It's My Breakfast And I'll Make What I Feel Like

in Foodies Bee Hive14 days ago

'You can't have toast for breakfast again' she says. I've just woken up, I'm 16 years old, and the last thing I want is my mother's lecture. 'It's important to have something different every day. You need a balanced diet'.

I know better than to talk back to my mother. I've heard this lecture before, and I'm furiously bristling, because all I want is toast, but I push the lever down and tell her I'll have something else tomorrow.

She's right, of course. Having a varied diet is a solid way to get a variety of nutrients. She was raising us vegetarian too, so had educated herself on what foods might help absorb iron better or provide much needed protein. Breakfast was often baked beans on wholemeal bread, scrambled eggs with parsley, banana porridge - all on rotation. I loved her porridge, with bloated sultanas and soy milk. Her scrambled eggs were melt in the mouth. But at 16, you don't want to be told.

Decades later, I'm buying avocadoes in season so my husband has something other than vegemite toast. You can't tell a grown man just as you can't tell a 16 year old. Some battles aren't worth fighting. But he'll vary his vegemite on toast diet by adding avo to it, or goat's cheese. If I make him scrambled eggs on toast or halloumi and tomatoes on toast he's keen as mustard, but I'm not his personal cook. My generosity in this regard is reserved for Saturdays.

At the moment, I'm making pineapple porridge in the microwave most mornings, a wierd mix of Scotland and Bali that works. Volcanic hot pineapple in creamy oat milk porridge with psyllium and honey is quite delicious.

'You can't have that every morning', I hear my mother say. Hang ups extend well into adulthood.

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This morning, she'd be pleased. Avocado and lemon juice with pan toasted pepitas and sunflower seeds, dukkah and boiled egg, with a drizzle of chilli oil.

Take that, Mum.

It's delicious, but tomorrow I've having pineapple porridge again, and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

With Love,

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Oh, this is brilliant! Equal parts tender, rebellious, and quietly hilarious. I love how your story threads through generations, from your mother’s careful, well-meaning lectures to your own quietly amused stance with your husband, and ultimately to yourself, still hearing her voice while rebelliously clinging to your pineapple porridge.

Your mum’s intentions were pure, but at 16, you just want toast. That final plate of avocado, seeds, dukkah, egg, and chilli oil? Well played. A culinary triumph, almost as if to say... See Mum, I listened after all. 😂

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Your mother would be proud. Have you told her?

Breakfast is my favorite meal. I start every day with a salad, preferably with greens I have grown myself. Then on to my morning sweet with a cup of very strong coffee. The sweet can be anything from yogurt with fruit to chocolate cake, although the cake will only happen if I've made it myself. Last week it was a Sachertorte which I had made for my birthday. It's impossible to find a decent cake where I live now, so I made it myself.

Cake for breakfast!!!! Love your work!!!

You're quite the epicure!:) I don't think there's a day in the last 30 years that I haven't had eggs on toast for breakfast.

You and your eggs! Not one single day?

I think I can safely say not a single day. I put my good health, my stamina and my charm all down to eggs!:)

Amazing!!!! My mother would have something to say about That!

Most days I don't even have breakfast. When I do, its a basic protein shake with almond milk instead of water. (also, instead of regular milk, because almond milk has less calories, and like some sort of demented person... I like the taste?)

Your breakfast is the sort of dish I'd expect to see a trendy Melbourne laneway establishment sell for $27.50, plus another $12.50 for some freshly squeezed smoothie thingo.

Not a bad thing, for sure, but while its a simple arrangement of ingredients, the presentation makes it look complex. I'm sure your digestive system will thank you for the variety.

I love serving up a good looking brekky. Sometimes I think I'd love to have a cafe that only served brekky, and I'd serve up whatever I felt like. I do love making it. This mornings camp brekky was fried tomatoes and fried halloumi on sourdough. So good.

I don't like cows milk, never have. We're on oat milk these days though I like soy and never almond. What protein powder do you use? I do love a banana smoothie with vanilla collagen powder, lime juice, mango, maybe psyllium if I have it, yoghurt. Like a supercharged lassi. Hmmm maybe that's tomorrow's brekky.

I've been using the Man Shake. Since I started (along with my gym visits) I've dropped three belt holes. I'm not foolish enough to believe it is the protein powder's consequence.

I like it because it is one of the few products on the market that is rather nutritionally complete. The flavours aren't bad either.

Such a beautifully written slice of life! This post is a cozy mix of nostalgia, food, and independence—with a pinch of rebellion. That avo toast with boiled egg, seeds, dukkah, and chili oil sounds divine. And the pineapple porridge? Unusual, but totally intriguing! Thanks for serving up this heartfelt breakfast story

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I also tend to eat the same thing often. My father was the same way. And I do know I need to eat better, but...

This captures the soul of the piece beautifully,funny, nostalgic, and real. It’s wild how those little motherly lectures embed themselves so deeply, only to resurface when we become the ones caring for others. That full-circle moment of “Take that, Mum” is golden. Even as we rebel, we somehow carry their wisdom with us, usually through food.

Pineapple 🍍 porridge? I would really love to see how it looks ...

Ah yes our Mammies are almost always right!

And when you're lucky enough to have good parents, you learn so much from them.

Those breakfasts you describe sound delicious and the one you photographed looks top notch 👌

I know you're into your healthy eating at the moment - I'm sure you'd love my brekkies!

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