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Post by Quarrel »

graemep wrote: post #115
Quarrel wrote: post #91

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These look great, squarely in my breakfast wheelhouse, definitely eggy, but with - well, I guess what I now know as a hint of darkness. Thanks for sharing. I've been meaning to go to Sri Lanka..

Going to share my advice to people going to Sri Lanka (other than what food to try and where) is to not focus on beaches (which are mostly pretty average) and go to the mountains and ancient cities which are unique and amazing. Hoppers are not only Sri Lankan - also found in parts of South India and I think in some places in SE Asia.

Thanks for this insight.

FWIW, for Thailand (where I have been), I'd have a similar recommendation.

Thailand has some great beaches, but as someone from great-beaches-land, I would recommend the mountains and ancient cities.

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Post by Nursie »

xen0 wrote: post #129
Nursie wrote: post #38

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Interesting, we could add in an 'arm' from the pancake local group, heading out from American pancakes, via traditional English pancakes (approx 1 cup of whole milk, 2 eggs, 3/4 cup of flour) to Crepes. I guess the only difficulty there is we English don't eat those for breakfast, and really only make them on one day of the year. Which I missed this year! Dammit, we're going to be having a belated pancake day here so…

As an Englishman that has been transplanted to another country, I find myself making them more in Germany than I ever made them back home. But that's because my wife requests it. It would never occur to me to up the egg ratio so high to reach into that void though. My wife manages to mess up the proportions every time though, so maybe we'll unwittingly explore that region one day.

Oh interesting!

I'm also overseas these days, in Australia with my English partner, and have rarely thought of the English pancake in some time. Even when I'm making breakfast pancakes they're usually American style and I'm supposed to be watching my weight and cholesterol these days so that's become a lot less frequent too.

Re: The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

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Post by cyanydeez »

moultano wrote: post #113
haritha-j wrote: post #67

Please allow me to introuce you to the sri lankan egg hopper ( https://www.lavenderandlovage.com/2016/05/sri-lankan-egg-hop... ) which lives squarely in the aforementioned dark abyss.

Wow! Great suggestion. Whether to count coconut milk as milk is a decision I had not yet had to make. My thinking at the moment is that I probably would not. It seems like further research would reveal a whole new region in the upper left, clustering with Dan Bing, of "asian milkless crepes."

Is fruit not a 4th dimension in breakfast?

Re: The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

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Post by noduerme »

ekidd wrote: post #111
noduerme wrote: post #12

Haha. I'd suggest that what's missing in the um "latent space" here, is that the triangle should be a pentagon involving some form of bacon/sausage, and some form of potato. This cracked me up, because I had a fantastic dream the other night where I had a tour through a donut factory. But the best thing I had (in the dream) was something I'd never tried before, never seen, and which I intend to make at the earliest o…

> It was slightly salty french fries, buttered and coated in sugar and cinnamon, like cinnamon toast. Bang on. Makes a lot of sense too, if you think about it. The closest existing food I know to this are churros, which can be truly excellent when made well. In places like Barcelona, they dip them in chocolate sauce. I support your experiments in potato-based churro analogs!

Speaking of Spanish food and sweetened french fries, I think berenjenas with miel de caña are a truly underrated breakfast competitor. And Spanish tortilla is also sort of a dark breakfast food... I make them to keep in the fridge. Although... heh. My fav thing to eat in Spain for breakfast are the small clams called almejas, sauteed in Manzanilla, with some crusty bread to soak up the boozy clam juice. Tragically, I became allergic to clams when I lived there.

Re: The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

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Post by vanderZwan »

SideburnsOfDoom wrote: post #141
vanderZwan wrote: post #93

Is the "Dutch Baby" in the pancake group some alternative name for "flensjes" that I'm not familiar with? It's a thin dessert variation of Dutch pancakes that has relatively high egg and milk ratios compared to flour.

No (1). I believe that it's "Dutch" in the same sense as "Pennsylvania Dutch" (2) - i.e. an American version of "Deutsch", actually German. 1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_baby_pancake 2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Dutch

Than you for explaining. And I have to say, the other comment also makes me skeptical of the claim that it doesn't go into the abyss since it seems to have at least twice as many eggs as a regular pancake would have

Re: The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

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Post by psini »

lemonberry wrote: post #175
psini wrote: post #66

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For a continental vibe see the french "Croque Madame"

Is that different than a "Croque Monsieur"? For whatever reason I've been watching Jacques Pépin videos recently. The crust on his "Croque Monsieur" is incredible. https://youtu.be/2ZTOUyUBCz4

Only difference is a fried egg on top takes it from a Monsieur to a Madame :-)
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