Experiment 5 ............. failed.

[pozorvlak]

Breakfasts which I have enjoyed over the years

• Cereal
• Toast
• Porridge, with
  • Salt
  • Grated cheese
  • tom yam paste (part of my on-going series of experiments to determine if there is any foodstuff that is not improved by the addition of tom yam. Mmmm, lemongrass).
  • NB: no true Scotsman puts sugar in his porridge. I may not be a true Scotsman, but they're dead right on this one.
• Poached/fried/scrambled/boiled eggs on toast or crunchy bread
• Eggy bread (US: French toast)
• Eggy in a basket, à la V for Vendetta
• Pho (Vietnamese noodle soup)
• Thai omelette
• Edit: Scrambled egg with smoked salmon
• Cold leftover pizza
  (NB: this only works with pizza. Do not attempt to eat the cold leftovers from any other form of late-night fast food for breakfast the next morning.)
• The full English breakfast: at least toast, egg and bacon, and optionally tomatoes, mushrooms, fried bread, baked beans, sausages and hash browns.
• The full Scottish breakfast: as above, with the addition of potato scones, haggis and black pudding. Sausages should ideally be square.
• The full American breakfast: as for the full English breakfast, but accompanied by an entertaining game whereby you, by careful study of the menu, attempt to pre-empt all the waiter or waitress' questions about your order, and he or she attempts to invent questions about your dietary preferences so minute (the sodium content of your butter, for instance, or the amount of ice in your orange juice) that you fail to anticipate them.
  [I wouldn't want to eat any of the above three every day, but they're nice on occasion...]
• The full German breakfast: smoked meat and cheese on bread, accompanied by muesli and yoghurt.
• Kippers (smoked herring)
• Kedgeree
• Smoked salmon and champagne

Breakfasts which I cannot, in all conscience, recommend

• Stir-fried leek and spring onions in mee siam sauce. Like I had this morning.

It wasn't exactly bad, just, y'know, not good enough that I'd recommend trying it to others. Anyway, the leek needed using up.

Comments

[michaelp-j (from livejournal.com)]

Last winter, my breakfast consisted of porridge at least five days a week. I experimented with various options. I've always thought of porridge in religious terms, for some reason, so here are my recipes with suitable religious labels:

- Calvinist porridge: oats, water, salt. Not bad, actually.
- Episcopalian porridge: oats, water (70%), semiskimmed milk (30%).
- Liberal porridge: Episcopalian plus a small handful of top-grade fruit-and-nut muesli (Jordan's for preference)
- Anglo-Catholic porridge: Episcopalian plus jam (blueberry is really good)
- Argentinian Catholic porridge: oats, semiskimmed milk, spoonful of dulche de leche (awesome, but very very sweet)

I'd also you try smoked-salmon-and-scrambled-egg on toast next time you have a small amount of leftover smoked salmon to hand...

The 2008 Polar Hero breakfast is a portion-size sachet of Alpen, made up with Nido powdered milk and hot water, and eaten out of the sachet to avoid washing up. The 1958 Polar Hero breakfast was Weddell seal's brains on toast!

[michaelp-j (from livejournal.com)]

Oh, and I found a recipe for porridge a few months ago by an English chef, who said that the very best porridge was made with single cream. He did say, however, that the chief pleasure in making it was that it *really* annoyed his Scottish wife...

[kake]

How about porridge with smoked salmon?

[pozorvlak.livejournal.com]

Inquiring minds wish to know! Though it'll have to wait until I can find some smoked salmon.

Incidentally, I've always preferred the taste of smoked sea trout. Cheaper, too.

[pozorvlak.livejournal.com]

I'd also you try smoked-salmon-and-scrambled-egg on toast next time you have a small amount of leftover smoked salmon to hand...

Oh yes, I'd forgotten that. An excellent breakfast.