New Breakfast Items for 2012?

[Madeleine]

I just finished pulling my recipe book together. (Yes, after all this time the recipes were still on scraps of paper all over the place.)
I have over 100 fruit starter recipes now. Salads, salsas, compotes, poached fruits, cobblers, skewers with sauces, etc. Something for any fruit in the house. Then a section on muffins and breads. Another for main courses. And another for desserts.

 

[gillumhouse]

We've been served the ubiquitous 'broiled half grapefruit' enough times in the past few months that we might just try it ourselves. We were told it is so good that guests forego their statins just so they can eat it. (Knowing my guests, however, they will just not eat it at all.) But, it's looking like it will be on the menu this year.
Crepes- savory & sweet.
Eggs bennie.
Where we are really changing things up is in the starter course. We've been dinged for using 'canned' fruit so we'll be dressing the bottled fruit up a bit so it passes muster. Guests who live in the land of fresh fruit don't seem to understand that not every location in the US has fresh fruit year round at affordable prices. Guests who never eat fruit for breakfast love the bottled stuff but they never say so online..

I just never liked a half a grapefruit presented to me no matter how it was prepared. I always used the "jarred" refrigerated grapefruit slices for our guests. I made a simple syrup and steeped a vanilla bean in it. Put the grapefruit pieces in the syrup overnight and YUMMMO! That is the only way will eat it. Even grapefruit haters seemed to enjoy it.
Of course you could slice up your own grapefruit and use it. I just never wanted to take the time to section it all out nice and neat :-(
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We have avoided grapefruit for about 2 years because so many guests left it. If it was mixed in with something else, they wouldn't touch the whole dish. So, that said, not really sure why we would even bother with the broiled grapefruit at this point. Seems like a really big waste in the long run.
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We have avoided grapefruit for about 2 years because so many guests left it. If it was mixed in with something else, they wouldn't touch the whole dish. So, that said, not really sure why we would even bother with the broiled grapefruit at this point. Seems like a really big waste in the long run.

I usually don't serve it for the same reason - too many people leave it. I might try it in an arrangement like this one: Winter Fruit Salad. I would have just a few grapefruit sections and maybe some clementine sections, so people who don't eat grapefruit can just leave it.
Now, about breakfast changes. When I've been to other B&Bs and seeing these recipes, I feel like we're serving way too much in our fruit servings, which runs up our costs quite a bit. I want to look at that for an area to make changes this year but I don't want to be chintzy. What do people think about that? Is a fruit serving like the linked recipe enough (that's about 1/3 to 1/2 of what I usually serve)?
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The way it is served it looks chintzy. It needs to be in a smaller dish with the fruit cut up in bite-sized pieces so it looks like more. If you put it on top of a leaf of spinach or mesclun mix with a drizzle of balsamic it would be fine.
We went to smaller serving dishes so it looks like more.
In my experience, some people have been scared witless by their dr's so they avoid anything that came in touch with a slice of grapefruit. They leave the whole fruit course. The really bad ones won't consider picking out the grapefruit, they won't touch it at all.
I guess I've talked myself out of the broiled grapefruit. We can't eat it so it would go to waste. (That said, we have eaten it in the past few months and we didn't die.)
Looking at this photo I would say we serve twice that amount as well. We've seen about this serving size in the places we have stayed recently, so my take is we're serving too much. How to cut back? Add yogurt and granola. A 6 oz plain yogurt goes a looooong way and a tbsp of granola is plenty on top of the fruit and yogurt.
If you serve the fruit on plates, get creative with the plate garnishes. A little drizzle of raspberry puree makes a big statement. (So says me.

) This is how I spread the wealth when it's my turn to plate the starter course. We get 16 slices from a loaf of banana bread and I make it look like more with the garnishment. (I thought I had a photo on the blog but I don't.)
Who knows, maybe with the revelation that Ms Deen is a diabetic, we might get folks interested in less is more!
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When I do not have a lot of fruit in-house, I use my banana split dishes and put 2 or 3 balls of cantaloupe and honeydew on each end with a few pieces of another fruit in the middle to make fruit banana splite. Eash boat has a half of a banana on the bolltom. Of course there is a cherry on top. I usually make a dish of cut up fruit and let them take what they want - started this after throwing out one too many fruit cups (I use my sherbets).. A few weeks ago I got a rez and had no fresh fruit in the house so opened a can of pear halves and put a cherry in the center of each pear half. I have also made a pinwheel of peach slices with a cherry in the center on a salad plateas the fruit..
I have gone to serving the baked oatmeal as one of my regular entrees. It goes over great. And having made big buys at the produce market this fall with the blackberries (they are huge), red raspberries, and blueberries it does not cost me a lot to make it.

 

[Flower]

http://www.twopeasandtheirpod.com/cinnamon-streusel-pancakes/ I just came across this blog. These pancakes sound good with a side of warm apples or apples piled high!. Any one willing to try these too?

 

[Madeleine]

http://www.twopeasandtheirpod.com/cinnamon-streusel-pancakes/ I just came across this blog. These pancakes sound good with a side of warm apples or apples piled high!. Any one willing to try these too?.

We do a cinnamon-apple pancake here but there is no way I would put all that crumble stuff on top of a pancake. It makes my teeth hurt just thinking about it.

 

[Samster]

I just finished pulling my recipe book together. (Yes, after all this time the recipes were still on scraps of paper all over the place.)
I have over 100 fruit starter recipes now. Salads, salsas, compotes, poached fruits, cobblers, skewers with sauces, etc. Something for any fruit in the house. Then a section on muffins and breads. Another for main courses. And another for desserts..

Great job! I started culling recipes from so many sources and had printouts and scraps of paper a folder, but they weren't terribly organized.

 

[Flower]

http://www.twopeasandtheirpod.com/cinnamon-streusel-pancakes/ I just came across this blog. These pancakes sound good with a side of warm apples or apples piled high!. Any one willing to try these too?.

We do a cinnamon-apple pancake here but there is no way I would put all that crumble stuff on top of a pancake. It makes my teeth hurt just thinking about it.
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hahah...... Oh come on now !Lend you some false teeth !!!!
It must appeal to a lot of people after all a resturant is fully booked.

 

[agoodman]

I had a delicious Spinach Eggs Bennie at a local restaurant recently. Toasted english muffin, piled with bagged spinach, poached egg on top of that all topped with the bennie sauce. It was wonderful!!!!.

It's called Eggs Florentine

 

[Highlands John]

I added brioche french toast with crispy bacon and maple syrup to the menu this morning for the first time.
Went down a treat.

 

[birdwatcher]

For us Smoothies have been a hit here at this Inn-also we have a standard Poached Pear and Cranberries -also Spiced cooked peaches (people have almost licked the bowls) really simple and not too expensive if you can find pears on sale and good for like 2-6 people. We also do a strawberries (when they are in season) that they love: Rocotta & Balsamic Strawberries with fresh Basil-yea the basil is kind of funny but people say-wow what is that? mint? nope its basil they are surprised, if you don't have basil its good without it...just some of our starters-
I believe that if you have a good starter people tend to believe that you will have a good entree-we do the same thing if alot comes back on the plate we dont serve that again, but then you never really know cause sometimes we serve the same thing to different people and they love it...it just depends on who the guests are..

Birdwatcher, tell me more about the spiced peaches, please.
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Sorry for the delay-been busy-here is the recipe:
Almond Topped Spiced Peaches
2 cans (29 ounces each) peach halves, drained (or you can do fresh peaches, it would just take a little longer to cook)
1/2 cup B. Sugar
1/4 Cup butter
1/2-1 tsp. Curry powdder
1/4 cup sliced almonds
1 cup sour cream
1 tsp. cinnamon
Place peach halves in an ungreased shallow 2 qt. baking dish; set aside. In saucepan, combine b. sugar, butter and curry powder, cook and stir over low heat until sugar is dissolved. Pour over peaches. Sprinkle with almonds.
Bake uncovered at 375 for 20 minutes (longer if peaches are fresh) or until heated through. Combine sour crean and cinnamon; serve with ontop of peaches. Sprinkle with nutmeg. Serves 6-8
1 serving =256 calories, 12 g fat (7g saturated fat) 35 mg cholesterol, 85 mg sodium, 36 g. carbohydrate, 2g fiber and 2 g protein.
We get great reviews on these and they are quite inexpensive to make...good luck

 

[gillumhouse]

Pecan Pie in a muffin.
Preparation Instructions
Preheat oven 350 F.
Grease your muffin pan (whatever size) or use the silicone cups. I grease my silicone muffin cups with Crisco or lard.
In a medium bowl, stir together brown sugar, flour and pecans. In a separate bowl, beat the butter and eggs together until smooth. Stir into the dry ingredients just until combined. Spoon the batter into the prepared muffin cups. Cups should be about 2/3 full. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes. Cool on wire racks when done. Option: when you take them out of the oven, place a slice of butter on top and eat warm. You may also use walnuts instead of pecans.
Ingredients
1 cup Packed Light Brown Sugar
½ cups All-purpose Flour
1 cup Chopped Pecans
⅔ cups Softened Butter
2 whole Eggs beaten
This sounds good, hope to try it soon. Our guest are foodies and love trying new things. I am lucky that way. It makes for interesting breakfasts . I have collected many new recipes to try this year. I am going to try wraps made with tomatoes and avocado bacon and scramble eggs. Trying new ways to do eggs bennies, with different sauces and trying to mlx up the main ingredients..

Just a half cup of flour?????