Breakfast

Everyone’s heard the phrase breakfast is the most important meal of the day and my theory is: if it’s the most important meal of the day, why not eat it twice? One of my all time favorite things to eat for dinner is breakfast. Typically I’ll make one of the following, depending on how many people I’m cooking for.

Breakfast Burrito

Freshly Cooked Tortilla

Scrambled Cheesy Eggs

Bacon (extra crispy)

Potato (in any form, preferably hash browns)

Avocado

Hot Sauce (some people like it...me, not so much)

Pancakes (or Waffles)

Any Pancake Batter

Sliced Strawberries

Semi-sweet Chocolate Chips

Butter or Syrup on top

French Toast

Bread of your Choice, dipped and cooked in a mixture of egg, milk, cinnamon, and

vanilla

Maple Syrup (warm is ten times better than cold)

Powdered Sugar

Sliced Strawberries

I’m also a huge fruit person; I have yet to find a fruit I don’t like, besides coconut, which I don’t think is even a fruit. For the sake of my argument, I’m calling it a nut.

If it were up to me, I would probably eat breakfast for every meal of the day, with the exception of a sandwich every once in a while. I’ve always wondered why the time of the day determines which foods are acceptable to eat? It’s not like people are incapable of eating pasta for break fast or making an egg, sunny side up, with a piece of toast for dinner. The time of day has given society expectations as to what is “normal” to eat at the different hours of the day. People should break free and eat lunch for breakfast, breakfast for dessert, dinner for lunch, and dessert for dinner; if you think about it, you’re still eating the same foods throughout the course of the day. Just don’t eat food right before you go to bed because I’ve heard that’s bad for you...or your digestive system, or whatever.

Time is like the media. According to Habermas, the media has taken over the public sphere and has provided society with a constant stream of topics that have grown to be expected topics of daily discussion. We have become so dependent upon events publicized by the media as conversation topics that phrases like “how ‘bout them Chargers/Red Sox/Pats...” have been used to fill the awkward silences when people can’t think up something of their own to discuss. Events displayed by the media have not only infiltrated our conversations, but have also been used as a default “panic phrase” to avoid sitting in silence; time, in a way, has provided society with types of food that are customarily eaten for specific meals of the day and people rarely go out of that realm of accepted foods and eat pancakes for dinner. When people brainstorm what they might want to eat for dinner, it’s usually just a list of the average dinner foods, or they panic and by default choose one of their three favorite fast food places to order in from. Barlow thinks that blogs are taking back the public sphere, in the sense that the media no longer defines all that we talk about. If it were up to me, society would no longer feel obligated to make certain meals based solely upon what society expects us to eat at that time of day. If you are one of those people who often skip breakfast due to lack of hunger or over sleeping, eat if for dinner. Why would you miss out on the most important meal of the day?

Peanut Butter

Peanut Butter. It’s wonderful thing, unless you’re allergic. Then don’t test out the following snack ideas. Peanut butter is so great that you can just eat it off a spoon. In fact, I frequently do so. However, I’m going to write about all the snacks you can add peanut butter to, to make it even tastier. First off, everyone knows you put peanut butter on apples and celery, but that’s boring; we’ve been doing that since kindergarten, but after thinking about it and talking to a few people, I have created a new and improved list of foods that go well with peanut butter.

Peanut Butter Breakfasts

Spread some peanut butter on your toast. Add thin slices of banana for extra flavor that also combats the stickiness, or sprinkle some Cheerios on top to give it some more crunch. English muffins are also good with peanut butter; you can add jelly too!

Peanut Butter Snacks

There are a few items on this list that I have yet to try, so I can’t defend all of them, but here it goes: Cheez’It’s, Oreo’s, Carrots, Ritz Crackers, Graham Crackers, Pretzels

Surprise Item

So there is a diner in my hometown called Corvette Diner. There is one item on their menu, the Rory, where you can get your money back if you’re not satisfied with your meal. It’s a hamburger with peanut butter, bacon, lettuce, and mayo. I never had the balls to order it, but I had promised myself that before I left home for school I would try this burger. Finally, my friend decided to order it so that my friends and I could all try it and turned out it was one of the most wonderful hamburgers I’ve ever had in my entire life. I know you’re probably doubting me right now, but trust me, try it.

Peanut butter reinvents the boring snacks, the healthy snacks, the snacks our parents used to feed us that lack pizzazz, just like blogs bring people together to discuss topics of interest in a whole new light. With so many progressive thinkers in the world, opinions change and new thoughts and ideas are constantly flowing. These ideas are frequently brought to life through the blogging world. Blogs have allowed people to talk about different topics in an innovative way; on the internet, people have the courage to speak their minds, with less fear of being judged. They can express themselves freely and talk about anything that interests them. Everyone has different opinions and brings something new to the table, altering discussions and making them unique. Peanut butter does the same; it slightly changes the flavor, the texture, or the feel of a food, causing you to see snacks in a whole new light.

If you like peanut butter as much as I do, it’s definitely worth trying all these snacks (even the hamburger) and I am sincerely sorry if you are allergic to nuts.