My wife occasionally makes popovers for breakfast, and if she bakes a dozen of them I am likely to eat 6 (or 8 if I can get away with it). They bake up with a hollow place inside, and a hole in the bottom. I use that hole to put in fruit preserves. mmmmmm!
^^^ I made Parmesan peppercorn popovers this weekend! And speaking of cinnamon toast I make a cinnamon sugar popover that is deadly delicious!
Banana pecan or sweet potato pecan pancakes with some salty meat on the side. It has been too long since I ate any of those. Alone at home with just health crazy H, I’ll settle for cinnamon toast.
I was making cinnamon toast for my daughter when she was about 5 or six. She was watching me and asked me how I knew how to make it. I told her my mother made it for me too when I was young. So she said “oh, it was a recipe that was passed down from generation to generation?”
I laughed at the time because I’d never used that phrase with her and wondered where she heard it. And also because I’m not a good cook and felt a little silly about cinnamon toast possibly being one of the few recipes that I might pass down to her!
But it seems cinnamon toast often brings back sentimental memories so I feel better about my sad contribution to her recipe collection!
Lol, I used to buy one box per year and we’d have it for breakfast on St Patrick’s day.
(What? There’s a leprechaun on the box; don’t judge me!)
Toast topped with chunky peanut butter and crisp bacon. The toast has to be hot out of the toaster so the peanut butter can get all melty.
Soooo much fat and soooo much salt, but delicious.
Leftover dinner. my go-to if it’s available.
Panko crusted eggs Benedict, which I order once a year at my favorite breakfast place. When we open up our vacation place each spring, we go out for breakfast the next day. I always have this. The eggs have a panko crust but they are still soft. (I have no clue how the do it) and they are served on top of an English muffin with spinach and sausage and topped with Hollandaise sauce.
Most of the above I wouldn’t feel guilty about.
I allow myself McDonald’s breakfast not more than one a year, with pancakes, scrambled eggs and hash browns. I don’t eat any pieces of meat that come with it.
I find it interesting that several of you have mentioned limiting what you consider to be less than healthy indulgences to once or a few times a year. I get McDonald’s breakfast after my fasting blood work twice a year. I eat a bag of Cheetos at a bbq lunch following a community service project day and another at a back to school event at my college. I never buy Cheetos for home. Usually, every June I buy a box of Drumstick ice cream cones and have been known to substitute a couple for dinner one night. After I scratch those itches, I’m good for whatever time period it is until it’s time to indulge again. It’s interesting hearing from those of you who do something similar.
One of my guilty pleasures is not for breakfast. Due to some kidney disease, my Nephrologist really is against soda that is not clear; she has no problem with Sprite, Ginger Ale, Fresca, etc…, but no Coke. I allow myself one Diet Dr. Pepper, and it can be caffeine free, when on vacation. As we do more car travel, and tend to stop for lunch on the road, usually it is at Chick-fil-a, where Diet Dr Pepper is available. You would not believe how much I look forward to that drink!
@Lindagaf you are not alone. Regular Cap’n Crunch was my favorite “junk food” cereal as a kid. We were never allowed those sugary cereals except for once a year at Christmas when we would each get a box of our favorite junk cereal. To this day, my mother still gives me a box every Christmas! My kids know not to touch it or I will kill them. Oddly, I don’t even really like cereal but there is something about Cap’n Crunch that is like crack to me.
My favorite is an everything bagel (hard to find really good ones here in SoCal) toasted with Kerrgold butter. I also like avocado toast with a fried egg, sharp cheddar cheese, red onion, arugula and tabasco sauce.
@showmom858, my kid has avocado toast with a fried egg and everything bagel topping (found at Trader Joe’s).
For me, my guilty fave is the biggest fluffiest cinnamon roll with cream cheese frosting that I treat myself to when we visit friends two hours north of us. There’s a popular cinnamon roll bakery with a perpetual line out the door. I’m lucky if I get one twice a year.
I only eat breakfast when I am away on vacation. My favorite would be any hunk of starchy item plus cinnamon plus sugar and cream cheese.
@showmom858 that avocado toast is not a guilty pleasure but instead a delicious hearty breakfast in the very best way!
@4kids4us , I gave my kids miniboxes for Christmas a few years back. They sat in the cupboard for ages before they mysteriously disappeared. Bwahaha!
Sunday mornings…champurrado (Mexican hot chocolate) and pan dulce (sweet bread) 