4 Breakfast Ideas for People Who Hate Breakfast
By Lynn Andriani
Pizza
Top Chef's Mike Isabella loves eating a leftover slice cold out of the fridge for breakfast so much that he created a collection of breakfast pizza recipes for O. Some are topped with brunch-friendly ingredients like bacon and eggs, but it's Isabella's more unusual combinations that have us hooked, such as strawberry jam with goat cheese; and mushrooms with smoked mozzarella. If you don't have time to make homemade dough, use the premade version from the grocery store.
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Fish
The British have kippers, the Japanese have grilled mackerel, and here in the U.S., we have lox. But what about eating a poached or broiled fish fillet in the morning? There's something decadent about it (especially when the fish-which in this New York Times recipe is flounder-comes with a sunny-side-up egg). There's also this quick, simple broiled salmon recipe, which is rich in omega-3 fatty acids, vitamin E and iron.
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Salad
If the thought of crunchy lettuce and carrots at 8 in the morning isn't any more enticing to you than fruit and yogurt is, broadening your definition of salad could help. Go beyond crisp vegetables like iceberg and cucumbers (their associations to lunch and dinner are hard to shake) and consider softer ones like butter lettuce, avocado, mushrooms and roasted tomatoes, or sweeter ones such as roasted butternut squash and sweet potato. Dress lightly with olive oil and then finish the dish with (you guessed it) a fried or poached egg. Your plate will look striking and have a wake-you-up contrast of warm and cool.
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Cookies
Whole grain baker Kim Boyce's Ricotta Breakfast Bars--which are made with barley flour, pecans, prunes, ricotta and poppy seeds--look a lot like biscotti, and Ellie Krieger's version of breakfast cookies--with whole wheat pastry flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, mashed carrots, rolled oats, bran cereal flakes, raisins and walnuts--fall somewhere between cookies and granola bars. If you're going to eat a sweet breakfast, these will keep you sated much longer than a bowl full of sugary cereal.
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