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American Breakfast
| American Breakfast It seems that a traditional American breakfast and a traditional Uruguayan breakfast are about as far apart as the traditional dinner hours.For those in Uruguay longing for a traditional American Breakfast.... I'm told that "Sweet House" near the corner of Sarimento and Franzini has such an offering. I will let someone else explain that a traditional Uruguayan breakfast consists of. |
| For for those who don't know what Bizcochos are... follow the link. Of course if you stay in a hotel, your breakfast will probably include ham and cheese and maybe some yogurt. |
| I would say that the main difference is that over here we don't have the culture of breakfast as one of the most important meals of the day. Most people just grab a bite and rush off to work. I would say the most important element in the Uruguayan breakfast is the Mate or the Cafe con Leche (coffee with milk). To go with it toast with butter and jam or dulce de leche, or bizcochos, or maybe just a couple of biscuits. I confess that when I get up (I get up VERY early) I have just a cup of café con leche. I get hungry a couple of hours later and have some bizcochos. I love American breakfasts and might, on occasions, prepare one on a Saturday or Sunday, with time enough to do it. But during the week, impossible. |
| "american recipes"
That is so true about American breakfasts. They do take a long time to make. There's so many components. |
Comment #412/27/10 17:11Rural east Colonia departmento | "Fully fried breakfasts"
Sad to say the modern obsession with healthy eating has largely put paid to fully fried breakfasts across much of the world. As you'd expect from an Ulsterman (my family comes from Northern Ireland) I really love a fully configured "Ulster Fry" though I've no doubt that its killed many more people than the IRA and the British army combined :-)Most of the necessary ingredients are available here in the ROU including excellent blood puddings. The only item which requires special preparation is the soda bread. When I worked in the States back in the 60s I really appreciated US breakfasts... with the single exception of hominy grits. |
| "No Grits ?!"
While I love well done hashbrowns and have the body to prove it, I need grits once in a while Patrick. Grits with salt, pepper and butter. Yum, yum. |
Comment #612/28/10 12:51Rural east Colonia departmento | "Mmmm! Hashbrowns :-)"
One of my former employees at Phu Kradung was Mrs Jones... a Lao/Chinese lady who married a US airman during the Vietnam unpleasantness. Her deep understanding of potatoes and particularly hashbrowns used to help keep me sane during the Communist insurgency :-) |
| "fully fried breakfast"
How odd, you call that fried breakfast "American" and here we call it an "English breakfast" ... probably with variations: eggs, bacon, sausage or ham, no blood pudding, definitely not, but baked beans, fried cheddar, fried potatoes, sometimes fried onions, pancakes, waffles or French toast etc., and rarely what the Americans call Canadian bacon which we call simply back bacon. |
Comment #812/31/10 06:01Rural east Colonia departmento | "Names"
I avoided the term "English" breakfast as it seems to mean different things in different places... just like the so-called English muffin which is something that I've never seen in England.Long ago during the unpleasantness in Vietnam I used to fly thrice weekly to Louangphrabang in western Laos. Near the airport gates was a small thatched hut where Khun Mee (a hill tribesman) used to serve "traditional Hmong breakfasts" which consisted of fried eggs, fried potatoes, toast and excellent Lao coffee. I don't suppose that Mee would have taken kindly to the idea that he was really serving "English" breakfasts :-) |
| "Luang Phrabong"
If I ever make it to Uruguay I hope I can get out to Rural east Colonia and hook up with you Patrick. I don't know when you were last in Luang Phrabong but you probably would not know it. I was there about a year ago and it has really changed. You can't walk across the street without looking L & R anymore. Still not as noisy as Thailand but getting thereNo one has mentioned fried tomatoes yet. |
Comment #1012/31/10 13:21Rural east Colonia departmento | "Please do."
A good lunch awaits you :-)During 1967/8 we used to fly Utapao to Louangphrabang on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays with return flights on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. It was sometimes a challenging journey aboard an elderly DC3 as electronic navigational aids were not to be trusted because of the cunning Commies and their false radio beacons. On Sundays we'd go to the beach at the pleasant little fishing village of Pattaya (which is now a huge City of Vice.) :-) I last visited the LPQ in 1987 near the end of the Communist era on a potato buying trip and there was even less traffic than in the pre-Commie days. It always was a pleasant place and I found the Lao people to be much more direct than the Thais so I'm not surprised to hear that it has prospered since the fall of Communism. |
| "American/English breakfast"
You know, these types of breakfasts don't "happen" on weekdays! In the US no working person has time to have a proper American or English breakfast during a work week. We only have those kinds of breakfasts on weekends, unless of course, you're retired. About the differences between an American opposite an English breakfast, I am a fan of both and I believe the difference lies in the type of sausage and/or bacon that are used. In the UK they use what they call Irish bacon or back Danish bacon, and/or bangers, which are delish. In the US we use American bacon and sausage links or patties. Also, delish. Both types of breakfast are extremely fatty and not good for the heart. LOL!!! |
| "typical breakfasts"
Generally speaking, typical weekday American breakfast for working people, at least where I live, consists of a cup of coffee, a glass of orange juice, a bagle, a muffin, or piece of toast, with or without cream cheese or butter and/or some kind of jelly, jam or preserves, or cereal, oeatmeal, yougurt or a fruit. Of course, there are people who, even thought they are working, have the time to stop somewhere and sit down and have a full breakfast. Not me!!! A typical weekend full American breakfast can consist of coffee, orange juice, eggs (sunny-side up, over-easy, soft-boiled, hard-boiled, scrambled, poached, in an omelette, etc.), ham or sausage links or patties, American or Canadian bacon, and potatoes (hash browns or home fries). Some people choose to have Eggs Benedict (poached eggs on a muffin with Canadian bacon and Hollandaise sauce) or steak and eggs.As far as I know, a typical Uruguayan weekday breakfast consists of coffee (or mate?)and a piece of toast with or without butter and/or some kind of preserve, cereal, yougurt or fruit. I'm not sure there is a typical Uruguayan weekend breakfast. My understanding is that, in general, breakfast is not the most significant meal of the day for Uruguayans. Please correct me if I'm wrong. |
Comment #1405/30/11 16:29Las Toscas, Canalones, Uruguay | "looking for redneck southern food inn Uruguay"
Having lived in the 'deep south' all my life and having developeda taste for the most 'nothing' breakfast cereal ever contrived (grits), I was wondering if anyone has seen 'Grits' in Uruguay markets? Moving down soon and I will have to pack a few thousand pounds of 'grits' if none are available. |
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