Becky's Breakfast

With our son and his fiancé at home this weekend we moved from the bar to the dining room table for breakfast. We had our usual Saturday breakfast of bacon, homemade sausage, grits, biscuits, fresh free-range eggs, strawberry freezer jam and coffee. Breakfast has always been one of our favorite meals of the day and for years duck season brought a huge crowd to the house. Hunters knew breakfast was served at 9:00 because Becky didn't get out of bed until then.

One duck hunting story told and retold involves two very competitive golden retrievers. On one very cold morning the dogs were allowed to come into the house to "thaw-out". They soon found their way under the dining table and began fighting for a dropped biscuit. Everyone had to clear out and break up the fight before finishing breakfast. Now that's a "country breakfast".

Recently, we were entertaining some young couples from church and served them coffee from our old percolator. We were amazed that they never seen coffee made that way. In fact they thought it was better coffee than what they got at Starbuck's. We ended up making several pots to satisfy their curiosity. We tried other coffee makers and they were good, just not as good as the percolator.

If you want a good country breakfast you will need some fresh stone-ground grits, free-range eggs, and homemade jelly or honey. We get our sausage and bacon from Dobbins' Grocery at North Sand Mountain (near the high school). We have been told that they make one ton of sausage a week from hogs they raise themselves. People come from all over the southeast just to buy meat at this store. Now check out our blog on making biscuits, and you will have all you need for a great country breakfast.