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Big Banger

jfolkmann — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 03:28:48 +0000

When we were kids, getting up at 6am was only ok if it was to get to the ski hill early. Most of the time there was a quick stop at the McDonalds on the way out of town to pick up egg mcmuffins (shamefully) and some juice to fill us up for a full day of skiing. In Fernie, B.C. we found a breakfast snack that takes the “mcmuffin” to a whole new level.

Big Bang Bagels shares a location with the Just Pizza 2 for 1 shop in the heart of historic Fernie. Their speciality is The Big Breakfast Banger, which is a mouth watering combination of a tasty Montreal style bagel with fried egg, cheddar cheese and ham (proper thick slices). Sure you could make it at home, but given the price ($4) and the quality of the ingredients why bother…sleep in an extra 15 minutes and pick one up on the way to the hill.

It’s nice to see a little shop that does something really well and word of mouth does the rest.

Big Bang Bagels is located at:
Just Pizza, 362 2nd Ave
Fernie, BC
Open Wednesday to Sunday 6am to Noon

Crêpes

jfolkmann — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 01:31:16 +0000

My wife picked up this simple recipe from a family that she stayed with on a student exchange in Brittany, France. Great for breakfasts and desserts…especially crêpes suzette (although my wife’s favourite is simply sprinkled with sugar).

Preparation time: 10m
Cooking time: 10m
Difficulty: 2
Serves: 4

Ingredients

¾ cup flour
2 eggs
250 ml milk
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 tablespoon rum (dark)
1 tablespoon vanilla
1 tablespoon of water
1 small potato, halved (for oiling the pan)

Preparation

Blend all of the ingredients (except water). Let the mixture sit for one hour. Add the water, stir and start frying.

Stab a fork into the uncut end of a halved potato. Dip it in oil and use it to coat the bottom of the pan. Fry them just like pancakes…not too hot.

Blackberry bars

jfolkmann — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:16:12 +0000

Blackberries and oats…they’re almost healthy! This is normally a raspberry jam recipe but we substituted some of our blackberry jam that we made this summer. Although it was tough for me to part with almost a cup of precious jam, it was worth the sacrifice. I would imagine that this recipe would also taste good with a normal shortbread crust…we are getting close to Christmas.

Preparation time: 10m
Cooking time: 45m
Difficulty: 2
Serves: 24

Ingredients

½ cup butter, soft
½ cup light brown sugar
1 cup flour
¼ teaspoon baking soda
⅛ teaspoon salt
1 cup rolled oats
¾ cup blackberry jam

Preparation

Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Butter a square pan (8 inches) or a round tart pan. Cream the butter and sugar together. Then mix in the rest of the ingredients, except the jam. With your fingers press 2 cups of the mixture into the bottom of the pan. Ensure an even spread. Using a spoon spread the jam on top of the crumble almost to the edge, then sprinkle the remaining crumb mixture over the top. Bake 35 to 40 minutes (until the oats on top turn golden brown) and cool on a rack. Edited from Cooks.com

Mixed fruit salad

jfolkmann — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:17:55 +0000

My mother in law made this dish for us for breakfast. It’s a slightly odd combination of fruits but somehow it just worked. It’s a lovely salad to start the day. Serve along with some boiled eggs and english muffins.

Preparation time: 20m
Cooking time: n/a
Difficulty: 2
Serves: 4

Ingredients

1 small pineapple
2 pears
Seeds from 1 Pomegranate
3 oranges
¼ cup feta Cheese
handful fresh Mint – chopped

Preparation

- Cube and grill pineapple until slightly caramelized.

- Cube pears and 2 oranges.

- Mix all fruit, including pomegranate seeds, in a bowl.

- Squeeze the juice from the remaining orange over the fruit.

- Add chopped mint and crumbled feta cheese and mix together.

Chocolate French toast

jfolkmann — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:18:16 +0000

mmmmm…chocolate. Bite sized chocolate morsels of goodness. This delicious combination of breakfast and dessert will have you making them for both. I guarantee when you serve these you’ll be eating them straight from the pan. (Original recipe from Donna Hay.)

Preparation time: 10m
Cooking time: 10m
Difficulty: 2
Serves: 8

Ingredients

16 slices of soft baguette
100g dark chocolate – melted
2 eggs – beaten
½ cup milk
2 tbsp icing sugar – sifted (plus extra for dusting)
butter for frying

Preparation

Spread 1/2 of the slices of bread with the melted chocolate and sandwich together with the other 1/2. ( I put chocolate on both sides…making it extra chocolatey!)
Mix eggs, milk and icing sugar and then dip sandwiches into egg mixture. Cook in a frying pan over medium heat until golden brown. Serve warm and dust with icing sugar.

Cranberry bread

jfolkmann — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:57:25 +0000

It’s a bit crumbly, but so delicious. Great for breakfast with a glass of orange juice and an espresso. There is probably too much sugar and butter to call it healthy…but when the tangy little cranberries pop in your mouth you won’t really care. Promise.

I’ve adapted this recipe from Obscene Cuisine by adding wholewheat flour (and changing some of the process).

Preparation time: 10m
Cooking time: 1h
Difficulty: 2
Makes: 2 loaves

Ingredients

3 cups whole wheat flour
1 ½ cups sugar
2 ¼ teaspoons baking powder
1 ½ teaspoon salt
¾ teaspoon baking soda
¾ cup butter
2 eggs, beaten
1 ½ teaspoons orange peel, grated
1 ⅛ cups orange juice
3 cups fresh cranberries, chopped

Preparation

Preheat your oven to 350F.

Sift flour, baking powder, salt, and baking soda into large bowl.

In a separate bowl cut the butter and sugar together until the mixture is

crumbly. Then add to the other dry ingredients and mix together.

Add eggs, orange peel, and orange juice all at once; stir just until mixture is evenly moist.

Fold in berries and spoon mixture into greased 8×4 pans.

Bake for 1 hour (or so), test with a toothpick.

Granola

jfolkmann — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:51:21 +0000

For some strange reason I woke up this morning craving granola (I’m turning hippy or something), so i made my own.

2 cups old fashion rolled oats (not the instant kind)
1/2 cup sunflower seeds
1/2 cup unsalted peanuts or almonds1/2 cup raisins
1 cup raisins
scant 1/4 cup cooking oil (don’t use olive oil)
1/2 cup honey

Preheat the oven to 300F. Mix the oats, seeds and nuts in a large mixng bowl. Measure the oil into a measuring cup and swirl it around before pouring into bowl, make sure it goes all the way up the sides of the measuring cup. Then measure the honey in the same cup and put it in the bowl. Mix the ingredients together and spread it on to a baking pan. Bake for 30 minutes, make sure you give the mix a stir every 10 minutes or so that everything gets nice and toasty brown. When you remove the granola from the oven, put it back in the mixing bowl and add the raisins. Stir it around and let it cool. (Give it a stir in the bowl every once in a while so it doesn’t clump.)

Inspired by:Slashfood

Healthy flax, bran, banana and raisin muffins

jfolkmann — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:13:10 +0000

Great breakfast muffins, serve with some boiled eggs and a fruit salad for a quick healthy start to the day.

1 cup whole wheat flour
¾ cup flax seed
¾ cup wheat bran or oat bran (or combine as necessary)
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/2 cup of mashed banana (4-5 frozen and defrosted bananas)
¾ cup brown sugar
¾ cup buttermilk
1 beaten egg
1 cup of raisins (add more if you want) or use blueberries as we did in the photo (if you were confused)

Mix all of the ingredients together. Mix until you have a smooth mixture and then fill your muffin trays. Each little cup should be 2/3 full. Use muffin papers if you want an easier clean-up. Preheat the oven 400F and cook for 20-25 minutes. Stick and tooth pick in a muffin and if nothing sticks to it when you pull it out the muffins are ready.

Blueberry pancakes

jfolkmann — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 22:44:02 +0000

Breakfast for dinner, sometimes you just get a craving.

1 c. fresh blueberries
1 beaten egg
1 c. milk
1 1/4 c. plain flour
2 1/2 tsp. baking powder
Pinch of sugar

Combine egg and milk. Sift dry ingredients and add to egg mixture, beat with a fork or a hand blender. Drop small rounds onto a large buttered frying pan or gridle, add a few blueberries to each pancake. Flip them over when the air bubbles pop on the top side. Add some bacon and some maple syrup to finish it off.