Breakfast Foodie Blog

Breakfasts


Breakfasts have 2 general themes – simple and special .

For Leah there is also the simple and special breakfast theme but ……NOT BEFORE COFFEE ( since I described coffee with beverages in the previous ‘foodie’ blog I will give no more details except that griff tried his first coffee yesterday)

Simple breakfasts are on work and school days.
Cereal available but expensive, not in our 100 mile diet and not popular amongst us and the Rice Krispies didn’t really go Snap Krackle Pop very well.

Toast and Tanzanian peanut butter made in Arusha.- Arusha is North Central Tanzania on the way to the Serengeti ( very tasty and no added sugar) and/or Tanzanian Jam also made in Arusha ( more like jelly and lots of sugar added) with a variety of flavours classic strawberry and raspberry but also mango, watermelon,safari mix , pear, apple and others.

We make granola with oats,cashews, groundnuts, local honey and I eat it with raisins, but as many of you know the rest of my family have a psychological aversion to raisins, created and reinforced by their mother.

Lately Griffin has been making oat porridge ( Neil Neate will be proud of him for that)

Eggs are very plentiful ,15-20 cents each . clearly free range( the chickens are everywhere and we have a local rooster alarm clock) scrambled, boiled ,fried always an option and still simple.

But Special Breakfast ahh there is a treat.

Omelets, Toast, French Toast, Pancakes and Bacon are courses in one combination or another qualifying breakfast as special.
Fresh fruit bananas, oranges, jack fruit, pineapple also makes special breakfast nutritious too.

But really the topper to special breakfast is CANADIAN MAPLE SYRUP. ( clearly disqualified from any 100 mile diet in Tanzania but patritic too) First brought to us when Sally and Rose came to visit ( just having S&R here made it a special breakfast) and then Leah brought some back during her Canadian interlude ( she even brought an extra litre for Emily and Alex’s Christmas gift , now the have ‘special’ breakfast too)….. used sparingly except by Simon the CMS makes our special breakfast ( the most important meal of the day) oh so special.