Breakfast! 2014

[Kim Shook]

rotuts – a roast beef sandwich on an onion roll sounds like the perfect breakfast!

 

jvalentino – that frittata is gorgeous!  I’ve never made one, but just saw it in a new magazine and wanted to try it.  I’ll definitely do it now, having seen yours!

 

Ann – how long were the eggs in your next to last post cooked?  They look perfect to me.

 

Father’s Day b’fast:

Eggs, sausage and some good nectarines!

[Ann_T]

Kim, I steamed them.  I think it was seven minutes.  I do soft boiled for 4 to 5 depending on size and hard boiled for 10 to 12.

 

~Ann

[CatPoet]

It is midsummer eve in Sweden, the big festival is in full swing  so this is what we had in the morning.  Even I went of my rutine of 2 sandwiches, tea, yogurt and meds.  Well I kept the meds, tea and yogurt  but still it wont be happy days tomorrow, but I dont care. I have 2 days where I can lay down and moan.

 

Daughter's breakfast,  fresh strawberries, Greek yogurt and Scottish pancakes  shaped as a flower.  She happily screamed CAKE and ate it all and then two more.

 

 

My husbands stack of Scottish pancakes, Greek yogurt and  strawberries.

 

You wont get to see mine, it was small portion.

[Anna N]

Well the cupboards are beginning to bare their bones! A couple of just-sprouting Yukons, a couple of stalks of limp broccoli and leftover black garlic butter were mashed together, seasoned well and formed into small cakes and fried in duck fat. Topped with an egg also fried in duck fat and I had little to whine about. The potato and broccoli made more than enough "cakes" for breakfast so they made a reapperance at lunch.

[Ann_T]

Anna, I love the idea of potato broccoli cakes.  Might have to steal your idea.

 

 

Red Currant Scones for breakfast today.

[SobaAddict70]

Saturday vegan/vegetarian brunch:

Cauliflower with tahini, pomegranate molasses and mint

Scrambled eggs, Castelvetrano olive tapenade

[liuzhou]

You can't beat the classics. Bacon Butty and a mug of (not Starbucks) coffee.

 

 

Edited June 22, 2014 by liuzhou (log)

[Kim Shook]

Ann – thanks for the advice re: boiled/steamed eggs.  Seems to me that I recently saw the steaming method in a Cook’s Illustrated magazine.  Now that I’ve seen yours, I will definitely try it (I trust you more than CI  ).  And your scones are absolutely lovely.  I don’t know if I’ve ever seen currants in the stores here.

 

CatPoet – your Scottish pancakes look great – any chance you’d share the recipe.  I’m always on the lookout for the perfect pancake!

 

liuzhou – you got that right.  Bacon butties are the best  !

 

Breakfast this morning:

ET bagel with olive cream cheese and Benton’s bacon.  Also some of the lovely peaches that we are getting right now.  I am eating 1-2 stone fruit a day right now.

[SobaAddict70]

Tawny port French toast, plum confiture

[Anna N]

Soba

You must tell us more about your French toast. It looks scrumptious.

[SobaAddict70]

Soba

You must tell us more about your French toast. It looks scrumptious.

thanks.

thick-sliced sourdough whole wheat bread soaked in a mixture of 4 beaten eggs, I don't know how much heavy cream, a dash of cinnamon and tablespoon of tawny port. I am a lightweight when it comes to alcohol, otherwise I'd use more of it and anyway, I'm only interested in the flavor.

fry in melted unsalted butter on one side for 2-3 minutes, then flip. toasts are done when they're browned.

I had two slices with plum confiture and two slices with spicy tomato chutney.

[Anna N]

Thank you. Not a fan of French toast but you could surely convince me otherwise especially with the spicy tomato chutney!

[Kim Shook]

Soba – I think my jaw hit my keyboard when I saw and then read the description of your French toast.  It is one of my weaknesses and I’m always searching for the best and yours looks incredible!

 

Influenced by Liuzhou, it was a bacon butty for breakfast this morning:

[Ann_T]

Moe's breakfast

 

Simple poached eggs.

 

Local farm fresh eggs.

[Kim Shook]

Ann – I would honestly eat Moe’s breakfast for up to 2 meals a day very, very often.  Egg soaked crusty bread is my idea of heaven.

 

Today’s breakfast was Benton bacon, some fabulous nectarines and some eggs given to us by a co-worker of Mr. Kim’s as a thank you for all the treats I send to the office:

The eggs are cooked “Ashen-style”.  

[Kim Shook]

Breakfast this morning:

Benton’s bacon, nectarines and French toast made with Superfruit bread from the Fresh Market.  The bread has dried cranberries, cherries and blueberries and made fantastic French toast.

[merstar]

Chocolate Croissant.

[liuzhou]

Seabream (Porgy) with fresh rice noodles in a spicy, pseudo-Thai flavoured soup (chilli pepper, fish sauce, lime juice).

 

[rarerollingobject]

I don't always drink on Sunday mornings, but when I do, it's a Bloody Mary heavy on the Tabasco and celery salt. With maple syrup and black pepper bacon on avocado mashed with chilli and lemon, piled on sourdough toast, aka a Coronary on a Plate. But delicious!

 

 

 

[Blether]

Beautiful setting, too, RRO.

 

Yesterday I made up some pork sausages.  40% belly / 60% shoulder (total 3.5kg), each meat ground half through a standard plate once, the other half through a semi-coarse plate, once.  10% crumbed homemade white bread by weight, and lots of pepper.

 

 

Twisted into links:

 

 

Can anyone guess what I had for breakfast this morning ?  Yes, that's right, I had sausages for breakfast:

 

Edited July 12, 2014 by Blether (log)

[Smithy]

Blether, I'd invite you to breakfast - or the other way around - if the trip were shorter.

Around here, pork belly is rare enough to be an expensive luxury - too expensive to grind into even the loveliest sausage. Is it less so on your side of the pond, or were these very special luxury sausages that you made?

[Blether]

Hey, Smithy, drop by any time 

 

These are very much economical everyday eating.  Especially considering the markup on commercial sausages, oy vey!

 

I get the belly for about USD9-10/kilo.  The shoulder has normally been USD12-13.  This was a big piece and came priced at about USD10/kilo.  USD10/kilo is what, $4.50/lb?

 

You should see the price of fruit & veg round here, though.  Frightening.  For example: *a peach*, three dollars; *an apple*, a buck fifty.  *A stick of celery*, three dollars.

 

Tell you what, you bring the salad & I'll meet you in Honolulu.

[Anna N]

Blether,

Those sausages look very good and sound relatively simple to make. What equipment are you using? Are those collagen casings! Thanks.

[Blether]

Anna,

 

I have a hand-cranked grinder from Porkert of Prague (I have one of their hand-crank meat slicers too, for my bacon).  It's their #5 model, and I have several different plates for it and the simple sausage stuffing attachment.  I think the casings *are* collagen - the butcher was kind enough to give me a a pile of them when I was last in Scotland, and I was too grateful to remember to ask.  They look like these (thanks, Google search), so I guess so.

 

Grinding stuff's easy enough, but be aware that stuffing single-handedly with a hand-crank machine is slow work:  one hand to wind the crank, one to push mixture into the hopper, and one to guide the casings as they stuff.  Of course you don't *have* to put it in casings.  For reference, my notes:

 

1453g pork belly

2139g pork shoulder

=3592g meat

 

Minced the meat, each piece half standard die, half one size coarser

 

12tsp black pepper

6tsp salt

325g crumbed home-made white bread

[Blether]

And Smithy - the pork is from Canada.  So, thanks.