Outpost 505

We joined my parents at the Lithuanian Club for a fundraising breakfast for a memorial for veterans of the Korean War – a good cause, but a pretty lousy breakfast.  Pop referred to the biscuits and gravy by their military name: shit on a shingle.  I enjoyed my fruit cocktail in a tiny styrofoam cup, [...]

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To be honest, I don’t really remember much about breakfasts growing up.  I know that my parents wouldn’t ever buy us sugar cereal, at least not when we were small, so if a box of Corn Pops came into the house, it was because one of us had bought it with our paper route or [...]

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There are many Champaign institutions for which we’ve found acceptable substitutes.  OK, maybe not many.  A few.  Having Buzz down the street made up for the lack of Cafe Miels from Kopi.  The fried stuff and beer at the Galaxy Hut more than made up for the loss of fried stuff and beer at the [...]

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Who thinks it’s a good idea to plan a breakfast – not brunch, breakfast – that requires at least an hour in the kitchen, especially when that hour is 8am on a Sunday?  Me, apparently.
See, the oven needed to preheat for an hour before the pita bread could go in, and the whole point of [...]

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Most mornings I’m up and out of the house before Shane gets out of bed – I take the bus and work an 8 hour day, while he rides his moped and works a 7.5 hour day, giving him a bit more flexibility in his schedule.  This means that we rarely sit down to breakfast [...]

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I had good intentions of making a pi/e in honor of pi/e day.  Very good intentions.  Last year I took home the grand prize at my library’s pi/e day competition with Smitten Kitchen’s Nutmeg-Maple Cream Pie, a delicious departure from the home-y pi/es I usually prefer.  If you like maple and are into the pi/e [...]

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While I’ve been in a bit of a delicious oatmeal rut the last few days, I have persevered in trying some of your breakfast suggestions.  Since we last checked in, I have had:

Toasted flatbread with half an avocado – not local, but definitely delicious and full of healthy fats.
Scrambled eggs and flatbread toast, courtesy of [...]

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Between the holidays, starting a new job, and the fact that it’s damned difficult to get out of bed in the mornings, we managed to go four months without having breakfast at SELMA.  This week, however, we felt the first hint of spring in the air, and the combination of sunshine and the promise of [...]

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Today started with an outstanding breakfast and carried on full-bore to homemade Twinkies.  Pretty damned amazing.
Breakfast: ruby-red grapefruit broiled with a bit of sugar.  Fresh squeezed orange juice for Shane from 2nds produce we found at Meijer.  Soft scrambled eggs with wheat toast and slices of avocado.  A pot of  Ethiopian Sidamo from Zingerman’s.  If [...]

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Breakfast is tough on weekdays, but it can be just as tough on the weekends for one very simple reason: I’m an early riser – or at least an earlier riser than Shane.  And I’m also almost always hungry when I wake up.  So – do I make breakfast? Do I wait to see what [...]

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