FWIW -- Food Porn

I just changed a number of the food photos in our listing photos, to reflect the offerings on our current Cabana Breakfast for Two menu. Check it out if you’re feeling “peck-ish”

https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/9747142?

Yum, looks amazing. Lucky guests

Well that’s a great thing to wake up to!! I’ll go back to my sad bowl of cereal now. :frowning:

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I don’t see the menu?

Menu – pick one for each morning you wake up Poolside:

Staffordshire Oat Cakes
A thick risen oat flour “pancake” topped with an egg and bacon; or served “English sweet” with a dusting of confectioner’s sugar and a squeeze of lemon juice.

Creamy Dreamy Grits
Creamy, white cheesy grits with sausage or ham and toast with chef-made marmalade.

Spanish Tortilla de Patata
Classic dish of fried potato slices and diced onion, smothered in beaten eggs, then finished in the oven.

Shakshuka
This North African dish consists of eggs poached on a tangy base of diced tomato, onion and peppers, dusted with Moroccan herbs and spices.

Florida French
Thick-cut challah bread French toast with artisan cane syrup, bacon or ham, and seasonal fruit.

Scottish Borders
Scotch Eggs, steel-cut oatmeal and toast with chef-made orange marmalade.

Hræringur
This Icelandic breakfast treat is a combination of steel-cut oatmeal and creamy Skyr yogurt, served either sweet with a dollop of chef-made marmalade; or savory, with bacon crumbles.

Biscuits & Gravy
Chef-made biscuits with sausage gravy, a fried ham slice, toast and chef-made marmalade.

Quiche Inna Cup
Well, a mug actually. Eggs, dairy, green onion, red bell pepper, and diced ham or bacon crumbles.

Breakfast Burrito
Large flour or corn tortilla filled with eggs, sauteed peppers & onions, and cheese. Served with red or green salsa.

Cajun Omelet
Eggs filled with tangy Andouille sausage, shrimp, mushrooms and cheese; with a side of toast and chef-made marmalade.

Breakfast Muffins To Go
Need to catch that early flight, or the Key West Express? These savory muffins are just the thing. Eggs, meat, cheese and condiments all-in-one, with flavors you know and love.

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Bacon and egg on a pancake, why have I not had this, although not sure it was a pancake, but it looks like a pancake so I’m gonna make it with a pancake.

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Ken, did you cook like this for friends in Kwaj?

My husband married me for my pancakes. :wink:

We put maple syrup on them at breakfast. But at lunch, when we’re eating the leftovers, i put bacon and a couple of fried eggs in between two and it’s a knife and fork sandwich.

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My son has finally perfected pancakes, gets them thin and light! Delicious. Takes some time to perfect I think. He also makes the German oven puff, or Dutch baby as they are known.

Yum! I must look these up…

@Ken

I recall ordering this the last time you posted your menu…Biscuits & Gravy please, but could you sub the biscuits for scrambled eggs?

Wha-at? No substitutions? Well then, let’s make it the Quiche Inna Cup and hold the bell pepper.

Wha-at?..No omissions or deletions? Darn!

Okay, then scratch that and I’ll have the Cajun Omelet with a side of the country gravy that goes with the biscuits.

Huh?..no add-ons either?!

Well, then I guess it’ll have to be the Breakfast Muffins to Go, and…uh…I’m almost afraid to ask but could I have about half that size?

No? (sigh)
I didn’t think so.

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they are so so so very easy. You will never pay $12 for one of these in a pancake house again once you make your own.

@HumptyDumpty – these are a savory (not sweet) yeast-risen “pancake” made with 50% oat flour and 50% wheat flour. Much more hearty. Unlike American pancakes, these have no sugar in them.

@konacoconutz – I sure did cook like this for friends on Kwaj; dinner parties too. Dutch Babies are the same batter as Yorkshire puddings, just a bit thicker.

@Alia_Gee – when I make them for us, I do fried eggs, then just fold the pancake around the bacon and you’ve got a kind of breakfast taco.

@SandyToes – I can always make brekkie to match your “dietary issues”…

The recipe for the Staffordshire Oat Cakes is here:

The recipe is the same as the one from a girlfriend of my partner, who was raised in Staffordshire.

You can raise these overnight in the fridge, but they’re much better freshly risen. I use about 1/3 cup of batter to make a 6-7" diameter cake between 1/4" and 3/8" thick. The recipe makes 2-3 cakes. They’re really good with confectioner’s sugar and a dollop of my chef-made lemon marmalade too!

I’ll be right over! For a week or so.

@kenh I was just wondering, do your guests have to tell you the day before what they want to have for breakfast? Or can everything be made quickly in the morning?

Ken, any chance of the Breakfast-to-Go Muffin recipe please? I’ve just started B-to-G for people catching early ferries to France, and these would be great!

Biscuits and gravy for me please! Lucky guests!

@GutHend – I ask guests to “tell me a few days in advance so that I can shop ahead and have the pantry filled with what I will need for you.” Most guests tell me within an hour or a day, and of course that stays in the message stream so I can check it at any time.

@Joan – The following makes about half a dozen ordinary “cupcake size” muffins or 2-3 larger muffins using my 4" diameter springform pans:
1-1/4 cups Bisquick or other pre-made “pancake mix”
4 Eggs
1 cup Half & Half
2/3 cup diced Ham
2/3 cup diced Red Bell Pepper
1/2 cup shredded sharp Cheese
1-2 tsp Cajun Seasoning blend

Whisk to combine the dairy and flour. Add the fillings and stir. Spoon into muffin cups. Bake in a pre-heated 375F oven for 45 minutes.

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I had to google Half and Half, but can make that with single cream and milk. Not so sure about ready mixed pancake batter though; that’s like using Yorkshire Pudding mix! The mother-in-law would sneer if she found such in my cupboards (and she’d look, given half a chance). I can happily brag that my YPs are much better than hers; I use her sister’s recipe…

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I should never have read this when I’m hungry! Do you deliver?