There are many events happening in the merry month of May. I was surprised at all the food celebrations. I have to admit it’s not easy for me to dwell on these because I’m on a diet LOL. But can you believe all these food-related events that happen this month?
- National Asparagus Month
- National Barbecue Month
- American Cheese Month
- National Egg Month
- National Hamburger Month
- National Mediterranean Diet Month
- National Salad Month
- National Strawberry Month
- National Salsa Month
Well, eggs and cheese made me think of breakfast, but of course. Do you like eggs for breakfast? What do you usually have for breakfast? Is it a big hearty meal or do you keep it fast and microwave simple on most days?
I talk about food a lot in my novels. I have several chefs in my story world, including Chef Piper and Chef Isaac in Call You Home. Some of them cooked the dishes that I have cooked (or tried my best to cook) in my own kitchen. One such chef is Skye Langston in His Morning Kiss.
A personal chef who came with the beach house that billionaire widower and single dad Diehl Brooks stayed in, Skye could cook anything. Later on in the novel, she cooked shrimp curry over rice for dinner. However, at the beginning of the novel, Skye arrived at the beach house to cook lunch only to find out that Diehl wanted breakfast instead. Skye ended up cooking both breakfast for now and lunch for later. Their discussion took place in Chapter 2 of His Morning Kiss. This scene is from Skye’s point of view.
“Are we friends?” Diehl asked.
“Well…”
“Friends don’t let friends skip breakfast.”
“Is that right?”
“Uh-huh.”
Skye didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. She had to do what the client wanted—within reason, of course—because he was paying the bills. If he wanted breakfast for lunch, who was she to deny him the special meal?
“Also, can you be my private chef? I don’t want to share.” He looked serious.
Skye tried not to read too much into that, but she didn’t know what he meant. For now, she would take it literally.
“Frankly, I don’t know if you need a dedicated chef who works in this kitchen only. You’re on vacation and you’ll be more flexible if you can eat at The Priory or at your sister’s home or out in restaurants.”
“If I hadn’t let my private chef go, he’d be with me today. He traveled with my family to our vacation homes, and he also handled all my dinner parties, which Isobel…”
His voice trailed off.
Skye knew exactly who Isobel was. Her heart sank.
He cleared his throat. “No worries. I’ll eat the risotto.”
Skye did everything she could not to give the poor widower a hug. She felt sorry for him, although he was going to make her late for her rehearsal at church. She couldn’t miss that, could she? After all, the whole point of the rehearsal was so that she could better minister to others—
Ah, especially the unchurched.
From all that she knew about Diehl through his sister, this man needed to be ministered to. How could Skye not see that? He had gone through so much after getting his wife back and losing her again. Skye remembered how everyone had cheered in Sunday school that Brinley’s older brother had finally reconciled with his wife.
Within months, she was tragically killed in a car wreck, leaving behind a husband and two elementary-school-aged children.
Skye’s heart melted.
She turned to her assistant. “Let’s cook some breakfast.”
And so Skye did. If you want to know, flip over to the next chapter after the excerpt above, and Skye cooked “eggs, sausage, bacon, toast, and a side of pancakes,” as Diehl requested.
Is that something you would eat for breakfast in your country? What is considered a common breakfast in your region of the world?
When I was visiting Europe, I tasted a bit of kipper for breakfast. I don’t have an opinion about it since it was my first time testing it out. I didn’t try the other British and European breakfasts. Maybe next time!
If you don’t live in the USA but have visited it, what would you think is unusually American for you to eat at breakfast? What about a giant stack of pancake slathered with super sweet maple syrup? Or a three-egg omelette with everything in it? Too many eggs, even for National Egg Month? Or just right?
In His Morning Kiss, when Skye was cooking breakfast for him, Diehl made his own pot of coffee. Do you like coffee in the morning? When I used to drink copious amount of tea, I would drink black tea with milk for breakfast. What about you?
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If you want to read more about Skye and Diehl and their journey through a difficult time in Diehl’s life plus all the other dishes they cooked, check out His Morning Kiss from Kindle Unlimited. Happy reading and have a wonderful breakfast tomorrow!
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Its interesting for me breaky is weet bix with a bit of honey and milk (cereal) But I know some have the big country breakfast with eggs, bacon, toast etc a bit like the big english breakfast minus the kippers.
When I was in Canada they had a waffle maker and so many people had waffles for breakfast. I also know America bacon is different to ours. we use a different cut for our bacon and english bacon isn’t as crispy as American Bacon.
I don’t drink any hot drinks (don’t like coffee and tea) When I would stay in a hotel I would often have pineapple juice for breaky.
This morning we had a German pancake ( thank you, Shanna Hatfield and ‘Home Sweet Homestyle’ ) with stewed apples and bacon, which to a South African like me is very American! We have anything from cereal to an English breakfast of eggs, bacon, tomato and mushrooms to pancakes with Nutella, croissants and ham ….. I guess we are very eclectic in our eating but always have freshly brewed coffee made into a cappuccino.
Hi Jan! What a delightful morning blog. This German American has eaten breakfast in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Japan and Canada. I personally am not a big breakfast person, but I need my morning coffee. I may have eggs, bacon and toast on the weekend. Several times a year I enjoy waffles. Most mornings I just eat a granola bar with a cheese stick or a hard boiled egg. In Germany and Austria breakfast consists of a Brötchen/ Semmel (bread roll) cut in half with cold cuts and cheese or marmalade, maybe a soft or hard boiled egg. Same breakfast in Switzerland but they also serve musli (cereal) and yogurt. Staying a Wakayama Japan in a business hotel there was Western and Eastern Breakfast. Western Breakfast was scrambled egg, not to crispy bacon, toast and a small green lettuce salad. Eastern Breakfast was fish, rice, and salad. While staying in Tokyo, since we were a group, every morning we had an European type breakfast bar. I enjoy reading books that include fun eating experiences. Enjoy your weekend. Best wishes.
I like pancakes and sausage for breakfast.
My favorite breakfast that I fix (sometimes) at home is cream beef gravy, which I happen to be having this morning! My favorite breakfast that I get when I go out to breakfast with friends is a three-egg omelet with bacon, cheddar cheese, and tomatoes, with a side of home fries. I’ll take black coffee with both, and maybe a glass of OJ. My usual breakfast, though, is peanut butter and crackers!
I love the idea of pancakes for breakfast whenever I read about it, but I’ve never tried it, I think American pancakes are different though?
Breakfast in my house is usually cereal or toast, porridge in the winter although my kids don’t really like it. I don’t know anyone who has a traditional English cooked breakfast everyday, sometimes at weekends but it’s always offered in hotels so my husband has it as a treat if he’s away for work.
I have a protein shake in the mornings during the week. On the weekends, we have eggs, sausage or bacon, pancakes or toast. My husband loves biscuits and sausage gravy, but I can’t seem to cook the gravy correctly. His mother was really good at making sausage gravy. He just gets them when we go out to eat for breakfast.
I always have tea in the morning, usually a London fog, and then my actually breakfast varies….sometimes I have nothing at all, sometimes a bagel with cream cheese (& pb or Nutella sometimes), sometimes a ham, egg, & cheese breakfast sandwich on a bagel, sometimes biscuits & gravy, sometimes cinnamon rolls, and sometimes just eggs & toast. I like variety lol
My breakfast varies. Some mornings, I have home-made apple, banana, or zucchini bread. Other mornings, I have graham crackers with peanut butter. In the winter, I might Cream of Wheat or oatmeal. I prefer ‘regular’ breakfast food at supper.
I usually just have cereal with milk for breakfast but I like biscuits and gravy and eggs and sausage and baked oatmeal when my mom makes them for breakfast on the weekends.
I love coffee, and grits with cheese side of lot of bacon .
I try to vary my breakfasts. Sometimes it is cereal with banana. Sometimes it’s blueberry pancakes. Sometimes scrambled eggs with a side of sausage or soft eggs on toast or waffles. But my favorite is French toast and scrambled eggs. In the fall, winter, and spring a cup off hot coffee goes with that. In summer I switch to iced coffee.
Thank you for your comment!
I like Canadian bacon (what we call the other type of bacon here in the States). I often get them as an alternative to American bacon. It looks like ham, doesn’t it? I also like turkey bacon but it depends on who makes it.
I don’t recall every having pineapple juice for breakfast but I’ve had grapefruit or orange juice. However, I heard that pineapple is actually good for you. I’ll remember your comment the next time I go to the grocery store and look for fruit juices!
Have a wonderful weekend in the Lord!
Ooh pancake sounds delicious!
When I make omelettes at home, I put all that you mentioned in it if I have the ingredients. Mushrooms and bacon etc taste delicious in omelettes IMHO. Lately if we eat out for breakfast, I would order omelettes with avocados in it as well.
I want to try Nutella but they have ingredients that I can’t have. I was looking for chocolate hazelnut alternative spreads but so far Nutella is the only thing that’s, well, tastes like Nutella! They sell Nutella in stores over here now.
Your breakfast sounds American, TBH. I had to reread and saw that you’re in SA!
Thank you so much for your comments. Have a wonderful weekend in the Lord!
Sounds delicious!
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Hi Trudy! Those favorite breakfasts sound delicious! Yummy…
I haven’t tried peanut butter and crackers (usually I do bread) for breakfast but I have to say that sometimes I eat yesterday’s meal leftovers for breakfast, especially when I run out of time or just don’t feel like cooking.
Summer is warming up here, so the less I stand cooking in a hot kitchen, the better for me. I need to try PBJ and crackers for breakfast next. Good idea!
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Hi Renate! Thank you for your comments!
Wow, those are some spread. I was on a cruise in Europe and they served us German and French breakfasts, in addition to American (for the tourists, I suppose LOL). I remember all that you mentioned onboard — bread, cold cuts, marmalade, boiled eggs, cereal, etc.
And Asian breakfast is entirely different although most places are westernized. On flights out of Asia, some of the breakfast options served had rice or noodles with meats. I always go for those. I didn’t know Tokyo adds salad to breakfast. In Southeast Asia, I think cucumber on the side would count as breakfast salad IMHO haha!
Have a wonderful weekend in the Lord!
Hi Ruthie – Thank you for your comment!
IDK the origins of American pancakes, but there is quite a variety, including buttermilk, wheat, etc. Depending on where you go, you might get a stack of it, or the pancakes are super large (plate-sized), or they are like small medallions.
When I make pancakes at home, it’s usually out of a box of flour and I mix it with whatever the box says I should mix it with. But I think it’s the maple syrup that makes the pancake. Super sweet and all that. We can’t eat too much of it because pancakes contribute to my weight gain. I can totally eat too much of it.
Porridge sounds wonderful for winter. Is that like oatmeal? Whenever out of time, I just do oatmeal in the microwave. When I have more time, I cook it on the stove.
Have a wonderful weekend in the Lord!
Hello Karen! You just reminded me that I need to make myself a protein shake today.
I can’t do the gravy just right either. So we have to eat out to get that LOL. It does look pretty good on biscuits and also on country fried steak.
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Ooh London fog sounds delicious! I usually just mix some milk into regular Earl Grey, but not make it into latte.
Yes, I like variety too although I most often end up with eggs or oatmeal especially when I’m in a hurry.
Cinnamon rolls sound delicious as well! Back when I was living in GA, we would drive to the mountains to an Amish (or was it Mennonite) bakery that makes the most heavenly giant cinnamon rolls.
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Hello Bonnie – Thank you for your comment.
Homemade breads sound delicious. I can smell it now — freshly baked bread. Yummy.
Ah another mention of peanut butter. I do like crunchy and it goes well on breads!
Yes, sometimes I do eat breakfast at dinner too. I think those restaurants that serve “breakfast all day” indicate that it’s not uncommon!
Have a wonderful weekend in the Lord!
Hello Jessica – I love grits! I don’t eat it as often these days but I still like it a lot.
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Hello Bonnie – Thank you for your comment!
I like a variety of breakfasts too. Banana in cereal sounds delicious. I sometimes add almonds and all sorts of nuts in my cereal.
Ooh blueberry pancakes! IIRC the last pancake I had was blueberry. French toast sounds good too. When I make them, it’s a good way for me to use up the bread.
I also like the other breakfasts you mentioned. And Belgian waffles with strawberries… Yummy!
Have a wonderful weekend in the Lord!
Thank you for your comment, Kendra!
Those breakfasts sound delicious! Back in the old days, my mom used to make me breakfast and I do miss her cooking. She can’t cook anymore. Wish we had affordable cameras back when she was cooking a lot so I could have taken photos of her in the kitchen. I have the memories in my mind though.
Enjoy your weekend breakfasts!
Have a wonderful weekend in the Lord!
I love bacon, eggs, hashbrowns and a gluten free English muffin. Sometimes a gluten free waffle and bacon.
Hello Mary – That breakfast menu sounds delicious!
I do gluten free too but overall trying to cut back on too much carbs of any kind.
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I do not get to eat my favorite breakfast very often. It is biscuits, eggs, gravy with hashbrowns. Thank you for sharing. God bless you.
My favorite breakfast is French toast with sausage. It is only for special occasions though. Usually for breakfast I will have something quick, such as toast and cheese or a muffin and yogurt.
bacon and eggs
My favorite breakfast is a brownie with a cup of hazelnut hot chocolate.
here we have short cut and Middle cut Rashes of Bacon. (We don’t have Canadian Bacon here)
Most hotels will have orange, Pineapple, Apple and normally at least one other it maybe tropical.
Here in Australia we like Pineapple on pizza and in burgers. I love toasted ham and pineapple sandwiches.
Greetings from Romania!
Here usual breakfast can vary tremendously, from the French style coffee with something (usually a sandwich) to something more elaborate, eggs for example. There are people who skip breakfast. (I know it is not healthy).
When young, it was tea or milk (with or without cocoa) and a sandwich – with butter, with jam, with cheese, with whatever was available.
What amused me in the discussions with some Americans is that they see pancakes as a mainly breakfast dish. For us, pancakes is dessert, associated usually with lunch or dinner (or, rather, week-end lunch, when the mother has more time to make a special dessert, or an evening when children want something good.) And ours are not as thick as the American version, but mostly like French crepes.
Thank you, Debra, for your comment. Your favorite breakfast sounds delicious!
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French toast is yummy. I have to resist eating it often bc it sure can put on pounds on me LOL. But French toast with maple syrup or jam on top… Delicious!
Yes to quick breakfasts!
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Delicious, especially crispy bacon!
Hello Lilly – Brownie sounds delicious. Hazelnut has a nice aroma too!
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Hello Marina – All those breakfasts you mentioned sound healthy and yummy too. I think it’s great to see the various breakfasts around the world.
I haven’t had sandwiches for breakfast yet. Over here sandwiches are usually for lunch BUT we also have brunches, which is a mix of breakfast and lunch. Sometimes when we go out late morning, some would skip breakfast and go straight to lunch, especially if it’s 11AM thereabouts — so close to lunch time.
Yes, I think the pancakes here are thicker and have more batter, so they can be the main meal. Sometimes people get a main dish of pancakes — a stack of them LOL — and that’s all they have for breakfast bc after eating that much pancakes, they are too full to eat anything else. Maybe it’s the carb, you know? Like muffins and toast/bread.
I like crepes! At the grocery store, they sell chocolate-filled crepes, so I think that would be more a dessert than breakfast dish. However, I’ve had crepes for dinner too, so I guess one can eat it any time. I haven’t been able to make my own crepes yet bc I can’t get it super thin. I’ll keep trying.
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Interesting! Now I’m curious as to what kind of bacon it is over there.
I love pineapple on Hawaiian pizza!
Breakfast is really varied here ranging from leftovers from last night’s dinner, to chia pudding, overnight oats, poached eggs with tomato, soup, naked egg and tomato/bacon sandwich, or occasionally rye sourdough with homemade pesto, coconut yoghurt and some finger lime vesicles on top or whatever happens to be in the fridge. Not particularly partial to pancakes and to eat a whole stack with so much syrup isn’t to my taste, much prefer a savoury breakfast.
If someone else is cooking I do love a traditional farm breakfast of steak, eggs, bacon, tomato, savoury scones (I think you call them biscuts), with a rich spicy homemade tomato chutney. If I’m doing the cooking them definitely rye sourdough with my friends homemade pesto, coconut yoghurt and finger lime vesicles – I love the burst of tart flavour when they pop in my mouth.