English breakfast - the protein bomb

[airiefairie]

Politics is extremely exhausting. It is an ugly thing that brings out people's darkest side. So here is something uncontroversial.

 Full English Breakfast

    * 2 cumberland sausages
    * 2 rashers of smoked bacon
    * 2 eggs
    * mushrooms
    * 1 tomatoe
    * tin of baked beans
    * 2 rounds of bread
    * black pudding
    * 2 hash browns
    * cooking oil
    * salt - to taste
    * brown sauce (look for HP brown sauce) - to taste

Slice the mushrooms thinly. Then slice the black pudding into rounds of about 1.5cm. Cut the tomatoes into half. Empty the tin of beans into a saucepan. Don't use a microwave as this takes a lot of the liquid and taste away.

Grill the sausages, bacon and halved tomato to suit your taste. In England, there are many schools of thought on what is the best way for bacon to be cooked, but I prefer it to be lightly grilled.

Add a little oil into a frying pan and fry off the black pudding and mushrooms together. They are ready when the mushrooms turn a golden brown. Move these into a heat proof dish and place in the bottom of your oven to keep warm.

Start to gently simmer the pan of baked beans - Don't over cook them as they will go hard.

Add more oil into the pan (around 2 table spoons) and place a round of bread in and fry until golden brown - repeat for the second slice and then keep warm.

Next, fry 2 eggs to suit your taste. In England, we only fry one side and love them to be runny.

Finally, serve everything on the plate together, make a nice cup of English Breakfast Tea (yes, its a tea bag, and yes we add milk), shake a dash of salt over your place, and a squirt of brown sauce.

Enjoy. =)

Comments

[luvdovz.livejournal.com]

I'm sure we could find something controversial in the English breakfast. If we try real hard.

[il-mio-gufo.livejournal.com]

Looks yummy ~ but girrrrrl, i'd be FULL all day long if i had a huge breakfast like that lol. that's not to say that the mexican style breakfast is any less heavy, it's just the salsa that probably aids the digestion ;) haha

[airiefairie.livejournal.com]

If you have such a breakfast in the morning then you would not need to eat the whole day!

[il-mio-gufo.livejournal.com]

lmfao....which is precisely why i avoid such meals to begin with :D

the only time i make a BIG BREAKFAST is when family/guests are over, u know ;) makes them feel special.

[majortom-thecat.livejournal.com]

Oh - we could always talk about vegetarianism! j/k. I don't really want to. XD

[abomvubuso.livejournal.com]

It is an ugly thing that brings out people's darkest side.

And it doesnt have to be this way. Actually its possible to not be.

[sealwhiskers.livejournal.com]

I'm firmly against black pudding, how dare you post about it!

(actually, that looks pretty good, and I'm going off politics for a while now, I think. It's not good for me)

[airiefairie.livejournal.com]

I know how you feel...I am partially vegetarian... =)

[majortom-thecat.livejournal.com]

Me too. I never was completely vegetarian, but my doctor told me I had to eat meat twice a week because my iron level was so low. It was 4 and it was supposed to be 80.

[geezer-also.livejournal.com]

You can get iron shots if eating meat bothers you.
My son had to have his stomach removed a number of years ago and doesn't get the proper digestion needed to produce iron.

[majortom-thecat.livejournal.com]

Hi Geezer! Congrats on your recent promotion =) I'm sure you will do a great job. I think the problem was in my small intestine because of gluten intolerance. It's been quite a while, though. I should get it checked again.

[geezer-also.livejournal.com]

Thank you.
Good idea, low iron levels are nothing to ignore.

[airiefairie.livejournal.com]

Dried beans and dark green leafy vegetables are especially good sources of iron, even better on a per calorie basis than meat. Iron absorption is increased a lot by eating foods containing vitamin C along with foods containing iron. Vegetarians do not have a higher incidence of iron deficiency than do meat eaters.

Besides I eat fish, eggs and occasionally chicken (the white meat).

[brockulfsen.livejournal.com]

I like vegetarians but I couldn't eat a whole one.

Black pudding is addictive.


BUT, you've missed out the White Pudding...

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

/controversy

Who eats beans at breakfast?!

/controversy

You're welcome.

[airiefairie.livejournal.com]

Oh you! =)