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Re: What's for Breakfast? « Reply #360 on Sept 14, 2011, 10:13am »
Yesterday's dinner with some clients. Nice!
Grilled prawns till you drop, also available 'big shells' and 'big head' prawns.
Sushi stuff, I think the correct term may be maki but I'm just an average Joe sushi eater, also some sashimi and very average, not to say tasteless, oysters.
From top, clockwise, then center. Mussels with stuff, raw prawns Koh Kong style, steamed, I think, garoupa, 'pig nerve', seriously, that was on the sign, steamed silken tofu with shrimp filling.
Re: What's for Breakfast? « Reply #361 on Sept 14, 2011, 10:43am »
Hwinpp - Ah! I see some prawns I like done "butterflied" They appear raw however. Would the kitchen prepare a whole bunch of prawns ( shell on) in that "butterflied" style? I notice the prawns on the plate have been cook 'curled up' and some others with a bamboo skewer to keep them straight. I only eat prawns if the have been slit down the back and pressed open. The reason is they are wonderfully easy to eat (get the shell off) and more importantly - they absorb the flavours in the pan/grill/-whatever.
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Re: What's for Breakfast? « Reply #369 on Sept 17, 2011, 7:50am »
NOW! A sort of cheese filled, fried tlacoyo or gordita, made of that Harina de Maíz Especial Norteña para tamales. Salsa Ranchera on top, Heavy but delicious.
Re: What's for Breakfast? « Reply #370 on Sept 17, 2011, 1:22pm »
I am hoping to bump into the young farmer at his egg stall in the Bastille Market of Richard Lenoir because he is very nosey about what you want to do with his eggs and when will you use them. Apparently one must not become disconcerted by his apparent nosiness - this is normal in France! Reason being, the freshest eggs are reserved for eouf a la coque (soft boiled eggs); week old ones for omelette's; two week old ones for baking; after three weeks, throw them out!
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Re: What's for Breakfast? « Reply #371 on Sept 17, 2011, 3:42pm »
I was raised and have always lived with "continental breakfast" habits. I suppose it attests to my mother's will that in spite of marrying two different Americans and living in the United States, she never ever made eggs, bacon, hash browns or any other elements of a "full" breakfast. Once in a blue moon, we would have pancakes or waffles.
However, my mother was always open to "foreign" food when voyaging, so if ever the family took a road trip and ate breakfast away from home, there was absolutely no problem eating bacon and eggs and all that stuff. "Breakfast on the road" is not supposed to be the same as "breakfast at home" in any case -- at least that's the way I see it. I have never understood people who only want to eat exactly what they are used to for breakfast when traveling, but I have indeed noticed that breakfast is the most conservative meal of the day.
On a trip to Thailand with my parents, at a resort in Phuket which had one of the most extensive and magnificent breakfast buffets imaginable, my mother and I became hooked on the prawn & rice soup, which did not at all stop us from eating the incredible exotic fruit salads, the French pastries, the scrambled eggs, pancakes and whatever. My father was horrified at our gluttony, and prawns were most decidedly not on his breakfast menu. It must be admitted that as a cheapskate family on half board, on our first days we loaded up on as much food as possible at breakfast, skipped lunch completely, and pigged out for dinner. (After a few days, we took the free shuttle into the city of Phuket and had magnificent cheap lunches in the local restaurants, something for which out luxury hotel overcharged -- this made us tone down our breakfasts a bit.)
Anyway, the whole point of this was to say that with my brother's visit approaching in December, I am going to have to provide "full" breakfasts for him and his wife. Well, of course, I don't have to, but I do want to please them to the best of my ability, so I am already trying to think of appropriate things to prepare for them -- "hot breakfast" -- while still keeping it European, just so that they don't forget where they are. I am already thinking of providing some Swiss rösti at breakfast (close to hash browns but not the same), but I would really like to find something to do with eggs that is more original than "fried" or "scrambled." (I think I need to experiment with transformation of the 'tortilla' items at the supermarket. They are indeed the Spanish egg tortillas, but they are of no interest whatsover presented in the way they are sold.)
Re: What's for Breakfast? « Reply #372 on Sept 17, 2011, 4:21pm »
Kerouac, I'm sure they would love a properly cooked French omlette! Those, glued- to- the -pan, with a thick sponge-like consistancy are putrid! (Usually after being shoved under a grill to rise up like a cake). Give me a gently rolled into a sausage shape omlette on my plate, cooked like light fluffy scrambled eggs
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Re: What's for Breakfast? « Reply #373 on Sept 17, 2011, 4:23pm »
Yeah, nothing like a full breakfast, Jack.
My brother has finally decided to come here for Chinese New Year in January, either with his older son or with the whole family. I hope he doesn't just stay for 2 or 3 days.
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Re: What's for Breakfast? « Reply #376 on Oct 4, 2011, 4:17pm »
At La Surtidora in Pátzcuaro, Huevos a la Plaza (which undoubtedly have a less touristic name); Poached eggs hidden in a deep bowl of very picante Salsa Negra. It was good but my ears were emitting steam. Some queso fresco alongside would have helped.
A cooked salsa of dark dried chiles, which elsewhere might be called chiles mulatos. In the Pátzcuaro area, the Chile Ancho is called Chile Negro. Don't hold me to this. The subject is very muddled.
Salsa Negra is fairly commonly used in guisados (stewed dishes) of meat, such as beef of pork.
You wouldn't want it in your ears. It burns and it's hard to clean out.
(I just remembered that I bought a 1.7 kgs of coarsely ground pork yesterday, and I need to make Spicy Country Breakfast Sausage from most of it. I may save a bit part for Ma Po Tofu.
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Re: What's for Breakfast? « Reply #380 on Oct 6, 2011, 1:18am »
Today's breakfast, at home: pan seared nopal pads with cave aged goat cheese and packaged, sliced mozzarella; on polenta/yellow grits and napped with some of the roasted tomato-chile and nopal salsa from La Mesa de Blanca.
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Re: What's for Breakfast? « Reply #381 on Oct 6, 2011, 9:54am »
Coming up: Buttermilk Biscuits with Spicy Country Sausage Gravy.
I had to hold myself back from making bread pudding from leftover (but still good) Chocolate-Cherry Brioche Loaf. There's too much food in the fridge. I need to review and reorganize the contents today, again.
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Re: What's for Breakfast? « Reply #384 on Oct 8, 2011, 10:03am »
Just after posting on The Chili Thread in The Galley, I could hardly wait to have some chili. So I sliced some leftover Papas Cambray al Ajo, frying them up in a bit of olive oil; heated a modest portion of Chili in the micro; pushed the potatoes aside and fried an egg; when it was done, slid papas and huevo atop the chili and put a thin slice of sharp Cheddar cheese on it. A bit of salt and a few dashes of Tabasco Sauce finished it.
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Re: What's for Breakfast? « Reply #386 on Oct 20, 2011, 6:01pm »
A few doors east of Tortas El Mago in Morelia, adjoining the very characterful Hotel Historia on Calle Allende, is a small, seven table restaurant-cafetería, El Rincón de Allende. I ate breakfast there this morning. I was brought totopos and a dish of very good frijoles refritos, in fact, the best in my long memory. They were delicious, and HOT. (I just can't stand lukewarm frijoles.)
The menu isn't long, but it's sufficient. I ordered Huevos Albañil, (scrambled eggs bathed in salsa picante of tomatoes and chiles) and they were perfect. They came with more delicious frijoles refritos, those laced with melted cheese. There were very fresh, handmade tortillas, so hot that I had to wave them around so I could handle them. I had a cup and a half of strong and delicious café Americano. I also had a large orange juice. The service was very attentive and friendly, and the bill was only $65 pesos. The place is also cozy and comfortable. It was a welcome treat.
(All my pics are in my phone, and I have no way of getting hem into my laptop at the moment.)
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Re: What's for Breakfast? « Reply #387 on Oct 23, 2011, 12:42pm »
Still in Morelia, at Casa Rosa; I made wavos ruvoltos con chorizo (some of the spiciest chorizo I've ever had, bought at a carnicería in the Mercado Independencia. They're short chubs, somewhat resembling chorizos Oaxaqueños in appearance.
Also frijoles refritos, from frijol Flor de Mayo; not bad, but not anywhere as good as the ones at El Rincón de Allende..
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Re: What's for Breakfast? « Reply #388 on Oct 25, 2011, 3:21pm »
Week two at Casa Rosa, Morelia.
This a.m. breakfast a bowl of lightly seasoned (onion, garlic, tomato, chicken stock cube, chopped jalapeño chile) Mexican style rice, with fried egg on top sprinkled with spicy fried chorizo from Mercado Independencia.
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