Announcing WBW #53: Wine for Breakfast!

El Bloggo Torcido and Twisted Oak Winery are pleased to be the host for Wine Blogging Wednesday** (AKA WBW) for January 2009! The theme we have chosen is Wine for Breakfast.

Now - you don't necessarily have to actually consume wine before 10AM to participate - though it is certainly not discouraged. If you are like me (actually, no one is like me) (just saying) once in a while you like have to have breakfast for dinner. In fact, for me some breakfast foods are my favorite comfort foods.

So, what we are doing is pairing wine with traditional breakfast foods. For many of us that means bacon and eggs, pancakes, waffles, etc. But if your culture enjoys fermented fish for breakfast, go for it!

For the wine, choose anything you want, as long as it is a dry red or white wine. This means no sparkling wine, no rosés, no dessert wine, and no mixing with anything - i.e. no wine cocktails. The idea is to get outside of the "Sunday Brunch" mentality. Mimosa would be too easy, right? Dare to try something different - you might even find a surprise pairing for Spam Egg Sausage and Spam!

This Wine Blogging Wednesday takes place on Wednesday (oddly enough) January 14th, which should give you plenty of time to plan an eggceptional wine pairing!

For Fun: As a warm up, tell me below in the comments - What is the weirdest thing you have ever eaten (or drank) for breakfast?

**Wine Blogging Wednesday is a monthly event where participants choose a wine based on a monthly theme and then write a post about their experience. I'll post more details about how to participate when we get close to the 14th.

Comments

[David J]

Bavarian Weisswurst & pretzel to help my rye beer & shots hangover & prepare for the 1999 total eclipse, in Muenchen Aug 11 w/ appropiate Bayrisch student buddies egging me on (ouch)

[Heidi]

Will says coffee creamer on toast. It must have been before I knew him. LOL

[melody]

raw pancake batter on a backcountry camping trip- we were just kids ( 7th grade, i think) and were caught in the middle of a terrible storm, which meant we couldn't get the fire going to cook the pancakes...

[el jefe]

hi Melody - You made me remember my first cub scout camping trip! The pans were so bad that they burned the pancakes to the bottom and were raw on top, so we scraped the raw batter off the top...

[Sonadora]

I tend to not particularly care for breakfast foods for breakfast...so I often decide it's a good idea to have lunch food for breakfast and breakfast food for lunch. It certainly wouldn't be unusual to find me eating a bowl of pasta with parmesan and butter at 9 and a plate of eggs and bacon at 1!

Though the oddest thing I ever ate for breakfast was back when I was about 11 years old. My cousins from Ireland were visiting and my Dad and my cousin's father were in charge (always an interesting scenario). They let us eat ice cream that we had melted, stirred every imaginable thing into (think rice krispies, chocolate chips, shots, strawberries, etc.), and refrozen...mmm...delish! ;)

[Liza]

Definitely family trip to Haleakala Crater. Who knew it would be so cold? Everyone but us. In our open top Jeep Wrangler, we went. We saw. We shivered. We found the first open restaurant on the way back down. Cheeseburgers, fries and whisky at 7:30 am! My mom made them open the bar!

[Jeff]

Does Taco Bell at 5 am, if you haven't ended the previous night, count as breakfast?

[1WineDude]

Ha! Too easy! Dude has his pick already.

As for odd breakfasts... those would be dinners that never quite ended on time! :-)

[ryan]

Wow, now we're talking! Here in Spain wine is a very typical beverage with your tostada con tomate and a side of Jamon! I mean really what else is there?

[Lynn_in_Sac]

Few years back, while staying in Hirsau, Germany for work, the small hotel served up an eclectic buffet of foods. While I typically enjoyed the muesli with whole fresh(goats?) milk, I finally broke down and had sliced coldcuts with cucumber and tomatoes with fresh brot at 7:30 am, if pickles and onions were offered, would have had those too!

[Cheap Red Wine]

Chocolate chip cookies is probably the weirdest thing I've ever eaten for breakfast.

[Natalie MacLean]

I love this idea! I've been scratching my head to think about wine matches for pancakes in the wine-and-food matcher on my site ... so far I have late harvest riesling and gewurz because of the syrup but I'd love your suggestions for both pancakes and crepes

cheers,
natalie

www.nataliemaclean.com

[Winesleuth]

the weirdest thing I've ever eaten has to be chinese food. In Taiwan they don't differentiate food for mealtimes - so you want steamed rice and beef with broccoli in the AM? you got it! I usually go with fizz in the morning so now I have to get my thinking cap on. Thanks, you twisted oak!

[Andrew]

I had two mince pies and brandy butter for breakfast Boxing Day morning...

[Sharon]

Hmmm... half a cheeseburger re-heated. But it was a *gourmet*, *angus beef* cheeseburger!

[Shana]

Left over cold pizza and a half empty beer counts right? I have yet to leave a wine glass half empty at night.

I am accepting your challenge, hmmm. Maybe this will be a time to try out tofu bacon?

[Cheryl]

I once let my daughter stay home from school and we had Banana Splits for breakfast. It was the best and still one of our great memories.

[Tim]

For a couple years I ate peanut butter and banana sandwiches on wheat toast for breakfast every day. I've since moved on to more traditional breakfast foods.

[Lynn]

Home made crepes filled with a scrambled egg, peppered turkey bacon and melted dark chocolate mixture. It might sound weird but actually is yummy!

www.sacatomato.com

[Michelle Lentz]

I realize I still owe you Rye. (hmmm ... rye for breakfast?) But I also wanted you to know that 1/14 is my birthday. And I love breakfast for dinner, so I can so see where my post is going to lead...

[Katie]

Ahhh, back to a FUN topic for WBW...thanks Jefe! This is something I can sink my teeth into!!

[Heidi]

Champagne or Moscato with Sunday Brunch.

[Jules (the wine wanker)]

Chicken feet - just wrong at any time of the day. But especially bad at breakfast.

[Dan]

Breakfasts based around black pudding and Guinness tend to weird peiople out a bit but are actually incredibly tasty...

no black pudding tomorrow sadly...

[Steve M.]

My guilty pleasure breakfast since 5 years of age has always been potato chips. Then it was left overs from parent's parties the night before. Now, 60 years later, the same delight paired with a little Trimbach riesling sounds fine, thank you.

[1WineDude]

Yo! Here's my contribution:

http://1winedude.blogspot.com/2009/01/wine-for-breakfast-wine-blogging.html

Cheers!

[Gabriella Opaz]

Cheers to a great theme! Here's our little (or ridiculously long and detailed)contribution :-) http://www.catavino.net/blog/wine-blog-wednesday-breakie-and-wine-el-jefe-asks-us-what-wines-go-with-breakfast-foods/

[Julian]

My time as a hanger-on with various jump-jive bands means I've had some very good and very bad breakfasts, which all merge, in retrospect. And I've put up a very lazy post for you: http://bubblebrothers.com/blog/?p=801

Keep twisting.

[Hudson Valley Wine Goddess]

My first WBW
http://hvwinegoddess.blogspot.com/