Looking for some lightness to chat about - and I’m not necessarily talking about calories.
Inspired by the Costco cake discussion and many saying “cake for breakfast!”
Do you have a guilty pleasure breakfast food? A creme filled donut every Friday? Chocolate chips in your oatmeal? Morning after pizza???
I was inspired by our cottage neighbors. Though there is a family of neighbors, when the mom and daughter (mom is a young early 70’s, daughter is mid 40’s) come to spend time at the cottage on their own they have a tradition of “pie for breakfast” every morning. Every. Morning. Once one pie is gone, there is a trip to the bakery for another flavor.
I support this and we now have a once-a-trip, pie for breakfast routine!!!
Bread fried in bacon fat. We had it for the first time on our honeymoon in Scotland. Ate it for breakfast every day for two weeks straight. Now it’s only on special occasions but YUM!
One year while preparing to check out of our yearly beach rental I found that we had most of a carton of Ice cream left in the freezer. There was no way in hades I would be willIng to toss that in the trash so that year we had ice cream for breakfast on our last morning at the beach. The kids were elementary school aged and you’d think they had died and gone to heaven!
Thus began the yearly tradition of ice cream breakfasts on the last morning of every beach vacation. The kids (now in their early 30s) still remember it fondly.
I don’t eat breakfast these days but my favorite, rare indulgences are cinnamon rolls with cream cheese icing or pecan sticky buns.
When the kids were younger, we’d spend a good portion of summertime in the midcoast Maine area and the local general store would make old fashioned cake donuts every Sunday morning. When we ate them, they were still warm and we enjoyed every messy, cinnamon-sugary bite.
My usual routine means eating the same darn thing for breakfast day after day. Zzzzz.
However, I will eat leftover Thanksgiving pumpkin pie for breakfast.
I have always loved cold salty pizza for breakfast, since my college days. I rarely eat pizza any more though.
A favorite from childhood was when my mom would make French toast.
I love donuts and other baked goods (but not so much cake with frosting). That is a rare indulgence.
I would make pancakes with coconut flakes and mini M&Ms and nuts, when the kids were wee. We would roll them up like a tortilla and eat them without syrup.
Lunch today included a toasted whole wheat bagel half with a thick slab of neufchâtel cream cheese. It tastes like a guilty pleasure, but the damage is not too bad at all.
We have a thing we call beach ziti. It’s simply pan sautéed with butter, leftover baked ziti in the AM for breakfast. Once or twice a year with the kids at the beach cottage. It’s stupid good.
I used to take my boys to the same coffee place in VA every morning of vacation(The Daily Grind). They had the BEST cinnamon rolls with exquisite cream cheese icing.
I’m not a big breakfast eater, but it there are filled donuts around, I’ll have one.
When my kids were younger, their guilty pleasure breakfast was having sugary cereals on vacation. We never had them in the house, so they were allowed them when we traveled. We have photos of S2, then 16mo, in a stroller at Disneyworld, carrying an empty, individual box of Frosted Flakes. It was like his security blanket.
Yes, those individual boxes of cereal that you would cut open on the front down the middle and then fold back the cardboard and fill with milk! My mom would only buy them when we were on a road trip.
Potatoes fried in peanut oil with lots of onions, and salt, ketchup and a little sour cream once they are done. Especially in the winter, but I had them just recently too. Not when it’s ridiculously hot out though.
Terrible, I know, but my sons love them, and I don’t see them as often as I’d like. It’s a special treat for all of us.
