@heartny yes! Proper boiled bagels, not huge, and a bit chewy on the outside, soft on the inside. Not big round loaves of cakey bread, the way most bagels are around me.
Incidentally, reducing the bourbon to half volume is easy if you weigh 60 grams of bourbon into a small sauce pan on a digital scale, then when the weight of the pan and bourbon has been reduced by 30g, you’re done.
I also like homemade Kolaches, scones, and English muffins for breakfast. But my all time favorite is sausage gravy and cathead buttermilk biscuits. Yum!
/showme cathead buttermilk biscuits
(This is my first time hearing “cathead” as a thing; I assume it’s like “catgut” and doesn’t involve actual cats [anymore]. Apparently they’re larger-than-usual drop biscuits? So these cathead-shaped biscuits the AI made are utterly incorrect.)
@Salanth Yet another new word for me today!
Wikipedia:
It is called “cat-facing” because the abnormal cracking and dimpling on tomatoes, peaches, apples and even grapes, looks somewhat akin to a small cat’s face.
Well, I’ve never seen one that looks like a cat’s face, but maybe I just haven’t seen enough? Looking at pictures online, I guess it can get a lot more severe than I ever expected.
@Kidsandliz had LOTS of those. I have 9 large blueberry bushes and blueberry season has been going on for a while. Need some variety to my blueberry consumption. (Well, 7 blueberry bushes and 2 pinkberry bushes)
Elderberry season starts now as blueberries come to an end.
@OnionSoup The family farm had an elderberry bush? tree? The “Aunts” wouldn’t let us touch it as there wasn’t as much as the zillions of over our head blackberry bushes on the property (where we could go eat them as much as we wanted and some would still be left over for the aunts). The neighboring farm was over run with blueberries and allowed us to go into his goat fields to eat them. Then there was the cow corn feed fields next to us as well. Pick them absolutely perfectly ripe and cook right away and they are pretty good. As kids we’d creep through that acreage taking one here and one there…
@Kidsandliz elderberries are also slightly toxic when raw, so probably good they didn’t let you forage them.
I’ve got five elderberry bushes, but only two the deer have let grow tall enough to flower and fruit. They grow insanely fast once they grow above the deers munching range.
@OnionSoup I tried them anyway. I thought they tasted really nasty. Mom made elderberry jam from them (as did the other aunts) but I never tasted it as I hated the taste of the raw berries. Mom’s response was, “Good. More for the rest of us.”.
@Kidsandliz they’re not great by themselves. Much better when you add sugar (like the jam). Elderberry fool is yummy too and nice and cooling in the summer.
@Kidsandliz@OnionSoup Our blueberries are just getting ripe. My Sunday afternoon chore is to finish putting the bird netting over them. (Damn thieving robins)
@Kidsandliz@macromeh don’t know why… This is third year with blueberries (second year with good harvest) the bird don’t bother my bushes… The deer did when young but not anymore.
The biggest pest are the yellow head caterpillars.
Blueberries did well here too this year. Went out a few days back and picked over 7.5 lbs in about 30 minutes… Made a bunch of jam (several jars are destined to be thankyou gifts for some family members I will be staying with in France over the next month). Super disappointed that the figs are just starting to ripen. I got enough to make a batch of bourbon fig preserves and a couple of jars of whole figs but not the usual metric shit-ton I typically get put up. Lots of peaches but all lost to brown rot, pears will (hopefully) still be there when we get back mid-August. This is why I don’t like being gone from the house for extended vacations this time of year.
@chienfou@OnionSoup Wow! Can you recruit a friend to pick the figs for you and store some of them? (I don’t know if they freeze well or what, but maybe?) Sad about the peaches.
@Kyeh@OnionSoup
Step mom-in-law said she will throw some in the freezer when she comes to pick in a week or so. We will see if that really happens! Should be fine for use in jams etc… not so sure about canning whole figs or if they will turn to mush. Either way, we will find a way to use them.
Peaches were a bit of a disappointment. Actually sprayed dormant oil on them this year for the first time (they are finally getting big enough to produce) ant thought it was all good when I saw them on the tree last week. Pulled a bunch to finish ripening inside so they wouldn’t get bugs or bruised. So bummed when EVERY ONE turned brown and went bad before they ripened. Guess I will have some work to do when I get back to get the trees back in shape. Not sure what organic methods are effective, but know there are some pruning and clean-up things I can do to help alleviate it some.
@chienfou@Kyeh nice! I should try peaches. South Carolina is the number one producer of them in the Eastern US, so I know they should grow well here.
I have apples, blueberries, blackberries (wild and cultivated)… Excited for my Feijoas to get big enough to fruit. Got dozens of May pops on the vine. Paw Paw and Service berries went in the ground this year so one day should fruit for me.
Sadly my male Kiwi fruit and my male Kiwi berry plants both died leaving me with nothing but female vines that now won’t be able to fruit. The company I got them off doesn’t have them anymore but said several other people told her their males died too… I guess male kiwis are fragile.
@PooltoyWolf Anything can be for breakfast if you want it to be!
(Cinnamon rolls are particularly closer to breakfast than many alternatives. If we’re ranking breakfastness, I’d say an actual cinnamon roll is tons better for breakfast than a cinnamon pop tart.)
@Snivles Because most people only eat them and never inquire about how they’re made? (In the case of the infamous KreepyKrapKrispyKreme “donuts”, my personal opinion is “badly”.)
Probably after an all nighter when we closed out the pizza parlor and came back to my place with some pizza, beer and a nickel bag… we were pretty baked that night.
Oh… wait, it’s not best breakfast baked good.
@Euniceandrich Given how many people think that meat comes from a grocery store, I’m sure that there are at least as many who think donuts are baked instead of fried. It looks like a pastry, it’s got stuff in it like a pastry, it must be a pastry, therefore it’s baked. How else would it be done? SMH.
@Euniceandrich There are “cake donuts”, but they’re still fried. There are mini Bundt cakes that are baked and mostly donut-shaped-ish, but they’re not technically donuts. Truly, the eater careth not, save that the comestible be comely of appearance and sweet on the tongue.
Bagels
@heartny yes! Proper boiled bagels, not huge, and a bit chewy on the outside, soft on the inside. Not big round loaves of cakey bread, the way most bagels are around me.
Cinnamon roll.
@yakkoTDI I could agree!
@mycya4me @yakkoTDI Erin Jeanne McDowell’s Rx for homemade cinnamon rolls with bourbon icing. I make that Rx with pecans, which she doesn’t use in her printed recipe. I also add some cardamom in addition to the nutmeg and cinnamon.
Incidentally, reducing the bourbon to half volume is easy if you weigh 60 grams of bourbon into a small sauce pan on a digital scale, then when the weight of the pan and bourbon has been reduced by 30g, you’re done.
@Jackinga @mycya4me Keep your nuts out of cinnamon rolls. Who would want debris in there?
@Jackinga @yakkoTDI I like Nuts… Hey if you don’t like them don’t get any that has them!
Quiche
Bread, just bread
Muffin, to satisfy the muffin top.
Almond danish
Pop-Tarts
@heartny Yep I have one after my Cereal or Grits!
Coffee cake
With coffee of course
Biscuit
I also like homemade Kolaches, scones, and English muffins for breakfast. But my all time favorite is sausage gravy and cathead buttermilk biscuits. Yum!
/showme cathead buttermilk biscuits(This is my first time hearing “cathead” as a thing; I assume it’s like “catgut” and doesn’t involve actual cats [anymore]. Apparently they’re larger-than-usual drop biscuits? So these cathead-shaped biscuits the AI made are utterly incorrect.)
@xobzoo Take a look at cat face tomatoes.
@Salanth Yet another new word for me today!
Wikipedia:
Well, I’ve never seen one that looks like a cat’s face, but maybe I just haven’t seen enough? Looking at pictures online, I guess it can get a lot more severe than I ever expected.
Crumpets
@werehatrack Not to be confused with strumpets or ear trumpets.
@werehatrack @xobzoo That’s a mistake you only make once.
Going to.make blueberry muffins in the morning with blueberries fresh off the bushes.
@OnionSoup You can keep the muffin part… I’ll just eat the blueberries.
@Kidsandliz had LOTS of those. I have 9 large blueberry bushes and blueberry season has been going on for a while. Need some variety to my blueberry consumption. (Well, 7 blueberry bushes and 2 pinkberry bushes)
Elderberry season starts now as blueberries come to an end.
@OnionSoup The family farm had an elderberry bush? tree? The “Aunts” wouldn’t let us touch it as there wasn’t as much as the zillions of over our head blackberry bushes on the property (where we could go eat them as much as we wanted and some would still be left over for the aunts). The neighboring farm was over run with blueberries and allowed us to go into his goat fields to eat them. Then there was the cow corn feed fields next to us as well. Pick them absolutely perfectly ripe and cook right away and they are pretty good. As kids we’d creep through that acreage taking one here and one there…
@Kidsandliz elderberries are also slightly toxic when raw, so probably good they didn’t let you forage them.
I’ve got five elderberry bushes, but only two the deer have let grow tall enough to flower and fruit. They grow insanely fast once they grow above the deers munching range.
@OnionSoup I tried them anyway. I thought they tasted really nasty. Mom made elderberry jam from them (as did the other aunts) but I never tasted it as I hated the taste of the raw berries. Mom’s response was, “Good. More for the rest of us.”.
@Kidsandliz they’re not great by themselves. Much better when you add sugar (like the jam). Elderberry fool is yummy too and nice and cooling in the summer.
Best use for Elderberries though is wine.
@Kidsandliz @OnionSoup Our blueberries are just getting ripe. My Sunday afternoon chore is to finish putting the bird netting over them. (Damn thieving robins)
@Kidsandliz @macromeh don’t know why… This is third year with blueberries (second year with good harvest) the bird don’t bother my bushes… The deer did when young but not anymore.
The biggest pest are the yellow head caterpillars.
Bird certainly love my figs though.
@OnionSoup
Blueberries did well here too this year. Went out a few days back and picked over 7.5 lbs in about 30 minutes… Made a bunch of jam (several jars are destined to be thankyou gifts for some family members I will be staying with in France over the next month). Super disappointed that the figs are just starting to ripen. I got enough to make a batch of bourbon fig preserves and a couple of jars of whole figs but not the usual metric shit-ton I typically get put up. Lots of peaches but all lost to brown rot, pears will (hopefully) still be there when we get back mid-August. This is why I don’t like being gone from the house for extended vacations this time of year.
@chienfou @OnionSoup Wow! Can you recruit a friend to pick the figs for you and store some of them? (I don’t know if they freeze well or what, but maybe?) Sad about the peaches.
@chienfou @Kyeh @OnionSoup If you have fresh blueberries, this is a delicious easy to make recipe to put them to use:
https://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/blueberry-cheesecake-parfaits
@Kyeh @OnionSoup
Step mom-in-law said she will throw some in the freezer when she comes to pick in a week or so. We will see if that really happens! Should be fine for use in jams etc… not so sure about canning whole figs or if they will turn to mush. Either way, we will find a way to use them.
Peaches were a bit of a disappointment. Actually sprayed dormant oil on them this year for the first time (they are finally getting big enough to produce) ant thought it was all good when I saw them on the tree last week. Pulled a bunch to finish ripening inside so they wouldn’t get bugs or bruised. So bummed when EVERY ONE turned brown and went bad before they ripened. Guess I will have some work to do when I get back to get the trees back in shape. Not sure what organic methods are effective, but know there are some pruning and clean-up things I can do to help alleviate it some.
@chienfou @Kyeh nice! I should try peaches. South Carolina is the number one producer of them in the Eastern US, so I know they should grow well here.
I have apples, blueberries, blackberries (wild and cultivated)… Excited for my Feijoas to get big enough to fruit. Got dozens of May pops on the vine. Paw Paw and Service berries went in the ground this year so one day should fruit for me.
Sadly my male Kiwi fruit and my male Kiwi berry plants both died leaving me with nothing but female vines that now won’t be able to fruit. The company I got them off doesn’t have them anymore but said several other people told her their males died too… I guess male kiwis are fragile.
Cinnamon roll! Those are for breakfast, right?
@PooltoyWolf Anything can be for breakfast if you want it to be!
(Cinnamon rolls are particularly closer to breakfast than many alternatives. If we’re ranking breakfastness, I’d say an actual cinnamon roll is tons better for breakfast than a cinnamon pop tart.)
@PooltoyWolf @xobzoo Pizza is almost a traditional breakfast item among certain demographics.
Sticky buns
Kringle!
@isz Oooo, yes.
@isz
/image Kringle
Why are doughnuts included on “baked” goods? They’re fried
@Snivles Because most people only eat them and never inquire about how they’re made? (In the case of the infamous
KreepyKrapKrispyKreme “donuts”, my personal opinion is “badly”.)@Snivles I’ve heard of cake donuts… But I don’t expect them to be baked.
Although I have to say the best pies are also fried.
French toast casserole
Probably after an all nighter when we closed out the pizza parlor and came back to my place with some pizza, beer and a nickel bag… we were pretty baked that night.
Oh… wait, it’s not best breakfast baked good.
Who bakes donuts? The best ones are fried, right?
@Euniceandrich Given how many people think that meat comes from a grocery store, I’m sure that there are at least as many who think donuts are baked instead of fried. It looks like a pastry, it’s got stuff in it like a pastry, it must be a pastry, therefore it’s baked. How else would it be done? SMH.
@Euniceandrich @werehatrack Isn’t a baked donut a cake?
@Euniceandrich There are “cake donuts”, but they’re still fried. There are mini Bundt cakes that are baked and mostly donut-shaped-ish, but they’re not technically donuts. Truly, the eater careth not, save that the comestible be comely of appearance and sweet on the tongue.