Breakfast woes

Kathleen in WI · #81 07/13/10, 05:17 PM

Have you tried quinoa? I make it like oatmeal with a little stevia, butter and soy milk. Can also be made unsweetened with a fried egg or whatever. Pretty versatile, like rice.

Sparticle · #82 07/14/10, 07:14 AM

Yes I love quinoa. Used to buy it in bulk, but when we were moving cross country I didn't want to move my bulk foods so we stopped buying and ate up all we could. Same problem as the original post though, what I like to eat and what I'm used to eating versus what I can buy at the closest store till the garden is established again. The food I like is suddenly exotic and quinoa would fall into that category

Patt · #83 07/14/10, 08:49 AM

It might be worth it to you to order it online then, I order from 2 places both ship UPS or if you have a Co-op locally you can save on the shipping cost:

http://www.azurestandard.com/

http://www.clnf.org/

snoozy · #84 07/17/10, 11:20 AM

Barley cakes - or barley sausage is how I think of them - are really good. The texture is remarkably like sausage! You should be able to get pearled barley at regular supermarkets:

Barley Sausage

Boil 1.5 c barley in salted water till al dente. (You don't have to get the water just so - you can pour off any extra water.) Cool.

Mix in 1c minced onion, lots of black pepper, salt and whatever spices and herbs you like in your sausage (sage, thyme, marjoram.) I also put in lemon zest. When well mixed, add also 1/2c flour, and then 2 beaten eggs. Let it rest for awhile (overnight even) so the flour and eggs bind.

Pan fry in your oil of choice, spooning it into the pan like hush puppies/patties.

Excellent in the morning with eggs and ketchup or chilli sauce! Meat sausage tends to be salty, so if you want it to approximate sausage, make them on the salty side. For those of you who need to cut down on your cholesterol or meat consumption, give this a try. You'll be very pleasantly surprised.

Patt · #85 07/17/10, 04:52 PM

That sounds good!

Sparticle · #86 07/17/10, 05:11 PM

Oh that does sound good!

Quote:

Originally Posted by snoozy

Barley cakes - or barley sausage is how I think of them - are really good. The texture is remarkably like sausage! You should be able to get pearled barley at regular supermarkets:

Barley Sausage

Boil 1.5 c barley in salted water till al dente. (You don't have to get the water just so - you can pour off any extra water.) Cool.

Mix in 1c minced onion, lots of black pepper, salt and whatever spices and herbs you like in your sausage (sage, thyme, marjoram.) I also put in lemon zest. When well mixed, add also 1/2c flour, and then 2 beaten eggs. Let it rest for awhile (overnight even) so the flour and eggs bind.

Pan fry in your oil of choice, spooning it into the pan like hush puppies/patties.

Excellent in the morning with eggs and ketchup or chilli sauce! Meat sausage tends to be salty, so if you want it to approximate sausage, make them on the salty side. For those of you who need to cut down on your cholesterol or meat consumption, give this a try. You'll be very pleasantly surprised.

ChristieAcres · #87 07/17/10, 10:02 PM

Sometimes, when I don't feel like eating a breakfast food, I'll make up a tasty Kefir Smoothie! Then, later, I'll have some almonds, or protein source (including hard boiled eggs). I've had deviled eggs for breakfast, too, and never care if I am eating breakfast type food or not. As a child, my favorite breakfast was fried cornmeal mush w/maple syrup, scrambled eggs w/cheese (yes, plus sausage, but they are good without). Do you eat Quiche'? There are so many different kinds you can make.

Navotifarm · #88 07/18/10, 08:38 AM

What is important in my breakfast is fruit. I'm told New Englanders eat pie for breakfast. Don't know if that's true or not but blackberry cobbler for breakfast, yum!
I don't have a working stove so almost every morning I use my one-cup coffeemaker to heat up half a cup of water for those little (expensive unfortunately) packets of flavored Quaker oatmeal. I cut up bananas or whatever fruit I have to mix in. The unflavored "original" ones I separate out. When I have apples, I slice them up in a pan, mix up the packets of original oatmeal with butter, cinnamon and extra sugar, mix with the apples and bake in my toaster oven. As a single person with only a hot plate, toaster oven and coffeemaker to cook with, I keep my cookery very simple!! In the winter I have a crockpot I make nice soups and stews with.
On another forum, I found an rv site. It has a section for recipes which I haven't read but which I hope will be helpful to OP. Here it is:
www.everything-about-rving.com/rv-7.html

jwal10 · #89 07/18/10, 09:45 AM

My grandmother made extra oatmeal or rice and fried it in butter for breakfast. Rice you just mix in an egg for binder, form into patties and fry. Oatmeal you line a loaf pan with saran wrap and pour the oatmeal in. refrigerate and slice to fry. Good with maple syrup, jam or fresh fruit. I like both just fried golden brown with hot stewed apples on top. That is how I like pancakes too. I like left over rice heated, add raisans and a teaspoon of brown sugar or maple syrup and milk....James

godswordfulled · #90 07/18/10, 11:57 AM

For each person chop 1/2 small onion and cube 1 smallish potato (leftover baked or boiled potatoes are the best, but raw works well too, just takes longer to cook). Heat a couple spoonfuls of oil and fry the potato and onion, if you like things a bit warm, dice come hot chile peppers and add to it. Cook until the potatoes are nicely browned and done all the way through. For each person beat up one egg, and then an extra egg to that (for example 2 people=3 eggs, 4 people=5 eggs, and so on). Pour the egg over the fried potatoes and onions and scramble as usual. Eat with some tortillas and beans on the side. You can also put some salsa on it as you are eating it or even top with some grated cheese if you eat dairy.