Dept. of Silly questions, Breakfast Vegetables Division

[kinzel]

What vegetables do you eat for breakfast? Hpe do you cook them?

We ... tend to have tomatoes, peppers, onions, garlic (vegetable or spice?), chives, often with eggs or sometimes with potatoes.

We ... need to add veggies to breakfast since we're so bad about getting veggies at supper.

Suggestions?

Comments

[baisleac.livejournal.com]

I've always considered garlic a spice, but with lots o' healthy benefits. :)

Spinach, cabbage, and asparagus can be good with eggs; especially omelets.

[birdhousefrog.livejournal.com]

Yup, a little spinach with eggs works. Tomatoes add a fair amount of water. We also do corn. But that's because the kid likes it.

We do most of our veggies at dinner, I'm afraid. Egg frittata with fresh home-hatched eggs and lots of veggies. Or stir fry.

Do you like beets? We like roasted beets with potatoes tossed in a dressing of balsamic vinegar, oil, and a little dijon mustard.

We also build hearty salads with lots of leftover dinner veggies such as cauliflower, broccoli, corn, peas, and those beets mentioned above.

Breakfast is more fruit-oriented for me.
Oz

[(Anonymous)]

I had mushrooms (though a fungus it still counts as a vege) and spring onions in scrambled eggs for brekky this morning. Yum.

[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

Mushrooms. Avocados. Tomatoes.

[grassrose.livejournal.com]

I adore spinach in just about any form (except slopped from a can). Omelet or quiche would work for breakfast.

spinach comes in a can? Yick.

[pakwa26.livejournal.com]

Sounds gross.

Re: spinach comes in a can? Yick.

[grassrose.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid so... :-P

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Re: spinach comes in a can? Yick.

[kay-gmd.livejournal.com]

That's the way Popeye ate it.

Butternut Squash and Yams

[cschanck.livejournal.com]

I often roast (for dinner) cubed butternut squash (1 inch cubes) and/or yam medallions (1/2 inch think discs).

My wife is now to the point of skipping them at dinner so she can put them in or on the side of eggs in the morning.

Tasty.

[keristor.livejournal.com]

The closest I ever come to vegetables at breakfast are mushrooms, onions and bell peppers in omelets, and baked beans (I dislike cooked tomato, which is often served with a "full English" breakfast). I regard garlic as a spice, few people use enough of it to count as a portion of vegetable and I suspect that those people don't have many close friends *g*. Oh, and sometimes potatoes. And chocolate is a vegetable, it comes from a bean that grows on a plant like a tree (http://www.ovff.org/pegasus/songs/chocolate-vegetable.html)...

[pakwa26.livejournal.com]

Mushrooms (though strictly not a vegie, I know), baby spinach, tomatoes, potatoes. All fried up in the bacon fat. Waaaaaaaaaaaaay to go.

Alas

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

Any but the tiniest bit of bacon fat is right out, at this point in my culinary adventures, as is something that needs a "big ol'mess a eggs" ... quiche is maybe a once a month thing, sigh.

Interesting that so many people put baked beans on the breakfast menu... O thought that was a Maine and Quebec thing...

[pakwa26.livejournal.com]

Baked beans! I forgot the beans! Heinz English Style, they're slightly bigger than the baked beans we get here. Yum.

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Definitely Heinz, they are the only baked beans (or indeed beans of any kind) I find palatable. Are the "English Style" ones a different variety of Heinz, or are all of the Heinz ones that style? I only know of the one type used by Heinz in the UK (modulo sauce differences such as curried beans, the actual beans seem the same to me).

Most (but not quite all) English hotels serve baked beans with "full English" breakfast. Ones which host SF conventions also serve mushrooms, because fans complain when they don't (many others do as well, of course, but one question asked of a hotel proposed to host a UK SF con is "do they serve mushrooms?", it's at least as important as serving Real Ale).

[pakwa26.livejournal.com]

We get beans here made by Heinz locally, standard flavour is tomato, but you can also get ham, cheese and bbq, all with the aussie packaging. The 'English style' come in that distinctive green packaging which, I think from memory, is how they're sold in supermarkets over there. The 'English style' beans are actually bigger than the aussie style, not sure why - we like to think we're bigger at everything here!

[(Anonymous)]

Zucchini bread would count as a veggie. Maybe with some topping like on coffee cake? Make it once a week and eat it all week long. Squash is good in an omelet, I cut it in half and remove the seeds, then slice it, because I don't like it soggy.

Sue H

[pgranzeau.livejournal.com]

Ummm . . . Grits is ground up corn, ain't it? Animal, Vegetable, mineral Yeah. Grits.

[queenmaggie.livejournal.com]

fruit! It's the same sort of thing (vegetable natter with vitamins, and extra fiber. Add pineapple, oranges, peaches, berries... all very good for you, tasty, and not calorically dense.
Potato pancakes, sweet potato pancakes or bread.
onions, mushrooms, peppers, spinach in omelets (frozen, diced versions of these are easy to keep in the freezer, then just throw a handful in the pan, and pour in the egg-substitute: quickest omelet you'll ever make! You can add a light touch of bacon by sprinkling in a tblsp of real bacon bits for salads. Flavor, but not so many calories.

[amm-me.livejournal.com]

I'm no help; oatmeal (NOT instant) unsweetened, made with lots of raisins, enough to count for a serving of fruit, is my standard breakfast. Whole grains in the morning, veg for dinner.

To get several vegetables to go with my minimal meat course, without a lot of complicated preparation, I have recently developed a mixed vegetable routine that serves me well. Once the farmers' market runs out of summer squash and new potatoes I'll have to modify it.

Set a covered saucepan heating with a quarter inch or so of water, while dicing a potato or two (they're little). Put it in the pan, spread all over the bottom, and start cooking while slicing up a summer squash. Put the squash pieces on top of the potato and keep cooking, covered. Then maybe chop a third veg, something quick-cooking like bok choy or chard or sweet pepper, or a tomato. Add to the top of the mix, with a pat of butter. Cook till the water is gone and you hear the butter sizzling. Remove cover, check that the potato is done, stir a few times and cook till some browning occurs. Replace lid, turn off the fire, and wait a minute, so that the remaining moisture loosens the browned pieces from the pan. Dump on plate, with salt if you need it. No spices, just good real-food vegetable flavors. Probably won't work with pallid winter grocery-store vegetables.

[mardott.livejournal.com]

Great suggestion, amm_me! I'm going to try that myself!

Any kind of leafy green: spinach, kale, chard, mustard, dandelion... chop 'em up and mix them with potatoes or eggs, along with the mushrooms, onions, bell peppers, squash, whatever the heck you want.

Or make it a pizza. Or wrap them in a tortilla.

I struggle like crazy to eat all the vegetables I should. Most of the time I do oatmeal for breakfast (steel cut only - I soak them overnight and they cook up in just a few minutes in the morning). Sometimes I add fruit, but I really love the taste of just oatmeal with honey, cinnamon, and a teaspoon of peanut butter. And a bit milk - cream would be best, but I can't justify it.

Lately, I've been having eggs two or three times a week. I need the protein, and it gives me a chance to have the veggies.

Sliced grilled or fried tomatoes

[(Anonymous)]

My Mum always sliced tomatoes and fried them to served alongside eggs...maybe it's an Australian thing.

I've had broccoli and mushrooms in omlettes.
Lauretta (Constellation Books)

[(Anonymous)]

In case of utter desperation,lower sodium V-8 juice straight from the can. My husband thinks it tastes pretty good, but I tend to hold my nose and pour it down. It does take care of the vegetable problem when nothing else is handy or there are time limitations. Your friend from Sioux City who is not very good at typing--Mary Cay

[(Anonymous)]

My personal favorite breakfast food is leftover Chinese or Thai, mixing everything with the leftover rice and reheating in a wok. The spices usually blend beautifully as long as you like the healthier stirfried things rather than breaded meet in a sweet sauce. It isn't traditional breakfast food, but very tasty.

B. O'Brien

[queenmaggie.livejournal.com]

There's also V8 Fruit juice, that can go in a blender with fresh or frozen fruit to make smoothies: it's got a few servings of veggies in it. If you're looking for more ideas for healthier eating, try "Prevention" magazine: it's got a lot of non-crack-pot, not excessively out of the mainstream information. You could check out the website first.

vegetables for breakfast

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Quiche is good for breakfast - and easy, too, if you use pre-made pie crusts, available in your grocery's dairy dept. I like my quiche made with spinach, feta cheese, green onion, & roasted red peppers, with mushrooms optional.

spinach, onion, mushroom or artichoke hearts and chicken in a nicely seasoned cream sauce browned atop a fresh split biscuit or an english muffin. Mmmmm.

Why people don't think of macaroni and cheese (home-made only, NOT BOXED!!) as breakfast fare I don't understand - and broccoli is a perfect addition to this delightsomely warm and yummy day-starter.

Corn bread is a delicious breakfast food. And if you added real fresh corn to it - or deep-fried it and had it as a fritter - who could turn that down?

And speaking of fritters, zucchini makes a great vegetable fritter. Add a little grated cheese of your choice to a basic soft dough with grated zucchini and seasonings of your choice (I like garlic and Mrs. Dash) and serve with eggs. Or whatever. And, just for your information, if you substitute zucchini for the carrot in your carrot cake recipe, (which I think tastes better than the carrots)or even just make it with carrots, you have flour (carbohydrate), vegetables (roughage, vitamins and minerals), milk and eggs (protein) and oil (fat), with enough sugar to make the medicine go down really well! Who wouldn't gladly have cake for breakfast when thought of in those terms?

What's wrong with the traditional-styled brunch fare of eggs benedict (really easy to make - do the sauce in a blender) with a tasty fresh tossed green salad on the side? What difference if you eat it at 7 am instead of 10am?

And really, who would turn down a delicious, warm vegetarian lasagna for breakfast if it was available?

[filkferengi]

Zucchini is also excellent in omelettes or frittatas.