Full English

[Clingy]

Any interesting tips etc for a full english breakfast, or variations? I think it was Jamie Oliver that did a "One Pan" variation where the eggs set around the bacon sausage mush and tomato in one large fry pan.

[Blub2k]

This no longer fits into my diet, fruit for breakfast for me from now on

[Skeps]

Sorry, no tips on it, But I really could do with one right now!!

[Clingy]

This no longer fits into my diet, fruit for breakfast for me from now on

Ditto

Probably why I am dreaming about this meal!

[5lab]

pfft. diet?

use more oil than usual to fry the eggs (about 1/4 an inch) then halfway thru cooking use a metal teaspoon to spash the oil onto the top, makes it easier to get runny yokes.

if your eggs start to go pete tong then drain the oil off and scramble them

the key it timing - eggs take no time at all so if you've only 1 frying pan turn the girll onto a low heat, fry the saussies first, then the bacon, then the eggs, putting each one under the grill when your done to keep em warm.

i had the nicest breakfast the other day - at 'ramones' in cardiff..

4 eggs
4 sausages
4 bacon
6 hash browns
2 black puddings
beans (approx 1 tin)
tomatoes (approx 1 tin)
4 slices toast
mushrooms
4 slices french toast
1 large mug of tea

..all for £6. the plate is huge (1 footish) and the toast had to come on a separate plate. yummy. took me an hour to eat thou

[BUFF]

took me an hour to eat thou

& how long before you could move?

[Blub2k]

Ai well you try giving up cigarettes and not putting on weight, am in the process of changing my diet and fry-ups are not going to be as common an occurance as they were.
My diet is easy, consists of eating fruit not a fry for breakfast, then not eating crap during the day, mostly making my own lunches for work and for my fiancee and then not eating rubbishrubbishrubbishrubbishe in the evening when I get home, is working too.

[Nick]

Black pudding! Yum!

(sorry Clingy... )

[Clingy]

LMAO - so predictable Nick . I have vege bacon and vege sausages but yet to see vege BP.

[Blub2k]

hard to have vege pud, I mean what would it be made out of, bit hard to reproduce unless there is a vegetarian alternative to blood?

[Punky]

i think that black pudding tastes better raw than fried. the texture is better raw too.
i can do beasty fry-ups, mostly when i'm hungover and need comfort food. normally egg, bacon, sausage, black pud (raw), fried tomato, fried bread, beans, mushrooms and toast (left to go cold then buttered). propa nice with a pint of ice-cold fresh orange juice and a cup of tea

[5lab]

i cant eat black pud by itself, i normally stick a bit on a fork with some sausage and munch it that way instead

i really really hate tinned tommys thou, in fact all tommys really, but particularly mushy tinned stuff... so i left them till last, they were luke warm and f*cking revolting.. the taste/sensation nearly made me chunder... but i couldnt be beaten

[petrefax]

i had the nicest breakfast the other day - at 'ramones' in cardiff..

waaaaah!!! i used to live around the corner from ramones (glynrhondda street) and i practically lived in the place....they do the best breakfasts ever & the staff are a top crowd


sorry clingy...back on topic

the one pan breakfast is a quality dish, theres not much you could do to improve on that, i did a few of them after seeing jamie oliver do one, but i found i missed having a few beans so returned to the traditional fry-up with descrete items instead

the only things i've found that help make a good breakfast are good quality ingredients

eg: if you buy pre-packed bacon from the supermarket which turns out to be wafer thin & pumped full of water, its obviously not gonna taste as nice as a few slabs of dry cure you've just got your local butcher to cut for you, similarly using large open cup field musdhrooms will taste nicer than pre-packed button mushrooms (which don't actually taste of anything i don't think)
also, on a personal note, fried bread tastes much better when fried in olive oil imho

another personal thing, but you gotta have loads of sauce! and seeing as i can never make my mind up between brown or red, have both, its lovely

[Clingy]

lol, forgot the sauce. Brown for me please .

/me dribbles.


The missis tells me there is a vege BP. So I'll report back. But as I have never had the vampires version I can't compare.

[Raz316]

by all means, if you wanna cook it, but can't eat it, bring it in, I'll help

[Stewart]

I like the good old full English, without the 'full' part.

Can't be having Black Pudding or Fried Bread with my tasty stuff.

Egg, 2 Sausages, 2 rashers of Bacon, helping of Toms, helping of Beans, Mushrooms, 2 slices of thick, buttered white bread, and a large mug of tea.

Hits the spot, every time. Actually, as I'm well starving, and there's some sausages in the fridge that need eating soon, I might russle one up later.