Full English Breakfast
Bacon, Sausage, Eggs-over-easy, Fried Potatoes and Mushrooms,
Roasted Tomato, Toast with Orange Marmalade, English-style Baked
Beans
and a Cuppa Tea.
This is the Bonehand take on the
classic Full English Breakfast, a delicious heart-stopper of a
day-starter if ever there was one. A couple of notes to make this
glorious repast complete, in clockwise
order:
1) That which you see on my toast is
Duerr's English Traditional Thick-Cut
Orange Marmalade,
sweet with plenty of peel.
2) The Potatoes were cubed
small to maximize the crispy, tasty surface area, and fried in just a
little olive
oil and butter.
3) The Mushrooms were sauteed
in a little butter with chopped Italian flat leaf parsley and a pinch
of
red pepper flakes. Not at all authentic, but delicious.
4) The simple roasted Tomato may seem like an odd item to
the american palette, but believe me when
I say that it is essential to the F.E.B experience. Cut up and mixed
with the Eggs, it is a marvel.
5) To me, the weak link, as it were, in the classic version of the meal
are the British-style sausages and flaccid
bacon. I prefer to stick with the American-style "crispy" Bacon, and Sausage that isn't half made out of
bread.
6) The beans aren't just any beans, but Heinz Beans with Tomato Sauce in the
blue can. These are
the real deal, made in England, and searching them out is a must,
because regular US baked beans,
while tasty in their own right, simply aren't the same thing.
7) I'm well aware that a self respecting Englishman wouldn't be
caught dead drinking Earl Grey
for breakfast.
But hey, it's what I like, and I'm drinking it out of a freakin' Motorhead Mug, so frankly I don't
think the
aforementioned Englishman is man enough to stop me. How can you
possibly argue with that?
Photo and Fryin' by Bonehand
