Here was today’s breakfast feast. Featured are warmed grilled pork, fresh myzithra cheese drizzled with olive oil and dusted with oregano, scrambled eggs with feta and myzithra, a bowl of caramelized onions. The star of the show was the foccacia bread made using Bob’s Red Mill’s pizza crust mix. Not pictured are the mimosas, hot tea and thyme honey. I enjoyed the bread with lots of butter and honey.
I have mentioned before that I believe in eating Christmas treats out of season. One benefit of this, when it is a dessert that you like but is not popular with others, is that you don’t have to share it with people who are unworthy of it. Another is that you don’t have it in a season when most of us really don’t need more dessert options. You can eat it when you are able to truly appreciate it.
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It occurred to me recently that the Distracted Boyfriend meme perfectly captures my approach to recipes. I find a new recipe that excites me, I obsess about it for days or weeks, I go out and buy all the ingredients and then, I see a brand NEW recipe that looks intriguing and delicious. And suddenly the recipe that I had been obsessing about loses some of its sparkle. So I just made this meme to capture this feeling.
I was lucky to get a chance to spend a week in Greece last fall. Both of the hotels we stayed in offered breakfast buffets, and both offered rich, creamy Greek yogurt and pots of golden local honey. I made sure to have some every day.
After I got home, I kept up the ritual, but also thought about how I could add more nutrition to it. And this is what I have come up with: high milk fat plain yogurt + honey + hemp hearts + chia seeds + dried nuts or fruit.
“A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.”
― Samuel Johnson
“Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.”
― Auguste Escoffier
“It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others.”
― M.F.K. Fisher
A Flour By Any Other Name 