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It would be pancakes with bacon and maple syrup. I love love loooove the combination of the sweet, savoury and salty. It’s such a shame bacon and maple syrup aren’t everyday foods.
Jac knows how much I love pancakes with bacon and maple syrup, and this was what she made for breakfast on Saturday, to kick off our long weekend, which is now almost over (boooooo!). What is your favourite breakfast?
I'm TFP, a food blogger from Perth, Western Australia.
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Easy! McDonald’s Sausage ‘N’ Egg McMuffin meal that comes with the McMuffin, a golden-fried hashbrown, and Minute Maid orange juice!
But for everyday fare, I just love my cereal (Just Right) with some fibre and the (Sale) Yogurt of the Week I happen to pick up from the market. :)
I love breakfast…I am one of those people that’d have breakfast for dinner..If I have to pick one? mmm..I think I’d go for the typical spanish: Thick white bread, tomato and olive oil and serrano ham. yummy. Of course I also like a full english breakfast…but only when I’m craving greasy, heheh.
My favourite treat breakfast is scrambled eggs and sausages with toast. And my favourite everyday brekkie is toast with jam or vegemite. :)
Oh, I do love pancakes and bacon too. Your pancakes look like they are crepe thin. Funny – sometimes I like them thin, sometimes thick and fluffy. Depends on my mood, I guess. OH, and for me imitation maple syrup just won’t cut it. My favorite breakfast? I’m not sure. I like all food!
(I hate that your spam protection for comments won’t allow me to post using Safari. A bug?)
If calorie content and “healthiness” is no concern, I would have to say that pancakes with butter and maple syrup (and a side order of bacon) is way up there on my list of faves. A nice cheese omelette with buttered toast of English muffin is another good choice.
But if I want to be HEALTHY, I like a combination of fat-free vanilla yogurt, rolled oats and a coarsely-chopped apple.
My favorite is pancakes with bacon too but I like my pancakes on the thicker side. Also after you’ve fried the bacon you take the grease left over and use it to scramble your eggs. You wont need to eat for the rest of the day.
Oh, my! Those pancakes look absolutely delicious.
My favorite breakfast would have to be waffles that have a nice crunch to them and a fluffy interior. A dash of maple syrup and some strawberries on the side, too.
I love your web site. I ran across it looking for a lamb recipe. I am from Texas and have to agree that there is nothing better than pancakes and syrup with bacon. I would also agree with Louisa tha breakfast is a good meal anytime of day or night. Keep up the good work. I think I will have lunch now.
I love… no strike that, I’m ADDICTED to your website! And thank you for making me feel completely normal about liking sweet, savoury AND salty combinations!!! I used to feel super guilty (AND weird!) about loving some honey on my toasted muffin AND hashbrown & sausage in my Big Breakfast. lol/
Ahh..breakfast. My favorite meal.
I love a big bowl of cereal and fruit and yogurt all mixed together and a hot glass of soymilk (even in the summer!). Oatmeal rocks too.
best breakfast ever – crispy cheese quesadillas with scrambled eggs and salsa. eggs and salsa for teh win!!! i went camping last summer and my boyfriend introduced me to pancakes, maple syrup, and sausage. i was leary at first but i’m a total convert :-) and i love the way those pancakes turned out, nice and airy and thin.
Being from Singapore, I love fluffy-crispy roti prata served with thick flavourful fish curry for breakfast!!! Add a glass of teh-tarik, yumz!
I also just stumbled upon your website while looking for something else and would like to comment that, after looking at your photos, I think your website title is definitely appropriate.
Favorite breakfast of all time? Well I can’t pick just one!
1.)Breakfast burritos made with spicy sausage/or crispy streaky bacon, soft scrambled eggs, fried potatoes and lots of cheese with plenty of salsa and guacamole on the side. Of course you need a nice tall glass of OJ or it wouldn’t be complete. Yum!
2.)Belgian style waffles with strawberries macerated in honey and white wine with a dollop of whipped cream.
Definitely worth all the calories!
Pork porridge (chook in cantonese) with lots of yu tiao!
In an ideal world, breakfast food is served at every meal, and I never get full (or fat!). Breakfast is by far my favourite meal of the day; I’d rather eat slowly at my desk at work or uni, than rush my breakfast in the morning.
My favourites:
Vegemite on thick slices of crusty white bread with lots of butter.
Home-made muesli in natural Greek yoghurt with fresh berries and mango.
Buffet – scrambled eggs, bacon, chipolatas, mushrooms and hash browns, and sliced cheese and ham for a European touch.
Singapore style – steamed pork buns, noodles, thin Indian (I think!) coconut pancakes with orange sugar and coconut sprinkled on top.
When I win lotto, I’m definitely going out for breakfast every single day.
Love breakky, my favourite mealtime.. Get so excited when I go to a cafe and see an all day breakfast menu!
My all time favourite is Eggs Benedict .. and I think my favourite place to have it is – Dome cafe, Fast eddies (Eds benedict) mainly due to the overflowing yummy hollandaise sauce! yum
I don’t eat breakfast. I tend to have this pukey feeling all day if i eat in the morning.
A Fried Rice loco, which is a Hamburger Patty topped with a Sunnyside egg, on top of a hot bed of fried Rice, and them covered with a little brown gravy. A Hawaii staple
Thank you, everyone, for all your replies! Mmmm, many of your breakies sound good to me.
Gwen,
I can never feel satisfied with cereal. If I have cereal, I feel hungry again a short time after. This might be psychological, I don’t know. But I do love Sausage and Egg McMuffins – much more than Bacon and Egg ones, so I am with you with that one!
luisa,
I can eat breakfast any time of the day, but can also eat lunch or dinner meals at breakfast-time. This is a particularly useful attribute when I wake up starving and there are dinner leftovers in the fridge.
dea,
I love scrambled eggs and sausages too. With toast, I love strawberry jam or honey. Not so keen on Vegemite. I’ve tried, but over the years I haven’t been converted yet!
Greg,
Sorry about the Safari bug. I am working on a redesign of the site and will be looking at different spam protection for the new site. I do prefer thinner-style pancakes, which is what Jac makes. Agree with you about no imitation syrup – we spend a little more and get real Canadian maple syrup, which I absolutely love.
Chuck,
It’s good that you have a healthy choice there, but I must admit rolled oats do not appeal to me at all! I think a lot of my aversion to cereal comes from what I was brought up with, as a Chinese person – I’m used to cooked, savoury breakfasts.
jetgirl,
YUM! eggs cooked in the bacon fat is a great idea. We like cooking our roast potatoes in the fat drippings from the roast pork, so I’m all for it!
M.M.,
Yes, I love waffles with the contrasting textures you’ve described. We have a waffle iron but don’t use it often. It may be time soon though…
David,
Glad you found my site, hope you enjoy it. We do sometimes have a full cooked breakfast for dinner – a one pan fry-up with eggs, bacon, sausages, tomato, and some toast.
Khal,
I’ve often eaten the muffin with honey on it WITH the sausage and the egg, so I am totally with you on that! And I’m pleased to hear you’re addicted to the site. :-D
Tra,
I wish I could be healthy like you! Not that I eat bacon all the time or even every week, but cereal and I are just not friends! :)
Jac,
Quesadillas are something I’d like to try for breakfast. Jac did make a Mexican-styled breakfast of chilli and fried eggs which I will post soon. Strong flavours for first thing in the morning, but so good.
tunadip,
I love roti too – for me, with chicken curry would be a perfect breaky.
DineometerDeb,
Great, glad you think so!
Rachey,
Both options sound delicious. I haven’t had strawberries soaked in honey and wine like you describe – sounds good, I must try.
mj,
How could I forget chok! (You’ll see I have a category for chok here at the site, and it’s been a favourite breaky hosted at my parents’ home, when all the family come together).
Erin,
Agreed. I hate rushing any meal. I’d rather get up early and be able to eat breakfast at a relatively relaxed pace, than grab something and bolt it down. I like your buffet and Singaporean options. I love any hawker-style foods for breakfast. When I was a kid growing up in Malaysia, I used to go with Mum to the markets early in the morning before school just so I could eat breakfast at one of the hawker stalls – fishball kway teow soup or wantan mee were my faves.
Ranee,
I love all-day breakfast options too. Nothing worse than feeling like breaky and rocking up to a cafe just after 10:30 or 11 and missing out on the breakfast menu! But then I sometimes wish places would serve their regular menu at breakfast time too, as I often feel like “regular” food at breaky time. I think my Jac would be with you on the eggs Benedict – that’s one her all-time faves.
aurantifolia,
Sorry to hear that. I went through a stage of feeling like that some mornings. Not sure why.
Dean,
That sounds amazing! I love fried rice for breaky, and with those embellishments, it sounds even better! So much of the Hawaiian meals I’ve seen blogged sound so appealing!
I love a good Eggs Benedict with avocado. Yum!!!
And pancakes with maple syrup too ;)
tfp, mine would be a good ol’ southern breakfast:
eggs (I like mine over easy)
grits
very crunchy American bacon (different from yours) and spicy sausage
biscuits w/ butter and syrup
southern hash browns (fried potatoes)
Waffles with Nutella :D nuff said :P
I normally can’t eat a very big breakfast, but I do like really thick-cut fruit toast, laden with butter and with honey drizzled on top. The honey/butter combination reminds me of honeyjoys :)
My favorite breakfast would have to be parathas with sunny-side up eggs, where the yolks are warmed through but still runny. The combo of the chewy paratha with the warm eggy goodness is a delight.
Clint and I have recently worked up our own “Huevos Rancheros,” which require preparing a kickass spanish rice a day or two before breakfast is to be served. Bacon, onion, peppers, and rice all fried up, then simmered in tomatoes and chicken stock until it turns into Spanish rice.
Serve that in a tortilla with some pepper back and a soft egg. Refriend beans also, if you’re feeling energetic.
To die for.
More than one from me too…
* Thick buttermilk pancakes with crisp bacon, maple syrup, butter, cream, blueberries and strawberries. Watch out, heart surgeons!
* Greek yoghurt with fresh mango
* Eggs Benedict done properly
* Steak and eggs and bacon and sausages – truckie’s breakfast!
Hands down: Jack in the Box’s Breakfast Ciabatta Sandwich (doubtful the chain is in AU)
It’s a toasted ciabatta baggett with two egg patties, ham, bacon (American style), sausage, cheese, dripping with a creamy hollandaise mayonnaise sauce… only 710 calories and 36 grams of fat…
PANCAKES definitely! And bagels with cream cheese and coffee especially on a rainy morning with a good book with you and with my wifey with me. And for simple breakfasts, white bread with nutella and a hot cuppa Milo or coffee to go with it.
And since I’m chinese, I love my typical Chinese breakfast too. Fried bee hoon with hot dogs and fishcake. Congee with dim sum and tea. Yum! I’m such a brekkie person.
Belgium waffles hands down are my favorite breakfast. That sweetness in the morning really gets me going.
TFP,
In my house the holiest of holies for breakfast is the mighty chicken fried steak and eggs (over medium) with gravy and toast.
I’m not sure if you can get that outside of the states, but if you see it on a menu please order it!
Jean,
Benedict with avocado? I don’t think Jac’s eaten those two together. I will suggest that to her next time as she does like avocado.
Nicole,
The southern breakfast sounds so delicious. That’s something I definitely want to try sometime, when I can make a trip to the US. Don’t know when though! :(
The Bloc,
I love Nutella. I don’t eat it often these days, but love it on its own, not even spread on anything. I must admit Nutella on waffles sounds great!
Natasha,
When I don’t have a savoury breakfast, the sweet one I have most often is probably fruit toast. And yes, thick-cut is always my preference. I love Honey Joys, much more than the other school cake stall favourite, Chocolate Crackles. :)
Anwar,
I love contrasting textures like you’ve described too! And yes, cooked runny oozy egg yolks are my favourite way to have eggs, whether fried or boiled or poached.
Gnightgirl,
That sounds delish. Will mention to Jac, as she loves hearing about other people’s ideas and creations. (And if she is henceforth inspired, I will reap the benefits! :-P)
Rhonda,
Mmmmm, between Jac and me, we’d demolish all four of your choices!
Bryan,
Sadly, we don’t have Jack in the Box here. That sandwich sounds like Eggs Benedict-style – Jac would love it, especially with the cheese and the hollandaise mayo.
Elinn,
Your faves all sound mouth-watering! Fried bee hoon in the morning is so good, isn’t it? When I first moved out of home my mum would occasionally drop by on the weekend with her wok and tupperwares with the ingredients for char bee hoon, and she’d cook up a batch for us for breakfast before we went shopping!
noble pig,
I admit I probably prefer less sweet waffles, but I do love waffles! My favourite way to have them is with lots of maple syrup and butter. My auntie back in Malaysia used to serve us kids waffles with great big chunks of ice cream – I remember enjoying waffles with coffee ice cream, so good. :-P
Ryan,
I’ve wanted to try chicken fried steak ever since I heard about it. We have recipes for it in a couple of our books, but have never seen it at any restaurant over here. We may have to just try cooking it ourselves, eh? :)
Nasi Lemak (rice cooked with coconut milk) with the full works, including deep fried chicken wing, otak, omelette (sunny side up of course), ikan bilis and a good dollop of sambal!!! If only it wasn’t so calorific!!! And so baaaad for the heart!!
Does anyone know how to counter the harmful effects of overconsumption of coconut milk???
tfp: I’ve never had eggs benny with avocado until recently either, and have been hooked since.
I love a great big breakfast. Especially one with lots of toast and pork sausages and butter. A huge assortment of jam would be good as well an egg sunny side-up. Congee with shredded chicken and pei-tan (century eggs) is really good as well! Fried BeeHoon with beansprouts and eggs are always good too ^^
I love to make french toast, but using crumpets instead of bread. Then I cover it in smokey bbq sauce. Delish.
Being a Malaysian, my all time fav. breakie would be something from the mamak shops or the local makcik’s hawker stall, ie, nasi lemak, roti canai, tosai (dosa), currypuff, teh tarik and etc.
But since I’m here and too lazy to do a proper Malaysian breakie, I just eat cereal or just coffee.
dude did you know you were in wikipedia?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_porn
Bitsy,
I love nasi lemak for breakfast too. I also like a hard boiled egg instead of omelette with it.
Jean,
I see! I still have to mention it to Jac. I’m sure she’ll be into it.
Amelia,
I go for everything you’ve mentioned- apart from pei tan. Never been a big fan of it. I love eggs but tend to steer away from the “preserved” and “pickled” varieties.
jacob,
I’ve never had french toast made with crumpets before – I must give that a try sometime. Sounds great!
flower,
I agree – the mamak stall breakfast is hard to beat! For me, if lazy I have two-minute noodles. :)
jetgirl,
Thank you, yes, I noticed sometime ago. I don’t know who included my link in that entry. I think it’s an odd write-up. Not sure it really captures what food porn really is about. Not that I’d submit my opinion as any sort of authority to Wikipedia .
When I think of my fav breakfast a restaurant called Cracker Barrel comes to mind. I always get the “Uncle Hershels Favorite”. It includes: two eggs(over medium), bacon, grits, biscuits and gravy, and hashbrown casserole. Add coffee and I am in breakfast heaven : )
My favorite fast food breakfast is a McSkillet Burrito with no cheese from McDonald’s.
Favorite homemade breakfast is eggs, sausage patties, hashbrowns, and pancakes.
I am a pig!
I love your blog!
I wouldn’t say no to that breakfast that’s for sure :) but what I would really really love would be an omelet, not a plain one but with tomato, onion, bell pepper, paprika, fresh prasley leaves, fresh oregano leaves and a mix of red, green, white and black pepper added in the skillet along with the eggs. Yum!
Oh boy am I hungry !!!!!
My favorite breakfast would be a cheese and spinach omelette with sausage links and waffles. Yum!
Hi TFP. I know you love SPAM, but have you tried turkey SPAM? Turkey spam with bacon, egg and English muffin = one hell of a breakfast (or lunch or dinner !). Just make sure you pay a visit to your cardiologist afterwards :P.
Lisa,
That sounds heavenly. I have never had the opportunity to eat grits, biscuits and gravy at a meal, and hope to someday. I’ve watched the Good Eats episode when Alton Brown and his grandmother make biscuits, and they look so good.
Manisha,
Thanks, I’m pleased to hear you love my blog! We don’t have the McSkillet Burrito over here, but at our McDonalds we do have a Bacon and Egg Wrap that is made with a soft tortilla. Your homemade breakfast sounds great! I’m a pig too, which I make obvious through this site! :)
Lore,
I like omelettes, but prefer more Chinese-style ones – the eggs are beaten with white pepper and soy sauce before cooking. My grandma used to make an omelette like that with prawns or pork mince in it. Really tasty with rice, for any meal!
Clover,
I loved the image that popped into my head when I read your comment and saw the words “sausage links and waffles”! Yum.
intuition,
We can get turkey SPAM over here. Tell you what, next time we’re at the supermarket I shall buy a tin and give it a go! Stay tuned for the verdict. ;-)
Hello, Fellow Food Pornographer!
If calories/fat were no object, my fave would be a bit of a Filipino version of a hearty breakfast: Longanisa (a sweet pork sausage), Garlic Fried Rice, and eggs…
Sort of like what’s pictured here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/xpressbus/2151011930/
and here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mzcelaneous/301748635/
I’m coming to this very late…my apologies.
My favorite breakfast involves eggs, but I can’t choose just one preparation. I love Eggs Benedict, a traditional fry-up with all the trimmings, a breakfast sandwich or even scrambled eggs with hash browns, bacon and maybe some sausage gravy over biscuits.
And to think, I used to hate all breakfast foods! Shock! I absolutely love breakfast these days.
Tricia,
Mmmmmmm, that sounds/looks good! It’s so sad, isn’t it, we have to preface our favourites with “if calories/fat were no object”? :) I’d eat so much more bacon if that were the case.
The Home Cook,
No need to apologise! I really want to try biscuits, and with sausage gravy sounds delicious! I can’t believe you used to hate breakfast foods. Glad you’ve gotten into them now.
Try a McDonalds Sausage and Egg McMuffin dipped in the McDonalds Maple Syrup. Mmm. :)
Yes, you will go to hell for it but it’s GOOD!
Chrisb,
That sounds FANTASTIC! (Personally I think maple syrup would taste great on many things anyway!) I must give that a go next time.
My favourite ‘brekky’ would have to be at a local rural supermarket which does a ‘big’ breakfast and the fried bread is to die for (oops)
It consists of Jumbo sausage, 2 fried eggs, 2 slices of fried bread (cut into 4 halves), baked beans, field mushrooms and 3 or 4 rashers of lovely bacon for the princely sum of £3.99
That sounds great, Stephen! When I was a teenager there was a department store in Perth city that did a great fry-up for AU$5 (or something really cheap, I can’t remember the exact price). You’d get bacon, egg, sausage, toast (cut into triangles!), crinkle-cut chips, tomato and a hash brown. There was nothing better than going to the city nice and early, fill up on breaky and then go shopping. It was a little treat my mum and sisters loved too.
I dont know if you remember the kmart cafe’s I think they were called Holly’s. Well anyway I loved there breakfast. It was a thick sausage, chips, toast,bacon, eggs and tomato with gravy and I would have a coke with it. I remember walking in Rockingham Kmart in 2007 and discovering they closed their cafe. I was so bitterly disapointed. I moved to melbourne shortly after and I have never a breakfast similar to that one.
katt,
Awww, no, I have no recollection of those cafes! I never knew about it! Sounds like I missed out on good feeds!
It would have to be sausage gravy (a white cream gravy made of flour and milk) over split baking-powder biscuits. :-D Give me a big plateful of that and some fresh cracked pepper…and leave me alone!
My *ultimate* comfort food.
I also like a scrambled egg on the side, with a bit of salsa on the egg.
Cindy,
Sausage gravy and biscuits sound great! I’ve never had that – but so many of my readers have described it and made it sound so wonderful I must try it someday! I love scrambled eggs and would happily eat them any time, as a non-breakfast food.