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Fancy Breakfast Friday


I clearly need to work on my food photography because this is not pretty.  Part of the problem could be the black counters combined with my total lack of photography skill mixed with the fact that I maybe used a smidge too much cornstarch with the peaches.  But as they say, presentation is everything and I am not selling this one very well.

FANCY BREAKFAST FRIDAY!! This was a peach crisp that I whipped up when I realized it was Thursday and that I had no plan.  I’m on a kick to clean out the freezer, so this are local organic peaches… but from when?  (Christmas request – a label maker.)  Luckliy I had these peaches in the freezer, I assume it was a bag of 6 frozen peaches in a little sugar water, because I always freeze my peaches in groups of 6 as called for in my delcious peach cobbler recipe. Instead of the cobbler topping this time, I went with the recipe from the Homestar cookbook to make it more breakfasty.  I think I could probably share that recipe if I had it in front of me, but I don’t.  It’s very healthy.  So I took the part that called for honey and substituted brown sugar, and where it said olive oil, I used butter.  I served this warm from the oven with a vanilla yogurt topping.  I think it was a hit, but no one ever asked for more the next day.  I’m not sure if this is “out of sight out of mind” like with the beet cake or if this was “thanks but no thanks” like with the beet cake.

Fancy Breakfast Friday

 Wow! This week went by so fast and I am not sure what I have to show for it!  But I did go all out for #FBF last week – at Jack’s request we had breakfast burritos.  I made bacon and fried some potatoes (cheated with the store bought and I’m not sure it was a time saver). I also had red and green peppers, pickled onions, and refried beans, and scrambled eggs.  I got the tortillas at Costco that are uncooked and you cook them as you need them.  They are so so delicious and I have been eating a lot of quesadillas for lunch lately.

Once the boys were up they told me what they wanted in their burrito and I cooked their tortilla and assembled it to order.  So good.

Then Monday we had a little “last breakfast” for Luke because he got a new orthodontia thingy that makes it hard to eat.  I mixed everything (eggs, sausage this time, cheese, red and green peppers, and potatoes) together and pre made the burritos so they were ready when the boys got up – Monday’s are not leasurely.  Consequently Jack didn’t want his, which was fine with Dave and I because we both secretly planned to eat it later.  I tried to make Luke eat two burritos Monday before he had to subsist on smoothies, applesauce and pudding.  He only managed 1.5, but I had him finish the other half on the way into his appointment.

Fancy Breakfast Friday

Last weeks FBF was a bit rushed because I had to hurry the kids out the door to school, drop off the dog, and head to the airport for a getaway weekend with the hubby.  We went to a dear friend’s wedding party in NYC.  We’ve never left the kids or been to NYC so I was a little stressed.  I prepared by doing nothing and planning to wing it.  It worked out!

Fancy Breakfast Friday consisted of yogurt parfaits – blueberry/yogurt/homemade granola repeat with bananas then strawberries.  I am working on perfecting my granola recipe so I will share that at a later date.  It’s weird to me that the markup on store bought granola is 700,000% so I should do a cost analysis along with my recipe to see if I am missing something.   Our favorite yogurt is brown cow vanilla cream top.

Fancy Breakfast Friday

Simply Colorado is a cookbook I received at my wedding shower, 18 years ago.  It appears to be available on amazon for $0.01 at this time, which is a steal.  My go-to pancake recipe is from this book, and I love it because it uses 100% whole wheat, but the pancakes are still very light and fluffy.  It calls for blueberries, which  I usually have in the freezer, and buttermilk, which I rarely have on hand.  When I do have buttermilk, I make these pancakes and they are amazing.  When I don’t have buttermilk, I add a splash of white vinegar to regular milk and let it sit for a minute.

Fancy Breakfast Friday 

Fancy Breakfast Friday is going strong 3 weeks in.  Last week’s breakfast was blueberry buckle with vanilla crumb with a side of breakfast sausage and an egg made to order.  I had to go overboard on the protein since I was basically serving cake for breakfast.  The recipe is from this cookbook:  Rustic Fruit Desserts.  I’ve also made the strawberry shortcake from that cookbook and it is amazing.  I had mixed results with the plum cake.

This recipe is actually for a cranberry buckle, and the reason I initially made it was to use up cranberries during the holidays, but the cranberries were just way way too tart.  Blueberries make this perfect.  It also calls fora 9×9 pan, which I don’t have.  So I did a lot of calculations lxwxh, a=piR2 etc to convert 9×9 to either 8×8 or 10″ round or 9″ round.  I think I determined the 10 inch round pan was the way to go last time, but this time, I used the 9″ round because I seem to have short term memory loss. It turned out perfect and delicious, but I had to cook it for a year and a half, checking every 5 minutes to see if it was done.