Eggs and Ham

Breakfast is the meal of the day that most cooks keep simple. At best they might use some leftovers to dress it up, but no one want to prep food in the morning.  When I say breakfast, I don’t mean early brunch. If you’re eating breakfast after 10 am I consider it brunch.  A real […]

Eggs in the Middle

When you cook for yourself it understandably stays simple.  That doesn’t mean it has to be boring though.  And surely one of the meals that the cook is truly unlikely to put much effort into–much less cook over, say, pouring themselves a bowl of cereal–is breakfast.  However, I am finding myself cooking breakfast for one […]

Old-fashioned Breakfast Eggs Mornay

There’s nothing wrong with old- fashioned, and eggs Mornay certainly are that. They may seem extravagant for a home-cooked Sunday breakfast, but they are neither hard nor time-consuming to make. A Mornay sauce is a Béchamel sauce with cheese, and a Béchamel sauce is a white sauce made with a roux of flour and milk. […]

Spicy Hot and Quick Breakfast

Breakfast often creeps up on me.  What I mean is that I’m not hungry when I get up and I nearly always assume I’m not eating breakfast.  Then…BOOM…I’m hungry and want a little something to eat, and not just toast and jam.  My solution for a quick-cooking breakfast is usually the assembly of either leftovers […]

Make Ahead Breakfast for New Year’s Day Hangover

I no longer drink and therefore no longer need to deal with hangovers, but plenty of revelers do have to manage that problem on New Year’s Day. A dish you’ve made ahead will be a welcome sight. If you were like me you could barely make the coffee, let alone a breakfast that your fat-seeking […]

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