The Breakfast Table

It's called the breakfast room

The small room we added on to the back of the house

The room that looks as if it was a porch

That we enclosed with sliding doors.

And it is where we have breakfast

when we're home

It's always the blue and white Spode Blue Italian dishes

(because they're handiest)

Always a French press of coffee for Husband Jim

And a teapot of P G Tips for me

A mug for Jim's coffee

A cup and saucer for my tea

A blue and white "orphan" creamer that we usually use for everyday milk

And a white linen napkin in a silver ring

(although they did not come from Italy -- the white linen reminds me of Italy

and our time in Positano)

Breakfast this particular morning

A baked apple pancake

Served family style

If it's eggs or pancakes, I'll plate in the kitchen

If it's a frittata, a baked pancake or Featherbed eggs, I serve at the table

A slice of pancake

A cup of tea

My beloved blue and white

But . . . 

if I find myself alone . . . 

I'll often use the set of

Mason's Manchu blue and white

A breakfast set

for one

coffee pot, sugar, creamer, bowl and plate, 

cup and saucer, toast rack (or cooler as Jim calls it)

and a muffin dish

Used not to have a solitary breakfast at a table

but rather to be put on a tray

And a loyal servant would deliver it to the

mistress of the house

So that she could have breakfast in bed

Alas, I'm the cook as well as the mistress

And so when I use the Manchu,

it's not in bed but in the breakfast room

But it is just me --

I like setting a pretty table

For just me

For us

For a crowd

Not just for dinner

But for breakfast as well

And lunch, too, for that matter.

It's just being nice to yourself.

And making yourself (and your husband)

feel important.

Oh, and there's always flowers

or a blooming plant on the table as well

(or perhaps in midwinter, a bowl of fruit)

Flowers are a luxury I can't pass up

And a meal without flowers

Would be like a day without sunshine!

It's Thursday and my breakfast table will be joining Susan at Between Naps On the Porch for Tablescape Thursday.