Breakfast

[ik9000]

You can't just drop 'eggs like some bomb from above. That's an ingredient, not a breakfast. We need details man, details!

my wife regularly tells me off for dropping egg-like "bombs" randomly around the house.

[ik9000]

This might be an unpopular opinion but it needs to be said.

Porridge might just be the best breakfast there is.

I like mine made quite thick with half milk, half water and a dash of salt.
Throw in some raisins while cooking, maybe some seeds, and then afterwards add some honey and cinnamon, maybe even nutmeg. Mix it all in. And if feeling extravagant some double cream on top.

Gorgeous!

And it's healthy too.

I don't think I'll ever get tired of it.

Porridge, you're the best!

It's also one of the most logical breakfasts to have in a lockdown- you can make it with water,as you don't need to use milk,and it has a long shelf-life. You don't need to refrigerate it either.

If Hansel and Grettel visited a life-sized gingerbread house then I'm willing to be its foundations were made from porridge. That stuff sets like glue/concrete when it goes hard - have you tried cleaning a porridge pan you left out for a few days without soaking it?

[ik9000]

@spud1 - waitrose Haggis isn't too bad.

[Spud1]

@spud1 - waitrose Haggis isn't too bad.

Thanks, worth a look when I get chance to visit one again

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

If Hansel and Grettel visited a life-sized gingerbread house then I'm willing to be its foundations were made from porridge. That stuff sets like glue/concrete when it goes hard - have you tried cleaning a porridge pan you left out for a few days without soaking it?

Why you need to soak it in soapy water immediately!

Rolled oats can also be used in baking,so even better as a lockdown food.

[Ttaskmaster]

Granola and live yoghurt beats both.

Looks like vomit, tastes like sour vomit, and seems only useful for pregnant women struggling to cope with normal food... oh, and the occasional hipster, when there's no more toasted avocado sandwiches available in their local bijou boutique delicatessen.

That stuff sets like glue/concrete when it goes hard - have you tried cleaning a porridge pan you left out for a few days without soaking it?

Not if you make it properly, it don't...
Firstly, it should not set like that. If it does, you didn't use enough water and didn't cook it long enough... and probably didn't use groat or properly rolled oats. Many people these days seem to use milled or even finely ground oats, probably for the same unfathomable reasons they eat the filth served at fast food franchises.
Secondly, you shouldn't have anything left in the pan but a few streaks from the scrapings of the wooden spoon. Leave this until the evening and it should be a dried film that just flakes off at the gentlest brush of a dry dishcloth.

Porridge is the absolute best according to all the kids for whom I make it, all but one of whom are on very 'natural' diets (ie no added salts, sugars, additives, etc).
I personally would disagree and insist on a Full Scottish being the best, but since that includes a bowl of porridge the point is debatable.

[steve threlfall]

I'm a big porridge fan myself. I normally make overnight oats with whole milk and a bit of cocoa powder, as apparently that makes the oats fluff up a bit. Lately though, I have been having a couple of rounds of toast with a an egg or two. Scrambled or poached, mostly.

[Phage]

Poached eggs on a muffin...

[sammyc]

Looks like vomit, tastes like sour vomit, and seems only useful for pregnant women struggling to cope with normal food... oh, and the occasional hipster, when there's no more toasted avocado sandwiches available in their local bijou boutique delicatessen.


Not if you make it properly, it don't...
Firstly, it should not set like that. If it does, you didn't use enough water and didn't cook it long enough... and probably didn't use groat or properly rolled oats. Many people these days seem to use milled or even finely ground oats, probably for the same unfathomable reasons they eat the filth served at fast food franchises.
Secondly, you shouldn't have anything left in the pan but a few streaks from the scrapings of the wooden spoon. Leave this until the evening and it should be a dried film that just flakes off at the gentlest brush of a dry dishcloth.

Porridge is the absolute best according to all the kids for whom I make it, all but one of whom are on very 'natural' diets (ie no added salts, sugars, additives, etc).
I personally would disagree and insist on a Full Scottish being the best, but since that includes a bowl of porridge the point is debatable.

Oh, is it actually the 'criticize others' breakfasts and be generally scathing about asstd chunks of the population' thread? Lovely (rubs hands together), brb with a few carefully chosen remarks.

[DDY]

I've not had one for over a month, so I'm nearly dead from starvation;

Double Sausage and Egg McMuffin

[DanceswithUnix]

If you had to eat just one breakfast every day for an entire year, which would you choose?

Pancakes.

And I would be round like a space-hopper, which is why I never have them for breakfast unless on holiday.

If Hansel and Grettel visited a life-sized gingerbread house then I'm willing to be its foundations were made from porridge. That stuff sets like glue/concrete when it goes hard - have you tried cleaning a porridge pan you left out for a few days without soaking it?

Not worse than Weetabix? Had to train the family not to just put bowls that have been tainted with the stuff into the dishwasher, they don't get cleaned they just get fired like a kiln.

[stevie lee]

i'll just list what i've been eating for last couple of months because i don't wake up early enough for a breakfast, first meal is Lunchtime for me, then pick my favourite.


Lidl pasties with grated Cathedral City - extra mature. microwave cooked for 3 minutes, then add half a tin of baked beans, microwave another 2 minutes.


4 potato waffles cooked on a panini sandwich press until you can see the steam/smoke from the cheese that didn't clean off after sisters toasty bacon cheese butties.
2 slices of warburtons (or whatever you managed to get from lidl/aldi) buttered/spreaded up a treat. then slice in half, so you have 4 bread bits, each one the exact size of a waffle. prepare butty like so:
bread + waffle + half a cheese slice (the ones that come individually wrapped) + waffle, add vinegar, random sauce (ive got tomatoe, mustard, branston pickle, peri peri, hot n spicy , rotate round them each meal) + bread. repeat for other butty.
then heres the important bit.. squash em down a bit till the waffles squidge out the side, make the cheese get in and round the waffle holes.
bonus if the half tin of beans still there from pastie day. use beans as a dip. optional if you want to heat them up, entirely depends on if sister/dad using microwave at that point.


pudding-flakes. rice pudding warmed up then add cornflakes. you use the rice pudding instead of the milk. especially useful if your dads been glugging all the milk in milky coffees and theres no milk left.


microwaved pizza. those little one that come with the cardboard microwave base, or the ones your supposed to do in the oven, but 6 mins in microwave is quicker. if it's a plain cheese pizza, add random stuff out the fridge, bacon, more cheese, ham slices, leftover chicken from dads rotisserie, baked beans.




my favourite that I would pick to answer the thread question, would be the squashed waffles sandwiches. they are very versatile, swap out the cheese for ham slice, or use both ham n cheese. add 3 waffles to each butty. 2 different sauces so you get all the flavours as you much down. even did waffle + burger that one time, but that requires cleaning the frying pan, extra bonus that way because you can do burger + waffle + fried egg. the egg then squidges into the waffle and tastes glorious.



cant remember the last time had proper cornflakes because y dads hogging all the milk for milky coffees. perhaps i should wake up earlier

[Phage]

Oh - I'd like to add the Canadian Breakfast at Pancakes on the Rocks.
At the end of night shift it was amazing

2 Buckwheat pancakes (with butter or syrup or both)
2 eggs
2 Bacon
Bottomless coffee

I wonder if they still do it ?
Hmmmm - a quick Google tells me that no, and the place has clearly gone massively downmarket. Sad times.

[BobF64]

Generally, as in most days, it's Crunchy Nut Cornflakes.

Once in a while, some sort of full English, sometimes just a meaty plate...

Black Pudding, Lorne Sausage, Bacon, Sausages, Potato Bread and White Pudding.

Sometimes Sausage and Egg McMuffin, double usually but the Breakfast of Death - Triple Sausage, Double Egg and Bacon McMuffin if I'm feeling particularly worn out.


Sometimes "fake" Rustlers sausage muffins, nowhere near as good, but I find them acceptable.

Porridge is also good, usually milk, salt and about 4 tablespoons of caster sugar. Also made it with milk and cream once, that was very...<makes Homer Simpson drooling sounds>

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I hope some of you have enough bog roll.

[ik9000]

with that stuff Cat it blocks you up and doesn't come out for days. Bog roll is not the issue.