Breakfast at Tiffany's (Breakfasts)

Member Name: raehippychick

Product:	Breakfasts
Date:	13/08/07 (167 review reads)
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Advantages: People who eat breakfast are generally slimmer and more healthy than those that don't

Disadvantages: Making time to prepare and eat breakfast i a busy lifestyle is not always easy

Breakfast at Tiffany’s? More like breakfast at the hippy’s! Come and stay with me and my lovely fella and we will cook up a storm for you… well, truthfully, he will cook it and I’ll serve it!

Generally on a weekday I’ll be having a bowl of comfort food to start my day off: Ready Brek has got to be the loveliest daily breakfast for me. A warm dish of childhood sprinkled with Demerara sugar and if I am feeling particularly indulgent, a swirl of double cream. I am very particular about my Ready Brek… it has to be made with plenty of milk, but not too much. There is nothing worse than a stiff pasty mess that is so solid the spoon stands up! If we have a little more time I will have porridge instead of Ready Brek. Quaker Porridge Oats being my horse food of choice, they are a lot quicker to cook than you might think. Take one cup of oats to one and half cups of milk and/or water and gently simmer for around ten minutes until thoroughly cooked. It really can work with just water; when I was younger I suffered with a milk allergy and really missed all things creamy and naughty, so my mum cooked me up some porridge just using water. Surprisingly it was excellent, although nowadays I do tend to use milk. For an extra healthy touch, I top it with fresh fruit, strawberries being my favourite

My lovely fella often has poached smoked haddock for his weekday breakfast. Take a chunk of fresh haddock and lightly simmer for a little under ten minutes and serve with a knob of butter and a slice or two of lightly toasted wholemeal bread and you get a healthy breakfast that sets you up for the day. For that extra touch top it off with a lightly poached egg and a sprig of parsley

It is weekends where we come into our own though. You have a choice of scrambled eggs with smoked salmon lightly drizzled with cream served on granary toast, or the traditionally large breakfast feast

The trick to a full cooked breakfast is in the order the food is cooked…

Sausages should be cooked first (either grilled or fried) as they keep their heat well, then sling in the bacon – if you are frying bacon the fat from it makes the eggs taste lovely. If there is room in the pan liver can bee cooked with the bacon and then eggs as these tend to go hard if left too long. Last but not least use up all that lovely greasy fat by lightly frying a slice of crusty white bread. I adore fried bread that has been lightly spread with marmite! Serve with a big pot of fresh tea and racks of fresh white toast slavered in butter. Not the healthiest meal we eat, but for an occasional weekend treat it can’t be beaten… we rarely need to eat again until the evening after one these specials!

When I am in hotels abroad I thoroughly enjoy taking advantage of the fantastic buffet style continental breakfasts so many places off nowadays. Recently in a Swedish hotel I was impressed by selection on offer – everything you could wish for from a wide range of fresh fruits and juices, breads, cold meats, cheeses and the traditional hot breakfast items including pancakes. I pigged out each morning on simply the best seeded bread rolls I have had I a long time stuffed with sliced cheese and ham, smeared with blackberry jam. An odd combination you might think? Well, I liked it!

In the Jura in France we treat ourselves to a long, lazy start to our days. I amble to the nearest boulangerie for a fresh, warm French stick and croissants. After nibbling the nose off the my stick on the way home (and blaming the ice) we wash the delicious pastries down with copious amounts of strong aromatic coffee, sometimes complemented with a pot of steaming creamy milk from the beautiful cows that stroll around the stunning mountains of the Jura. After an extensive breakfast of bread smothered in apricot or mirabelle jam and perhaps some brioche we usually need to recover with a short nap before the day can really begin

For a special treat this last weekend we indulged in a Canadian breakfast of pancakes and bacon liberally drenched in Tesco Finest maple syrup. I saw this once in a teashop years ago and thought it was such an odd combination of flavours that I just had to try it. It has been a firm favourite for a treat ever since. Not something we have often though as it is a bit rich for everyday eating for us

If it is fine at home we’ll eat on the patio in the early morning sun or if the weather is inclement breakfasts are served in bed on a large tray with all the trimmings. We always eat in style!

PS – Cadbury Crème Eggs are perfectly acceptable for breakfast too – eggs are breakfast food aren’t they?!?

Summary: A good way to start the day