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October 03, 2004
The most important meal of the day
I am not a huge breakfast eater. Usually, I just have some Organic Fiberiffic Goodness (now with tastier twigs! woohoo!), topped with fruit. I always, always have coffee too.
My husband, on the other hand, loves breakfast. He could eat eggs or a stack of pancakes or waffles or fruit-filled crepes every single day of the week. Every once in awhile on the weekend we will indulge and make omelets or French toast. Very, very occasionally we will go out to breakfast. Unfortunately, there is a dearth of breakfast places in our area where you can get good hot food and good coffee. Usually, one has to be sacrificed for the sake of the other.
Of course, there is The Bomber, and Zingerman's, etc. But still, I yearn for that perfect combination of Kickass Coffee and Good Hot Breakfast.
Today, we settled for Chocolate Croissants with regular joe for me and lattes for hubby at Gigantic Corporate Bakery. The croissants were yummy, buttery, flaky, chocolate stuffed wonders of pastry delight. The coffee was hot and fresh. The company was wonderful (blush). The people watching was minimal. Since we are in an area with a high density of colleges and college students, the only folks who roll outta bed early on Sunday and go out to breakfast are the AARP set. Hubby and I were the youngest people in the restaurant, easily, by decades.
It was a cold morning here. We had frost here last night! It wasn't a hard frost, but there were sparkly moisture crystals on my deck when I let the Pooch out for his morning constitutional. Since it was cool and dry, it was very comforting to wrap my little hands around a steaming coffee mug, and gaze at my husband's smiling mug for a spell. He rushes off to work on weekdays, and we don't get a lot of time to be dawdly and oogly. Just sitting with him quietly this morning was as much of a treat as my gazillion calorie croissant.
Perhaps, even moreso.
Posted by Lisa at October 3, 2004 10:53 AM
Comments
My boyfriend is a HUGE breakfast person. He's always "fake" whiny about my not cooking breakfast during the week. Then I remind him that, for me to cook breakfast AND get to work on time, he'd have to eat at an ungodly hour (because I'm NOT going to work smelling like bacon). That usually shuts him up :) But I do cook breakfast on the weekends...when I actually wake up before lunch, that is.
Posted by: kerry at October 3, 2004 12:51 PM
I'm a breakfast person, but my boyfriend isn't! I HAVE to have my breakfast every morning - sometimes I take it to work with me if I don't have time to eat before I leave the house. I love breakfast out. My fav is Cracker Barrel.
You had frost?? It's still warm here - probably 85 right now!
Posted by: deb at October 3, 2004 02:57 PM
Life is too short to be eating breakfast in some corporate mega-eatery!
Go here (http://www.dinercity.com/miDiner/miDiners.html) and find something near you! When you get there, have a cup of good diner coffee for me.
Posted by: David at October 3, 2004 03:42 PM
I never really liked breakfast when I was younger... but now that I'm older, I *love* it. I especially love brunch. French toast, omelettes... yum!!
Posted by: Snidget at October 3, 2004 09:23 PM
I'm currently on a ham, egg and cheese bagel and large coffee cream and sugar kick. I've gone every morning for two weeks to Dunkin Donuts to get my fix. Literally seven pounds later, you'd think I would stop. But no, up this morning and out the door I went. Blah!!
Posted by: Faith at October 4, 2004 09:52 AM