Full english, re-vamped.

[cal72]

This weekend I have the out-laws and I would like to make a full english breakfast but it has to be on a small scale encompassing all the elements.
Can anyone give me some suitable ideas.
Thanks chris.

[jas xjr]

I always like a small piece of fried bread with mine. Must be cooked in best butter.
Fresh tomatoes are nice too , I find they counteract the fat in the sausages etc

[calibrax]

Easy.

Fried quails eggs
Chipolatas
Trimmed down pieces of bacon
Trimmed down bread, fried
Small spoon of baked beans
Grilled cherry tomatoes
Button mushrooms

I suppose it's a Nouvelle Cuisine version really!

[RichB]

cal72 said:

This weekend I have the out-laws and I would like to make a full English breakfast but it has to be on a small scale encompassing all the elements.
Can anyone give me some suitable ideas.
Thanks chris.

Well my idea would be to serve one fried egg, one sausage, one or two rashers of bacon, a few mushrooms and the piece de resistance just half a grilled tomato. Tea in cups, not mugs and half a piece of toast, is that small scale enough?

[Murph7355]

Cook a proper sized breakfast. Put it in the middle of the table. 4 sets of knives and forks. Or 2 if you don't want it that small.

Do a proper sized one for yourself.

[VR6time]

it must be PH. but I read the title as full English, re-mapped.

I'd go for quails eggs, on cut rounds of fried brioche. pancetta cut thick with cubes of black pudding. Beans in a ramekin, and one good quality sausage from a butcher, a grilled tom and field shroom. Serve with tea from a teapot.

[mattdaniels]

One deep lipped frying pan. Chuck in sliced chunks of sausage, fry a little then add lardons, sliced button mushrooms, shreded black pudding, crutons and sliced cherry tomoatos and crack 4 eggs over the lot. when the white is set on the eggs and the yokes are still runny, slice your "english breakfast pie" into slices and serve on a triangle of fried bread with a spoon of beans.

[cal72]

Thanks for the ideas guys.
Going to do,
1/2 toasted muffin
1 bacon madallion
2 quail egg
3 grilled cherry tomato
2 chipolata
3 button musrooms
spoonful beans.
It should be about the right amount.
FIL could manage a big full on breakfast but the MIL suffers due to having a delicate stomach.
So i was looking to have fruit and yoghurt then rounded off with a small cooked breakfast.
Should go down a treat.

[Mr Roper]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonryan/281381900/

[escargot]

cal72 said:

Thanks for the ideas guys.
Going to do,
1/2 toasted muffin
1 bacon madallion
2 quail egg
3 grilled cherry tomato
2 chipolata
3 button musrooms
spoonful beans.
It should be about the right amount.
FIL could manage a big full on breakfast but the MIL suffers due to having a delicate stomach.
So i was looking to have fruit and yoghurt then rounded off with a small cooked breakfast.
Should go down a treat.

Good call.

What i'll quite often do when cooking brekkie for guests is to put all the bacon, sausages, black dagger, fried bread et al on a platter and just let people help themselves. Thus allowing people to choose how much, or little, they want.

[hornetrider]

escargot said:

Good call.

What i'll quite often do when cooking brekkie for guests is to put all the bacon, sausages, black dagger, fried bread et al on a platter and just let people help themselves. Thus allowing people to choose how much, or little, they want.

This is what we do, everyone's happy then.

[KrazyIvan]

split a tin of this between them



I cannot imagine just how bad this would taste.

[zeb]

cal72 said:

Thanks for the ideas guys.
Going to do,
1/2 toasted muffin
1 bacon madallion
2 quail egg
3 grilled cherry tomato
2 chipolata
3 button musrooms
spoonful beans.
It should be about the right amount.
FIL could manage a big full on breakfast but the MIL suffers due to having a delicate stomach.
So i was looking to have fruit and yoghurt then rounded off with a small cooked breakfast.
Should go down a treat.

sounds good.....what time do you want us round?

[otolith]

KrazyIvan said:

split a tin of this between them

(Cooked breakfast in a can)

I cannot imagine just how bad this would taste.

I recently took a couple of those on a fishing/camping trip as emergency rations.

Utter, utter filth, disgusting "meat" one shouldn't imagine the provenance of, but strangely palatable when cold and hungry at 5am.

[supertouring]

otolith said:

but strangely palatable when cold and hungry at 5am.

Just like the local kebab shop or filthy burger van after a night out.