I just love breakfast. Although I've not tried tamales and beans, I like them both so why not. We had left over sausage gravy, fried eggs and I made a big pan of biscuits. Love those carbs. LOL I always make a lot of biscuits and freeze what we don't eat for that meal. They really come in handy when you have a lot going on or if you don't have anything.

How do you reheat the biscuits jude31? I have thought I would like to make some to go in the freezer and just never have. I have a recipe for Angel biscuits that has a little yeast in them and you can refrigerated the dough and use as needed but I thought how nice it would be to just make them up and freeze them....Glenda at the KT said Mary B's frozen biscuits are really good ...I've never bought a biscuit but I suppose some do. I even like bisquick biscuits...

ruthieg, I totally bake them, let them cool, put them in a zip-lock bag and squeeze the air out. Then when I want to have them out of the freezer, I take as many as I need out of the freezer and wrap them, frozen, in aluminum foil and put in the toaster oven for about 15 min on 350. Ovens will vary of course but probably not that much. I use self-rising, White Lily flour and just add shortening and milk. They're probably a little bit better than Bisquick but Bisquick is pretty good. If you try them let me know what you think.

I add dried buttermilk to bisquits. Only issue for me is lactose intolerence, which requires lactaid pills to counteract the effect. Soon, I must make a big batch of breakfast sausages, as I have almost run out again. The breakfast sausage batch will probably be about 20 pounds, mostly links and a few patties.

I love cold pizza for breakfast. I also am prone to have just a slice of cheese on a piece of dry toast with a little jam. Not much of an egg kinda person either ruthie. Finding something on the menu when going out to breakfast was always a problem until I found I could special order a plate of fresh sliced tomatoes with sausage gravy over it all, and sometimes with cottage fries, but hold the biscuits. I guess in the South that can happen but probably not in the North or West.

Nancy

Or peanut butter toast and an apple, or cheese toast with fresh fruit....there's no end to the variety of foods that are good for breakfast. Nancy, my middle daughter loves leftover pizza for breakfast as well. When my girls and I were in New England last year she had leftover fish tacos for breakfast. I just might draw the line there.

jude

Anyone else like grilled peanut butter and banana sandwiches for breakfast? Grilled tuna salad or chicken salad sandwiches are great too. Toss them into the Forman grill and 5 mins. later they are ready to eat. ;)

Dave

Dave,
I also like grilled peanut butter sandwiches but I spread some of my banana split conserve on it which is my excuse not to buy fresh bananas.

Nancy

Gosh, we eat all kinds of things here for breakfast. We are quite fond of various hot grain cereals, and do like the traditional eggs and bacon/ham/spam/sausage/hash etc. breakfast as well.

But, sometimes I crave miso soup and rice for breakfast. I have eaten a wide variety of leftovers for breakfast, from spaghetti with meat sauce to chicken and dumplings...anything that sounds good.

I love hot cheese bread too...if I have some good bread on hand, I like to toast it, top it with cheese (good cheddar, brie, Swiss, gouda, whatever) and melt the cheese under the broiler element of my toaster oven. Such a simple food, bread and cheese, but eminently satisfying.

I also love Raggedy Rice Patties. It's a variation of potato pancakes but I find it sticks really good with me. The egg yolks can get used in a pudding, brushed on bread before you bake it or fed to the dogs.

2 cups cooked brown rice
1 medium carrot, shredded
1 small onion, finely chopped and sauteed until soft
1/4 tsp garlic powder
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper
1/4 cup + 2 tbsp whole wheat or brown rice flour
4 egg whites

Mix everything together. Heat on medium a non-stick skillet that has been lightly wiped with some olive oil. Drop 1/4 c. of batter for each pancake and flatten with spatula. Cook about 4 - 5 minutes and flip if brown enough; cook another 2-3 minutes or until done.

I make them all at one time and reheat for the next few days. I have them with a little applesauce or light sour cream.

This makes 3 servings and each serving = 4 points.

Here is a link that might be useful: Chocolate Pudding / Cooking Light August 2006

Reading these answers reminded me of another breakfast situation.

My husband and I are Amateur Radio Operators and my husband is a contester. We went with a group of people to Palau and set up a radio station and worked other radio operators all over the world. While we were there we kept going to a little local place to eat breakfast, eggs etc etc but all the locals were eating this big bowl of soup...a broth with vegetables and noodles. It looked wonderful. I can't remember if it had meat in it but I guess it did but mostly veggies and noodles I think...Anyway about the third day we all started eating the U Dong noodles. I think that is what they were called...It's been a long time now.........

I love breakfast. All kinds of breakfast.

Traditional egg-and-sausage, yum! (Especially if I don't have to make it---I love going out for eggs; it seems sad to START the day with pans to wash.)

Cold pizza, yum!

Leftover pasta, yum! (The raggedy rice patties make me think of a family I was mother's help for in my teens, who used to have "eggighetti" for breakfast the morning after a pasta meal.)

Asian noodles, yum! (A friend who lived in Indonesia introduced me to Nasi Goreng, apparently traditional breakfast there.)

Baked goods, yum! (We love biscuits, too! And I often write here about churning out zucchini bread in the summer to fill the freezer for mornings like this one; there are a couple of slices warming in the toaster oven now, and we'll open a jar of apple-blackberrysauce to go with.)

Bagels with cream cheese and smoked salmon, yum! (My siblings and I had this on Christmas morning, with some cranberry-walnut bread and a fruit plate.)

Breafkast burritos, yum!

Are you getting the idea that I love breakfast? It was always a close contender for my fave meal of the day. But I developed a special sentimental affection for it the year that my now-husband and I lived in separate places in Toronto. After a year of long-distance relationship, he moved there to be near me, but had his own place. We used to arrange to spend about half the nights of the week together at one place or another, and, wanting to put off parting, developed a habit of sharing breakfast together---going out to local diners or hanging out at a kitchen table.

It was a lovely, romantic time for us. We both worked freelance and neither was an early starter, so we'd often be working into the early evening, and so for us having breakfast together became like having dinner together is for many couples, kind of a bonding thing.

Now we're married and share a house, but some of the instinctive good feeling about breakfast remains....

Zabby

I smiled all the way through this post! I'm a cold pizza fan myself, but will pretty much eat anything that isn't tied down. I'm supposed to be dieting and they say eating breakfast is mandatory, even if you're not hungry. The problem arises that DH just ISN'T a breakfast person, so I'm back to the cold pizza.

My favorite is just fried eggs light on the flip side with a grind of black pepper. Placed flat on bread that has been toasted only one one side, then buttered side up. I eat around the white, then eat the whole unbroken yoke in one bite which has not hardened. Next comes hash browns. I usually peel red skin potatoes, then cut in small pieces about an inch or less. They get browned on oil, and are flipped several times, then chopped onion is added half way through. Served with ketchup.

Just saw this thread, can't resist adding to it. I love breakfast!

My usual is hot tea with one of the following: homemade granola with jam stirred in, toast with jam, or plain Traderspoint Creamery yogurt with jam. (Traderspoint is a local Indiana dairy).

All just an excuse to eat my homemade jam, as you can see.
When I go out, it's biscuits and gravy all the way.

I also love cheese grits, but that tends to be a lunch for me. Mostly becuase it isn't as good with jam. :)

Here is a link that might be useful: Traderspoint Creamery

I make Canadian bacon from whole boneless pork loins. The cost for the loins are under $2 a pound and once injected with the curing brine and baked very slowly in a low oven, you ened up with maybe 10 pounds of very lean bacon. I slice and freeze portions in Food Saver bags. Price Canadian bacon in supermarkets and its usually about $4 or more per pound. Looks like ham but with no bones and no fat. Hickory smoked and or maple cured are good too.

The Hubbard squash were a success this year, so make a big batch of pumpkin/squash waffles - cook and freeze. For breakfast, heat one in the toaster oven - turn a few times to crisp em - serve with my home-canned fruit in light syrup - peach, pear, apple - and a dollop of sour cream or fresh made yogurt. All "natural" as they say.

Also like granola made with lots of summer dried fruits - like plum, strawberry, apricot - and toasted macadamia nuts - all back yard home stuff. (Can't you see my halo?).

Bejay

OMG, I want to have breakfast at Bejay's, LOL.

I don't get too carried away, gotta punch a clock 5 days a week after all. So after a big mug of strong British black tea with milk midweek breakfasts look like this:
1) Fruit smoothie (if I remember to soak almonds the night before). Fav is banana, mango, strawberry & lime (in almond milk base). Another fav is pistachio but it's more work as baby coconuts are involved (but amazing flavor - I must work this into a pie or preserve somehow).
2) Old fashioned oatmeal. I grew up with just butter and milk topping, never got used to sweet porridge.
3) Plain, whole milk yogurt (Strauss) with honey or granola.
4) 2-egg omelet, Julia Child style (shake the pan alot) - I like to squeeze some orange juice over it after noticing that part of my restaurant scrambled eggs touching the orange slice garnish tasted pretty good.

Weekends aren't much better, after the tea I'm off and running, usually around noon I feel hungry and just have lunch. Now that I'm learning how to make jam, toast and jam is always an option but not just for breakfast - any time of day.

I'm not a big breakfast eater because I'm not hungry until about 10 a.m. and by that time I'm at the office.

I tend to get into a "rut". For about 2 years I had a whole grain English Muffin with peanut butter for breakfast. Then, for several months it was fruit with my homemade yogurt and a sprinkle of homemade granola for crunch.

I like eggs, pancakes, muffins, potatoes, but I usually eat those for supper.

My daughter Ashley liked very unconventional breakfast foods, she'd have a grilled cheese sandwich and chicken noodle soup most mornings all the way through high school. She also put a banana, a spoonful of peanut butter, some milk and a squirt of Hershey's syrup in the blender and made smoothies. My other daughter, Amanda, liked cold meatloaf sandwiches or leftover pasta.

My grandkids like bacon and waffles, mostly because I have a waffle iron that makes waffles shaped like pigs, chickens, cows and barns. They won't touch my grade B maple syrup, thankfully, they opt for Mrs. Butterworth's or some of my homecanned blueberry syrup that I make from Linda Lou's recipe.

Annie

Oh, and I forgot my favorite breakfast through high school: baked beans on a slice of homemade bread. Just fold it in half and go!

Annie