January Cooking with KIT - Breakfast

Full English breakfast, including eggs.

January is the first month of the new year, and so it's appropriate we start with the first meal of the day: Breakfast. Goal of the KIT is to not only read your cookbook, but to cook at least 1 dish out of it that fits the month's theme.

For the January Cooking with KIT your cookbook must have at least 1 chapter devoted to breakfast dishes,

Our focus for this month is eggs, but this is completely optional. Any breakfast dish using eggs counts for the focus.

You can post your cookbook(s) for this month on the the wiki, which can be found here. You can let us know on this thread what you cooked and if you liked it. Reviews and pictures are also very welcome on this thread.

If there are any questions, please feel free to ask. I hope everyone will have fun this month's. Now let's go and use those cookbooks!

I've got a huge, huge amount of cookbooks on my Kindle that I have never used, or looked at. They're easy to download, I get them for free (special deals), and then don't use them because I forget about them. So this year, I'm going to be turning that around!

For January, I'm going with From Mother to Daughter by Oksana Vitruk. According to the index, it has a chapter called 'Breakfast Ideas' and a recipe in that chapter called 'Egg Toasts' which I will definitely try.

I'm planning on Farmhouse Christmas, which has some lovely ideas in its breakfast section. As the munchki will still be home on their Christmas holiday, I hope to cook from it early in January, and finish reading it by the end.

Looking forward to this KIT - I love reading cookbooks, but I tend to stick to the same recipes when it comes to actually cooking.

When I retired and moved to Florida from Massachusetts 5 years ago, I got rid of a lot of books including cookbooks that I rarely used. One of my favorites that I kept was The Breakfast Book which is perfect for this challenge. However, I was allergic to eggs as a child and although I outgrew the allergy, I never acquired a taste for them, so I will be making something else.

So I am planning a New Year's Day breakfast from Ina Garten's Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics breakfast chapter: French Country Omelet and Sunrise Smoothies.

New Year's Day breakfast was great! From Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics I made the Country French Omelet and the Sunrise Smoothies, which I made with frozen mixed berries, raspberry sorbet and orange juice. Both recipes were easy and delicious. They felt special but weren't much trouble to make and also didn't leave us ridiculous quantities of food left over. I read through the book this morning, admiring the beautiful photos and tasty-sounding recipes. I will definitely return to the breakfast chapter, with recipes such as Baked Blintzes and Tri-berry Oven Pancakes. The vegetables chapter also looks very useful. I like this cookbook better than the other Barefoot Contessa book I have, The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook, because the recipes seem simpler and more geared toward family cooking.

PS Does this KIT have a wiki?

>7 sturlington: Yes, we do. Link is in the first post, but I'll also provide it here: http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/CookingwithKIT

>8 Samantha_kathy: Thanks! I've bookmarked it.

For this month I'll use the Gordon Ramsay's Ultimate Home Cooking which has been standing unopened on my cookbook shelf for quite some time. It has a breakfast section and a recipe on Eggs Benedict with Parma Ham, which I've never had/made - so double happy :-)

Next weekend I'll know if I liked it.

Good morning! I'm going to read Sunset Ideas & Recipes for Breakfast & Brunch first published in 1980 and much loved in my collection. I established a tradition to serve "Fruity Cheese-filled Crêpes" on Christmas morning back in the 1980s and have done so, on and off, for all these years. Very tasty and full to the brim of calories, and fat, and all things to avoid for the rest of the new year!

I will read the rest of the book and pick a recipe within the next few days.

I'll start with 300 Ways to Serve Eggs From Appetizers to Zabaglione - like most of my cookbooks, I picked it up at a yard sale at some point, because there was at least one recipe in there that looked good. I don't think I've opened it since. So I'll investigate and find a recipe - and if there isn't a good one, I'll have one less book in the house!

January Cooking with Kit: I made Skillet-Baked Eggs with Blistered Cherry Tomatoes from Fresh & Fast Vegetarian - by Marie Simmons. The tomatoes with basil and cheddar cheese were good, but I didn't like my eggs baked. I considered making just the tomato part in the future. Maybe with some fried eggs. But then I realized that kitchen clean -up was going to take a while -- oil and tomato splash everywhere in a 5 foot radius of the stove -- and decided not to make this dish again.


In the pan and how it looked when served

Too bad for the mess, because it sure does LOOK good!

Looks fabulous!

Shirred Eggs with Sherried Mushrooms from
The Tabasco Cookbook





In spite of coming from The Tabasco Cookbook these eggs are not "hot". And they are not difficult to do:

Preheat oven to 350. Brown chopped mushrooms and onion in butter about 5 min or until tender. Stir in 1T of dry sherry, 3/4t Tabasco and cook for 1 min. Spread toast (we use bottom half of a bagel) with butter. Grease ramkins. Put toast in bottom of ramkin and top with a layer of onions and mushrooms. Carefully break 2 eggs into each ramkin. Bake for 15 to 20 min, until eggs are set to desired firmness. Sprinkle with parsley and serve. (Preferably with champagne or a Bloody Mary)

>13 VioletBramble:
"oil and tomato splash everywhere in a 5 foot radius"
Well, that's quite a huge minus for me, since there are bookcases nearer than 5 feet to my stove! :)

I read Thug Kitchen: Eat Like You Give A F*ck - funniest cookbook I have ever read FULL OF PROFANITY so if you're not into that I wouldn't suggest this book... I will post the recipe I tried when I get home - plus it didn't have the focus of eggs - because I was trying new things with vegetarian/vegan recipes :)

ETA:Typos

The quick and easy recipe I tried

From Thug Kitchen: Eat like you give a f*ck

Maple Berry Grits

Super delicious no pictures though.... :(

I'm a little late reporting this, but I did manage to make breakfast in January from From Mother to Daughter by Oksana Vitruk. You can see my review for the book here.

I made Egg Toast, a simply but filling recipe. It turned out okay, but it's not something I'd be making a lot. It's simple enough, but I'm not that hungry in the mornings so it was a little much for me, even though I only made one slice.