On 5/25/2014 3:37 AM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> "Winters_Lackey" > wrote:
>> Dave Smith wrote:
>>
>>> I rarely go for breakfast. Breakfast menus are usually high fat, high
>>> sugar foods. I limit myself to bacon and eggs once a week, and always
>>> make sure to have fruit with it. My usual breakfast at home is porridge,
>>> and I will be damned if I am going to pay $3-4 for a small bowl of
>>> oatmeal when I can make it for myself at home for 5 cents.
>>
>> You can't make a bowl of oatmeal for 5 cents.
>
> Okay, he exaggerates, 10¢ for more than one person can eat.
> http://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Valu...42-Oz/10314925
> I actually detest eating breakfast out... they charge outrageous
> prices for two stinkin' eggs and rarely are they properly cooked.
> Breakfast is the easiest meal to prepare at home. And breakfast
> joints (like IHOP, etc.) are always crowded, noisey, and smelly (never
> fails folks bring howling babies with pooped diapers). Given a choice
> I'll always eat breakfast at home, I can have as many eggs as I want
> cooked any way I want and I get peace and quiet. I rarely have eggs
> for breakfast anyway, to me fried eggs is dinner... I have brunch,
> just finished a ham n' swiss on rye.
>

I had breakfast out with my wife, daughter, and granddaughter. Sundays
would be the only time we get to eat breakfast together at a relaxed
pace. I have no doubt that I'll look back at these times with fondness.
This morning I had roast pork with gravy and fried rice. There was not a
single egg at our table - thank goodness.

The roast pork was pretty good. For nearly half of my life, I've been
trying to make this local style roast pork but have never come close.
I've talked to people that make the stuff and followed their advice but
I'm no closer than I was 30 years ago. Don't get me wrong, I make a
great pulled pork/kalua pig/carnitas-style pork roast. What I cannot do
is make roast pork in the style of the local lunch wagons and plate
lunch restaurants. Well, that's the breaks, I guess.