Didn't see a thread of this nature here - I thought it required one, so here it is. Keeping the Union Jack flying high I'll post my choice as the ENGLISH BREAKFAST, or FRY-UP if one feels like using the colloquial soubriquet. If we find ourselves believing the experts, yes, breakfast should be a healthy option. But healthy isn't always fun as we all know. I don't usually do breakfast as the idea eating anything before 10am turns my stomach - but just sometimes I do, and when that happens, you can be certain it's a hunger that won't be satiated by a banana and a glass of milk. If you're going to cook me a good fry-up you'll need: - 2(+) rashers of BACK bacon, not streaky and not too crispy at all - I don't want carbon in my first meal of the day. Fried. - 2 sausages (not the damn patties), pork and leek are nice. Grilled. - 2 eggs. Only Godless heathens flip their eggs, so it's strictly sunny-side up (not that you'll get it any other way over here). The runny yolk will come in useful as another 'sauce' - you'll thank me for it. Griddled/fried. - Mushrooms (button). As many as you like. I prefer the chunky cut or whole if they are small. Fried in mix of butter and water. - Black Pudding. Not on everyone's fry-up list as it's a combo of pigs blood and fat. 3 or 4 slices depending on size. Grilled. - Baked Beans. A staple food over here so they were always going to be included. Half a can will do. Heat up on the hob but if a cheap brand is bought, may need to be boiled down (reduced) to the sticky, thicker style that I like. - Tomatoes. I can take or leave these from my fry up. Options are: 1 or 2 normal tomatoes halved then grilled to your liking; or another option is just to get some canned plum tomatoes, warm them through them dollop a few on. Like I said, not a great fan, so not a lot to be said. - Toast. Couple of slices, buttered. To generally use through the meal, and to mop up the general juices. - Fried bread. An option I used to have, but toast took over, some have both. Slice of normal white bread, fried to the crunchiness desired in the fat left by the bacon. Bread will soak it up so you'll require more lard, yes lard, to stop it burning in the pan. You'll need sauces. The traditional choices are red (ketchup) and brown (errr..just brown). Personally I go for the brown as there are more than enough tomato based juices on the plate anyway (beans and tomatoes). Talk of any other sauces to be used is heresy - so don't. A better hangover cure hasn't been invented.
great topic....i love breakfast.... weekdays, before going to class, its gotta be cereal (usually some type of Kashi, with Heart to Heart style being my absolute favorite type) with a banana sliced up good in there, topped off with some soy milk (hey, im a vegetarian); finished off with some tea (herbal or black with a spot of soy milk) and usually a piece of toast, whole wheat or raisin bread. Rarely itll be some instant cup of oatmeal instead of cereal, but i hardly get em, a bit small too.. weekends tend to be the same, maybe two pieces of toast instead of one...when home for the weekend and father's cooking however, well then its a bit more special: pancakes with whole wheat flour, meatless sausages, scrambled "egg" and tofu bacon, in addition to cereal or oatmeal and toast, its great... breakfast is king...personally, cant really trust a man who doesnt eat breakfast, and im only half kidding
Bananas and/or yogurt. My neighbor (who I also drive to work with sometimes) alwasy has to do the all-out breakfast thing. If the average mother (or father) put as much work into cooking her (or his) family dinner, our children would be much better fed (and fatter). He eats bacon or sausage (I don't think I've ever caught him eating both, but I wouldn't put it past him), eggs, either toast, pancakes or waffles (from scratch, not frozen, sometimes topped with strawberries), and usually either grits or oatmeal. ANd fruit and/or juice. And lots of coffee of course. It's straight out of the back of the cereal box (at least in the old days), when they'd show you a picture of how Lucky Charms was part of a balanced breakfast (provided you ate about a dozen things with it). I must admit the bacon smells good, and once in a while I give in. But every day? Blah...
I can't wait until summer so that I have more time to eat in the morning. Breakfast loses something when you have to rush through it so you aren't late for school.
My God...talk about stripping every last little bit of fun out of proceedings. Fake bacon, fake eggs and fake sausages - well whatever melts your butter. Doesn't all this nonsense make you vegan and not vegetarian? My vegetarian friend drinks (real)milk like it's going out of fashion.
cinnamon roles...those kind in the fridge section of the grocery story that come in a tube...mmm i bought some today... toast w/ butter and strawberry smuckers any kind of eggs any kind of "nutritional" cereal--total w/ raisons, muselix etcetc and a nice glass of chocolate soy milk
Ermmm...Black Pudding? The rest sounds quite good,mac,but I fear for your cholesterol and triglycerides. English muffin or bagel with some topping or other for me. I used to love steak and eggs back in the day. I like cereal,but I usually eat it at night.Don't know why.
The "Tri-Fun Pack" of Lucky Charms, Trix, and Cocoa Puffs is a classic. I can appreciate some good old Cheerios too.
My everyday fare is whole wheat toast with peanut butter, orange juice or skim milk, and a banana. When I want something more substantial it's biscuits with sausage gravy or scrambled eggs with cheese and a side of bacon or sausage links. When I really want to go all out then it's a big stack of pancakes and sausage. I'm drooling now.
true, vegans avoid dairy, most vegetarians will have milk/egg/cheese - im down with the occassional pizza (although Amy's makes a fabulous no-cheese vegan pizza, its phenomenal), and my pops uses cheese when making quesadillas or puts cheese on some veggie chilis, and pastas; but I generally try to avoid dairy, and soy milk is just so good tasting too.
No they don't. You're not fooling anyone, y'know. There is no such thing as a fabulous no-cheese pizza. There is fabulous pizza. There is no-cheese pizza. There is no fabulous no-cheese pizza. Besides, a fabulous pizza would obviously have pepperoni and sausage on it. - and not that fake shit, either.
I always eat bagels and cream cheese for breakfast. Then I'll have some cookies or a brownie or candy. Gotta have sugar.
As the wise philosopher Johnny Cash once said: "The beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad, so I had one more for dessert". I rarely eat breakfast, but when I do, it's usually a ham and cheese omelet.
Yes, black pudding. Well you should give it a go, just once, like everything. Admittedley I didn't like it myself until relatively recently when I gave it another chance - and bought some half decent stuff, (yes, even with black pudding, there's levels of quality). http://www.buryblackpuddings.co.uk/ And don't worry about my cholesterol, it'll be fine. Probably. Seriously though, the fry-up option is a special occasion. Once a week I'd suggest - more than that and you could be in trouble in the future. There's also a relative of the English Breakfast called the Ulster Fry - originating from N. Ireland. Similar but different in a few ways - good for a change but I prefer the English version. Ulster Fry (half way down page) plus there's a few other Northern Irish specialities on there.
Nice page on the Northern Irish food.We had lamb stew last week and regularly have potato soup. I'll try to find black puddings in Canada.Would they be sold by a butcher or in a supermarket,I wonder?
Over here they're sold in both. Ideally I'd buy them from a butcher (to keep the little shops alive, plus they'd be more likely to stock the good stuff - having said that I don't know the supermarket/butcher situaton in Canada) but the supermarkets usually sell the pre-packaged stuff at the very least. Thing is, don't be surprised if you really detest the stuff after trying - most do. Even me, but it grew on me. Most have a problem getting past the ingredients. Blood and fat don't rate highly on most people's lists. Personally I like it in half-inch slices grilled/fried until crispy but will still have some 'give' in the middle. Yet another variation on the fry-up/Ulster fry is the Scottish breakfast - which is essentially the same as the English version but has haggis in place of/aswell as black pudding. Another tip - if you haven't tried haggis yet - do so. It is by no means as foul as the ingredients would suggest. Haggis ingredients Basically, you get your fill of animal innards wherever you live.