Comments on: Food Monday ~ Breakfast Surprise http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2010/01/11/food-monday-breakfast-surprise/ I am not a has-been. I am a will be. Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance Tue, 22 May 2012 09:17:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Grannymar http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2010/01/11/food-monday-breakfast-surprise/#comment-28982 Grannymar Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:17:45 +0000 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/?p=6184#comment-28982 Margaret - That would make a very lunch for me! ;) Just toast the bread. Lunch made. :lol: I can't tolerate dairy products. :( Margaret - That would make a very lunch for me! ;) Just toast the bread. Lunch made. :lol:

I can’t tolerate dairy products. :(

]]> By: Margaret Kilgore http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2010/01/11/food-monday-breakfast-surprise/#comment-28980 Margaret Kilgore Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:47:57 +0000 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/?p=6184#comment-28980 Thanks for the follow up on "cheese and milk on toast". Here's the Kansas, I'm hungry and in a hurry, variation. Pop the bread in the toaster, pour about a cup of milk in a microwave-safe container, add chunked-up cheese (whatever is in the fridge) and nuke until milk is hot, cheese is melted. I prefer sweet cheese, but remember Grandma using cheddar. Pour over buttered toast, salt and pepper to taste. And you have it, a meal fit for a king or at least a cheese lover. Maynard could even do this!! For those on a diet, low fat milk and no butter. Thanks for the follow up on “cheese and milk on toast”. Here’s the Kansas, I’m hungry and in a hurry, variation. Pop the bread in the toaster, pour about a cup of milk in a microwave-safe container, add chunked-up cheese (whatever is in the fridge) and nuke until milk is hot, cheese is melted. I prefer sweet cheese, but remember Grandma using cheddar. Pour over buttered toast, salt and pepper to taste. And you have it, a meal fit for a king or at least a cheese lover. Maynard could even do this!! For those on a diet, low fat milk and no butter.

]]> By: Grannymar http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2010/01/11/food-monday-breakfast-surprise/#comment-28975 Grannymar Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:13:26 +0000 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/?p=6184#comment-28975 Maria, I bet the pancakes are extra special when your son John makes them. Mamosas..... Orange juice and Champagne, we call that Bucks Fizz. Maria, I bet the pancakes are extra special when your son John makes them.
Mamosas….. Orange juice and Champagne, we call that Bucks Fizz.

]]> By: Maria http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2010/01/11/food-monday-breakfast-surprise/#comment-28974 Maria Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:38:03 +0000 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/?p=6184#comment-28974 One of our newer traditions is Christmas morning breakfasts fixed by my son John. He makes Macademia nut pancakes while his wife, Kym fixes Mamosas for us (Orange juice and Champagne) and between the pancakes and the drink, we are ready to open present. I love blueberry pancakes. It has been a long time since I made anything from scratch, but maybe it is time I try the recipe. One of our newer traditions is Christmas morning breakfasts fixed by my son John. He makes Macademia nut pancakes while his wife, Kym fixes Mamosas for us (Orange juice and Champagne) and between the pancakes and the drink, we are ready to open present.

I love blueberry pancakes. It has been a long time since I made anything from scratch, but maybe it is time I try the recipe.

]]> By: Grannymar http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2010/01/11/food-monday-breakfast-surprise/#comment-28973 Grannymar Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:51:57 +0000 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/?p=6184#comment-28973 Magpie - I can always depend on you to come up with something unusual! Maynard - If I help you then there will be no praise! ;) Magpie - I can always depend on you to come up with something unusual!

Maynard - If I help you then there will be no praise! ;)

]]> By: Maynard http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2010/01/11/food-monday-breakfast-surprise/#comment-28972 Maynard Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:36:55 +0000 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/?p=6184#comment-28972 Grannyma, I have started to peel my potatoes, can you give me a hint on how to proceed? My wife is not home yet, and dinner is suppose to be ready when she arrives. Good Lord, what did I get myself into. Grannyma, I have started to peel my potatoes, can you give me a hint on how to proceed? My wife is not home yet, and dinner is suppose to be ready when she arrives.
Good Lord, what did I get myself into.

]]> By: Magpie11 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2010/01/11/food-monday-breakfast-surprise/#comment-28971 Magpie11 Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:33:44 +0000 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/?p=6184#comment-28971 Good, simple recipe.. In a minute I'll tell you about another syrup but Margaret: It sounds like a variation on Welsh Rarebit http://www.welshholidaycottages.com/food/welsh-rarebit.htm This version calls for beer (or milk) Now that syrup: Roundabout the end of February / beginning of March Go and find yourself a mature Birch tree. Drill a hole at a slight upward angle into the trunk to take a piece of plastic tubing (if you haven't access to laboratory supplies then fish tank tubing is great...same stuff really) push the tubing just into the hole. Hang a container bellow the hole and dangle the tube into it. Check regularly and you should find the sap from the tree running into the container. Collect the liquid. You can either use it to make Birch sap wine or boil it down to make Birch syrup. When you have finished tapping then stop the hole with clay (or some such) for future years. I was told how to do this by a rather lovely old Dene (DENNAY) Indian lady in Canada afew years back. I in turn told her about Birch Sap wine (Queen Vic's favourite apparently) Her comment to me was," DOn't tell the whites about that.They'll ruin our forests even more." I retorted that I am white and she said,"But you're different. We know that." Any way I keep trying to persuade the neighbours to let me tap their Birch tree. Good, simple recipe.. In a minute I’ll tell you about another syrup but

Margaret: It sounds like a variation on Welsh Rarebit

http://www.welshholidaycottages.com/food/welsh-rarebit.htm

This version calls for beer (or milk)

Now that syrup: Roundabout the end of February / beginning of March
Go and find yourself a mature Birch tree. Drill a hole at a slight upward angle into the trunk to take a piece of plastic tubing (if you haven’t access to laboratory supplies then fish tank tubing is great…same stuff really) push the tubing just into the hole. Hang a container bellow the hole and dangle the tube into it. Check regularly and you should find the sap from the tree running into the container. Collect the liquid.
You can either use it to make Birch sap wine or boil it down to make Birch syrup. When you have finished tapping then stop the hole with clay (or some such) for future years.
I was told how to do this by a rather lovely old Dene (DENNAY) Indian lady in Canada afew years back. I in turn told her about Birch Sap wine (Queen Vic’s favourite apparently)
Her comment to me was,” DOn’t tell the whites about that.They’ll ruin our forests even more.”
I retorted that I am white and she said,”But you’re different. We know that.”
Any way I keep trying to persuade the neighbours to let me tap their Birch tree.

]]> By: Grannymar http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2010/01/11/food-monday-breakfast-surprise/#comment-28970 Grannymar Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:59:20 +0000 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/?p=6184#comment-28970 Maynard - I was out round the countryside drumming up some support for you! :lol: Ramana - Enjoy! Alice - We do have Buttermilk in Ireland, a very important ingredient for wheaten bread and many other recipes. Brighid - I mother's motto was 'A little of what you fancy, does you good!' She didn't believe in diets or having a weighing scales in the house. We are all greyhounds. Maynard - I was out round the countryside drumming up some support for you! :lol:

Ramana - Enjoy!

Alice - We do have Buttermilk in Ireland, a very important ingredient for wheaten bread and many other recipes.

Brighid - I mother’s motto was ‘A little of what you fancy, does you good!’ She didn’t believe in diets or having a weighing scales in the house. We are all greyhounds.

]]> By: Brighid http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2010/01/11/food-monday-breakfast-surprise/#comment-28969 Brighid Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:49:54 +0000 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/?p=6184#comment-28969 Lover of pancakes here. Make them with choc chips, or bananas, or peaches, or blueberries, or plain. Will have to check out George's. I'll diet tomorrow... or the next day... or not. Lover of pancakes here. Make them with choc chips, or bananas, or peaches, or blueberries, or plain. Will have to check out George’s. I’ll diet tomorrow… or the next day… or not.

]]> By: Alice http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2010/01/11/food-monday-breakfast-surprise/#comment-28967 Alice Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:19:37 +0000 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/?p=6184#comment-28967 My hubby makes breakfast every morning now. It more than compensates those 100 plus years I got up at 5:30 or 6 am and made coffee, cooked breakfast for all and made up lunch bags for the girls to take to school. How I longed for the day I could sleep in until 7! He makes blueberry (or some kind) of pancakes usually once a week, but doesn't separate the eggs like George does. He does produce a wonderfully soft pancake by using low- or non-fat buttermilk (or sour milk) instead of regular. I wonder if you have the equivalent in Ireland? My hubby makes breakfast every morning now. It more than compensates those 100 plus years I got up at 5:30 or 6 am and made coffee, cooked breakfast for all and made up lunch bags for the girls to take to school. How I longed for the day I could sleep in until 7! He makes blueberry (or some kind) of pancakes usually once a week, but doesn’t separate the eggs like George does. He does produce a wonderfully soft pancake by using low- or non-fat buttermilk (or sour milk) instead of regular. I wonder if you have the equivalent in Ireland?

]]>