It is very much like Rwandan coffee, difficult to tell a difference.
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It is very much like Rwandan coffee, difficult to tell a difference.
Large bakery bagel with cream cheese, fruit bowl, cheesecake, two eggs over easy, large glass of grapefruit juice, and some mango puree. Not having slept well the last few nights has left with with an unusually strong appetite. I could have easily eaten twice this when younger and not be affected or gain weight. I don't gain weight now, but suffer from my choices.
I tend to have a very large glass of room temperature water right after I get up each morning.
I tend to have a very large glass of room temperature water right after I get up each morning.
Just to point out that there is stupid, and then there is STUPID!
Some of these American terms don't make sense to me: What are 'eggs over easy?" I have heard of it, but don't know what it means. Boiled, or fried eggs? Hard, or soft?
Re water, when at home, I have sparkling water to hand, a large glass first thing in the morning, before spectacles are reached for or shower is had - and I find it wonderful.
Still water has to do for me when abroad, as sparkling can be difficult to source.
Can't comment on your other food choices, except to say that I cannot stand bagels, (give me proper French, or German, or Italian bread any day, instead) and cheesecake wouldn't be a breakfast choice of mine, but that is a matter of personal preference.
However, much of the western world has a passion for breakfasts that are very heavily tilted towards sweet flavours.
Even as a kid, I realised that I loved really bitter marmalade (none of this saccharine sweet gloopy stuff) with my toast, loved grapefruit in any shape or form, adored coffee, and far preferred muesli to any of the other cereals available.
On a travelling fellowship in the early 90s, in the Baltic States, I realised that they didn't do cereals in that part of the world; ham, cheese, bread and eggs - plus coffee and yogurt - were some of the staples. I got a taste for that, and, ever since, breakfast for me is either cheese and bread (plus, perhaps salami or ham), or eggs and bread. Coffee and fresh fruit juice too. Occasionally toast (with bitter marmalade). Hardly ever cereal.
Re water, when at home, I have sparkling water to hand, a large glass first thing in the morning, before spectacles are reached for or shower is had - and I find it wonderful.
Still water has to do for me when abroad, as sparkling can be difficult to source.
Can't comment on your other food choices, except to say that I cannot stand bagels, (give me proper French, or German, or Italian bread any day, instead) and cheesecake wouldn't be a breakfast choice of mine, but that is a matter of personal preference.
However, much of the western world has a passion for breakfasts that are very heavily tilted towards sweet flavours.
Even as a kid, I realised that I loved really bitter marmalade (none of this saccharine sweet gloopy stuff) with my toast, loved grapefruit in any shape or form, adored coffee, and far preferred muesli to any of the other cereals available.
On a travelling fellowship in the early 90s, in the Baltic States, I realised that they didn't do cereals in that part of the world; ham, cheese, bread and eggs - plus coffee and yogurt - were some of the staples. I got a taste for that, and, ever since, breakfast for me is either cheese and bread (plus, perhaps salami or ham), or eggs and bread. Coffee and fresh fruit juice too. Occasionally toast (with bitter marmalade). Hardly ever cereal.
Hahaha, you're just jealous, mate.Just to point out that there is stupid, and then there is STUPID!
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A fried egg that is fried on one side and then turned over and quickly removed from the heat so that the yolk remains soft---as opposed to "sunny-side up."
Hahaha, you're just jealous, mate.
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A fried egg that is fried on one side and then turned over and quickly removed from the heat so that the yolk remains soft---as opposed to "sunny-side up."
Right.
And what is 'sunny side up'? Yes, I have heard of that one, too. What is the difference between them?
"Eggs over easy" means, then, that the fried egg is cooked (even, if ever so fleetingly) on both sides.
Personally, I like a friend egg where the yolk is nice and soft and deep golden, and the thing looks as though it has sat up naturally in the pan.
Speaking American-English, how would I have to express myself to ask for that?
Here, all I need say is that I prefer the yolk to be soft, and not quite runny, (but the egg whites set).
Dear lady...you have never had a real bagel, unless you have been in New York and ordered a bagel with a shmear.
Judge not that which you have not really tasted. You cannot get a real bagel anywhere other than New York.
Nothing like stale coffee first thing in the morning.Just to point out that there is stupid, and then there is STUPID!
I have never been to New York. (Nor, the US). But, my friend, I will take your word for it.
But yes, I will admit that what I have eaten that was sold under the label of 'bagel' required chewing Until The End Of Time. And was horrid in texture.
Okay. My education (starting with the explanation about Darth Vader over two decades ago) continues: What is a 'shmear'? (Another word I have not - ever - heard of).........
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But it's so convenient!
So you can have stale coffee, conveniently, for only around $300.
C'mon...you know that you really want it...instead of that bothersome old Expobar machine.
@Shrink! I just noticed - you signature includes a Bertrand Russell quote (did I ever mention that I loved Bertrand Russell - and tripped over his writing as a very bad tempered and classically alienated teenager?)
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What a perfectly idiotic concept.
Good grief.
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Just to point out that there is stupid, and then there is STUPID!
What a perfectly idiotic concept.
Good grief.
I'm calling Whole Latte Love first thing Monday morning to return that Expo thingy, and will order that other thingy..
It is a New Yorkism...a combination of English and Yiddish. It means a bagel split in half covered with cream cheese. It would not be understood outside of NY...but would be understood at any restaurant, from a neighborhood cafe to a 4 star restaurant in the city.
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I'm calling Whole Latte Love first thing Monday morning to return that Expo thingy, and will order that other thingy..
Finally showing some good sense. And then, when you have a bit more time, you can have a stale, poorly prepared Nespresso production.
Get with it...convenience is all...
I'm calling Whole Latte Love first thing Monday morning to return that Expo thingy, and will order that other thingy..
No, you won't.
What you have described as 'that Expo thingy' is as much a part of your life as Puma is.
I'll bet you you smother an insane giggle of bubbling effervescent joy and pure pleasure when you stumble into the kitchen in the morning, rubbing sleep from your eyes, groping for glasses (to put on your nose) and - said gleaming beautiful object comes firmly into focus and view. (You do wear glasses, don't you? Otherwise, that scene will make little sense). In fact, I'll go further: I'd say that you whimper with wholesome happiness while preparing your coffee.
I expected that question!
This is a fried egg which is cooked only on one side and the yolk is left runny.
While I certainly love the Expobar, I won't put it on the same level as Puma or Cassini; they're at the top!
But yes, I derive great joy from the fresh and wonderful coffee it produces for me in the mornings, whether or not I've fumbled around for my spectacles as I wipe the sleep from my eyes!
So, what is the difference?
I cannot think of anyone I know who turns fried eggs over while cooking them. (Why would someone do that? To hide the appearance of the yolk?)
When I first read J K Rowling's books, it was clear to me that, not only did Harry Potter wear glasses, - as is clear from the cover art, and the content of the books, but that J K Rowling herself did, too. (These days, she seems to wear contact lenses). Only someone who wears glasses will write, with completely credible conviction, of how - almost the very first thing you do when you wake up - before anything else - is to reach out and grope for them.
So, I imagined @SandboxGeneral - wearing glasses and giggling happily - that is what I would do - on laying (freshly focussed) eyes on the lovely new Expobar.
However, it is nice to know that the cats are top.
Mind you, knowing cats, I cannot think of anywhere else that they would choose to be.
A rare act of empathetic imagination on my part.......
Lucky enough for me my RX is very light and I can get around all day, including driving, without the glasses if I need to, but they help bring clarity to my otherwise lacking vision. In fact, by the end of the day I sometimes remove them after work and won't put them back on until the next day. So, some days, I may or may not grope for them upon waking up and stumbling toward the Expobar! But there are equally as many days that I will do just that.
Regardless, the joy of the Expobar warming up for a fresh cup of pure unadulterated espresso first thing in the morning is the second greatest thing.
The first greatest thing is when I open the bedroom door and the cats come running in to greet and play with me.
Over easy (okay these might be over hard, but they look similar. difference is yolk runny/hard):
Sunny-side up:
My younger brother loves his eggs sunny side up. Suffice to say, he's gotten his children onto that horrendous example. The runny qualities of the yolk and the leftover white makes me sick. Older brother loves his scrambled with cream and butter. Suffice to say, the middle child is always the best child. Older brother's children prefer omelettes or hard boiled eggs to the point where the shells are exploded and the yolk is rock hard like a bouncy ball.
All this egg talk makes me crave eggs and bread soldiers for breakfast tomorrow. Good times.
All this egg talk makes me crave eggs and bread soldiers for breakfast tomorrow. Good times.
Over easy (okay these might be over hard, but they look similar. difference is yolk runny/hard):
Sunny-side up:
Ah, I see, thank you for the explanation.
(If my steps ever do take me to the US, this is a key vocabulary difference that I may well have to contemplate mastering, not least because I love fried eggs with soft yolks and it might be good idea to know how to order what I want. After all, I can order fried eggs to the desired consistency in French, German and Russian. It would be exceedingly stupid not to know how to do so in American English!)
So, in the top picture, the egg on the left has a runny yolk, while that on the right has not? In the 'eggs over easy' picture, is there an actual difference in the consistency of the yolk between the two pictures?
Or, does one have to specify while ordering 'eggs over easy' that you would like for them to have a runny, or soft, yolk?
In my part of the world, what you call 'sunny side up' is what we think a fried egg should look like.
So, in the descriptions I give of the breakfasts I have with Decent Brother, when I mention fried eggs (organic, feee range) that I cook, this is how I cook them, and this is how they look on the plate.
@Scepticalscribe this explains the difference between sunny side up, over easy, over medium, and over hard well.
When I have my morning espresso, I usually have my eggs basted along with some buttered toast and cottage cheese.