Breakfast

Do you know how to pronounce the word, “Compote?” Well…I didn’t for the longest time.  Like until just 5 minutes ago.   Sigh. I knew how to cook a compote and what it was and that I liked it on my pancakes.  But actually pronouncing it?  Not so much. At restaurants, I would kind of mumble [...]

I know, I know… I said I’d lay off the Breakfast posts for a while.  After the Crepes and the Hash Browns and the Corned Beef Hash.  Jeez. But, for whatever reason, I just can’t. I love breakfast.  Apparently. The sad thing is I didn’t even realize this was going to be a breakfast post [...]

I remember the first time I had corned beef hash… I was probably 10 or 11.  We (my parents and brother) were camping in our RV on vacation. My dad cooked us all breakfast one morning while we sat around the table.  He made corned beef hash and eggs. Not from scratch, however, but out [...]

Dustin and I have searched far and wide for a good breakfast burrito. This has been harder than you might think. We found it once in the back of a hole-in-the-wall liquor store in Carpinteria.  Man, those were good!  Greasy, but delicious. Sadly, we live so very far away now and can no longer get [...]

During the week, I am a happy camper to have my usual bowl of cereal with whatever fruit is on hand (usually bananas, strawberries or blueberries) along with my large cup of coffee for breakfast.  I probably could eat that every morning.  Dustin, on the other hand, has a self-imposed expiration date for how long [...]