Live Everyday like a Holiday!: National breakfast month

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Better Breakfast with Protein Rich Eggs

Not all breakfasts are created equal when it comes to protein. One egg provides 13 essential vitamins and minerals, high-quality protein, antioxidants and boasts only 70 calories. Research shows that 25-30 grams of high-quality protein per meal maybe optimal to maintain healthy muscles and bones for adults. Source: http://www.e...raphic.pdf

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Pancake Cookie Cutters

It's Day 5 and this is the 5th post in celebration for National Cookie Cutter Week.

Source: theberry.com via Lindsey on Pinterest

I ate a lot of pancakes when I was a kid and my Mother enjoyed drawing pictures with the pancake batter but never did she make pancakes with cookie cutters. Yes she made me many kitty cats and bunnies and when Daddy did the cooking he made snakes and frogs. LOL! Go figure -

Serve a fun breakfast to the kids
There's not a kid anywhere who wouldn't want to have a cookie cutter pancake breakfast. For Christmas you could make holiday pancakes like the picture to the left shows. For Valentines Day you could make heart pancakes. To celebrate a good report card you could make A+ pancakes. For that football player in your family you could make football pancakes.

Lunch Box
I think any kid would enjoy the different shapes that are available for eating and the best part is the ideas go on and on. If breakfast is not for you; you could always surprise the kids with a fun treat in their lunch box. Don't forget to pack the maple syrup for dipping.

Now let's talk about Breakfast in bed
Breakfast in bed? Yes! Even adults like to be pampered with cookie cutter pancakes. giggle~ Add a few sausage links and you better half will be happy for the rest of the day.

Finger Food
Mini cookie cutter pancakes are perfect for parties too. Yep! Add a plate of shapes that go with the theme of your party and provide a bowl of dip to dip them in. It could be syrups or a thinned down cream cheese dip. Sprinkle them with powdered sugar and you have a sweet party treat.

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Cinnamon Cream Syrup

French toast
Originally uploaded by kileyrogers

I just wanted to share a recipe I found in a cookbook called The Breakfast Book by Marion Cunningham

This morning I was in the mood for some french toast and since I had some pumpkin left over from a pumpkin recipe, I wanted to use it in my egg dredge. Well the french toast turned out great but I couldn't find any maple syrup in my pantry to put on top. I started digging around and found this recipe for Cinnamon Cream Syrup and gave it a try. I love it! She says it goes well with brown rice pancakes or buckwheat pancakes. I'm going to try it on hot fried pound cake too. I think it would be great for that. But ya know what I really think it would be fantastic on?? I think it would be fantastic pored over peach cobbler! Maybe even over rice for a dessert rice. Do you have any ideas on what else it could be pored over?

Cinnamon Cream Syrup Recipe
Cinnamon Cream Syrup is a smooth and creamy topping with a mild cinnamon taste that goes well with Brown Rice Pancakes or Buckwheat Pancakes. It is very rich, so a little bit goes a long way. Keep it in the refrigerator, and reheat as needed.

5 tablespoons butter
1 cup heavy cream
3 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon

Melt the butter in a small saucepan and stir in the cream, sugar and cinnamon. Whisking constantly, cook until the sugar has melted and they syrup is hot, about 1 1/2 minutes.

Southern People Eat BBQ for Breakfast!

BBQ for Breakfast? Your kidding right?

Nope I'm not. :) It's no secret that southern people eat barbecue for breakfast all the time. It tastes wonderful with eggs and buttermilk biscuits, I kid you not.

This photo by CC Chapman / flickr is a picture of a restaurant meal but is a prime example of how southerners are known to eat a BBQ breakfast at home. The star of the show is the meat and although we eat all kinds of meat, the most popular pick is "pulled pork." Pulled pork is happily plopped on top of eggs with lots-ah barbecue sauce for many-ah-meal.

Look at this smoked pork loan roast.

Now wouldn't you love to sink your teeth into that for breakfast? Pic description: "I smoked this roast in the new smoker for about 2 1/2 hours. I had opened it up before starting to cook and put a few green onions in along with some garlic and olive oil. I tied it back together with butchers twine then covered it with a rub of salt, black pepper, and cayenne pepper.

When southerners grill out

When southerners grill out, say the day before; if there's any meat left at all... you can bet your bottom dollar that that barbecue meat is gonna hit the table the next morning. No freezing or giving that meat away at all. Nope it's saved for breakfast the next morning. Some like it with no sauce at all while others like me have to have sauce. I actually prefer the sauce cooked on the meat so it caramelizes and chars. Yummm don't that sound good. Either way.... I slice open a homemade buttermilk biscuit, slather it down with white butter and pile in the meat. Talk about hog heave!

Yeah I know what your gonna say... You thought we ate fried chicken every day for breakfast. Maybe you were thinking about the newest craze of chicken-N-waffles. Nope we do give the chicken a break sometimes ya know. We eat barbecue meat too. giggle~

Fun Food Facts:
According to estimates, prior to the American Civil War Southerners ate around five pound of pork for every one pound of beef they consumed.
In hard times of the past, wild hog hunts were popular. Pig slaughtering became a time for celebration, and the neighborhood would be invited to share in the largesses. These feasts are sometimes called 'pig-pickin's. The traditional Southern barbecue grew out of these gatherings." wiki