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I live abroad and make an English breakfast about twice a year 😂
I have fond memories of being a child and coming downstairs to the smell of bacon and cracking of eggs.
I fancy doing one this Sunday, what are the ideal things to have?
We had the full things as kids (no beans though! 🤮) but we had fried bread etc, I’ll likely just do toast, but it will be white and it will be Warburtons. Love mushrooms too, tomatoes I’m not sure as I’d do normal, proper tomatoes fried, but we had plum tomatoes as a kid? Which is best?

It's not a proper cooked breakfast in my house unless it's an Ulster fry with sodas and potato bread.

English DH insists on me making him baked beans and fried bread instead, the heathen.

When it comes down to it, the things that make a proper cooked breakfast are the things that carry memories or just the things you like. It's a treat and an indulgence so do it your way OP!

Thank you for editing the flag mnhq

Full Scottish

Square sausage
Black pudding
Bacon
Eggs (scrambled or fried)
Potato scone

And for my English vegetarian DH

Veggie link sausage
Vine tomatoes
Mushrooms
Beans

That is an assumption. Most English would use their proper flag too.

Fried potatoes from yesterday.

On visits last year the hot buffet options were

Prague - chopped hot dog sausages, boiled eggs, scrambled eggs with onion and spinach

Paris - boiled eggs

@TotHappy
I make a large batch of bacon and drain all the fat into a low-rimmed baking tray. Then gently dredge slices of white bread through it, (no soaking or it gets gross) do both sides, and then spread the slices out on that same tray. Stuck under a hot grill, flip them over after that side has gone deep gold. I'll keep other things warm under this tray on next rung, eg plates.

My mum made it easier as she used to only cook rashers in a hot oven, and had the big batch of bacon on the wire rack set in the tray so the fat would naturally collect below ready for bread.

I think I'm the only person in the world who's not that keen on a full fry up. Love a morning roll with egg and tattie scone though!

Egg
bacon
bubble (and squeak: potato mixed with cabbage and onion, fried)
sausage
mushrooms
grilled fresh tomatoes

Toast and Golden Shred

Lol I wondered how long it would take for the flag to come up.

My fry up would include scrambled eggs, bacon, sausages, hash browns (sorry), mushrooms, buttered white toast with a latte and an orange juice. If I was going purely on what I wanted to eat when likely hungover, not considering heart attacks etc. if being healthy I might have brown toast.

Baked beans and tomatoes I can take or leave

i might have brown sauce and ketchup somewhere though

Absolutely no black pudding

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Nothing to add but just felt that I should comment given my username!

Belgium does a fantastic cooked breakfast. Exquisite sausages.

Egg, probably fried
Bacon
Sausage
Mushrooms
Baked beans or tinned plum tomatoes
Toast, with lots of butter.

I'm more likely to have a smaller one but if yours is twice a year I'd go all in.

God, I really want an Ulster Fry now! I am in Australia so I need some to make some Soda Farls and Potato Bread, if anyone has any recipes that would be appreciated, haven't made them in years! A relative of my husband used to work in the Clonakilty sausage factory, we had black/white pudding coming out of our ears while we lived nearby, I'm not a fan but the sausages are great!

My ideal full Welsh would be

Bacon (not thickly sliced and really well cooked)
Glamorgan sausage (veggie sausage made with cheese, herbs and breadcrumbs)
Fried Egg
Beans
Grilled tomato
Mushroom
Laver bread.

I'm near the border we definitely have tattie scones in England on a full English.

Yes probably, but no one who wasn't English would use the union jack thinking it was just the flag for their country.

It may blow your mind to hear we have fried bread and tattie scones on a full English here in England.

We have no shame lol.

HP sauce

You can baked beans if you like - as long as they don't touch the egg!

Welsh breakfast as cooked by my mother every Saturday morning
Sausage
Bacon
cockles (fried in the bacon fat)
Laverbread (fried in the residual bacon and cockle fat.)
Fried eggs
Tomatoes
Fried bread
Mushrooms/beans/blackpudding optional.

You do need beans, but the quality of them has declined so much in recent years that they need tweaking with the addition of a dash of vinegar, soy sauce and a blob of tomato puree. If you like you can also add a dash of olive oil

Laverbread is delicious. Kind of like ozony spinach. I'd happily eat wilted spinach with a cooked breakfast.

Fried bread and tattie scones 😲 Next you'll be wanting fruit AND black pudding.

Gannets 😁

DH is a traditionalist and hates my preferences: runny poached eggs, buttered English muffins, rindless bacon, sausages, hash browns and beans.

Not a traditionalist, just a stand-up member of society who sees your effete nonsense of a “full English breakfast” as the travesty it is.