National Hot Breakfast Month

Traditional breakfasts in the United States and Canada derive from the full English breakfast and other European breakfast traditions and feature predominantly sweet or mild-flavored foods, mostly hot.   Typical items include hot oatmeal porridge, grits (in the South), other hot grain, porridge, egg sausage or small link sausages, pan-fried potatoes (hash browns), hot biscuits, toast, pancakes, waffles, bagels, French toast, cornbread, English muffins, pastries (such as croissants, doughnuts, and muffins), and fresh or stewed fruits of various types (stone, citrus, etc.).  Hot grilled Steak may be served with eggs on the traditional menu.

So, in observation of National Hot Breakfast Month, my brother-in-law and I enjoyed the breakfast bar offerings at Shoney's Restaurant after his dialysis treatment this morning.  After dialysis, he is usually hungry because he goes in so early (5:30 a.m.) and can't eat for 4 hours during the process. 

All the traditional full English breakfast offerings were there and enjoyed.  Because we are in the South, we had grits (with salt and butter), bacon, link sausage, country ham (salt-cured), home fries (hash browns), hot biscuits (with white sausage gravy with pepper), pancakes, French toast, and eggs (scrambled nice and fluffy) with orange juice and coffee.

It was really, really yummy and because it was actually brunch, couldn't even think about food for the rest of the day!