So what do you do when you wake up and the power is still out from when it went out at 9pm? You strategically plan on how both you and your spouse can get items out of the fridge at the exact same time. You talk through where everything is and who gets what and then you open the doors praying to feel coldness.
We did! The milk and the eggs were still cold!!! We grabbed the cheese and bacon too. If it was going bad, we should use it up, right?!
That was us last Saturday morning. After that craziness in the kitchen, Brian went out to the grill …
Boiling eggs in the pot … cooking bacon the cast iron …
Scrambling eggs (using the bacon grease as the fat!) …
And ta-da breakfast was served …
It was so good too! It was great energy to go start working on cutting up THAT tree! As of Thursday night, the tree is all cut up. Some of it went off to age for a family in need for this coming winter. Some it is sitting in the back field waiting to dry out so we can burn it in the fall.
As I said in the post on Wednesday about the derecho storm that came through, we were blessed to only have one grilled breakfast. There are still families in this area that don’t have power (tonight will make a week of no power for them). It is great to hear stories of the community pulling together to help those in need though and a huge thank you to all of the power crews that came to Virginia to help! (I have heard of them coming Texas and even Canada!)
All that being said, what would you whip up for breakfast and you had to use up what was in your fridge fast if the power was out? Leave us a comment and let us know!
I have had some of those powerless breakfasts before too. It feels kinda odd though if you are used to electricity. 🙂
looks like a good breakfast to me!!!
When the tornadoes hit in April 2011, we cooked on the grill for days. We cooked every meal there- breakfast, lunch, & dinner. Canned biscuits, spaghetti, bacon, eggs, steaks- we cooked it all on the grill and it was so tasty.
So glad y’all have power again. My cousin is a lineman & was up there for about a week helping out.
Please tell your cousin thank you! It seems the area has power back in all places now (or I am not hearing about it every morning on my way to work!) I heard one day there were people here in VA from 22 states and Canada. That is A LOT of people coming to little ole Virginia to help us find the power lines in our mountain and back roads and then in the big cities too!
It is so nice to see that you made the best of a bad time. So many people grip about the electric being out, like it’s the electric company’s fault. God put his finger down and said,”What you going to do now?” That looks like a pretty good breakfast top me too.
You just gave me an idea of what to cook for dinner! You’re so creative – I never would have thought to use the grill!
Glad you are inspired for dinner! Hope it is yummy!!!
I never thought about cooking breakfast on a grill even when out power was out. Right now I am without a grill. Long story but it “walked away” in the middle of the night. I will be sure to give it a try when I get a new grill!