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*As bad as I may feel about failing to get my kids on bikes, I know that, sooner or later, theyll get it. But in another area, I am far less confident that I will finally manage to catch up with my folks and give my children the important heritage and life skills that I took in as a kid: breakfast.
My mother was, and still very much is, the queen of breakfast. When I was young, she would get out of bed well ahead of anyone else; 6 a.m. was the standard. By the time we all finally huddled up around the table, oranges had been squeezed, bread had been toasted, cheese arranged on a platter, vegetables sliced, jams decanted and coffee brewed. Everything was there, school lunches included. . .
It often falls to our 2-year-old, Flynn, to remind us that breakfast also needs to actually happen. Downstairs, porridge, he commands, with little need of preposition or adverb so early on in the day.'>>>
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Potato Hotcakes With Cheddar Cream and Salsa Verde
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1019099-potato-hotcakes-with-cheddar-cream-and-salsa-verde
Maple-Cardamom Saffron Sticky Buns
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1019100-maple-cardamom-saffron-sticky-buns
NO, I'm not gonna make any of this, MUCH too lazy! Did get a good, fresh loaf of sour dough yesterday, have
'home made' eggs from daughter's little farm nearby, so that's IT for me!
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,862 posts)but my kids simply weren't that hungry first thing in the morning.
csziggy
(34,136 posts)We were not allowed into the living room to see the presents until after breakfast so it was a little bit of torture to make us wait. One year she made donuts from scratch - they were delicious but we wanted our presents!
Unfortunately, she never made donuts again. She decided that it was too much trouble and the donuts were not really a healthy breakfast anyway.
Most years she made pancakes or waffles for Christmas morning breakfast.
The rest of the year we were on our own for breakfast - usually toast and chocolate milk. Toast was cheaper than cereal and we could safely make it in our toaster. Hot chocolate milk in the winter was powdered milk mixed with Nesquik - we'd spoon in the mix and use hot water from the tap to make it hot chocolate. Nasty stuff but we didn't know any better.
The things parents do when the husband has to leave the house early to be on the worksite before dawn and the wife starts her shift at the hospital at 6 AM.