Fast Food Breakfast

[shel]

Originally Posted by tigerwoman

bagel and cream cheese or flavored cream cheese - definitely a standby quintessential NYC breakfast or snack

A lot of times I'll zip down to the only decent bagel joint in the nearby area and grab a bagel with a flavored cream ceese, usually one flavored with lox trim or the other which is a chile-cilantro. Mmmmmm ....

Shel

[tigerwoman]

Originally Posted by shel

A lot of times I'll zip down to the only decent bagel joint in the nearby area and grab a bagel with a flavored cream ceese, usually one flavored with lox trim or the other which is a chile-cilantro. Mmmmmm ....

Shel

NOW that's American Fusion - New York meets Tex Mex.

I like the idea of chili cilantro cream cheese - that would make a great filling for an hors d'oeuvre...

[bluezebra]

Favorite fast food breakfast would have to be

1. Homemade breakfast tacos from the local taqueria (potato and egg, bean and egg and fresh salsa)

2. Bagel, cream cheese and lox with capers and onions (this place I used to go to would mix the onion and capers into the cream cheese then slather it onto the bagels and top with a couple slices of lox and close it with the top of the bagel, cut in half and there ya go...Bob's Your Uncle!

[shel]

Originally Posted by tigerwoman

I like the idea of chili cilantro cream cheese ...

The chile cilantro spread goes perfectly with their jalapeno bagel .... double mmmmm ... <LOL>

Shel

[shel]

Originally Posted by tigerwoman

NOW that's American Fusion - New York meets Tex Mex.
I like the idea of chili cilantro cream cheese ...

This place also has "fusion" bagels as well as the more typical NY style. An although I'm usually a traditionalist, their jalapeno bagel with chile cilantro cream cheese is one of my favorite bagel/cream cheese treats.

Shel

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[shroomgirl]

C ration eggs would be up for discussion about it actually be food....if so which food group....

ummm NY bagels, sesame with real cream cheese....thick please.
or even better white raising pumpernickle toasted with cream cheese shmeer....SilverPalate had the recipe in one of their early cookbooks, one where Julie and Sheila were partners still.

Pho, I'm with you.....brisket and extra tendon please.
congee with pork, green onions and cruellers.....little soy on top hold the black egg please.
dim sum, yep that too......ummmmmm........
Somehow STL missed the breakfast boat and I have no idea why.....the western USA has pie for breakfast, loads of fruit/yogurt/granola, interesting pancakes with various flours, fillings, syrups.......the south USA has biscuits with either gravy, jam or sorghum/cane syrup, grits, eggs sometimes hashbrowns.....New Orleans has beignets and creole brunch.....
we've talked NY treats.....

But STL, has negligable breakfast places, it stradles the Mason-Dixon line so is not really north nor south.....at one time there were an awful lot of German bakeries but not so much anymore.....actually not many bakeries at all.
everyday diner breakfast that is edible is a beautiful thing and not readily available here.

Still stand by the short order cook- food combo as an alltime treat though....it'd be exceptional if the food were good.

[shel]

Originally Posted by shroomgirl

But STL, has negligable breakfast places, it stradles the Mason-Dixon line so is not really north nor south.....at one time there were an awful lot of German bakeries but not so much anymore.....actually not many bakeries at all.
everyday diner breakfast that is edible is a beautiful thing and not readily available here.

I seem to recall a number of bakeries worth traveling from the county for in the area around Washington University. No more? I don't ever recall eating in a diner in STL.

Shel

[shroomgirl]

nope....Meyer's gone....Pan Dora gone....no bakeries worth mentioning in STL....now there is a very good one in Columbia, Mo and one 45 mintues away in Edwardsville....
nope no bakeries...Whole Food's breads are about the best commercially made around.
You are so very lucky to have all the great bakeries available to you...just at Ferry Plaza Market there are numerous bakerys I'd (and have) wax poetry over.

[shel]

Originally Posted by shroomgirl

nope....Meyer's gone....Pan Dora gone....no bakeries worth mentioning in STL....now there is a very good one in Columbia, Mo and one 45 mintues away in Edwardsville....
nope no bakeries...Whole Food's breads are about the best commercially made around.
You are so very lucky to have all the great bakeries available to you...just at Ferry Plaza Market there are numerous bakerys I'd (and have) wax poetry over.

Your post got me to thinking about the bakeries in the area, especially the bread bakeries. There are quite afew, all churning out some excellent loaves and pasteries (like brioche, croissants, and so on). There seems to be a "Berkeley" style baguette, but, upon reflection, many of the bakers got their start with Alice Waters or The Cheese Board, so there's some similarity in style, although with individual character. This morning I grabbed a Cheese Board baguette "piece" and got a little shmeer of natural cream chess to spread on it, sat down to enjoy the sun, and mentaly started counting the wonderful artisan bakeries that are located in the Gourmet Ghetto. We are lucky here ... but y'gotta realize that SF and the East Bay are truly "bread towns"

If you ever get out here I'd love to show you around the ghetto and some of the close by areas. If we look at Chez Panisse as Ground Zero, you can overload your shopping basket in just a few blocks <LOL>

Shel

[shroomgirl]

sounds wonderful. I owe Dr. Art Lang (Happy Apple farmer) an order of dried fruit. He has the most incredible dried satsumas...and the chocolate covered ones are exceptional.

[Chef Ladybug]

Originally Posted by shel

A lot of times I'll zip down to the only decent bagel joint in the nearby area and grab a bagel with a flavored cream ceese, usually one flavored with lox trim or the other which is a chile-cilantro. Mmmmmm ....

Shel

You've found my weakness.

That's the only thing that would make me eat breakfast, besides cream cheese and a fried-with-butter piece of Mucke Kielbasa ring with toast. But the bagel's #1. I like the veggie cheese cream + the yellow bagels. I'm sure it's psychological and the color tricks my brain into eating, but I won't have anything other than my yellow bagel.

Wistfully,
Chef Ladybug.

[shel]

What's a "yellow bagel?"

Shel

[Chef Ladybug]

They're not that strange. It's a bagel and it's yellow. I don't know what makes them that way.

[shel]

Originally Posted by Chef Ladybug

They're not that strange. It's a bagel and it's yellow. I don't know what makes them that way.

I've been eating bagels for sixty years and have never heard the term, never seen one. Seems very strange to me.

Shel