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10 February 2010

It is Snowing So I Am Cooking: I wanna make a traditional American Breakfast with capitol U.S.A. Got a pretty full kitchen here, what just screams The States in breakfast food form?
Pancakes, eggs, bacon & coffee. Hash browns optionals. Grits if you got 'em.
posted by Ardiril 10 February | 11:15
Toast, juice, milk, and yummy Cheerios.
posted by Hugh Janus 10 February | 11:18
Grits if you got 'em.

Not in the northeast.

I don't think there is a nationwide traditional American breakfast; it differs between regions of the country.
posted by amro 10 February | 11:20
For me? Egg in a frame. (I make them 5 days a week.)

But generally, I'd say if you want the full experience with all variations: toast, pancakes, sausage, bacon, scrambled eggs, hash browns, milk, orange juice, coffee, and possibly grits. (I hate grits.)

I may need to go make up some pancakes, bacon, and eggs now. Hmm.
posted by sperose 10 February | 11:28
Not in the northeast. - You gotta look harder. I grew up in NW PA and my grandmother always made grits, with bacon grease on the side.
posted by Ardiril 10 February | 11:33
That's mid-atlantic, not northeast.
posted by Hugh Janus 10 February | 11:35
You know those sugary-cereal commercials where they say 'part of a complete breakfast'?
posted by box 10 February | 11:36
* Scrambled eggs with Tabasco sauce (or ketchup for the weak-tongued)
* Eggs over easy on toast with butter (and Tabasco sauce)
* Hash browns or country-fried potatoes (with Tabasco sauce and friend it butter or oil NOT shortening)
* A big stack of pancakes with lots of syrup
* Sausage AND bacon. I like the big round flat sausage by some people like the Denny's-style little fat sausages. Mix some of the egg yolk from the eggs-over-easy and the Tabasco sauce and use it as a sauce for your bacon and sausage.

My mom grew up in Chula Vista, CA, and until the age of 10 or so I thought everyone doused their eggs and sausage in Tabasco sauce...
posted by muddgirl 10 February | 11:40
Don't forget the biscuits and gravy.
posted by octothorpe 10 February | 11:42
I had oatmeal! Oatmeal is lovely for a snowy day.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 10 February | 11:56
The Apollo astronauts were served steak for breakfast, as is the Texas way. You could do worse.
posted by Joe Beese 10 February | 12:05
I had Wheatina (made unAmerican by the addition of ricotta). I skipped the bacon after reading the Boss Hog link below.
posted by Obscure Reference 10 February | 12:17
I think I will have oatmeal or grits for lunch. hrm.
posted by gaspode 10 February | 12:19
is there anything more american than this ? :P
posted by rollick 10 February | 12:22
Beer.
posted by jonmc 10 February | 12:32
Corned Beef Hash!!!!!!!!
posted by warbaby 10 February | 13:36
Alright...who was it here that mentioned Dutch Babies recently? Because I had never heard of one before, and was compelled to try my hand at making one this morning. It was awesome. So thank you to whoever introduced me to to the fluffy crusty yumminess.
posted by jrossi4r 10 February | 13:37
You gotta look harder. I grew up in NW PA and my grandmother always made grits, with bacon grease on the side.

Ah, but where was she from?

If you grew up near me, then scrapple was a breakfast must-have (though not in my semi-kosher parents' house).
posted by amro 10 February | 13:46
*Snowverkill*. . .as someone has named this storm. . .
posted by danf 10 February | 14:03
My grandmother was also from NW PA. Her mother ground her own hominy. We occasionally had scrapple, but headcheese was the more common preparation with the pork organs ground into regular sausage.
posted by Ardiril 10 February | 14:07
I am a Maryland native. Grits are quite popular in all the little greasy spoon breakfast joints there. Cheese grits, honey grits, bacon grits, you name it. Keep in mind that Maryland is a border state, and D.C. in particular is quite Southern by influence.

Your "typical" American breakfast can and should combine some, if not most, of the following:

- 2 eggs, any style but typically over easy
- Bacon (the standard streak o' lean aka "rasher" style, not the UK or "Canadian" style smoked, sliced pork loin)
- Biscuits with "pan" gravy made from rendered bacon or sausage fat.
- Grits / hominy flavoured with butter, honey, cheese or bacon fat
- Fried potatoes of some description.
- Cheap orange mild cheddar cheese grated/melted over any / all of the above
- Pancakes with butter and maple syrup
- Toast with butter and cheap strawberry jam
- Watery, over-extracted "depression era" drip coffee
- Fresh squeezed orange juice

Regional variations and personal leanings can include: steak or "hashed" beef, any one of several dozen regional pork products, omelettes with regional filling blends and cheeses, regional fruit species (yes, Californians, that includes avocadoes), and any one of a constellation of tomato and/or chilli-based condiments.

In Colorado, for example, serving breakfast without a side of pork green chile and a bottle of Cholula is likely a felony. In California, it seems impossible to serve breakfast without avocadoes and sour cream making an appearance.
posted by lonefrontranger 10 February | 14:34
Oh man am I starving now lfr.
posted by Melismata 10 February | 14:47
Actually, I'm surprised no one's mentioned French toast. That's always the backup for when people were like, "y'know, we've had pancakes 11 Sundays in a row. How about French toast?"
posted by Melismata 10 February | 14:55
Mmm, French toast!

This weekend, I discovered that if I cut the bread slices into cubes, they absorbed more custard before cooking and carried more syrup after, had more of the oh-so-delicious surface area, and I could put them in a shallow bowl instead of on a plate, which meant I could write and eat French toast at the same time. It was the height of sloth and gluttony. I felt like a genius!
posted by Elsa 10 February | 15:02
One regional breakfast I love is Maryland's creamed chipped beef on a waffle.
posted by Ardiril 10 February | 15:20
- Cheap orange mild cheddar cheese grated/melted over any / all of the above

... as well as the gravy.
posted by Ardiril 10 February | 15:21
I thought about French toast, but decided French toast AND pancakes was too much. Also, french toast was always something the kids could make with relative ease, so it was always a "mommy and daddy are too tired to cook you a hot breakfast" sort of food in my house.
posted by muddgirl 10 February | 15:25
So this is what I made, I could have done traditional New York breakfast, but I didn't have any sour cream or salmon, so ...

-home-made tiny pancakes with cooked apple chunks and heavy cream so they sank like bricks.
-Lean local bacon, overcooked of course
-Vermont grade B syrup
-Fried potatoes *in* the bacon grease smothered in herbs from my window box (chives, parley, thyme)
-One egg each, over easy, served on the top on top of buttered rye toast

it was all pretty good.
posted by The Whelk 10 February | 16:15
I just demolished some mini pancakes, bacon, and a cheese omelet. Nom.
posted by sperose 10 February | 16:30
Steak and eggs.
posted by Eideteker 10 February | 23:26
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