Breakfast

Fresh ground coffee. The beans were roasted last week. When I get to work one of our Mexican Prep cooks makes us all breakfast. My favorite is roasted jalapenos, cilantro, and garlic. Throw that in the blender, then let it reduce and simmer. Then add some scrambled eggs. He usually makes this just for me. Not everybody can eat something that hot at 7:30 AM! Rolled up in a flour tortilla with that wonderful avocado salsa he makes, now that's the breakfast of champs!

[shroomgirl]

Thanks...live to cook....I would love to cook breakfast that is absolutely one of my favorite meals that is normally overlooked
or poorly done....using lesser quality ingrediants mainly....to keep costs down I guess.
Buffalo NY is Way to cold for me...I'm having a rough time with the 10" of snow with more coming in the next three days....cold toes and fingers are not my idea of a good time....I ski into trees and generally just enjoy apres ski, so much more than the actual skiing.
Kitchenmomma...how do you roast jalepinos without the fumes getting to you? I boil shrimp on the stove with Zatarans and cayene etc...and the fumes make me cough and cry and sneeze....if I were in LA> I would be doing this outside....with several buddies and several beers.

[Live_to_cook]

Shroomgirl, two things you mentioned I wondered if you might detail:

Nueske bacon?
Tony Chacere salt?

[Mezzaluna]

Nueske's bacon is a Wisconsin product-- the bacon is thick-sliced and smoky. I love to cook with it, but don't happen to like it for breakfast. If you can get any, try it. You'll probabaly love it! They also make sausage products. Hey, Cchiu, are they on the net?

[Isa]

Slices of batard toasted. A touch of butter and seedless raspberry jam. Served with a glass of ice cold milk and a fruit.

I like my breakfast simple.

[shroomgirl]

Nueskes...they have incredible bacon...lean well smoke just a great product. I found them at the Fancy Food Show 1999 in Chicago they sent me a wonderful pkg of smoked duck breast, hotdogs, brats and the bacon....I can get the bacon at a high end grocery here...$6.59 for 10oz retail...ouch yummm

Tony Chachere is a seasoned salt that any self-respecting Louisiana resident or past resident will have in their cupboard... it is an essential to cajun foods. < guess you could recreate it but WHY? it doesn't have a fancy chef on the front so it's a WHOLE lot cheaper than "those guys" who sell 1/2oz of season salt for $5.00 unreal!!!!

[cookM]

Originally posted by lynne:
I love breakfast for dinner, anyone else?

Me,me!!! I totally agree, Lynne. I don't make time distinctions when it comes to eating. I'll eat breakfasts at night, eat ribs, pizza, fried chicken in the a.m. My stomach doesn't have a clock, it just likes good food!

Try Cream of the West instead of Cream of Wheat or Oatmeal. This is a whole wheat hot cereal made in Billings MT. Safeway carries it, although not sure if they carry it throughout the country.

Fresh ground coffee is the only way to go.

I like a bit of fresh ground nutmeg in my French toast mixture.

[Nick.Shu]

hmm, tony chachere, ive heard that name before.

I must admit i do like zatarains seafood boil.

Do you guys use vampfire, batsbrew and daves insanity sauce?

Do you guys have a favourite blackening mix?.

roll on chilli.

[Nick.Shu]

oh yeah, while we are on the subject, i wouldnt mind a recipe for Huevos Rancheros, or at least a explanation - both if you're imbibed with the Xmas spirit.

Just very curious and hungry.

[shroomgirl]

Fried corn tortilla with an egg in the middle ringed by salsa....with or without guacamole with or without refried beans.

We have Dave's Insanity but I don't cook with it, I leave that up to my daring eaters to put on the amount thry desire...I have one guy I've cooked for weekly for 4 years...he likes food HOT> cayene, haberanos, jalepinos...etc He dared me once and only once have I made anything too hot for him....There comes a point in the cooking of his food that I do not taste it.
There have been times where my hands have gotten tingly for a few hours.

Blackening....look into Paul Prudhommes books. Nick-shu if you'd like I'll look it up. Is this something you want to do? It's an outdoor thing....cast iron cranked up on an outdoor burner so the fire alarms don't sound.

I love breakfast and all the things mentioned above, but let's face it; my breakfasts usually consist of coffee,cigarettes and Darvocet to dull the pain in my back. Not the breakfast of champions but it keeps me surviving.

[Nick.Shu]

well, i do have a fairly consistant and reliable blackening mix, its just that i would like to compare. My former employer and chef used to absolutely adore paul prudhomme and i regularly used to upset him by saying "does sir want a analogue wheelchair or a motorised one?"

I do like daves sauce but i am very prudent with its use - i.e. big pot, very few drops, if its not for me.

Huevos rancheros, well, sounds good - does matter how the egg is cooked? and does one perhaps give it some BBq sauce of some sort - tex mex perhaps.

Getting back to the spice, the chinese have a relatively nice chilli oil with dried chillis, fresh chillis, dried garlic, red onion and vegetable oil, just fry all of the above briefly and let steep after cooling - perhaps a new dish - scrambled eggs on fried thin egg noodles with crispy fried bacon strips/crispy fried smoked smoked ham strips drizzled with this oil.

Hehe, after working in a cajun rest, working with a thai chef, rediscovering some of my roots (cantonese chilli psycho) et al, let me have a go at your friend (hee).

Post note - there is a chilli recently discovered in india that leaves habaneros and jalapenos for dead - almost 10 fold on the nearest chilli in scoville units. apparently, this chilli is so potent, they have reserved it for treating alcoholics and men who mistreat their women.

[shroomgirl]

Hurray for India they have abused women in general for a long time.

Salsa is the Huevoes Ranchro sauce.
Eggs are usually fried (over easy)

We have a great import store that carries the brand you mentioned I will check out theXO.

Nick Shu:

Is the idea here with the hot Indian chili to burn the spouse abusers a new a**hole? If so, I like the idea.