How do I eat good?

[Richter]

Badger and 000 have the right idea with the fruit / granola.

I don't exactly eat breakfast on weekdays.  I just get to work, slug coffee, a vitamin, and munch out of a bag of old fashioned oats. 
Weekend breakfasts are usually green tea, espresso, or leftovers.

[AFK]

I still eat like a 7 year old so I have breakfast cereal in the morning along with some juice.  My current pairing is shredded wheat and this pomegranete juice blend that is really yummy and also has Omega-3's so it's supposed to be good for keeping my noggin in shape. 

And because I have to get up so goddamned early by the time I get to work I'm hungry again and enjoy a nice Fiber One granola bar.  Mmm, regularity never tasted so good. 

[Kai]

Yeah, what I'm getting is that nuts, oats, and in some sort of granola mix with maybe a little fruit (not much) is probably best for me. Low sugar, high fiber, slow carbs, protein in the nuts and the milk.

On the weekends I think I'll have eggs as well.

[Jenne]

Oatmeal is one of THE best things you can have, Kai.  The vitamins and stick-to-your-ribs factor being key.  Yogurts, fruits and nuts being second, in my book.

[Kai]

I wish I had a taste for oatmeal. However....it kinda tastes like hot wet mushy cardboard to me, but then I'm probably making it wrong.

[LMNO]

Totally running counter to the point of this thread, last weekend I made my own breakfast sausage with ground pork, sage, cayenne, brown sugar, nutmeg, and salt and pepper.


Holy fuck, that was awesome.

[Kai]

Totally running counter to the point of this thread, last weekend I made my own breakfast sausage with ground pork, sage, cayenne, brown sugar, nutmeg, and salt and pepper.


Holy fuck, that was awesome.

That sounds like an awesome weekend breakfast idea.

[Jenne]

Totally running counter to the point of this thread, last weekend I made my own breakfast sausage with ground pork, sage, cayenne, brown sugar, nutmeg, and salt and pepper.


Holy fuck, that was awesome.

Patties?  Mm, those do sound good--what did you make accompanying with it?  Sourdough pancakes or something?

[AFK]

Totally running counter to the point of this thread, last weekend I made my own breakfast sausage with ground pork, sage, cayenne, brown sugar, nutmeg, and salt and pepper.


Holy fuck, that was awesome.

That sounds like 155% win.  Probably more. 

[Richter]

I wish I had a taste for oatmeal. However....it kinda tastes like hot wet mushy cardboard to me, but then I'm probably making it wrong.

Badger knows more about this, but "old fashioned" or "steel cut oats"  have much more of a flavor / texture.

If all else fails, I blend chocolate soy milk, protein powder, some peanut butter and a handful of oats.    

[Jenne]

I wish I had a taste for oatmeal. However....it kinda tastes like hot wet mushy cardboard to me, but then I'm probably making it wrong.

What do you put in it?  It's basically a base for ANYthing.  I like maltomeal and cream o' wheat, though, for breakfast foods that are hot-cereals.  So I don't always need a lot of flavoring either (that, and my mom made this for me constantly as a kiddo, so I have these sensory messages that make me all warm and mushy inside from just one taste of it).

[LMNO]

Totally running counter to the point of this thread, last weekend I made my own breakfast sausage with ground pork, sage, cayenne, brown sugar, nutmeg, and salt and pepper.


Holy fuck, that was awesome.

Patties?  Mm, those do sound good--what did you make accompanying with it?  Sourdough pancakes or something?

Yeah, patties.  With simple scrambled eggs.

I may up the ante next week by getting some english muffins and attempting a hollandaise-- or something equivalent that isn't simply egg yolks and butter.

[Jenne]

See, now *I* want to make sausage!  *shakes fist at LMNO*  Course, might be an inducement to get my husband to EAT sausage (he's not a fan, I blame his Moose-lim upbringing).  He eats pr0k, just VERY sparingly.

[LMNO]

I decided to go for it because

1) The butcher had ground pork for sale

and

2) I don't really like maple-flavored breakfast sausage, and the kind I do like (Jimmy Dean Sage) I can only find sporadically.

So, I thought, "fuck it, I'm gonna make it like how I want it to taste!"

[Jenne]

Best reason to do it yourself, in my book.  My mom's made Italian sausage before, but she used her meat grinder and casings.  Not patties.  Patties would be easier.

Did you use anything for making them stick together?  A gluing agent like breadcrumbs or yolk?