I decided to make an old childhood favorite this morning. The chorizo and egg b'rita...



In the past, we changed it up with some diced potatoes and nopales/nopalitos (cactus). We had a cactus tree in the backyard and my dad would cut some leaves off and remove the thorns with a fisherman's glove and a fillet knife.



He used to dice them up and we'd mix it in with the C&E. Yum! But this morning was just plain old C&E. I grew up in a very hispanic area of Fresno, CA, so Mexican breakfasts were common. Juevos Rancheros came in a close second.

What was your favorite childhood breakfast?

Tony.

Frosted Flakes

and

French Toast

and

sunny side up eggs

and

oatmeal.

Eventually mom realized I was eating so much for breakfast because swimming 5,000 yards in the morning and another 10,000 yards in the afternoon was a major calorie burner.

I grew up in the 50's. Cheerios with bananas on it. The Lone Ranger pushed Cheerios.

Sausage and eggs, number one winner for me. Cereal was never my cup of tea.

Getting to go to IHOP with my grandmother. They had several different kinds of syrups.....good stuff.

Buckwheat cakes and sausage gravy!

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Originally posted by kramden:
I grew up in the 50's. Cheerios with bananas on it. The Lone Ranger pushed Cheerios.

Pretty much the same for us as well, cereal was pretty much what was on sale that week.

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Originally posted by Crimp:
Buckwheat cakes and sausage gravy!

Gonna try that for sure. Thanks for the suggestion!

Quisp.

Quake.

Captain Crunch w/ Crunchberries.

As a child, I much preferred these than eggs and toast.

Scrambled eggs with cheese.

Side pork fried to a crisp. Come to think it that's still my favorite.

Quake

Eggs on toast (either sunny side up, or overeasy).

Poke the yolk and let it soak into the bread. Eggs on hashbrowns worked also. Still does.

Mmmmmm! Now I want breakfast.

During the week my brother and I ate cereal of some sort, but on the weekend it was usually eggs and pancakes and that was my favorite.

Jim

Blueberry muffins. My mom always cooked us a grand breakfast of eggs, bacon, ham, cereal, whatever we wanted. But she held the homemade blueberry muffins out for special days. Those were the days my sister and I looked forward too. It could have been for a birthday, or a good grade, or the first snow of the year. But we always knew by the smell wafting up into the bedrooms when it was blueberry muffin day. MMMMM...straight out of the pan with some butter...nothing better.

I miss the small things. Great thread.

My all time favorite was, and still is, a bowl of white rice with milk, sugar, cinnamon, and sometimes just a tiny teeny little drop of vanilla.

I also liked toast with peanut butter, just the way Mom made it was the best.


We had all the other stuff, eggs bacon sausage, real ham, cereal fruit pancakes waffles, and of course fried potatoes. Mom believed in a varied diet, never the same thing 2 days in a row.
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Fried Libby's vienna sausages, sunny side up eggs, all over white rice.

or

Cap'n Crunch

Cinnamon toast while watching Rocky & Bullwinkle.

no real favorite,

Hostess Donuts, the white sugar coated ones,

ate tons of Cheerios,

both grandparents, and my Mom on weekends did the big breakfast,

eggs, bacon, toast, juice, and the most important part,

home made biscuits, ,

Homemade cinnamon toast for something special or just biscuits and gravy