The “Water Cooler” is a feature on Claycord.com where we ask you a question or provide a topic, and you talk about it.
The “Water Cooler” will be up Monday-Friday at noon.
Today’s question:
What is one breakfast item you wouldn’t ever want to live without?
Talk about it….
this is a cruel question…. All of them, of course, but it asks for ” 1 “….. too much pressure… Coffee!
Coffee – YES!
BACON!!! Hands down!!! I want some now.
I Agree!!
Bacon just isn’t for Breakfast,…and that a goodthing!! 🙂
Waffles, bacon,country potatoes and scrambled eggs are among my favorites. Cannot have them regularly, but once in awhile it’s nice to have.
Oatmeal. Yum. 🙂
Corn-beef hash.
Cold cereal !
Crepes, Bloody Marys, Cinnabon (better than the new Cinnaholic downtown Concord), oatmeal with chopped apple/cinnamon/sliced almonds, Yum!
Yeah,…not crazy about the buns at Cinnaholic. Have you tried the cinnamon buns at Denica’s, off of Oak Grove or at Panera Bread?
Both are Yummo,…might say, a bit better than Cinnabon.
The yolk of an over easy fried egg, hash browns and ketchup together. Favorite taste ever. However I eat cereal in the morning.
B A C O N !!
Coffee. I drink breakfast.
I love eggs Benedict but there’s nothing like a crisp waffle.
I love breakfast, when l cook at home, l often have eggs (scrambled or poached) toast with cheese and jam (fontina or havarti from my native country Denmark) and this time of the year, cantaloupe and straw or raspberries. I only eat bacon when l travel and at chrismas. .Eggs benedict is my favorite, l lived in New Orleans years ago and there was a restaurant that was famous for their version of eggs benedict, called eggs husard. The restaurant was Brennan’s.
Eggs
I eat Pun Cakes for breakfast
I like coffee so I can get mugged
I like cereal cause I can be a cereal killer
I like digital egg so I can crack the code
I am a professional toastmaster by burning my toast
I did not see nothing for breakfast so I am going down the muffin.
I burned my computer so I had Hack-Brown for breakfast.
for cereal I had Cilantro toast crunch for breakfast.
for hot tea I had peanut butter tea for breakfast
I ran out of syrup instead I put soy sauce and butter on my waffle.
I did not eat french toast because french toast did not have his/her passport from France.
I dated a gal name Mary but i broken up with Mary because she was bloody so I had Virgin Bloody Mary for drink for breakfast.
Seriously, are you just “slow”?
to Clayton Pete LOL
Coffee and kippers.
I almost never eat breakfast, so – caffeine?
Love pork sausages..
I usually have pancakes with fruit mixed into the mixture for extra flavor and moisture. Sometimes I’ll toss a couple of fried eggs on top of them, that way there’s no need for butter and syrup. I don’t eat lunch so I like to have a filling breakfast to hold me over till dinner time.
If I had my druthers, I’d have eggs Benedict, but alas, way too much saturated fat and calories to eat everyday.
Trivia: Did you know breakfast means break fast? By eating breakfast you are breaking the fasting period of the prior night.
All I ever want is my great big cuppa.
Me, too! (Well, that’s the thing I want EVERY morning.)
Cheers!!!
Æbleskiver
Are you danish? Er du dansk?
✔️ Mmmmm! Æbleskiver! ♥️ Better than donuts.
Back in Vietnam, we refused to adapt our lifestyle overseas to the way of the Viet, wanting to keep the memory of our home back in America alive. Because of this, we resisted adapting to the 14 hour time difference. We’d eat our dinner for breakfast each day, so we could still “have dinner with our families”. My favorite was the lasagna. To this day, I still eat lasagna for breakfast a few days a week.
With bacon? Actually sounds pretty good 🙂
SOS
I’m with you Concord Grape. Toast…swimming in SOS. Sliced tomatoes on the side. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Definitely SOS. Haven’t had it in 55 years but it was something the G.I. cooks seemed unable to mess up.
Ate a lot of SOS growing up. Prepared by my Grandma Hansen, usually for lunch, and spooned over buttered toast and topped with some hot sauce or homemade salsa. She made the best white sauce with butter, flour, whole milk, extra black pepper. She cut up the chipped beef with a big pair of scissors. The chipped beef came in small plastic packages I don’t remember the brand.
Ah…Mary. They only call that “white sauce” in the cook books. But if you’re country-grown….it’s called “Poor Man’s Gravy.”
Coffee with half and half. Make a pot of old fashion drip coffee made with freshly ground coffee beans from Mother Lode Coffee in Sonora, and a few shakes of cinnamon.
Mother Lode beans makes the best coffee I’ve ever had. I order from their website.
well Mary, you must be a youngster. Drip is not old fashion; Perked is.
@S – Ah, the Percolator! I stand corrected.
As a young kid growing up (I’m 53), a relative had a European style Percolator. I don’t remember much about it, but it had 2 levels, and I think (not sure) it was heated on the stove. I seem to remember water being forced up from the lower urn and into the top urn above where the coffee was made.
Mary – What you mention is not exactly a percolator, it was by Proctor Silex and was heated on the stove, steam forced the water up the tube into the removable top section where the ground coffee was. When the heat was turned off, the bottom would cool allowing water mixture to drain back down through the filter into the lower section. The top part containing the grounds was then removed. Just saw one for sale on eBay.
I suppose it could be called a drip/percolator hybrid.
Kirkwood – That is the exact description, prompted from my memory. Thank you for reminding me of the good old days. 😀.
Beer and cold pizza.
Olive Garden!
Biscuits and Gravy. Was introduced to it at a hotel in Denver while driving back my special car purchase from Kansas.
Communist socialist cheese
It’s easy to make
Hard to digest
And has a bitter middle
Plus it makes a great grilled chese sandwich
After you’ve waited in line for 4 hours
for bread
Instead enjoy helpful American government surplus cheese after we propped up dairy farmers, stored it for years and gave the moldy junk to the poor and told them to be grateful. Bon appetit!
Funny how time affects that answer. Twenty years ago I would have said a Marlboro and a cup of coffee so strong it was flammable. Nowadays it’s green tea and high fiber, no sugar, cereal with organic skim milk followed hopefully, by a good bowel movement. Pathetic.
HA!,…You made me laugh!
Forty years ago it would have been a couple of bong hits and “rocket fuel” coffee… Wake and bake!
High fiber is always good but after breakfast you should walk your dog around the block …by the time you get back you’ll both…. well, let’s say…drop some weight.
Thirty minutes on an exercycle every morning with your second cup of coffee, and spare the poor dog your grief!
I told ya’ this question is just to hard…. GRITS! Ya’ gotta have Grits! and don’t be trying to fool anyone with cream of wheat….
With bacon or sausage gravy on the grits. Make it special with a couple of fried eggs over easy.
Much better with red-eye gravy!
Anonyx for the win!…. red eye gravy made from salt-cured country ham!
Well alright!! I just learned a new Southern US regional dish I’ve never heard of before. I looked it up, and I can’t imagine how it tastes. I’ve gotta try that one. Thank you, Anonx
@Silvia. the red eye is among mainstays. several variations. start with the basic grease and coffee first, so u know the true original, then play with it… u may find additives u like, but the basic with a big dash of pepper does it for me…
Mmm, that REALLY sounds like a wonderful way to balance the sweetness I’ve been wanting my whole life. The very next time we have ham!!
Pea Green Soup….breakfast, lunch & dinner.
or
A breakfast burrito once in awhile, with bacon hash browns a scrambled egg maybe a bit of shredded cheese & some tomato…. but the one thing I could never do without…..lotsa coffee!
Pea Soup Andersen’s offers pea soup with breakfast.
And coffee doesn’t count as breakfast. Coffee is coffee.
Eggs and pork sausages.
All right then, Cowellian. I’ll change my answer to Florentine Eggs Benedict as served at Min’s Kitchen (on Clayton Rd. in El Monte Plaza).
There are so many great breakfast foods that, if one wasn’t available, another would substitute. One of my favorites is crepes with berries. I make the crepes myself. They aren’t that hard with the right recipe. I would normally say coffee would be the one breakfast staple I would not want to do without, but I haven’t been able to drink it lately because of the xanthine alkaloid. But, I’m ok with that for the time being. Tom Brady doesn’t drink coffee either, and he does quite well without it.
Preferring not to heat up the house these hot summer days with the oven, I make bacon in the microwave, between paper towels, about one minute per slice. If not to desired crispness, I cook in additional thirty seconds shots until it is. Most of the fat is retained in the paper towel, but draining on another fresh paper towel gets rid of any residual grease..
enjoying this topic…. on my 3rd cup now….
Baked Bacon – For you bacon lovers out there, have you ever baked your bacon rather than frying it? This is the only way I prepare bacon now. Easy, no splatter mess on stove, and you can always have bacon on hand.
Bacon (I usually use Daily’s Thick Cut Bacon)
1 rimmed sheet pan lined with parchment paper
Oven: 350* F
Place bacon on sheet pan, trying not to overlap too much. Bake in oven, flip bacon over over after about 15 minutes. Bake to desired crispness and drain on paper towels. Baking time will vary depending on thickness of bacon and how crisp you like your bacon. Start checking for doneness at 25 minutes.
For bacon not immediately consumed, wrap in a foil pouch and place in freezer. Remove baked bacon pieces as needed from freezer. Place on plate in microwave covered with a paper towel. Bacon will be hot and ready to eat in about 1 minute.
Agreed….I love cooking bacon in the oven….its good in the air fryer too for smaller batches 🙂
Indeed, the best!! Also, If you don’t want a messy stove and/or are short on time, lay the bacon on a couple paper towels and cover with one more layer of towels and cook in the microwave. It only takes a couple of minutes, give or take, depending on how much and how you like it, and you must check it after that. It comes out evenly cooked and nice and flat.
Thanks for the information on bakin’ bacon. I’ve wondered about that.
I am confused though. What is this bacon not immediately consumed of which you speak?
Cowellian – I know, right?! I actually thought about putting a joking comment into my post just as you reference. Something like “For any leftover bacon, which there almost never is, you can freeze it.” But you say it better!
Grits, bacon, eggs