Hello @donna-metcalfe 😉 fruit smoothie or fruit juice is hardly found as breakfast in Aceh or Indonesia, it is considered as drink not food😂 here is my breakfast made by my husband. Fried banana in love shape with cheese 
.. this is a special not a common breakfast for other and here is the common breakfast that we can find anywhere in Jakarta (where I live now)
It is calling as Bubur Ayam or Chicken Porridge, see the crispy chips 😉 and I think you'd love this breakfast😂😁
I think you are right that I would love that breakfast! What kind of grain is the porridge made with? I have never had a porridge with any kind of meat in it! Oh yes I saw the chips all right! So - soft and creamy porridge with crispy chips and chicken? Yes, please!
What a sweet husband you have to make a loving breakfast! My father liked bananas in a sandwich with peanut butter, for breakfast or lunch, but I've not had (or heard of) bananas with cheese! That sounds like a sweet and savory combination that would be a very good breakfast!
Thank you for sharing your photos too, they make me hungry to taste them!
Well... I'll show this one too.. my breakfast almost brunch today ...
Lontong (will find the english word later😉) with vegetables and peanuts sauce 😉 but off course chips showers too😊 well, I'd better not to hurt your feeling 😂
The grain for the chicken porridge is rice, common rice that we have as our main food here in Indonesia. It was soaking fortnight and then boiled in garlic chicken broth, then the chicken is frying and shredded as topping along with leek, fried shallot and celery.
I think I'll make a post ...a story about the picture in this comment😊 my favourite topic, travelling sellers. I think I will try the 4 posts a day today, because My hubby let me off duty from the shop due to the renovation project and I'm a bit dizzy because I stayed up very late last night to serve the instant noodles for midnight hungry customers😆.
I am so grateful for having a hubby who loves me and knows how to please me with food that I won't refuse to eat. Well... you must have read one of his posts months ago about fried banana with cheese, it's a common food in many cafes here in Indonesia too.
I looked up 'lontong' and apparently there isn't a direct translation to English, I only found a description - rice cooked in a banana leaf. Ooh, peanut sauce too? I'm in!
It seemed to me I've heard of rice cereal so I looked that up too. The references I found were all for baby food! Most of my friends will not eat hot cereal so I don't have anyone here to ask. So strange that it would be hugely popular in one place (for adults) and in another place not eaten at all!
No, I'm sorry, I didn't read your husband's post. Off and on I've had to be away from my computer, it must have been one of those times. I'd be interested in reading it if you could share the link?
So you were up late serving noodles? Sounds like you have good customers for it!
I apologize for not understanding that you now live in Jakarta! That's a long way from Aceh!
The rice cooked in banana leaf, coconut leaf or sometimes food grade wrapper for hours (about 8-12 hours) just like this one
Can you guess which one is the "lontong"? Yeap.. those in triangle shape and those in arranged coconut leaf😊
Well.. if you find any white rice flour, you can try to fried a banana covered with the flour by adding dome waters and sliced shallot before fry it in the hot cooking oil, then spread the grated chedar cheese as topping and it's delicious.
Ahh the link, will share it later.. I use the phone to check on replies, that's why I can find it now. You know what mashed potatoe and bacon are not familiar breakfast to us, and sometimes I wonder how can you all get the energy from sandwich at lunch?
That looks delicious!
When you say 'banana' - I know there are many varieties. I have tried frying what I would call a 'regular' banana with brown sugar as a dessert but it turned very mushy. Then I heard that I should have used a 'plantain' which is a different variety and not sweet on it's own like a 'regular' banana.
I looked back about 6 months in his feed and read some interesting articles but didn't find one on bananas and cheese. No urgency but if you find the link I'd like to read it.
If I make mashed potatoes for supper I like to save some back and later make a fried mashed potato patty - fried until the outside is crisp, then separately fry an egg to put on top, like icing on a cake!
I guess it depends on what kind of sandwich. For example a grilled cheese sandwich I think would quickly raise the blood sugar then quickly drop. For most sandwiches we add extra nutrition by adding a handful of potato chips! (Just kidding. They are not a healthy thing to add!) But a healthy sandwich on whole wheat bread with meat or tuna filling, maybe with sliced celery or carrots on the side, that's fairly healthy.
My father, whose mother was raised in the South so maybe it's a Southern thing, liked to take a slice of bread, put butter on it, then thin slices of cheddar cheese and then sprinkle the top all over with white sugar. Then it goes under the broiler until the cheese turns brown with little bits of burned spots. The sugar makes a thin hard crust and those flavors together are very good! Not a healthy meal but a special treat.
We do not have banana leaves here @cicisaja. Now I am wondering do they add a flavor to the rice at all?
The peanut sauce sounds like something I would love. We combine peanut butter with banana a lot here. I am imagining the sauce would be like a melted peanut butter?
Well... the banana leaf or coconut leaf will add a natural delicious smell and it is better than plastic or aluminium foil, right? No.. they add no flavor.
The peanuts sauce
We add some fresh garlic, uhmm.. (I forgot the words for kencur or zingiber root in english), shallot, tamarind and palm sugar to the peanuts paste. Well... nuttela is not a contender for this peanut sauce.
The combination of garlic and peanut does not sound good to me at all. But then I associate peanut with something sweet.
Nutella is great but it is not real peanut butter.
Peanut butter is basically ground peanut with a bit of oil to male it smooth and just a hint of sweetner sometimes added.
I may have to get brave and try using peanut in more savory dishes like you describe.
You still shooting for those engagent league high spots? I am hoping to at least hit top twenty this week.