On the Sublimity of Breakfast Food

I love Breakfast food! I eat it any time of the day or night. It is always so simple and so comforting. Whether it is one of my cheese omelettes with bacon bits, green onions, green peppers, and tomatoes; or just a cinnamon raisin bagel with cream cheese and brown sugar on top...I am in food heaven! Some of my good childhood memories involve me getting up when Mama was away at early morning mass and making oatmeal for twelve people, with plenty of brown sugar and cinnamon, nice and chunky-thick (My mom's style and mine). The American phenomenon of cold, sweet, cruncy cereal has effectively saved the students of this age from bad cafeteria food. Even today, after I have graduated from high-school and college and safe from bad cafeteria food forever, I still love slurping down some cereal when I am too tired or lazy to cook.

My best friend Nicole makes spectacular crepes; my future father-in-law made the most marvellous breakfast furtata; my future mother-in-law made an amazing breakfast enchilada, and my friend Sylvia makes a mean quiche!

I grew up in southern california, where a quick breakfast means eggo waffles, pop-tarts and toaster strudel. Living where I do now on the opposite coast, I have recently been converted to the idea of grits as a quick breakfast solution. My fiance is still telling me that I am crazy to think of mixing cheese or brown sugar with grits; because apparently the only orthodox way to eat grits is with butter, salt and pepper.

I think the most versatile breakfast food has to be eggs, though. They are so easy and you can top them off with practically anything. I love eggs with pico de gallo and guacamole and sour cream in a flour tortilla. Now that is a breakfast burrito!

There are some breakfast foods that you wonder how anybody who eats them ever gets out of bed, like pancakes, real belgian waffles, and donuts. I LOVE donuts! They are practically my favorite dessert, after ice cream. But I never eat them more than twice a year. I could image them as a treat or dessert, but not for regular breakfast. Christmas or Easter Brunch is fine though.

Don't get me wrong though, I am not mortally afraid of fat. I use real butter and I do not take out one of the yolks from my eggs in the morning, and I do not buy those fake eggs junk! My idea of a healthy breakfast is one that is not too too carb heavy, not too saturated in grease, not-pre-frozen, not overly processed,not high in MSG and artificial flavors...preferably with fruits and vegetables.

I love my morning juice too! Tomatoe juice, Orange juice, apple juice, grape juice, grapefruit juice, pineapple juice, carrot juice-I love them all.

People at college used to gape when I would come to breakfast with a cup of hot coffee, a cup of hot tea, a tall glass of water, a small glass of milk, and two glasses of two different kinds of fruit juice!