may 19, 2013 breakfast prep

eggs from three sisters, artichoke hearts, basil, garlic, sun-dried tomatoes, roasted asparagus, bacon - these are a few of my favorite things, and they're going into this week's frittata!

prior to going into the frittata, bacon needs to be fried, and asparagus needs to be tossed in olive oil, salt and pepper, and roasted in the oven. sunday nights are busy but fragrant around here!

april 15, 2013 breakfast

after an extended hiatus, i am back for another season of crow-eatin’! i feel a bit like a disoriented bear emerging from hibernation, so bear with me (wow, so not intentional) as I claw my way back into regular bear form (ok, that one was totally intentional). i’ll start the ball rolling with a simple monday morning breakfast of eggs and bacon. i’ve got a fresh egg hookup from a coworker who lives on a farm (love those bright yolks!), and the bacon is a new type i’ve been digging on lately: beeler’s. it’s thick and chewy and has a good salty/smoky balance. and even though it didn’t make it into the shot, rest assured I am still keeping cholula in business. 

august 5, 2012 breakfast

breakfast as we tear down camp is a scramble of everything we have left: eggs, ham, mushrooms, zucchini, onions and avocado.

we do a short hike from sunrise, getting a taste of the other side of the mountain..

the view from the ridge is breathtaking, but swarms of mosquitos are mobilizing, so we keep marching.

this clark's nutcracker is keeping pace with us along the trail.

august 3, 2012 breakfast

takoyaki girl photobombs my frittata.

august 2, 2012 breakfast

attempting to get as much dahlia backdrop in this week as possible. breakfast is almost as colorful and quite satisfying.

august 1, 2012 breakfast

happy august! dahlias are my favorite flower. sure, they're showy and ostentatious, but what's not to love? my breakfast was so excited, it hopped up onto the printer.

july 31, 2012 breakfast

a fine entry in the frittata regatta, featuring linguica from A & J meats, and co-piloted by broccoli (roasted). i don't want to eat frittata anymore that don't have roasted broccoli. also making a showing are plums from my husband's coworker's yard.

july 29, 2012 breakfast

sunday breakfast is a delicious scramble of eggs, red chard, onions, and garlic. i added turmeric and cayenne - i used to do this scramble with tofu, and all of the flavors really work well together somehow. add to this two pork sausages from A & J meats and we're ready to hit the zoo!

we made a beeline to the family farm area to check out the new piggie on the block, the kunekune. too cute for sausage! kunekune means "fat and round" in maori, and is so fun to say. i am running out of ways to use kunekune in a sentence, but i'm not giving up yet.

it was a hot and sticky day, so the brown bear went for a refreshing dip. he kept dunking his head in and scanning from side to side for trout (his "river" is pretty well stocked), blowing bubbles as his ears rotated above the water's surface. have you ever seen a brown bear blowing bubbles underwater? it was a first for me.

july 28, 2012 breakfast

a pretty darn decent scramble of tomatoes, bacon, avocado, garlic and basil.

july 27, 2012 breakfast

friday breakfast is a couple of hard boiled eggs and some roasted broccoli. hint: walking a mile with uncushioned eggs bopping around in your backpack make them easier to peel!

july 26, 2012 breakfast

no, i didn't eat a crow for breakfast. but i saw this fledgling crow on the way to work! note the stumpiness of the tail compared to the rest of its body, the blue eyes, and the blunt beak. it was super cute! its parents were none too happy with me for taking this photo.

the crow's parents had no issue with me taking this photo of my breakfast, though.

july 25, 2012 breakfast

same breakfast, only sunnier.

july 24, 2012 breakfast

i think the pros outweigh the cons of having the same thing all week. the convenience of having a ready-made portion of eggs, meat and veggies to bring to work ensures i don't have to make the choice between spending money on something on the way to work or trying to hold out until lunch.

july 23, 2012 breakfast

a similar frittata to last week's, but with sliced chicken andouille sausage from trader joe's instead of bacon, plus a good deal of fresh basil. a nice addition to the standard crowd pleasers of oven-roasted broccoli, spinach, roasted red pepper, sun-dried tomatoes, etc. both the sausage and the cholula lend it a nice wake-up kick.

july 22, 2012 brunch

kitchen sink omelet with a filling of sauteed chard, cherry toms, basil, green onions and garlic, served alongside a couple slices of bacon.

here's what it looked like pre-folding.

july 18, 2012 breakfast

some more savorykraut, two hard boiled eggs, and a glass of cherry chia kombucha. one of my eggs tried to escape its shell.

oh, and my dracaena is regrowing its roots! hip hip!

july 16, 2012 dinner

breakfast for dinner is the theme this week, what with our surplus of farm fresh eggs. here is comfort food in a bowl: butternut squash hash with bacon, yellow bell pepper, onion, garlic and a baharat spice blend, topped with two eggs cooked in grass-fed butter, and half an avocado.

july 15, 2012 breakfast

breakfast at the blue moose cafe in port townsend is the special of the day, a 'summer is here' scramble of eggs, chicken sausage, zucchini, yellow and red bell pepper, tomato and onion, with a side of strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, pineapple, purple grapes and bananas. 

july 13, 2012 dinner

breakfast for dinner! friends from portland came up, and had already eaten, so i threw together a quick scramble of eggs, bacon, asparagus, tomatoes, basil, and garlic. it was a warm evening, so i opened the balcony door and ate sitting cross-legged on the floor, catching up.

july 13, 2012 breakfast

given the balmy weather so far this week, i wore a skirt and left my rainjacket at home. commence torrential downpour accented with extra-boomy thunder. half the people at work (the ones from back east or the midwest) can't help themselves: "you call this a thunderstorm? ha!" while the other half run home to check on their dogs. however, in the immortal words of the itsy bitsy spider, "out came the sun and dried up all the rain", so it should be pleasant walking weather after work.

the green guy is excited about my frittata of bacon, roasted broccoli and sun-dried tomatoes.