Food Cravings!

I love breakfast. Mostly I have yogurt, a banana, and maybe a brötchen with tea. This morning, I woke up around 8.30 and started dreaming about a big American breakfast. Biscuits, an omelet, even bacon was sounding appetizing- my God, what is happening to me? For a few minutes I played around with the idea of French toast, but in the end I knew what I wanted.


Not one to deny Breakfast cravings, and with plenty of time on my hands, I set off around 10am to find the necessary ingredients. I thought to make Angel Biscuits (they require yeast- and I have a lot of yeast from when I made challah- so why not use it?) an omelet and bacon. I already had orange juice, so I was good to go! I did some research, and it seems that there is no difference (that I can find) between baking soda and baking powder in Germany. Anyone who has attempted to make cookies without one of the two, will immediately know this not to be true, but maybe I am not looking hard enough. It also seems that pastry blenders do not exist. Or at least in any of the three stores which I went to and that all sell a wide variety of kitchen items.

But back to breakfast preparations! I found the required ingredients and even managed to find bacon advertised as bacon, it was nice and very, very, very thinly sliced.

Armed with my purchases, I went home and began to make a real American breakfast. Melanie does not work on Fridays, so as I was setting the biscuits to rise, she appeared from her room. I told her I was making a big American Breakfast, so she had to share with me, as that meant a great deal of food! An hour or so later, we feasted on an onion, bell pepper, garlic, and cheese omelet, warm biscuits, and bacon. I had to explain to Melanie that biscuits are something very different in America than the rest of the English speaking world- and were not a sweet twice baked cookie, but rather a delicious bread item.



And the best part about a big American breakfast? It is 5.30pm and I am still full. Plus I have leftover biscuits.