Occasional cooks: breakfast

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Via goodfood.com.au

Is breakfast really the most important meal of the day? If you've ever wondered, this article has far more information than you really need.

Is a cooked breakfast really as much of a thing in America as tv makes it? It often seems like a stick to beat mothers with - the poor children of working mothers, who have cereal in the morning. The only cooked breakfasts I ever remember getting from my parents was the occasional soft-boiled egg with soldiers, and that was definitely on the weekend.

We grew up on Weet-Bix - they are really bland, and unsweetened (sweetened cereals were for holidays only), probably very good for you, expect we always added sugar anyway. But raw sugar, none of that refined stuff! (the concept of health food has changed a lot in the last couple of decades).

The ads told us that aussie kids are Weet-Bix kids. Turned out kiwi kids are Weet-Bix kids as well...

Weet-Bix are made by the Seventh Day Adventists, under the brand name Sanitarium, if you want a bit of weirdness in your iconic breakfast cereals.

These days, I mostly have muesli with some fruit (frozen berries) and yoghurt. It's wonderful, so how can bircher muesli be so horrible. It really is from the devil.

Although, if I had a super-charged metabolism (and in-house chef), these pumpkin spice pancakes with bacon and maple syrup might be the number one pick.

via goodfood.com.au

Now the important question - can you poach eggs? What's your technique? I used to be able to do it but seem to have lost the knack.