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Your Last Meals - Breakfast

07/20/07, by Kate Hopkins Email 3295 views • Categories: Food

...and now it's time to play every food lovers favorite game - what would you eat for your last meal?

But rather than restrain it to one meal, I'm going to give everyone the chance to pick their last breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack. Today is about Breakfast. Over the next few days, we'll cover the rest.

What would you have for breakfast on your last day on earth?

My own answer-

Breakfast

  • 1 cup of hot chai, prepared by my sweetie.
  • 2 poached eggs, runny.
  • Lyonnaise potatoes cooked so that the potatoes have a bit of a crust on them, and the onions are just a little carmelized.
  • black & white pudding, fried so there's a bit of crust on them.
  • Fried tomato
  • a side of scrapple
  • slices of homemade bread, toasted, served with fresh butter
  • Freshly Squeezed OJ
  • A Latte from Cafe Vita

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Comment from: Amanda [Visitor] Email · http://eatbemerry.blogspot.com
Hmm... so hard to decide! Probably:

- a large mimosa (or two)
- stuffed french toast with mascarpone cheese and strawberries, maple syrup
- 2 fried eggs, over easy
- 1 large onion bagel, cream cheese
- the best Scottish smoked salmon available
- Big caramel latte
PermalinkPermalink 07/20/07 @ 09:14
Comment from: Sherri [Visitor] Email
Steak and scrambled eggs, with the steak juice poured into the eggs on the last stir. And crispy hashbrowns on the side.

Buttermilk biscuits with chocolate sauce afterwards.

Milk and coffee.
PermalinkPermalink 07/20/07 @ 09:57
Comment from: wineguy [Visitor] Email · http://sbwineblog.journalspace.com/
"Eggs Benedict" the way they do it at the Hitching Post -- oak-grilled sirloin over polenta with a poached egg and hollandaise sauce.
PermalinkPermalink 07/20/07 @ 10:10
Comment from: Mo [Visitor] Email
-Poached eggs on artichoke
bottoms nestled in a bed of
creamed spinach and covered
with Hollandaise sauce
-Crepes filled with a delicate
filling of cream cheese and
sour cream served with a
topping of strawberries flamed
in Maraschino.
-Fresh squeezed Valencia Orange juice
-Cafe au lait
PermalinkPermalink 07/20/07 @ 10:14
Comment from: Adam [Visitor] Email · http://splittingtheadam.typepad.com
- poached eggs on top of a slice of prosciutto, a slice of monterey jack, and an english muffin, topped with a southwestern Hollandaise sauce
- four strips of Cajun bacon (available here at our local market)
- diced potatoes, garlic, and onions fried in equal parts bacon grease and olive oil
- a buttermilk biscuit
- a mimosa
PermalinkPermalink 07/20/07 @ 10:17
Comment from: Matthew Kayahara [Visitor] Email · http://everythingfromscratch.blogspot.com
Mine's simple: two thick slices of homemade bread, toasted, slathered with butter and homemade strawberry jam, and washed down with a large mug of really good coffee.
PermalinkPermalink 07/20/07 @ 10:44
Comment from: Tim [Visitor] Email · http://fwwebb.com
Grolsch - 6 pack (it is my last)
Crispy Bacon
Corned Beef Hash - the real stuff not canned
Eggs anyway and plenty of em
Homemade toast and assorted jams
Good nuff
PermalinkPermalink 07/20/07 @ 10:57
Comment from: Leigh Anne [Visitor] Email
1. my mom's breakfast quiche: eggs, tomatoes, green bell peppers, mushrooms, onions, three cheeses, baked with a flaky crust
2. a massive ammount of hashbrowns, slathered in ketchup.
3. french toast (made with the ridiculously huge slices on texas toast) covered in real butter and syrup
4. chocolate milk (made with whole milk, of course)
5. a huge bowl of watermelon
PermalinkPermalink 07/20/07 @ 13:45
Comment from: JEP [Visitor]
Runny poached egg oatmeal with raisins homemade cinnamon toast whole milk Starbuck's bold coffee of the day
PermalinkPermalink 07/20/07 @ 18:15
Comment from: Jack [Visitor] Email · http://www.ForkandBottle.com
Hmmm...perhaps 24 courses of seafood at Manresa (or some place in Europe?). With Gravner, Movia, Fiorano (semillon and rosso), and a couple of killer old red burgs.

Somehow would have to slip in some foie gras, some perfect haogen/ogen melon, kurobuta pork, iberico(!) of the gods, perfect maine lobster, real kobe beef, and this list would grow.

For dessert, a 150-year-old Cypriot dessert wine chosen by F. Audouze.
PermalinkPermalink 07/20/07 @ 18:30
Comment from: Dr. Biggles [Visitor] Email · http://www.meathenge.com
Country fried steak, 2 scrambled eggs, hash browns, buttermilk biscuit all slathered in cream gravy. Served with a fruit cup, thimble size.

Or a load of southern fried chicken with mashed potatoes (made with cream & butter), cream gravy and green beans.

Either one finished with home made cherry pie and vanilla ice cream.

Sheet, why wait for my last meal?

Biggles
PermalinkPermalink 07/20/07 @ 18:40
Comment from: Sharon [Visitor] Email
fresh eggs soft scrambled in butter; sourdough toast w/ butter and homemade strawberry freezer jam; cheese grits; as many slices of perfectly crisped center thick cut bacon as I could fit in; fresh squeezed valencia orange juice; cafe au lait.

Sigh...I love this blog.
PermalinkPermalink 07/20/07 @ 20:49
Comment from: raspil [Visitor] Email · http://raspil.blogspot.com
i'd be a little preoccupied with the fact i was about to kick off to eat. sorry to lay down a different point of view.

/breakfast tacos from Taco Shack in Austin. keep it simple.
PermalinkPermalink 07/21/07 @ 21:03
Comment from: Earl [Visitor] Email · http://www.harajukucafe.com
Mine is simple. Garlic fried rice (with paprika and shoyu), a giant heap of bacon, and four large eggs sunny side up.

This is my favorite meal in the whole wide world. Nothing fancy, just good comfort food.
PermalinkPermalink 07/22/07 @ 00:34
Comment from: poppy [Visitor]
A real Irish breakfast: fried bacon (not the same as American bacon!), black and white pudding fried to a crisp, fried pork sausages, fried mushrooms, fried tomato, scrambled eggs, and soda bread slathered with Kerrygold butter. Oh, and tap water to wash it all down. p.s. I'm not even Irish.
PermalinkPermalink 07/22/07 @ 00:41
Comment from: fressack [Visitor] Email · http://www.fressack.wordpress.com
A real Irish breakfast has Guinness instead of tap-water. And I'm not Irish as well...
Last meal?
Starters with foie gras in different ways, rack of lamb with crust of habanero-chilies, mashed potatoes (German style), Crema catalán.
Muscat de Beaumes-de-venise, A heavy Grenache-Syrah from Southern France and a Riesling Auslese. Coffee and a fruit spirit.
Then shoot me.
PermalinkPermalink 07/22/07 @ 02:43
Comment from: Steamy Kitchen [Visitor] Email · http://www.steamykitchen.com/blog
Why be locked in one place?
San Fran for a Crustacean's Garlic Crab. Hop over to Bali for a nice coconut rum cocktail.
Then I'd fly to Hong Kong for dim sum and hairy crabs, Japan for a kaiseki dinner, Malaysia for Prawn Mee.
Tibet to say, "whats happenin'" to Dalai Lama and maybe have tea with him.
PermalinkPermalink 07/22/07 @ 06:01
Comment from: Linda [Visitor] Email · http://www.leendaluuwitsend.blogspot.com
A (oh, heck, FOUR!)pain au chocolat and multiple cups of dark French coffee, fresh raspberries and assorted cheeses in a very memorable cafe in Nice....eaten with good friend whilst gazing out at the azure Mediterranean.
PermalinkPermalink 07/22/07 @ 11:33
Comment from: Frank [Visitor] Email
Three eggs (over easy)

2 sausage patties (cajun)

Serving of nicely browned country
fried potatoes

2 pieces dry whole wheat toast with ample strawberry jelly

Glass of tomato juice
PermalinkPermalink 07/22/07 @ 14:34
Comment from: Diane [Visitor] Email
- Really good coffee (Peets!)
- A dosa (or two) with coconut chutney and red pepper chutney
- Fresh Pineapple
- Chocolate (because, hey, why not...it's the last day on earth)
PermalinkPermalink 07/22/07 @ 19:23
Comment from: wsb [Visitor] Email · http://westseattleblog.com
Never did believe that you could only have breakfast food for breakfast. So -- we'd start with the treats, right off the bat -- Pagliacci's pesto primo pizza (would have to be left over from the night before since they're not open in the am, but that could be arranged), onion rings with tartar sauce, four Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, and a quadruple-shot dry cappuccino ... wouldn't want to spend a millisecond of The Last Day yawning!
PermalinkPermalink 07/23/07 @ 00:13
Comment from: Marco [Visitor] Email · http://labronicus.blogspot.com
Too difficult and mean. I'd go for lots of bread with cheese, ham , salami and mustard and then fresh baked croissant. Good coffee and orange juice...but for every choice there would be a regret.
I tried to figure out something like that in my blog and I came out with a wider choice...check it out at labronicus.blogspot.com "the last supper"
PermalinkPermalink 07/24/07 @ 12:10
Comment from: Chris [Visitor] Email
Easy: Mint chocolate chip (Breyers) ice cream over a perfect belgium waffle w/hot fudge sauce, sprinkles & toasted almonds.

In fact, I'll have that for all my last meals! yumm
PermalinkPermalink 07/26/07 @ 18:32
Comment from: bobby [Visitor] Email
i can't believe how many posts are leaving out bacon!

as jeffrey of vogue magazine put it (paraphrasing), 'as we all know there is only one thing better than chocolate, bacon'

i like the niman ranch uncured.
PermalinkPermalink 07/27/07 @ 13:25
Comment from: Aunt Jenny [Visitor] Email
Scrambled eggs the way my mom makes them, homemade biscuits and sausage cream gravy, thick-cut bacon, blueberry pancakes with real maple syrup, monsooned Malabar coffee, my dad's homemade wheat bread toasted with butter and homemade strawberry jam, perfectly ripe cantaloupe, a croissant or two fresh from a Parisian bakery, fresh orange juice and lots and lots of champagne.

I love breakfast.
PermalinkPermalink 07/28/07 @ 13:20

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