I eat what I am hungry for when I am hungry for it. I will eat breakfast food at any hour. I will eat pizza at any hour. I have so very few foods tied to time.
I love traditional breakfast foods and so does my entire family. We often make a large breakfast casserole in the oven or crockpot and have it for dinner for a day or two (or three if I hide a few servings for myself!). If I am home all day, I will likely eat it for a couple of meals.
Often if J and I are home, we will do a roast and fixings for lunch for the 2 of us. Dinner is "leftovers" because none of us are home at the same time. Hubby and the kids are often on different schedules, so we cannot have dinner together more than maybe once a week (if we are lucky).
I don't really understand why some foods are okay to eat at any time and some foods are only okay at certain times. Biscuits seem to be acceptable at any time, even dripping with honey. Coffee cake, which is often just biscuit dough with sweetener and butter, is only acceptable for breakfast or mid morning with coffee. Why? Who made this rule? Why does it seem so arbitrary?
Why is sausage a breakfast food? Why is chicken a breakfast food if you serve it with waffles but not if you fry it and serve it without waffles or biscuits? Why one earth would french toast not be a good food to eat at any time? It is bread coated with eggs and milk! How is that not amazing food? If you put ham, swiss and turkey between 2 pieces of bread and you dip it in french toast batter and fry it, you have a monte cristo and it is lunch food. Who made that rule???????? WHY?????
I have wondered these things for decades!!!!!!! Literally wondered them since I started reading cookbooks when I was about 14 years old. That Monte Cristo is a whole lot better with bacon and cheddar and turkey. If you want to be truly decadent, make a breakfast sandwich using French Toast instead of bread, and bacon, eggs and breakfast sausage. I put the bulk sausage in a ziplock and seal it with no extra air. Then I roll it out until it is the size of the bread I use to make the sandwich. I open the ziplock, tear it down the side, and dump it into the pan to fry. When it is close to done, I have the other ingredients about done. Then I assemble it and feed my crew. Even if I use the "bacon and sausage" sausage, I still have bacon on the sandwich. That is just how my crew eats. J puts a tiny drizzle of real maple syrup on her sandwich. Says it brings out the savory. We only do this once or maybe twice a year, but it is quite good!
About the only food I don't eat at breakfast time is steak or pork chops. I could see pork chops, I just don't think of them. Steak with eggs just is gross to me. I know other people like them, and that is find for them. It just doesn't work for me. I cannot even do steak if I have just woken up in the morning. I just can't. Part of that might be because I like rare steak. Cooked past medium rare and you might as well bring me a burger. That cut of meat is now worth about $1.99 or less to me. I sure won't pay more for it. (And my burger better be cooked ALLLLLL the way through!)
I like coffee. I can't drink more than 1 to 2 cups a day, and I try not to drink more than 1 cup. Mostly because it doesn't help the migraines. I love Earl Grey tea. I would NOT cope well with someone waking me up in the morning. We would either agree that it would not happen the next morning, or we would agree that I would be very unhappy with them and would probably let it show. I don't do being forcibly woken up well. Never have done it well. My husband learned to let the alarm clock wake me up very early in our marriage. I apparently reached over and stuck my hand in his mouth. ALLLL the way in it. Apparently hitting his nose didn't activate his snooze alarm the way it did the clock's. I have no memory of any of this. I was sound asleep, as in snoring. Luckily for me, he found the whole thing incredibly hilarious.
I love traditional breakfast foods and so does my entire family. We often make a large breakfast casserole in the oven or crockpot and have it for dinner for a day or two (or three if I hide a few servings for myself!). If I am home all day, I will likely eat it for a couple of meals.
Often if J and I are home, we will do a roast and fixings for lunch for the 2 of us. Dinner is "leftovers" because none of us are home at the same time. Hubby and the kids are often on different schedules, so we cannot have dinner together more than maybe once a week (if we are lucky).
I don't really understand why some foods are okay to eat at any time and some foods are only okay at certain times. Biscuits seem to be acceptable at any time, even dripping with honey. Coffee cake, which is often just biscuit dough with sweetener and butter, is only acceptable for breakfast or mid morning with coffee. Why? Who made this rule? Why does it seem so arbitrary?
Why is sausage a breakfast food? Why is chicken a breakfast food if you serve it with waffles but not if you fry it and serve it without waffles or biscuits? Why one earth would french toast not be a good food to eat at any time? It is bread coated with eggs and milk! How is that not amazing food? If you put ham, swiss and turkey between 2 pieces of bread and you dip it in french toast batter and fry it, you have a monte cristo and it is lunch food. Who made that rule???????? WHY?????
I have wondered these things for decades!!!!!!! Literally wondered them since I started reading cookbooks when I was about 14 years old. That Monte Cristo is a whole lot better with bacon and cheddar and turkey. If you want to be truly decadent, make a breakfast sandwich using French Toast instead of bread, and bacon, eggs and breakfast sausage. I put the bulk sausage in a ziplock and seal it with no extra air. Then I roll it out until it is the size of the bread I use to make the sandwich. I open the ziplock, tear it down the side, and dump it into the pan to fry. When it is close to done, I have the other ingredients about done. Then I assemble it and feed my crew. Even if I use the "bacon and sausage" sausage, I still have bacon on the sandwich. That is just how my crew eats. J puts a tiny drizzle of real maple syrup on her sandwich. Says it brings out the savory. We only do this once or maybe twice a year, but it is quite good!
About the only food I don't eat at breakfast time is steak or pork chops. I could see pork chops, I just don't think of them. Steak with eggs just is gross to me. I know other people like them, and that is find for them. It just doesn't work for me. I cannot even do steak if I have just woken up in the morning. I just can't. Part of that might be because I like rare steak. Cooked past medium rare and you might as well bring me a burger. That cut of meat is now worth about $1.99 or less to me. I sure won't pay more for it. (And my burger better be cooked ALLLLLL the way through!)
I like coffee. I can't drink more than 1 to 2 cups a day, and I try not to drink more than 1 cup. Mostly because it doesn't help the migraines. I love Earl Grey tea. I would NOT cope well with someone waking me up in the morning. We would either agree that it would not happen the next morning, or we would agree that I would be very unhappy with them and would probably let it show. I don't do being forcibly woken up well. Never have done it well. My husband learned to let the alarm clock wake me up very early in our marriage. I apparently reached over and stuck my hand in his mouth. ALLLL the way in it. Apparently hitting his nose didn't activate his snooze alarm the way it did the clock's. I have no memory of any of this. I was sound asleep, as in snoring. Luckily for me, he found the whole thing incredibly hilarious.