Tag Archives: breakfast

Playing with Oatmeal

Chances are, when you think of oatmeal, you think of instant oatmeal.  Tear open a packet, add hot water, and you’re set.  It’s not bad, it’s easy, and relatively good for you.  However, there’s a few options popping up at most grocery stores that let you play around with oatmeal a bit more than just …

December 7, 2008 – 10:34 pm | By chrisandcamri | Posted in Food | Tagged , | Comments (4)

Marmalade Shortcut

A few weeks ago we lamented how difficult it was to make your own marmalade. It turns out, pleasant little English women agree. The little English women didn’t give up though, they persevered, and preserved. With a little bit of innovation, they decided to can up pre-chopped seville oranges, with a marmalade recipe on the …

April 30, 2007 – 9:01 pm | By chrisandcamri | Posted in Food | Tagged , | Comments (2)

Breakfast Cereal Roundup

We’re fans of breakfast. As much as we’d like to have eggs and pancakes every morning, we don’t have time, and we don’t want to weigh 500 pounds. So, for practical reasons, we mostly stick to toast, or oatmeal, or yogurt and muesli. About half the time, we eat cold cereal and milk. Which isn’t …

March 29, 2007 – 8:52 pm | By chrisandcamri | Posted in Food | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Dundee Marmalade

I was in sunny Dallas this past week at a geek conference. When I got home, Camri presented me with a jar of Dundee style marmalade. Although it’s really not wildly different than other marmalade’s I’ve tried, it’s distinct. The rind pieces are much larger, and more plentiful, which gives the marmalade a more bitter …

March 2, 2007 – 8:45 pm | By chrisandcamri | Posted in Food | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Malted Pancakes

For a long time, Clarks on Belmont was our favorite place to get breakfast. When we moved to Lincoln Square, it just wasn’t as convenient, so our visits dropped off. Our favorite thing to get there were the pancakes. It took us a while to figure out why they tasted so much better than other …

February 22, 2007 – 8:44 pm | By chrisandcamri | Posted in Food | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Miss Marmalade

It’s winter at your English country estate. A fussy old lady is solving the murder of your wealthy father. You’re checking your stocks in the Times, while you munch on a piece of toast. Quick! What’s on your toast? Butter? Sure. Marmalade? You bet. You are Master and Commander of Her Majesty’s Ship “Indefatigable”. The …

February 1, 2007 – 8:39 pm | By chrisandcamri | Posted in Food | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Kiss My Grits

Corn used to be dried for storage. Dry corn lasts a lot longer than watery fresh corn. When you were ready to eat your dried corn, you could take it to the local grist mill and have it ground into corn meal suitable for corn bread, corn mush, stuff like that. As the stone wheel …

November 2, 2006 – 2:43 pm | By chrisandcamri | Posted in Food | Tagged , | Comments (2)

MMM…Muesli

We’d seen “Mueslix” before, but never tried “Muesli” until we went to Ireland for a friend’s wedding. Muesli is German for “dry rolled oats, nuts, and berries.” Actually, to be fair, while Camri was discovering Muesli, I was discovering eggs, thick bacon, and black pudding. While I was purposely not asking what the difference between …

October 26, 2006 – 2:39 pm | By chrisandcamri | Posted in Food | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)