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Posts under ‘Breakfast’

Fried Egg Perfection

Anything with the word “fried” in it is good in my book. Anything fried in freshly rendered bacon fat is even better. Our new weekend obsession is a heart blockage waiting to happen, but I’ll risk a triple bypass later in life for this baby.
What makes this recipe special are the individual ingredients—so don’t skimp [...]

French Toast Boast Post

Dear readers, I would never steer you towards bad food. I will admit, however, that some of my recipes happen to be a little better than others. The difference between “great” and “fan-freakin-tastic!” if you will. This recipe is FAN-FREAKIN-TASTIC.
I had some leftover challah and I wanted to create a jazzed-up french toast recipe.
After a [...]

Southport Grocery and Cafe

This week, our Bad Economy Brunch (which now has it’s own official Facebook group, courtesy of Liz) was at Southport Grocery and Cafe, a place I’ve had on my list for a while now.
It was everything I expected and more. Although my bottomless-diet-coke habit didn’t exactly fly there:

I ordered the waiter-recommended, albeit odd-sounding, Brisket & [...]

This bread is bananas. B-A-N-A-N-A-S

Sometimes we buy bananas to let them sit on top of the fridge over-ripening. Because then we get to make banana bread! I adapted this recipe from Elise’s banana bread recipe at Simply Recipes.
Here are the poor over-ripe bananas.

You know they’re ready when the entire stem breaks off when you pluck them from the fridge/fruit [...]