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Deviled Eggs for Breakfast
For someone who's not a fan of breakfast foods, the old cocktail party standby just might be the answer
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Credit: Helen Rosner
This morning, I faced the enemy at a breakfast thrown by W Hotels at which Jack Yoss, chef de cuisine at the brand's Bali property, was in charge of the menu. At most breakfast events, I find myself facing down a continental spread that couldn't be less exciting: leaden scones, gooey buns, listless fruit salad. But for this party, Yoss went with a concept seemingly tailor-made for me: breakfast canapés. For the traditional breakfast-eaters, there were mini frittatas and single squares of waffle filled with peach compote. For me, there was an entry point into luxury breakfast heaven: bite-size banh mi, cups of truffle-spiked congee, and mugs of briny, creamy oyster bisque. And then I saw the deviled eggs, and I realized I'd found the answer.
It's not that I don't like breakfast eggs — faced with no other choice, they're the subcategory of morning food I'm most likely to enjoy — but I love deviled eggs. The contrast of a creamy, savory yolk mixture against the cool neutrality of the white hits me in exactly the right way. As a breakfast food, they're ideal: they're surprisingly easy to make for one (just keep a baggie of yolk mixture in the fridge, the halved whites in a separate container, and fill the eggs to order), and they won't provoke the outraged "How can you eat that?!" reaction that I get from the breakfast-food partisans when I start my day with spaghetti in red sauce or leftover chicken curry. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if some of the die-harders drop their waffle allegiance and ask me for a bite.
Any version of deviled eggs would work for breakfast, but these are particularly well-suited for the morning:
Bacon-and-Cheese Deviled Eggs »
Deviled Eggs with Smoked Trout »
Southern-Style Deviled Eggs »
Deviled Eggs with Ham »
Deviled Eggs with Smoked Trout »
Southern-Style Deviled Eggs »
Deviled Eggs with Ham »
Comments (6)
@TKochs, they seem to be working for us. Try clearing your cache and clicking again?
Helen, I couldn't agree more. A typical American Breakfast never excites me. I would recommend trying a traditional Lebanese one. Mana'eesh with Zaatar and Cheese, Labneh (yogurt cheese), no less than 2 kinds of olives marinated in oil and peppers, Halloumi & Kashkaval cheese, zaatar with olive oil, Foul Mudammas (fava beans in garlic lemon sauce), Lahm bi Ajeen (meat pie), Kishik (yogurt & cracked wheat based breakfast soup with ground beef)...I can keep going..
Mira, I LOVE middle eastern breakfasts. I could have labneh, sliced cucumbers, foul, and fresh pita every morning for the rest of my life and be a very, very happy girl.
This made me sick to my stomach, the article AND the comments. Eggs, mayonnaise, bacon and bacon fat for breakfast, "yogurt & cracked wheat based breakfast soup with ground beef (?!)...No thank you!
I've been happily eating congee, or my version of it for many years now. My husband and daughter think I'm crazy but the thought of cereal, pancakes and gooey sweet oatmeal just sounds terrible. Deviled eggs sounds like fun! A meat pie sounds perfect to me.
