English breakfast

[HappyAgainOneDay]

The bacon sandwich thread started me thinking.

One poster mentioned the full English breakfast. What do you think this comprises? I do not think it includes baked beans or hash browns because they are an American introduction. For me a full English is fried egg, crisp bacon, sausage, tomatoes, mushrooms and possibly some fried slices of leftover boiled potato or what we call scrubble and beak (use your brain for that one).

Of course you can have breakfast for dinner he does not know what he is missing

I also favour the Ulster fry with its mighty array of bread products.

(Vegetable roll is a sort of seasoned meat patty. There are generally green flecks in it, probably of vegetable origin, explaining the 'vegetable' reference).

My perfect cooked breakfast is:

Sausage
Streaky bacon cooked until crisp
Scrambled egg
Loads of mushrooms fried in butter
Hash browns

White toast and milky tea on the side.

I've posted this before but it seems appropriate so I'm posting it again...

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This is my full English breakfast.

Every now & then we had kidneys with our FEB which meant kidney bread. Yum.

I love a good FEB and growing up with an Australian Dad I always had mine cooked on the BBQ. I never tastes quite so good any other way now!

Someone asked about cooking the tomatoes properly , in our house we use cirio tomatoes seasoned with himalayan salt & fresh ground black pepper .
I love tomatoes but not the watery tasteless ones they have to be good quality, that goes for fresh ones also .

I think Irish fry up is best! Can't deal with the idea of tomatoes and mushrooms anymore in a breakfast since I moved to Ireland!

Eggs any style
Back bacon
Sausages
Black pudding
White pudding
Beans (prefer Heinz to Batchelors though)
Mountains of white buttered toast
Irish tea (Barry's or Lyons)
Brown sauce and tomato sauce

SuckingGin has posted my idea of a full English breakfast. Best had in a good greasy spoon cafe, frequented by early morning delivery drivers.

Sadly I don't live in the UK any more so they are a bit of a thing of the past for us. We live in Canada and can get yummy North American breakfasts with pancakes and home fries, french toast and maple syrup but it's not quite the same.

No proper back bacon, only streaky which to me is all fat and no bacon (and often so crispy it's crunchy) no bangers (Italian, Ukrainian, Polish, German but not English), and the baked beans here are so sweet!

SuckingGin Is that toast on the plate or fried bread? If the latter, it's not golden enough.

TipsyKisses Is your name Sandy? You go on about Cirio Tomatoes a bit.

Superglue and UncleT I'm pleased to see someone else using the word 'crisp' instead of 'crispy'.

Poached or scrambled eggs (am don't like fried, too greasy)
Hash browns
Veggie sausages
Mushrooms
Tomatoes
Beans
Fried bread
Tattie scone (when back home in Scotland)
Buttered toast
Coffee
Orange juice

Hate it when hotels don't do a decent veggie version of cooked breakfast. I pay same amount and how hard is it to keep a packet of veggie sausages in the freezer?

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I don't know how you lot got it so wrong... ;-)

No bacon for this vegetarian, thank you! I didn't like it even when I did eat meat.

Veggie sausage - oven cooked
Fried tomato
Fried eggs
Fried mushrooms
Fried potato - preferably left over baked potatoes, in thick slices but any will do.
Wholemeal toast and marmalade or jam afterwards
Black coffee to drink.

We have breakfast for our evening meal sometimes. Then there are baked beans available for those that want them. Not a fan myself.

When my in-laws visit they usually stay in a big hotel down the road and we join them for breakfast.

Then I will have:-

Fresh fruit salad
Porridge with cream and brown sugar
Fried or poached eggs on toast. Or an omelette. Cooked fresh to my specification (hate runny eggs).
Grilled herby tomatoes
Pancakes with maple syrup and chocolate bits (plain, milk and white)
Pain au chocolat
Black coffee
More fruit salad

This meal usually takes over an hour to eat and I need a lie down afterwards

To fry tomatoes the way my mother used to:

Slice tomatoes (4 slices per tomato if a smallish not cherry tomato)
Bit of melted fat in frying pan.

Place tomato slices in frying pan and fry for a few minutes.
Turn over each slice and fry a bit more.
Sprinkle salt and white pepper over them.
Now's the interesting bit.
Pour about half a pint of water or stock or whatever over the tomatoes. Water's the cheapest.
Bring to boil and turn down to simmer.
Press tomato slices into the water with the usual tool.
Push around.
The water will evaporate, leaving the tomatoes in a small amount of liquid so keep looking at it and push the tomatoes around. The higher you have the temperature, the sooner the water will evaporate so keep an eye on it.

I love my fried tomatoes this way and the remaining juice makes the toast soggy moist. Try it. You have to get it right to succeed but it really is gorgeous with the tomato flavour really there.

Don't criticise this receipt if you haven't tried it yet.

On Slimming World at the mo. So a full English is grilled bacon fat trimmed off, poached or scrambled egg, mushrooms done in fry light, half a grilled huge tomato, low fat sausage. Passable. Haven't worked out how many suns in a black pudding. The online search would probably laugh at me.

Sausages x 3
Bacon x 3
Fried eggs x 2
Toast + proper butter x 2
Beans separated from the eggs by the sausage barrier
Mushrooms
Hash browns or potato waffles
Black pudding for the men. Not for sexist reasons, but cos none of the women I ever cook fry ups for like it and all the men do.
With a brew and orange juice

Bacon - fried/grilled
Sausage - fried/grilled
Black pudding - fried
Tomato - fried/grilled/baked
Mushroom - fried
Egg - I like poached but scrambled/fried is fine
Bread - could be toasted (& buttered), fried or just "raw" (& buttered) - has to be put onto the plate to help eat the egg & tomato

2 x crispy bacon, 2 x sausage, bubble and squeak, well grilled (almost burnt) tomatoes, baked beans, buttery scrambled egg, mushrooms and loads of well-grilled and buttered granary toast.

Lots of tea and grapefruit juice.

Mmmmmmmm.

SteveBrucesNose So the women don't like it? Have any of them ever tried it?

A I don't like greens.
B Have you ever had them?
A No.

Craster Kippers, or hot smoked mackerel if none available
eggs of any kind - but must be good free range & local
Taty cakes (is that the same as the Scottish taty scone?)
Grilled tinned plum tomatoes, or grilled tomatoes topped with Parmesan cheese before grilling
Mixed mushrooms grilled in butter
Juice & real fresh coffee

Scrambled eggs with smoked salmon washed down with champaign. I can dream cant i...... Sign.....

happy nope, don't like it . I'm from Bury so all have most definitely tried it! No option around them parts

Fried Bacon
Fried mushroom
Fried tomato
Fried leftover spuds
Baked beans
Eggs however you like them
Fried bread or buttered toast
Perhaps a sausage (though I prefer chipolatas).
Tea

Not black pudding. Never ever ever. Hate the look, smell, taste and texture, as well as the thought of what is in it!