I use Bob’s Red Mill “All Prurpose Gluten Free Flour.” There are lots of variations of this recipe and with-gluten recipes on the internet.
Preheat oven to 475. Put 2 eggs, 1/2 cup milk and about 1/3 cup flour in blender and blend well. You can add salt or cinnamon or nutmeg if you want. Put a tablespoon of butter in a ceramic pie plate and put it in the oven until the butter is melted and starting to bubble but not brown. Take out hot pie plate, pour batter into it, return to oven and bake for about 18 min. Top with maple syrup, more cinnamon, etc.
It is like an amazing weird eggy puffy golden thing. You can experiment with flour amounts and also you can saute apples in a cast iron skillet and pour the batter into that and bake that!!
omg suuuper long comment, i love gluten free breakfast!!
i mean 425 not 475!
OMG I had no clue you could make those gluten free! I had one at Original House of Pancakes in Utah pre-gluten intolerance diagnosis, and it was awesome. I love you.
Ooh! e m m a, I was just about to post that. One of the best breakfasts ever! The lazier version (which makes a flat, custardy pancake) is to skip the blender, eyeball half flour + half soy milk + 2 eggs + vanilla/pumpkin pie spices/whatever, and hand-beat in a bowl. Top with sugar and bake. Take out of the oven and top with more sugar. Maybe saute bananas with sugar before adding the batter. Maybe do whatever you feel and then eat it.
Who else is hungry?
Recipes 1, 2, 4 and (arguably) 7 are gluten free…
Yes, but it’s just not the same as looking at a page and thinking “OH MY GOD ALL OF THIS IS GLUTEN-FREE WHICH DO I MAKE FIRST.”
I practically lived off of savory GF waffles for a year. I don’t have an actual recipe, as I never measure, but it’s pretty difficult to completely ruin waffles. Unless you use garbanzo/fava bean flour, that stuff is awful.
Take your flour of choice, ground flaxseed, baking powder, and whatever not-sweet spices, and mix them up in a bowl with water/oil or plant milk or whatever. My favorite spice blend uses nutritional yeast, garlic & onion powders, dill weed (lots), salt/pepper and just a little sugar.
Waffles make surprisingly good bread for sandwiches :D
That sounds a lot cheaper than GF bread.
Me + Gluten + Dairy had this awesome threesome that lasted for years. We broke up in 2011. I’m still getting over it. In the meantime, I have to substitute. (They make me sick!)
Oh, and there is such thing as gluten-free bisquick.
Where is five?? Now all I want to do is make sweet potato hashbrowns…
Oh wait.. i think i found it.. It just gets a bit confusing when there’s no #5.
My problem with bacon in waffles is it lowers the chance of there being bacon outside of waffles. Ideally, bacon is everywhere.
THIS.
Marry me.
Bacon waffles sounds like a magical salty-sweet way to start your day. As a vegetarian I don’t eat bacon, but I like it in theory; and I appreciate all you meat-eaters for loving bacon the way you do.
Every time I’ve attempted to try out the vegetarian / vegan deal…bacon always brings me back. i will love bacon for all of the vegetarians / vegans in the world though – because i mean, someone has to do it, right?
My breakfast of an orange hostess cupcake and a can of yoo-hoo seems so inadaquate and disgustingly unhealty (of course I knew it was before this)
Not at all, yoo-hoo is delicious.
HASHBROWNS WITH KETCHUP AND TOBASCO SAUCE. OMG, BEST THING EVER.
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if i ever completely conquer my egg phobia, i shall try ALL OF THESE out.
“all of these out”. fail.
hashbrowns > country potatoes
but seriously…i probs put ketchup & tobasco sauce on about 90% of everything i eat.
poached eggs on whole wheat toast w/ an avocado, sauteed greens and some good sharp pecorino romano!!! poached eggs make everything taste fancy!
also, smittenkitchen’s lemon yogurt anything bread. i made mine with greek yogurt and oranges, and it’s the perfect companion for a mimosa!
most of the time my breakfast is 4+ cups of coffee…
if I eat anything else for breakfast its either bacon or sausage….I like my protein wrapped in a lot of fat…..
It’s allllll about Vegan Brunch. Isa is my goddess of the kitchen and I would follow her faithfully til death. If she still lived in Brooklyn I would probably make it my life’s mission to find her and turn her gay (unless she is already… does any body know if she is? or have I just been wishing and hoping and praying for the last four-or-five years for nothing?)…. ok I’m done being creepy now.
I fucking LOVE breakfast food.
I don’t think I have ever wanted to eat anything as much as I want to eat that ranchero thingo. Stef, pls marry me.
actually, if all of you would marry me we could live in a huge house and eat breakfast for every meal. y/n?
i like big houses, but i also really like lunch, i’m conflicted.
hmmmm
I guess we could do lunch on the weekends?
laneia could make us all sandwiches
Well, we could have brunch and brinner. It’s not technically breakfast if you don’t call it that, amiright?
Great article. I am going to try at least 2 of these!
as a vegan and a lush i heart this entire article. green pepper celery salted boozing vessels – brilliant!
also Isa Chandra Moskowitz is amazing her vegan cupcakes rocked my world
My breakfast usually consists of
1. Buy latte from uni cafeteria.
2. Sneak 2 shots of whiskey into it from flask hidden in bag.
3. Repeat until class starts.
4. ….I forget.
This recipe is also maybe gluten free! (I do not understand what gluten is, and if whiskey had gluten in it, then fuck gluten!)
Whiskey does not (usually as far as I have noticed) have gluten! YAY!
Glutens are too big to get past the distilling process, so it’s technically gluten-free. But most of it is still made with wheat, so that’s sort of iffy.
I have pumpkin muffins for breakfast a lot, they are so easy this is how you make them:
1 box spice cake
1 can pumpkin puree (not the big can the little one)
and then you mix them and then you bake them. Pumpkin muffins!
I make pumpkin bars like that! Gluten free spice cake mix, pumpkin, take out some of the oil and water that the mix calls for…add chocolate chips, bake, top with runny delicious chocolate icing.
Bran flakes and almond milk with slivered almonds. Or, last night’s pizza. BOOM! The breakfast of champions.
Everything Isa does is magic. Have you made her tofu Benedict?
I am all for a gluten free get baked.
You know what else I fucking love, LUNCH.
Lunch is arguably the best meal of the day.
I have not tried any of these specific recipes yet, but I have used Stef’s tofu scramble recipe in the past and it worked out quite well. When I have two arms again I’m trying the rancheros deal!
Rachel these English muffins are so impressive!
Special story for everyone: I JUST walked into my kitchen and found a waffle maker. I don’t know where it came from but I just read the phrase “bacon waffles” above, and I am ridiculously excited.
A gift from the God of Bacon
now go and worship him
I just made the cinnamon rolls, and for Gaga’s sake put down some aluminum foil on the baking sheets first, or you will have to scrub off mounds of burned sugar.
Thanks Carmen! I forgot to mention that part. SUPERIMPORTANT guys.
I love waffles in any form. I make mine with whole wheat flour, corn meal, and little pieces of chopped-up dried fruit cooked in. They are delicious! When my dog was dying, I even made her delicious waffles with peanut butter and chicken and other things dogs like. I think you guys should do a whole post on waffles.
BUT WHERE’S THE VEGEMITE TOAST MATE?
Hmmmm waffles!! I’m a maple syrup freak, I like it on scrambled eggs with tomato ketchup. It goes great with vanilla cheesecake too.
I wish they did that Bisquick mix over here.
Breakfast Beer – I want this printed on a T-shirt!
Perfect timing. I read this sitting here a comfy chair, still in p.j.’s while a cute girl makes me breakfast at 3 in the afternoon. Too bad she’s straight. *le sigh*
Now I’m having breakfast food daydreams.
WARNING: *food porn ahead*
I make uh-mazing whole grain blueberry hot cakes. These are different from pancakes. I don’t know how, they just are. A little buttery/crispy on the outside, just barely done inside, with big, fat blueberries added to cook at the last minute. And four-color fried potatoes (red potatoes, yellow gold, purple potatoes and sweet potatoes — beautiful AND delish) in olive oil with onions, garlic, rosemary and sea salt? Oh hell yes.
I WANT YOUR POTATOES GIVE THEM TO ME
(not a euphemism)
You can usually find pre-mixed small bags of the potatoes at a decent grocery store (read: if, like me, you are currently doomed to grocery shopping at Wal-Mart, you may have to look elsewhere). They’re sold as a “gourmet mix” — whatever. Just make sure they have the purple potatoes in it, because the color is just divine. You’ll have to buy a sweet potato (or two, depending on how many lovely ladies you plan to feed).
Start heating up a couple tablespoons of olive oil in a non-stick or cast iron skillet. Added minced garlic and chopped onions. Let those simmer while you cut up the potatoes. I like half slices, but sometimes I do chunks for fun. So, whatev you like. Toss ’em in the pan. Sprinkle with rosemary and sea salt to taste. Oh, and freshly ground black pepper. Cook until they’re nicely browned on the edges but still soft-potato-y goodness on the inside.
Seriously, these things are so good I rarely get around to putting ketchup on them. And I love me some ketchup. Although I recently learned about a great condiment mix, for those who like their fried potato accompaniments to be multi-cultural: mix mayo with Sriracha chili sauce. Yummmmmm…
That sounds friggin’ amazeballs. Esp the mayo and sriracha! Why have I not thought of that? I’m allergic to tomatoes and have problems finding an appropriate dipping sauce.
waffles are my favourite food!! they are crunchy and delicious and can be savoury or sweet and the name of them is silly sounding!
my favourite waffles are three cheese and smoked salmon waffles that I made one day one day at my parents house while I could take advantage of their well stocked fridge. it was amazingtimes.
even though less than all of these recipes were to my taste… breakfast is still BY FAR my absolute favourite meal ever (infact i frequently eat it 3 meals a day).
so even though my preference is more sweet than savory, i am still always thrilled to see any article anywhere about breakfast!!! (with veggie/vegan options hurray)
<3
I recently learned that gluten means glue in Latin.
Makes since, seeing as glutens holds stuff together. This why a lot of GF stuff is really expensive, because it has to have stuff like xanthan gum or guar gum to hold it together so doesn’t crumble apart when you bite into it, because it doesn’t have any “glue.”
Plus twelve different kinds of flours so it doesn’t taste like cardboard, which most of it still does.
LANEIA – i love your recipe but we live in Arizona. Check out what I just learned:
http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/bella/2011/04/bacon_prices_soar_in_arizona_f.php
i mean, wtf arizona??! that may have been the last straw. i will gather fellow bacon lovers and fucking go braveheart on the whole situation. they may take our sister spit tour stop, but they’ll never take our BACOOOOOOOOON!
ps. i actually love every single one of these recipes fyi.
Breakfast is my favourite meal…I recommend the bloody mary with gin. It’s very tasty.
I could eat breakfast all day long. Favorite breakfast: eggs with kale, quinoa, and kimchi, smothered in Bragg’s and Sri Racha. And then eat it for lunch. And then dinner.