My dad, not my mother, taught me to cook for the most part. However,
he only made breakfasts or lunches, never dinner.

On holidays such as Christmas, we'd have a huge breakfast, then nibble
throughout the day on whatever munchies my mother had prepared...then
have a bang-up dinner (usually turkey with all the trimmings).

A typical breakfast, especially on (but not limited to) holidays, might
include the following:
Cornmeal cush (sort of a fried cornbread dressing, made from leftover
cornbread -- DELICIOUS!!) (Reminds me...I need to write down the
recipe)
Dad's junkyard eggs (he's the one who taught me to throw everything in
my eggs, which is how I learned to eat eggs, period)
Chocolate biscuits (canned biscuits simply topped with a square of
Hershey's chocolate before baking) or plain biscuits served with a jar
of peanut butter (Dad was a PB freak -- had it almost every meal)
Bacon and/or sausage, or ham, or pan-fried hotdogs, or pan-fried Spam
Scrapple (Mother made hers from ground pork & plenty of sage, sliced it
fairly thin, then fried the slices) or cornmeal mush, thinly sliced,
dipped in dry flour, fried, then served with maple syrup
Fresh fruit -- usually canteloupe, when in season, or the occasional
fresh pineapple
Possibly leftover h'ors d'ouvres like black olives, smoked oysters,
sweet gherkins, etc.
Sliced tomatoes

Sometimes, we'd have pancakes or, very rarely, waffles instead of cush
&/or biscuits
Grits often appeared on the menu, served with plenty of butter & salt &
pepper
On holidays, mother's sweet breads often were the centerpoint of the
feast: Banana bread, cranberry banana bread (my favorite!!), pumpkin
bread, zucchini bread...

We had some serious FEASTS going on!

~Eri

Felines&Fuzzbutts wrote:
> My dad, not my mother, taught me to cook for the most part. [snip]
> A typical breakfast, especially on (but not limited to) holidays, might
> include the following:
> .... [snip]... or cornmeal mush, thinly sliced,
> dipped in dry flour, fried, then served with maple syrup [snip]

One of the grandmothers would occasionally load the breakfast table
with a similar array of food. I was too little to know what the
occasions were. I remember thinking that fried cornmeal mush was an
even better vehicle for maple syrup than pancakes, and I loved her
pancakes. Maybe I'll make some mush tonight for tomorrow's breakfast
..... -aem

aem wrote:
> Felines&Fuzzbutts wrote:
> > My dad, not my mother, taught me to cook for the most part. [snip]
> > A typical breakfast, especially on (but not limited to) holidays, might
> > include the following:
> > .... [snip]... or cornmeal mush, thinly sliced,
> > dipped in dry flour, fried, then served with maple syrup [snip]
>
> One of the grandmothers would occasionally load the breakfast table
> with a similar array of food. I was too little to know what the
> occasions were. I remember thinking that fried cornmeal mush was an
> even better vehicle for maple syrup than pancakes, and I loved her
> pancakes. Maybe I'll make some mush tonight for tomorrow's breakfast
> .... -aem
We do that with leftover polenta- slice and fry in butter, and serve
with maple syrup

merryb wrote:
> aem wrote:
> > Felines&Fuzzbutts wrote:
> > > My dad, not my mother, taught me to cook for the most part. [snip]
> > > A typical breakfast, especially on (but not limited to) holidays, might
> > > include the following:
> > > .... [snip]... or cornmeal mush, thinly sliced,
> > > dipped in dry flour, fried, then served with maple syrup [snip]
> >
> > One of the grandmothers would occasionally load the breakfast table
> > with a similar array of food. I was too little to know what the
> > occasions were. I remember thinking that fried cornmeal mush was an
> > even better vehicle for maple syrup than pancakes, and I loved her
> > pancakes. Maybe I'll make some mush tonight for tomorrow's breakfast
> > .... -aem
> We do that with leftover polenta- slice and fry in butter, and serve
> with maple syrup

Same idea, polenta is just fancy talk for cornmeal mush. But if I do
it I'll fry the slices in bacon fat -- I'm sure that's what used to be
done. -aem

Chorizo and eggs and a morning glory muffin at the Z'Tejas
Grill.

Which, sadly, I may never be able to have again, because
they've deleted the C&E from the menu.

They only did it for brunch on weekends, and I think I may
have gone a year without missing a single weekend.

--Blair