Breakfast Options

Good.  Another V Simple food thread!

For brunch or a late breakfast, how about Crepes & Waffles, which has several sucursales in Quito....

The one I’ve eaten at is in the patio de comidas upstairs at QuiCentro mall.

cccmedia in Quito

Easy French toast....

Crack open two eggs.  Discard eggshells.   Stir eggs in a bowl or container for 30 seconds.

Pour beaten eggs into a shallow dish or pan.

Soak two or three slices of bread in the eggs, getting both sides well-soaked.

Pour egg-drenched bread slices into pre-buttered pan on the stove.

Pour any left-over eggs in the original bowl onto the slices in the pan.

Cook each side of the slices for about two minutes at high temperature.  Look for modest browning to occur.

Remove French toast from pan with a spatula or similar.

Serve with butter and syrup or mermelada on top.  These sweet products are available at the Maxi supermarket chain.

cccmedia in Quito

Nice simple recipe. I probably cooked about 5-6 times past month at my new place, and I’m not blaming the induction stove, although I seriously need some adequate pots and pans for it, and perhaps I'll get comfy cooking. Usually I just go around the corner to get my morning calories, but too much Ecuadorean food and one needs a change.

BTW Crepes & Waffles is cool, I ate there before, but the one in my area is in a mall and opens a bit late.

What are you guys talking about?

Breakfast in Ecuador is the bomb!

Bolon de queso or de chancho o mito and a couple of fried eggs, a glass of juice and of course cafe con leche with panela.

Encebollado con chifles.

A large cup of avena poloka

Bolones de pesca over rice

Seco de pollo anything...

Tigrillos

pancakes o crepes con marmalade

desayuño Guayaco:  pan fried fish and patacones

pan crocante con queso y tomoate y cafe.

Of course in Montañita you can increase that by Empanadas Colombiana, Shakshuka Israeli, and Waffles with every fruit imaginable, Fruitsalads with yogurt, batidos (milk fruit shakes), and the ubiquitous...toasted ham & cheese sandwhich...

...oh how could I forget humitas!

Susan_in_Ecuador wrote:

What are you guys talking about?

Breakfast in Ecuador is the bomb!

Bolon de queso or de chancho o mito and a couple of fried eggs, a glass of juice and of course cafe con leche with panela.

Encebollado con chifles.

A large cup of avena poloka

Bolones de pesca over rice

Seco de pollo anything...

Tigrillos

pancakes o crepes con marmalade

desayuño Guayaco:  pan fried fish and patacones

pan crocante con queso y tomoate y cafe.

Of course in Montañita you can increase that by Empanadas Colombiana, Shakshuka Israeli, and Waffles with every fruit imaginable, Fruitsalads with yogurt, batidos (milk fruit shakes), and the ubiquitous...toasted ham & cheese sandwhich...

Fair enough, I haven’t tried Encebollado con chifles, but looks good. I actually enjoy hot meals for breakfast and sometimes opt for the seco de pollo, and treat it as brunch.

ccmedia.

Are you making your French Toast the correct way ? Let's start with the thickness of your bread and where you get it............


http://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/ … ench-toast

French Toast?

Either the Brioche Pan Molde from the Panaderia on the corner sliced at least an inch thick...or the Challah from my peeps at Hola Ola!

And of course that egg milk ratio has to be right with huevos crillo, the milk has to be raw from the vender that comes by at 8am, then cinamon, nutmeg and vanilla...

I prefer to toast in bonella, a margarine...for the taste... and top with Aunt Jemima syrup but if unavailable I make a simple syrup of fresh fresas (strawberries) or mora (blackberries) or mangos....

And some tocino humado from Plumrose for the right salty kick...

Of course a nice glass of Jugo de limon for a bitter sweet and a cup of Cafe con Leche Guayaco style finishes that off...

I’m going to head out to my local mercado soon for brunch and some delicious Caldo de Gallina (chicken soup), and if you guys are paying attention to cccmedia Spanish learning threads then you’ll know there’s a difference between pollo (chicken) and gallina (hen).

And if you’re at a Mercado, and you notice one seller selling Caldo de Gallina for $2 and another for $3, what do you think is the difference?

The $2 vender, while delicious will be ordinary factory chicken, the type of white chicken you buy at supermarkets.

The $3 vender will probably add a boiled egg in there, but the chicken is a campo hen or free range countryside hen. And the taste and skin of the chicken is different from the white chicken, and much tastier. And by the way, the skin is absolutely delicious.

This info is true for Quito, and for all I know, you folk living outside of civilization in small towns it's all campo.   

That's fascinating but not precisely what I have heard.

Pollo is the name of the ave species we call chicken
Hens are also called pollo or pollito and roosters called gallos.
A de-sexed rooster, what we call a pullet, is a gallino or gallina (as it is no longer truly masculine).

By desexing them they grow plumper and because they are XY are normally a larger (and tougher) bird. They are used for soups and stews rather than roasting or frying, which is the preferred use of non laying hens. The proverbial spring chicken, which is the tenderest is reserved for these purposes and small chickens on rotisseries can be seen in most towns by the sea as chicken is an appreciated alternative to the fish eaten all the time!

Pollo criollo is country chicken.  Gallino/a criollo, country pullet

The term criollo is the designation for country style which means not raised in an agricultural environment. What is called in the USA free range. Huevos criollo are especially delicious and have a distinct orange yellow yolk and are high in omega acids which are very important in cell metabolism.

Anyway, that's my experience. Enjoy your caldo de gallina criollo!

From an Andean song with flute, harp and traditional instruments (although this refrain or copla is found in many verses and songs):

Como me gusta la sopa
cuando la gallina es gorda
Más me gusta la sirvienta
cuando la patrona es sorda