More about breakfasts.

[RED-DOG]

Scrambled eggs actually

I hope we can still be friends

I don't know yet. I mean, is there any toast, butter, juice, tea etc, or is it just the eggs like a wierdo?

Just eggs, rocket and this plummy balsamic vinegar that is much nicer than it sounds. If I am feeling a bit fruity, I'll chuck a bit of cheese in there.

Huge coffee as well

I love balsamic vinegar but we've just discovered balsamic glaze. We have it on loads of stuff, it's delish.

Cheese and egg. Fabulous. (speshly a bit of extra mature cheddar).

[booder]

Up until a year ago i never had breakfast**,just a coffee and a cigarette.  Now i partake of a biscuit as i need to consume something prior to taking tablets,and a glass of water.


**Apart from a fry up if staying in an hotel

[RED-DOG]

Up until a year ago i never had breakfast**,just a coffee and a cigarette.  Now i partake of a biscuit as i need to consume something prior to taking tablets,and a glass of water.


**Apart from a fry up if staying in an hotel

If it's not too forward of me Boo, can I ask if you're still smoking?

[arbboy]

Standard breakfast at home daily is a bowl of Raisin Splits and a smoked salmon and cucumber farmhouse bap with an orange juice.

Treat breakfast (once or twice a month maybe) would be a full on large english breakfast at Wetherspoons with a pint (usually around 1130am when i am in town early in the morning so i have been up a while before i have a pint!)

Wow! That sounds great, but what are the logistics? How often do you buy your salmon and how do you store it?

Personally i think the unbolded breakfast sounds greater and would be my preferred choice daily!  

Salmon is bought weekly and stored in fridge.  What are the other options regarding storing it?

Well what I meant was we buy some really nice frozen salmon fillets from Lidl, and I wondered if you bought frozen or fresh.

I didn't know fresh would keep for a week.

I also purchase smoked salmon from Lidl (big Lidl fan generally over Aldi as they have fresh bread/rolls etc baked on site). Salmon fillets won't be smoked and sliced i wouldn't imagine. Cracking value.  200g for £2.65 i think.  I usually buy 3 packs a week which lasts me the week and they have a sell by date of a week roughly so never had a problem. Never looked for frozen smoked salmon tbh as i have never seen the need.  The stuff in the fridge in Lidl has probably been frozen prior arrival at the shop anyway.  I don't know tbh.  The farm house baps at Lidl (29p) are the best you can buy taste wise in any supermarket imo.

Another breakfast option i like if the Salmon is running low is mushrooms and spinach on toast.

[Simon Galloway]

Toast and orange juice the vast majority of the time.  Fruit, if my food intake was particularly poor the day before.

When in hotels, fruit plate first, then optional cooked breakfast with any leftover space.

I can't eat the fruit first, I'm too impatient to get at the bacon.

Yeah but that way round, the fruit never happens.

[AndrewT]

During the week, sausage sandwich. At weekends I'll make myself scrambled eggs with smoked salmon on toast.

[booder]

Up until a year ago i never had breakfast**,just a coffee and a cigarette.  Now i partake of a biscuit as i need to consume something prior to taking tablets,and a glass of water.


**Apart from a fry up if staying in an hotel

If it's not too forward of me Boo, can I ask if you're still smoking?

Had four rollups since last October over the course of a particularly stressful week about two months ago.

[The_nun]

Weetabix sprinkled with oatbran. At least twice a week fresh duck egg on toast. Treat BLT.

[Marky147]

If I'm being sensible I'll have a protein shake with oats, and if not, I'll have toast & peanut butter.

No kitchen in our house at the moment, so no Sunday fry-ups here

[DaveShoelace]

I could easily only have breakfast food for every meal, I love toast, fry ups, cereal, porridge, all that shit

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[Graham C]

Don't usually bother but if I do it's usually toast.

Why do you have fake bacon?

[tikay]

Never have breakfast, with just 2 exceptions;

1) When Gill is with me.

2) When I stay in an hotel.

That apart, never partaken of breakfast since I was a boy.

Do you have croissants when Gill is there?

When you were young did you shovel all that sand and gravel on an empty stomach?

No, I'm not a croissant type. Gill loves them, even stores them in the freezer if she does not eat them all. They never escape the freezer, of course, ever. There's frozen home made Turkey Soup in there, all sorts of dreadful stuff which will never escape.

She generally rustles up scrambled eggs on toast or similar. Our "treat" is an American-style brekkie, pancakes, maple syrup, bacon, that sort of stuff. We are into USA style food. I took her to Walmart in Las Vegas & she purchased a trolley full of nonsense - 5 tins of Baked Beans for example (5 different styles) just because they were American. Then we had to get them home.  

When I was first in the building game, still no brekkie as such, but I frequented a café in Blackhorse Lane Walthamstow that did the best egg, sausage or bacon sarnies on hand cut doorstep bread ever.

It was an Italian place, "Rodi's", run by the Mum & Dad, (Cyril & Louisa) & children, 2 girls & a boy. It became quite famous, might even still be there as the kids were the same age as me.

Strange how we remember these things - it would have been nearly 50 years ago.

oioi, wp google, here it is.....

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[tikay]

Even better, I found a history of of Rodi's Cafe, which is wonderful, as I spent so much time in their, dated one of the daughters for a while too.

So I read this little tale & it filled me with joy. Until I got to the bit that said.......



http://thegrandremonstrance.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/last-days-of-rodis.html?zx=1ed270d256aac4c8

 

[booder]

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[tikay]

Having trouble seeing that picture Tony , any chance you can make it a bit bigger please ?

Behave Fen Boy, I've already replaced it with one a tad smaller. It was for Tom, he has bad eyesight.