Baldur

Boughbreak is hosting a cookout for our local bear friends this Satyrday.
Usually this amounts to anywhere from 50-75 men.
This will be a rather routine event with use serving soft drinks, hamburgers, hot dogs, fiery vegetarian chili, potato chips, warm blueberry cobbler with vanilla ice cream on top and pecan bars with brown sugar meringue,

Everyone also brings food with them so there will be beer, salad, lots of other desserts, and watermelon.
Several people come from some distance away so we also serve breakfast.
This will be coffee, orange juice, scrambled eggs, toast and whatever leftovers from the day before that seem appropriate.
This is usually whatever pastry and fruit that can be found.

Baldur

In typical fashion the weather is getting progressively hotter and more humid as the weekend approaches.
It will be sweltering by Satyrday.

Baldur

polenta, here is a question for you.
What would be served in Uruguay for a special breakfast?, say if you had guests spending time at your home. How would it be different than if you were having breakfast in the dining room of a fancy hotel?

AuntieB

Hello everyone, I'm just checking in from Victoria in Australia.
Breakfast is a subject near and dear to my heart.
I do not like it to be elaborate.
Champagne mimosas
French-press coffee with warmed milk
a small fruit salad of raspberries, ripe anjou pear, and banana
warm croissants with jam (no butter as I'm watching my figure)

In general I can be quite happy without eggs at breakfast, though I do enjoy them occasionally.

AuntieB

On a snowy winter morning in my Parisian flat I might have:

Hot chocolate (no whipped cream as I'm watching my figure)
Brown rice cooked slowly in milk until it's like a pudding
prunes stewed with a splash of Armagnac and a piece of cinnamon stick

AuntieB

Of course after an extremely late night at the opera we might stop for a 3am breakfast at some little intimate bistro.
I mght order:

Brioche French toast with perfectly ripe sliced peaches and a dusting of powdered sugar.
Champagne

AuntieB

If I am fortunate enough to be in Bangkok at breakfast time it is certain that Auntie B will go to a small noodle shop and have Pad Thai.
There is no finer breakfast in my opinion.

Baldur

Baldur loves Pad Thai also, but admit to never having it for breakfast.
Auntie B, how nice to have you back on Radio Baldur.

polenta

Thanks Baldur for your answer. In Spanish we mostly say it in plural for an object that is "in good shape", not broken or with any damage... so I wasn't sure. Now I know it's singular in English. Thanks Baldur.

polenta

Baldur, at home I drink "cebada", which is like rye I think. I've adopted it lots of years ago but very few people drink it. For me it's like coffee but it doesn't harm your health and it's also instant like real coffee. But I'm very exceptional in that.
Most people would drink milk with coffee and some crackers or bread with jam or something. Breakfast is usually very light.
When you go to a hotel, even if it's not fancy, or to a work breakfast or a breakfast party, it's much, much more. They serve: yogurt, milk, tea, coffee, orange juice, bread, toast, croissants, crackers, cookies, different fruit, cheese, ham, jam, butter, some flan maybe some cakes, pudding etc, etc.

polenta

Sorry I've just looked it up in the dictionary. I drink cebada, which is barley.

Qsilv

Cebada sounds fascinating... barley is the basis of malt, one of the most addictive flavors on the planet.
( Not much personal bias operating here, huh? lol )

Here we have Horchata; I think that's rice/almond/barley based. Mmmmm... love it.

Cebada might be a delightful addition to the family of beloved weird drinks like Horlicks, Ovaltine, and the late, much lamented Postum and Carnation Instant Breakfast drink and bars. Those bars, especially, have thousands of signers to a plea to Nestle to bring 'em back... or at least release the recipe... (yeah, tangent here... that's what addiction does!) ;>

polenta

http://www.multiahorro.com.uy/Product.aspx?p=102347&q=cebada&pa=1&o=&c=&qt =&br=

polenta

The photo above shows exactly what I buy: CEBADA AMANECER. It's almost $100 (Uruguayan pesos), which equals a little more than 5 American dollars but it lasts a lot. It's very cheap and it's almost hidden on the shelves of the supermarkets but near coffee and tea. I don't know anyone else who drinks it.

Dragon

Baldur asked if we in Canada would say 'in good condition' for people or animals. That was the first thing I thought of when I read the phrase though I will admit we'd much more frequently use "in good shape". Perhaps it's because at the clinic we do body condition scores for the pets that come in to judge if they are too thin or too fat or just right. Maybe it's just more of a medical thing to say something living is in good condition.

Dragon

When Auntie B is finished enjoying Victoria, Australia I highly suggest she make a jaunt to Victoria, Canada. It's a truly beautiful city with a lovely climate, in summer at least - it gets a ridiculous amount of rain in winter.

Qsilv

Channel Baldur brings you a 4 minute reprise: http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=42698
(Q recommends listening to the background music too)

http://www.wimp.com/babymoose

indigo

Thanks Qsilv for sharing that baby moose...I love these creatures
and Alison Krauss in the background was a bonus!

Dragon

Can't remember if I've shared this story or not before but it's a cute one. My mom lives just outside of town on a small acreage and frequently has wildlife like deer and moose wandering through her yard. One day she got a surprise to see three moose, 2 adult and 1 baby, frolicking around the house like dogs. They chased eachother around and around the house several times before moving off down the road. At the time my nephew was about 4 years old and instead of having a boogieman in his closet he had a scary moose in there. My mom decided that maybe hearing about the moose family frolicking around would make him less frightened of them so she called him up in BC to tell him the story. She says "There was a baby moose and a daddy moose and a mommy moose." to which he responded quite jovially "Oh Grandma... Mommy's not a moose!"
Always cracks me up when I think of that.

mdawrcn

For those of you who need an additional distraction from what you should be doing, and haven't already seen this, go check it out. Unbelievable. The baby moose video was great.

http://www.ustream.tv/theowlbox