a REAL break from the dailyness

I can't tell you how happy this makes me. It's like we're kindred spirits sometimes...me and Mark Bittman.

I know that many of you love breakfast foods...pancakes, eggs, bacon, cereal. I don't. Can I be honest? I think plain pancakes are the world's most boring food. Even waffles don't strike my fancy unless I top them with tons of stuff that usually transforms them into a once-in-a-while, calorie-packed dessert. French toast is better, but, once again, mine is more like custard pie or bread pudding. Who decided that this is what we have to eat for breakfast?

And, really, it gets worse. I'm not a huge fan of fruit. My mother-in-law tells me that you're always supposed to start your day with fruit...something about kick-starting your metabolism or something. But if fruit is my only choice, I usually just refrain from eating. And if I don't, and I eat the blasted fruit, I'm insatiably hungry in like 10 minutes! I want a hardy, interesting breakfast. If I'm going to allot a good deal of calories from my daily dose toward breakfast, I want to eat something I enjoy. Yes, I know eating breakfast is good for me and will help me stop the regression into larger and larger pants...but I LOVE food. And when I make something super-great for dinner, I want to be able to eat a lot of it...seconds, at least. Giving up some of my dinner appetite for measly little, boring, daily breakfast is not a good deal for me...

.....Unless...breakfast can be something more....

So here it is. I vow before all of you to eat breakfast every weekday for the entire month of March (I like month-long goals...my current one is to exercise before work 4 days a week for the month of February. It's going well. I think March will be breakfast AND exercise). Who is with me?