Breakfast.

I don't cook breakfast a lot.  I like coffee with my breakfast, and I sort of hate making coffee.  Also, I live within 2,612 (an estimation) diners, why bother?

Coffee cups though?  Yes, please.

Weekend Breakfast: The Brownstone

Any out of towner I have ever hosted has been taken to the Brownstone Diner for breakfast, and someone always gets the pancake wrap.  It's eggs, home fries, cheese, meats, whatever, wrapped up in a beautifully fluffy pancake.  I'm not one for pancakes or waffles for breakfast, but sometimes I just get in the mood, and the pancake wrap is one of the most amazing breakfast creations ever.  The Brownstone is known for their pancakes too, so it helps.

I always think of eating as buffet style, and I want a little bit of everything - even if it ends up biting me in the ass.  This morning I ordered a broccoli and mozzarella omelette with a side of home fries, wheat toast, and a short stack of pancakes.  Adam ordered a combo breakfast with scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage and waffles, so I got to get my morning meat fix in.  However, a short stack of pancakes proved to be too much for me, and I said to Adam that maybe if Americans toned down the portions of their six-egg omelette, home fries and pancake size, I would have been triumphant.

Until then, I will fail at my buffet style breakfast.

p.s. Do you know how Adam and I found out about the Brownstone?  Guy Fieri, the bleach blonde spikey haired backward sunglass wearing winner of the Food Network's The Next Food Network Star and host of Diners, Drive-ins and Dives.  We were watching an episode, and there he was making the pancake wrap.  I hate Guy, Adam loves him, but at least we both love the Brownstone.

Eggs!

In a previous post, I said I wanted to make this Baked Eggs in the Basket recipe.

My butter was too cold to butter the muffin pan as much as I should have, and I obviously scrambled them, but it's a pretty great simple recipe/idea.  I used whole grain bread, but I think white would be best.  Mine broke while I was forming it in the tin - perhaps too much super human strength?

I topped it with some chopped garlic chives and shaved piave cheese.

If I was ever willing to serve brunch, this would be an incredibly great idea.  But I'm not, and I never will. 

Sunday Breakfast

Scrambled eggs with broccoli.  Leftover herbed potatoes from dinner this week.  Rosemary sourdough.  And cup of black tea, not featured.

Baked Eggs

Can someone say Weekend Breakfast?

 

I'd scramble them though, because truth be told, runny yolk makes me gag.  Always has, always will, no matter how hard I tried to convince myself otherwise.