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I'm usually a bagel with lemon curd/apricot jam and a coffee.

Today though i was up early and lying in bed about 5.30 i thought "i really fancy bacon and egg"

So today it was a bit of bacon (unsmoked for some weird reason as that's what the wife bought) 2 eggs and some sourdough toast... properly done in a frying pan with superbly runny eggs coating everything..

Awesome start to the day

A just add hot water porridge pot.

I tried the ready made ones, but they were too much like rice pudding.

Mug of tea, a muesli type thing + milled flax seed + a sprinkle of 'Good Gut' mix with dried goji berries etc, 3 prunes + blueberries. Tangerine juice.

Porage (jumbo organic oats) on Saturdays...with honey and blueberries.

Treat (if in hotel etc, never do cooked b/fast at home) bacon, egg, sometime mushrooms, toast.

2 cups of tea then on my way. I don't like waking up and eating so more of a brunch kinda person really. Oddly I do when on holiday if breakfast is part of the deal. Like getting yoiur moneys worth...

The last couple of months we (I) have been attempting to reduce the number of jams/preserves/marmalades in the fridge: so it's been coffee and toast (sourdough) each morning: one of Marmite, one of jam. Prior to that it was cornflakes and rice milk*. I currently prefer the toast, but it was getting a bit samey, and I'm very glad that the jams have been whittled down now and I had honey this morning, lush.

Special occasions I like to have a smallish "full english": there's a cafe near here that does a very good fried-slice as standard, (makes up for them not doing black pudding).




* The older I get, the less my digestive system seems to cope with certain foods: dairy especially.

Bran Flakes with milk. Been Apricot wheaties recently as wife likes them. Double Espresso regardless of the cereal.

Love a bacon and fried eggs on sourdough bread as an alternative. Just takes a bit more time to cook, but sets me up for the day.

Usual, nothing.
Once a week, black coffee.
Once in a blue moon, Mc Muffin, 2 hash browns and a black coffee, IIRC I've had 3 this year.
Treat, Full English, can't actually remember having one this year.

Always a pot of fresh-ground coffee. No compromise there.

I like to vary my breakfast intake, but try to keep it protein-biased. Porridge is always a winner. Poached eggs on sourdough a regular too, either that or scrambled eggs with smoked trout/salmon. Mrs. G makes a good granola, so that with yogurt is also a go-to for a speedy breakfast.

Today saw a Continental-style, with a slice of sourdough, small portions of unpronounceable French cheese plus a little portion of Parmigiano Reggiano, two hard-boiled eggs and some tomatoes. I almost feel as if I now need to jump on a Vespa, tear through cobbled streets and shout inappropriate innuendo at random females. Andiamo!

I think I'll have a late brekky in the village this morning. Piccy later.

Spicy Korean Ramen

Normal breakfast is home made wholemeal bread, toasted, with goat butter and home made jam (currently damson) on top (and plenty of it). And two mugs of Assam leaf tea made in a teapot.

Special is when Mrs Mango returns from her occasional visits to the rellies in Philippines and brings back several kilos of Philippine mangoes (like she just has). Then it's mango with cereal medley. We're currently just waiting for the mangoes to ripen fully.

An 'on point' PI mango is the finest fruit in the world, bar none.

Two slices of brown toast with butter and marmite

Big bowl, handful of mini choc chip weetabix, fill the rest of the bowl with crunchy nut. Fill with milk. Maybe have a coffee as well.

Oh, yeah - I'm also partial to Eggs Royal if I'm out and about, but most places go massively overboard with the hollandaise and ruin it.

Rockburner wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2024 12:34 pm Oh, yeah - I'm also partial to Eggs Royal if I'm out and about, but most places go massively overboard with the hollandaise and ruin it.

I find restaurants kill scrambled eggs and end up serving lumps of rubbery egg you could bounce off the walls. I've been told before that the kitchen wouldn't do them loose due to the health risk.

Nothing during the week. I'm not a breakfast person, or at least not an 'eating first thing' person. Unless you count my advent calendar chocolate

Weekends, closer to lunchtime than breakfast time, I like some kind of egg/bread combo - fried/scrambled/poached, on toast or in a sandwich.
Sometimes with bacon, but more usually without.

If we go out, Eggs Benedict is my go-to

I was also gonna mention Eggs Royale, but I'm buggered if I can be arsed to make it. Restaurants only!

If you're even unfortunate enough to find yourself in Portsmouth around breakfast time, you can assuage your discomfort by going to https://thecanteen.co.uk for breakfast and having their waffles with maple bacon and candied pecans.

gremlin wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2024 9:37 am Always a pot of fresh-ground coffee. No compromise there.

I like to vary my breakfast intake, but try to keep it protein-biased. Porridge is always a winner. Poached eggs on sourdough a regular too, either that or scrambled eggs with smoked trout/salmon. Mrs. G makes a good granola, so that with yogurt is also a go-to for a speedy breakfast.

Today saw a Continental-style, with a slice of sourdough, small portions of unpronounceable French cheese plus a little portion of Parmigiano Reggiano, two hard-boiled eggs and some tomatoes. I almost feel as if I now need to jump on a Vespa, tear through cobbled streets and shout inappropriate innuendo at random females. Andiamo!

As for the treat aspect, a bit of slap and tickle with the lovely Mrs. G after any of the above breakfasts.

gremlin wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2024 12:39 pm

Rockburner wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2024 12:34 pm Oh, yeah - I'm also partial to Eggs Royal if I'm out and about, but most places go massively overboard with the hollandaise and ruin it.

I find restaurants kill scrambled eggs and end up serving lumps of rubbery egg you could bounce off the walls. I've been told before that the kitchen wouldn't do them loose due to the health risk.

I once did 'scrambled eggs' in the microwave. You could have used the rubber crumb it produced to surface kid's playgrounds.

Count Steer wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2024 1:26 pm

gremlin wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2024 12:39 pm

Rockburner wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2024 12:34 pm Oh, yeah - I'm also partial to Eggs Royal if I'm out and about, but most places go massively overboard with the hollandaise and ruin it.

I find restaurants kill scrambled eggs and end up serving lumps of rubbery egg you could bounce off the walls. I've been told before that the kitchen wouldn't do them loose due to the health risk.

I once did 'scrambled eggs' in the microwave. You could have used the rubber crumb it produced to surface kid's playgrounds.

I have just made scrambled eggs in the microwave in the work kitchen. Gotta beat the eggs every once in a while and take them out long before they're ready. Keep stirring vigorously until just before how you like them then tip the whole lot into a cold bowl.

Lob on the smoked salmon.

Easy lunch. Done.