Breakfast is my favourite meal of the day, perhaps because it is associated with fond memories of my maternal grandmother. All the grandkids called her Mama. I’m not sure how that came about, but it’s what we called her. Anyway, I'm feeling nostalgia and decided to write a short post. Mama made the most delicious breakfast that, to this date, has never been surpassed. It was a simple breakfast of fresh-baked bread, sliced thick and slathered with salted yellow butter,…
I've cooked my bacon this way for several years. It's easy and simple. I like simple breakfasts. I like thick cut bacon but my family (except for my vegetarian wife) prefers the thinner slices. The bacon expert in the house, my daughter Kiran, says the thin slices cook more crisp. I'm still practicing and developing my technique for cooking super crispy bacon while preventing burning. But I think she's correct; the thicker cuts will produce chewier bacon while the thinner…
Thick-cut bacon, eggs, whole-grain toast and a mug of freshly brewed coffee. Good morning.…
Spinning Wheel Diner Spinning Wheel Diner, Lebanon, New Jersey - Eggs. Bacon. Sausage. Pork roll. Scrapple.…
Breakfast is commonly referred to as the the most crucial meal of the day. There is no scientific basis for that statement, but some research indicates that having breakfast may lower the risk of metabolic disorders and cardiovascular diseases. Some kind of breakfast is better than no breakfast. Growing up in the British West Indies, visiting my grandmother in the Grenadines meant a breakfast of fresh oven-baked bread or fried “cou-cou”, a fried “sprat”, and a large enamel mug of…
