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"PILEUP OMELETS" and "SMEARED TOAST" have displaced those polite coddled eggs, soft-boiled eggs in porcelain egg cups, and egg muffin cups of more formal dining days......

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Pile-ups seem to be the becoming, habitual, early morning fare.......here....a scrambled egg pile up with creamed avocados, shredded cheeses, pieces of sugar-cured ham, spinach, and this morning's 'mix' of ground spices and chopped yard greens.......to be spooned over a toasted croissant, smeared with apple butter........The same morning fare that I loved as a ten-year old, with the croissant having been substituted for toasted Tip-Top Bread or super-light baking-powder biscuits and avocado...for butter. . 24 hours later....more 'leftovers' atop yesterday's 'leftovers', some Thai vegetarian green curry, for 'today', dumped atop a bit of 'yesterday'.....so...what will be the 'bill of fare'....for 'tomorrow'? I was just 'wondering' ....."what do most folk have for breakfast?....by the numbers.....as in 'what they eat, most mornings', while still in bedclothes.........This, and its many variations, is my...
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Tom Earl's little hamburger steak with chopped scallions, pickle relish and ketchup.......

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  Eaten, 'as is', with or without a slab of melting cheddar cheese, or on a toasted bun of many kinds......A favorite treat from my childhood.....it was served in school lunch rooms, as well as at just about every downtown 'country kitchen' restaurant and grill.......The version, pictured, here, was served at Sam J. Tummimello's Central Cafe ' ,  24 hours a day... 7 days a week,  for two quarters and a dime.....a step up from the  hamburger steak with grilled onions and a side of fries    ..at the Krystal on the Square.....    
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THE TEMPTATIONS OF BYRON ELLA.... (Certainly, a 'step up' from a toasted croissant, spread with Bear Jam and Nutella, sprinkled with crushed macadamia nuts)

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Pistachio-Crusted Boursin Cheese with Spiced Pear Chutney
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DOES IT GET ANY MORE 'BASIC' THAN A TUNA SANDWICH WITH SLICED TOMATOES?

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  THAT I SEEM, NEVER, TO TIRE OF.....IN ANY OF IT'S MANY CULINARY MANIFESTATIONS.....
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Vietnamese PHO, made with bone marrow, but without meat, has become a 'regular' in my soup bowl.....with or without bean sprouts......

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    onion, ginger, cinnamon, cardamom, coriander, star anise, cherry tomatoes,  hoisin sauce, Thai basil, sugar & salt,  sriracha  and serrano peppers & squeezed lime are the palate tinglers....
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SWITCHUP AT KROGER'S.......

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Yesterday, deplete of provisions....and, after several days of avoiding 'sweets'.....I journeyed to Kroger, traveling the mile or so with a thousand other vehicles, going 'somewhere or the other'......After entering the Grocery Store and gathering some 'staples', I began to survey both the other shoppers and the contents of their wheeled baskets.......noting the correlations between the body types of the shoppers and the types of food they had gathered.    Many of their 'food items' were unfamiliar to me; so, I began to chat with the other Kroger clients about their selections.......Shopper #1 was a friendly, obese woman, trolling the aisles with her obese husband and two obese children, under ten.   I asked her 'what her favorite foods were'.   She, rather excitedly, replied: "Dolly Parton's Chocolate Pie!.....There's nothing better......Nothing!" as she put three of them into her cart, along with several gallons of sugary soft...
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REASON ENOUGH TO 'STAY HOME.....AND PREPARE MY OWN FOOD! RATHER THAN DRIVE FOR 'TAKEOUT'...."TODO PARA LEVAR"

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The annoying " Transportation Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax ", alone, would keep me 'home'.
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