What do you usually eat for breakfast?

[Jamie (K)]

With no breakfast at all or just coffee, you people from the English-speaking countries must have some pretty deadly-smelling breath by 10:00! When I was a child, my father always pointed out that bad breath in the morning doesn't come from the mouth, but from the stomach, and out of consideration for other people, you should eat breakfast not only to give your brain and body energy, but also so that others don't suffer from the stench of your morning breath. Brushing your teeth doesn't help the problem, he correctly pointed out.

Anyway, what I have for breakfast depends on what time I eat. A normal breakfast for me would be a banana, plain bread or cereal, a small piece of cheese and some fruit juice. If there is popcorn or pizza left over from the previous day, I eat that.

If it is close to noon when I eat breakfast, I have lunch for breakfast.

[Jamie (K)]

[ForOneSucks]

I usually have a half-full glass of water for breakfast. Afterwards, but not immediately, I get myself some nice fruits, whatever available. That pretty much sums it up.

[Vetty]

A cup of freshly grinned and newly made mixture of arabica and robusta with a piece of wholewheat bread, slices of good hard cheese and bits of an apple not in a sandwtch but separatly. And what is more important- all for myself, without kids stumble around ( with all my love to them ) and office people in despair ( with all my respect to them)

[Skrej]

[Daemon99]

I am from India.

I have a lot of things to choose from for breakfast.

Chapati
Poori
Dosa (there are about 10 varieties of this)
Idli
Wada
Paratha
Bread/omelette
Bread/cheese
Bread/jam
Poha

I will post more as I remember them.
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[Jamie (K)]

Paratha! Yum! I love it!

[Prezbucky]

Daemon, do you ever eat naan for breakfast? I love naan, especially when I can use it to sop up the remaining curry sauce on my plate.

I love Indian cuisine. For $6.95 I used to frequent a local Indian buffet (operated by native Indians) for lunch.

These are some of the items I remember:

- Chicken Massala (sp?): chopped chicken breast in a red-orange colored curry sauce. This was my favorite.

- Chicken curry: The same chicken, but the sauce was lighter in both color and spiciness.

- Some type of beans and chickpeas (?) in a spicy brown sauce... a vegetarian spicy curry dish.

- Tandoori chicken: A sort of Indian-style barbecued chicken, obviously cooked with dry heat.

- Basmati rice: I'd put the main items (the above four things) on top of basmati rice.

- Naan: I'd mop my plate with this pita-like bread.

I loved that place.

Damn, I'm hungry again. The leftover spaghetti Bolognese, liberally doused with grated Parmesan, will have to do.

You know, age has increased my appreciation for spicy food. I've always liked Mexican/Tex-Mex cuisine, but now I put the HOT stuff on the tacos/empenadas/burritos.

And I've found new culinary loves in Sichuan, Indian and Cajun cuisines.

Instead of the regular chicken sandwich, I now order the Buffalo chicken sandwich (fried chicken breast covered in pepper sauce, basically).

There are bottles of Louisiana hot sauce (pepper sauce), Frank's Red Hot sauce (another pepper sauce), Pace "Hot" Picante Sauce, and some sort of Habanero sauce in my fridge.

I WISH I could find Indian Massala sauce in the aisles of Kroger (grocery store). I'd cook "Indian" every week!

So just start calling me "prezpepper". hehe

And this following story brings this post back to breakfast:

Last Saturday I woke up (at about 1pm -- kindly recall my posts of the night & early mirning previous) craving huevos rancheros --ranch eggs, in English -- though I had neither eaten nor fixed them.

I don't have a recipe. I was going to scramble about five eggs, fry some ground beef and onions... mix those (eggs/beef/onions) together... and absolutely smother them with cheddar cheese, picante sauce (AKA salsa), pepper sauce and just a bit of sour cream to keep my mouth from fiery perdition.

But the woman beat me to the punch by fixing ordinary turkey sandwiches for "lunch". (it was 1pm, after all)

So you see, this newly found love of the chili pepper has invaded even my breakfast plans.
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[Rosalisa]

[Michauek]

Poland.

Butterred bread with jam.
scrambled eggs (optionally with ham/bacon [and chives if it is summer])
and a cup of tea

I'm a student. I usually do not eat any breakfast:]
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Michal. I'm an english student

[Daemon99]

Naan is something people eat for lunch or supper. I haven't seen anybody having it for breakfast. It's a bit on the heavy side.

Naan comes in two varieties (broadly speaking) - plain and butter; butter is better. There are also some other forms of bread (called rotis in India) that are equally delicious. Tandoori roti and kulcha. Tandoori roti is really good. It's crispy, unlike naan, but goes well with all the chicken items you mentioned. You'd love a glass of lassi to wash it down. Have you ever tried lassi, Tom? You should, especially in a Punjabi restaurant, if you have one there.

Here in India, a menu in a restaurant has a very long list of chicken and mutton items. It takes a connoisseur to make out the fine distinction among them. I heard that Indian restaurants cook them a bit less spicy so they wouldn't be hard on American tongues.

Chicken kebab
Chicken tangdi kebab
Chicken moghulai
Chilly chicken
Chicken do pyaaza
Mutton keema
Mutton biryani

I am hungry too. Gotta grab a bite.
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[Jamie (K)]

[Prezbucky]

Daemon

The naan at the buffet, come to think of it, was buttered... maybe it was butter naan.

Ahh -- one of the chicken dishes said "Vindaloo" -- does that mean anything to you?

I need to get a recipe for curry powder. I'll add some plain yogurt and cayenne pepper to it -- which will make it orange -- and voilà, I'll have my very own Tikka Massala (or just Massala... whatever's correct) sauce.

Dude, if it weren't the witching hour here, I'd grab the yogurt and spices necessary to make a curry sauce. We have chicken thawing in the fridge.

Now there's a thought: dinner tomorrow night.

Well I tried my hand at Paprikash, so maybe it's time to take another classic chicken dish for an introductory stroll...
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[Rosalisa]

[Jamie (K)]