Breakfast of Champions, a freewrite
A day does not go by but with some time carved out for my breakfast. This is my church, my religion. Breakfast is sacrosanct. Pastries are my love language.
I begin each day with a salad. That’s right, a salad. When lettuce is abundant in my garden, my salad is huge. Other days, when my harvest has been skimpy, it might be only a leaf or two. In very dry greenery seasons, fruit will have to do, or a Wegman’s-procured avocado. But every single day, I begin with a salad of some sort.
I know people who would look askance at this very sensible way to begin a day, carnivores mostly. It certainly keeps me regular, no complaints in that department. Can a carnivore boast the same? It’s what comes after the salad that others might find me in grave error, especially carnivores, those carb-phobic self righteous numskulls.
During the salad course, I peruse my emails, all three of them. One of those is AOL if you can believe that. I love that account and its nearly 5000 unread emails, many of them left unread so that I would get back to them when I could. Old friends searching us out from Germany, old employees wanting to reconnect. I have twenty years of saved emails to get back to someday. That’s going on my bucket list.
On to the morning entree!
I must have a sweet with my morning half-cup of coffee. Not terribly sweet, though. Nor horribly big. Lots of fat, butter preferred. Enough to dribble down my chin is always nice. I go through a lot of butter. It’s the one and only thing in a grocery store that I buy extra of if it’s on sale.
A bite of sweet swished down with a whoosh of hot coffee. Bite, swoosh. Bite swoosh. I make sure the last bite of pastry is the perfect bite, just the right balance of all the components. I savor that last chomp fully. Then the very last swoosh of coffee. And that is that.
This is my entry to @mariannewest's daily freewrite challenge. Today's prompt is no time for breakfast.
Your description of that morning pastry made my mouth water. : ) It reminded me of a little patisserie we found in Montreal. My Mom is the same way with butter. Her freezer looks a little like the vaults at Fort Knox because she has so many packages of Kerry Gold in it.
hahahaha! My freezers look the same! And somehow I manage to sometimes run out of the stuff. Everything tastes better with butter. I even melt some to put it on my dog's food if she refuses it. The vet says she's a tiny bit overweight, so perhaps when she refuses she's really saying she is full.
I love it too! I'm making up for lost time because butter was demonized for so much of my life.
I'm a carnivore!
My "normal" for breakfast right now is yogurt with a sprinkle of ceylon cinnamon and if there are blackberries or grapes in the frig, a few of those on top. I usually have a side of some sort of nuts, the kind of which rotates.
I was trying to remember if I ever had salad for breakfast. I can't remember a time, but I'm sure I can't remember every breakfast I ever had. I may have had some leftover taco salad a morning or two.... maybe.
I save my carnivoring for lunch and supper. 😄
Oh... and pass the butter please! I love that stuff. When I was growing up we used more margarine (yuck) but I didn't know better. My Dad loved butter because he was raised with it, but when I would try a tiny taste of it, back then compared to margarine I thought it tasted strange. Now though, all I want is real butter and no skimping!
Whoops! Sorry about the little insult. I do respect any diet, as long as those diets are not pushed on me. Do you do it for health? I know it would be beneficial for a lot of disease states, such as diabetes and cancer, but don't see any reason to do it unless there is a condition that needs to be ameliorated.
I eat what most people my age consider to be a tremendous amount of animal protein. Every single day, at least twice a day. A common afternoon snack is a hunk of cold meat, whatever I had cooked the night before. Eggs, yogurt, cheese, even sardines now and then. I've lost my taste for chicken, and have to choke that stuff down if that's all there is.
I guess I just mean I eat meat daily. 😄
I didn't take anything like an insult. I don't ever take things too personal unless someone is talking to me directly and they mean for me too. LOL! It must be awful to be offended by the whole world, which seems to happen to some these days.....but anyway....not me!
I do also have diabetes. Growing up it seemed my Mom always decided the entree (main dish) first (not out loud) and then decided the side dishes or bread or the such that would go with it. The entree was nearly always some sort of meat or included some meat. I suppose I have pretty much done the same along the way. I suppose I do have some meals that are a little meat heavy, depending on what else is here. I also try to have a variety of vegetables & etc, going very low on potatoes, pasta & rice.
I don't eat as much chicken as I used too, but I still try to keep it in the rotation once in a while.
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I have nothing against carbs, @owasco, but if I had a carb breakfast they'd probably have to scrape me off the floor. I need protein or fat with my carbs. I'm not diabetic but I do handle sugar (glucose) oddly.
As for butter...we go through bins of it. I especially load it up in my husband's food because he can use the extra calories, and he doesn't like big meals. So I concentrate those calories as much as possible.
Eggs, also. We eat eggs, mostly scrambled and cooked in...butter!
You're right. The lettuce just doesn't look appetizing as my first meal of the day. Interesting. Maybe because you grow it you have a special relationship :)
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I do like salad, but probs not for brekky. I do like savoury - I think congee is my favourite! - but tend to yoghurt, homemade muesli and berries or in winter, oranges...
I sometimes use yogurt with fruit, or oatmeal, as my sweet course. Once I started with salad as my first course, I couldn't stop. Doctor Andrew Kauffman suggested it to me, he thinks it's a liver cleansing way to start the day.
The body wants what it needs, if we listen, right?
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I can't face a salad for breakfast. Lunch, yes. Dinner, yes. But not first thing in the morning. I eat meat nearly every day, and do not apologize for it. Nor do I tell vegans and vegetarians they ought to eat like I do, because I find it very annoying when they preach at me about eating like they do. Eat what is available, what you like and what you can afford. (Bearing in mind, of course, that not all three of those qualifications may happen at once.)
I didn't have any greens this morning, so I had to go straight to the heavily buttered muffins! Poor me!
Carnivore - I can't grow my own meats, I'm not even allowed to have chickens in this village, so vegetables are a must if I am to have any kind of self-sufficiency in the food department. Fortunately, there are a lot of great farmers around here for me to buy very high quality meats from. I want for nothing.
I so agree about people pushing their diets on me!
I agree entirely. I always have greens with my breakfast scrambles. I have at least 10 different salad greens in my greenhouse at the moment.
