Holiday Breakfast ~ Whats yours ?

[Discreet Hooker]

Tis the holiday season so depending where you are and what you're doing what do have for breakfast ?

Do you go for the full English belly buster ? A sensible cereal ? Fruit & nuts ?

I like bacon on a couple of croissants or perhaps a nice fried
duck egg on toast to maintain my athletic body shape .

[Digby]

If on full on holiday then it'd be based around drinks more than food, so a bloody mary or two and some huevos rancheros, or sparkling wine and some smoked salmon and scrambled eggs...

[Curry Puff]

'There's nothing like a wee whiff of quim in the morning'

from Rob Roy ( film)

[cymroo]

i like to start with some fruit, then some cereal usually 2 weetabix in the bottom of the bowl then the rest of the bowl filled with muesli.
maybe a second bowl of the above.
then a full cooked breakfast served on toast with fried eggs, plenty of bacon, sausage and beans. black pudding would go down a treat, and hash browns if available. maybe a second serving depending how i'm feeling.
then strawberry jam on toast (wilkins little scarlet if possible) and a few pastries - i like the cinnamon swirls and the maple pecan delight.
washed down with a nice pot of tea. and juice of course, wouldn't want to be unhealthy.

[Numbers]

i like to start with some fruit, then some cereal usually 2 weetabix in the bottom of the bowl then the rest of the bowl filled with muesli.
maybe a second bowl of the above.
then a full cooked breakfast served on toast with fried eggs, plenty of bacon, sausage and beans. black pudding would go down a treat, and hash browns if available. maybe a second serving depending how i'm feeling.
then strawberry jam on toast (wilkins little scarlet if possible) and a few pastries - i like the cinnamon swirls and the maple pecan delight.
washed down with a nice pot of tea. and juice of course, wouldn't want to be unhealthy.

Jesus, how much do you weigh?

[Digby]

i like to start with some fruit, then some cereal usually 2 weetabix in the bottom of the bowl then the rest of the bowl filled with muesli.
maybe a second bowl of the above.
then a full cooked breakfast served on toast with fried eggs, plenty of bacon, sausage and beans. black pudding would go down a treat, and hash browns if available. maybe a second serving depending how i'm feeling.
then strawberry jam on toast (wilkins little scarlet if possible) and a few pastries - i like the cinnamon swirls and the maple pecan delight.
washed down with a nice pot of tea. and juice of course, wouldn't want to be unhealthy.

Jesus, how much do you weigh?

That and slipping into a diabetic coma would be a concern, so too that a holidat breakfast includes the everyday in weetabix, or sees baked beans over a grilled tomato, and sees hash browns over hot buttered toast.

[UGagain]

You gotta love alcoholics giving dietary advice.

[Numbers]

i like to start with some fruit, then some cereal usually 2 weetabix in the bottom of the bowl then the rest of the bowl filled with muesli.
maybe a second bowl of the above.
then a full cooked breakfast served on toast with fried eggs, plenty of bacon, sausage and beans. black pudding would go down a treat, and hash browns if available. maybe a second serving depending how i'm feeling.
then strawberry jam on toast (wilkins little scarlet if possible) and a few pastries - i like the cinnamon swirls and the maple pecan delight.
washed down with a nice pot of tea. and juice of course, wouldn't want to be unhealthy.

Jesus, how much do you weigh?

That and slipping into a diabetic coma would be a concern, so too that a holidat breakfast includes the everyday in weetabix, or sees baked beans over a grilled tomato, and sees hash browns over hot buttered toast.

I don't think I'd ever be inclined to eat cereal if on holiday (or not on holiday for that matter), I see nothing wrong in both beans and tomato, I don't see the requirement for hash browns they are an american invention, I'd have fried potatoes instead.

I also controversially like to include some branston pickle.

[bruce]

I also controversially like to include some branston pickle.

Kinky!

I struggle to eat if it's hot, therefore will more often than not pickle myself in the liquid refreshment sense.

[Digby]

The beans are too sweet for me to pair with sausage, bacon, black pudding and so on. And whilst I do like both vinegar and branston pickle it'd be mustard or brown sauce with the fry up.

[Numbers]

The beans are too sweet for me to pair with sausage, bacon, black pudding and so on. And whilst I do like both vinegar and branston pickle it'd be mustard or brown sauce with the fry up.

Hold on a minute, please tell me you're using Heinz beans? Or not as the case may be.

[belgarion]

Holiday breakfast same as normal. Couple of rounds of butered toast & cup of coffee weekday & Saturday
full English of 2 x fried eggs, 4 x sausage, 4 x rashers bacon, full large tin of Heinz beans, fried mushrooms
black pudding, hash browns & 2 x round of fried bread on Sunday.

ps when in work actually have 2 full English on a Sunday 1st 1 around 4.30am before work then a 2nd
at work about 9.30am. work breakfast is slightly smaller with no beans, black pudding or fried bread

[Digby]

The beans are too sweet for me to pair with sausage, bacon, black pudding and so on. And whilst I do like both vinegar and branston pickle it'd be mustard or brown sauce with the fry up.

Hold on a minute, please tell me you're using Heinz beans? Or not as the case may be.

We used to get Heinz, then it was Crosse and Blackwell, but I think it's now Branston in the cupboard. Any of them would be too sweet for me to want them with a fry up, but on toast or a jacket potato for an economy lunch is fine, as long as there's Worcestershire sauce available

[morepork]

Fucking savages.

[Digby]

Fucking savages.

Don't you love somewhere that venerates french toast dressed in lots of sugar and syrup with a fanned strawberry on top, and the luxury version is a giant pile of french toast?

[morepork]

Yankee doodles like pancakes. and grits. and sticky pastries.


Breakfast is a sign of weakness.

[Digby]

Yankee doodles like pancakes. and grits. and sticky pastries.


Breakfast is a sign of weakness.

Grits make at least two appearances in the telling/plot of My Cousin Vinny so I was quite looking forward to trying them. Having now experienced them it seems the only way to make them worth eating is to lace them with so much butter and/or cheese that a fryup looks a healthy alternative.

So grits join some of the food mysteries of the US, other notable items being the mass produced bread and cheese, chicken fried steak, and okra. I don't see a saving grace for the mass produced bread and cheese, and sadly we're on the way to achieving some similarly rank products, I suppose it's possible there might be a nice way to serve grits and okra though I'm not keen to search for them, and the chicken fried steak could be greatly improved by just removing the batter, the deep-frying part and the 'gravy'

[morepork]

Yankee doodles like pancakes. and grits. and sticky pastries.


Breakfast is a sign of weakness.

Grits make at least two appearances in the telling/plot of My Cousin Vinny so I was quite looking forward to trying them. Having now experienced them it seems the only way to make them worth eating is to lace them with so much butter and/or cheese that a fryup looks a healthy alternative.

So grits join some of the food mysteries of the US, other notable items being the mass produced bread and cheese, chicken fried steak, and okra. I don't see a saving grace for the mass produced bread and cheese, and sadly we're on the way to achieving some similarly rank products, I suppose it's possible there might be a nice way to serve grits and okra though I'm not keen to search for them, and the chicken fried steak could be greatly improved by just removing the batter, the deep-frying part and the 'gravy'

You want to get you some BBQ US-style, particularly in Texas. Some quality in the Midwest too.

[Digby]

Yankee doodles like pancakes. and grits. and sticky pastries.


Breakfast is a sign of weakness.

Grits make at least two appearances in the telling/plot of My Cousin Vinny so I was quite looking forward to trying them. Having now experienced them it seems the only way to make them worth eating is to lace them with so much butter and/or cheese that a fryup looks a healthy alternative.

So grits join some of the food mysteries of the US, other notable items being the mass produced bread and cheese, chicken fried steak, and okra. I don't see a saving grace for the mass produced bread and cheese, and sadly we're on the way to achieving some similarly rank products, I suppose it's possible there might be a nice way to serve grits and okra though I'm not keen to search for them, and the chicken fried steak could be greatly improved by just removing the batter, the deep-frying part and the 'gravy'

You want to get you some BBQ US-style, particularly in Texas. Some quality in the Midwest too.

I ended up in Dallas a good few years back, which was nice albeit odd, and was in Charleston briefly last year, great bbq both times, and I recall a lobster clambake which was fantastic too, and god knows how may steaks which were all excellent, and many many other good things, but I still feel they're welcome to keep the grits and okara and whatnot

[Coco]

I think grits are meant to be eaten with a pat of butter, salt n pepper... Maybe a little hot sauce.

Breakfast burrito for me.

[Curry Puff]

A little bit that amused me recently about how that exemplar of moderation Oliver Reed spent his days while filming in Iraq.

"Reed, 43, had brought his 17-year-old girlfriend (who later became his wife), Josephine Burge, with him but she spent most of her time in the hotel room revising for her A’ levels and he was left to his own devices.

He liked to kickstart his day with a large bowl of sangria, graduating to daiquiries by mid-morning, switching to champagne at around mid-day and continuing drinking long into the night, sometimes mixing a bottle of Remy Martin cognac and a bottle of champagne in an ice bucket and glugging from that."

And that presumably was on a working day.

[morepork]

A little bit that amused me recently about how that exemplar of moderation Oliver Reed spent his days while filming in Iraq.

"Reed, 43, had brought his 17-year-old girlfriend (who later became his wife), Josephine Burge, with him but she spent most of her time in the hotel room revising for her A’ levels and he was left to his own devices.

He liked to kickstart his day with a large bowl of sangria, graduating to daiquiries by mid-morning, switching to champagne at around mid-day and continuing drinking long into the night, sometimes mixing a bottle of Remy Martin cognac and a bottle of champagne in an ice bucket and glugging from that."

And that presumably was on a working day.

This is pretty much impossible to beat. Don't even try.

[Discreet Hooker]

Rooster Cogburn lived on Grits , that should be good enough for most on here .

[Curry Puff]

You want to get you some BBQ US-style, particularly in Texas. Some quality in the Midwest too.

Used to visit Dallas from the UK years back, worked for Mobil then so frequent trips to the Dark Tower ( so the head office was named after it was used as set for Logans Run- silly sci fi film), BBQ was often served up as a special treat, sorry but I just could not eat it, way too sweet and all that gooey sauce. Too much sugar in most American foods for my taste.

[J Dory]

I have taken to doing pancakes for breakfast at the cottage. Mine are light and fluffy, topped with blueberries, raspberries, whipped cream and real maple syrup. Pretty damn fine if I do say so myself. And before you all go poopooing maple syrup, I was once like you, until I tried the real stuff from the next door neighbors farm. Nothing like what's available in stores. We now have standing orders from pretty much anyone that's tried it.