Cooked Breakfast....

[Sassy]

I am off to make a full English Cooked Breakfast. Does anyone still eat them or all health conscious?
I love cooked breakfast but prefer tomatoes to beans. I am off to enjoy. Hope everyone is well. Have a good day.

The Sass...

[Harrowby Hall]

Good for you, Sass.

I occasionally have a "full English" and I enjoy it. However, for the most time, I am fighting to keep my weight down. A year or so ago I was warned by my GP that I was prediabetic and so I managed to reduce my weight from about 84 to 76 kg and I am determined to maintain my new weight.

So, some things had to go, but now and again ...

[Roses]

I have never cooked a breakfast in my life. On the rare occasions I have a holiday I might have one if staying in a hotel. Cooked breakfasts aren't healthy, so should only be had occasionally, imo. 

[Sriram]

Just for my info...

What is a full English breakfast? And why is 'cooked' unhealthy?

Everyone cooks breakfast at home, I thought!

[Roses]

Just for my info...

What is a full English breakfast? And why is 'cooked' unhealthy?

Everyone cooks breakfast at home, I thought!

It usually consists of bacon, eggs and fried bread.


I have an apple and a few flaked almonds for breakfast, my husband has toast and cereal.

[Aruntraveller]

It usually consists of bacon, eggs and fried bread.


I have an apple and a few flaked almonds for breakfast, my husband has toast and cereal.

I think that needs a little expansion: Fried eggs (although you can use scrambled, poached) sausage, bacon, baked beans or tomatoes, fried bread - and then there are an assortment of add ons like black pudding, mushrooms, etc. There are variations on this like the full Irish or Welsh and I presume Scottish. What the precise difference is I can't pin down, as, certainly when I was last in Ireland it seemed no different in content to a full English.

I enjoy one every so often, but it is in moderation.

[Gordon]

Here in civilisation we have a species of sausage that is square and must surely have been designed, presumably by the God of Sausages, with breakfast firmly in mind - to accompany, and in a roughly triangular vein, there is the tattie scone which, as I recall, Gonnagle is a devotee of.

[Anchorman]

Here in civilisation we have a species of sausage that is square and must surely have been designed, presumably by the God of Sausages, with breakfast firmly in mind - to accompany, and in a roughly triangular vein, there is the tattie scone which, as I recall, Gonnagle is a devotee of.

       


Ah, a gourmet.
Anything less than sqare sausage is, of corse, an abomination and should be a shiboleth in the eyes of man.
The Tattie scone is, of course, a necessary accompaniment.
But I would add that the nightmare of all followers of the Watchtower, Stornoway black pudding, might, on high days and holy days, be a reasonable substitute for the aforementioned geometrically shaped delicacy.

[Sriram]

Thanks everyone for explaining.

Lots of meat and animal fat then!! But eating processed foods out of cardboard boxes need not be the answer.  People can cook healthy vegetarian breakfast I am sure.

Almost all Indian families cook their breakfast (mostly veg), lunch and dinner. Most offices have fresh cooked buffet lunches for all employees. Many working women (and men) take their lunch boxes with them from home.   

Try this....

https://www.tarladalal.com/recipes-for-breakfast--Indian-veg-breakfast-recipes-151 

[Anchorman]

Thanks everyone for explaining.

Lots of meat and animal fat then!! But eating processed foods out of cardboard boxes need not be the answer.  People can cook healthy vegetarian breakfast I am sure.

Almost all Indian families cook their breakfast (mostly veg), lunch and dinner. Most offices have fresh cooked buffet lunches for all employees. Many working women (and men) take their lunch boxes with them from home.   

Try this....

https://www.tarladalal.com/recipes-for-breakfast--Indian-veg-breakfast-recipes-151 

       



Eh? Why on earth should processed food or cardboard boxes be involved?
I source my sausage from a local butcher, who makes several fantastic varieties, apart from the plain square sausage.
The sausage with spring onion is superb, as is the one with haggis.
Same goes for the bacon and eggs; source from local suppliers - even the potatoes for the tattie scones are Ayrshires, grown near Ballantrae and Girvan!
Nothing more natural or less processed there!

[jeremyp]

It usually consists of bacon, eggs and fried bread.


I have an apple and a few flaked almonds for breakfast, my husband has toast and cereal.

Not for me. Fried bread turns my stomach. Hash browns all the way.

[jeremyp]

Thanks everyone for explaining.

Lots of meat and animal fat then!! But eating processed foods out of cardboard boxes need not be the answer.  People can cook healthy vegetarian breakfast I am sure.

You are right about the unhealthyness of a traditional cooked breakfast but a cooked vegetarian breakfast would be an abomination unless it is porridge.

Havingnsaid that, i’m Intrigued by your link.

[Sriram]

You are right about the unhealthyness of a traditional cooked breakfast but a cooked vegetarian breakfast would be an abomination unless it is porridge.

Havingnsaid that, i’m Intrigued by your link.

Something with a little less variety...

https://www.vegrecipesofindia.com/top-10-indian-breakfast-recipes/

[ad_orientem]

I love a cooked breakfast. Usually once a week nowadays. Hard to get decent sausages and black pudding over here though (so I have to improvise if I haven't been able to import some from England). I always make a fried slice, which seems to have fallen out of fashion somewhat and replaced by the hash brown.

[Sriram]

Black pudding is cooked blood?!!

[ad_orientem]

Black pudding is cooked blood?!!

And?

[jeremyp]

Black pudding is cooked blood?!!

As with most British sausages, it is probably mostly filler.  i.e. oatmeal or equivalent.

[Roses]

Black pudding is cooked blood?!!

And absolutely revolting!

[Anchorman]

     
Black pudding is cooked blood?!!

   


Nope.It's cooked blood with stuf added.
In the case of the species eminating from Stornoway,it is , of course, divinely inspired.

[Dicky Underpants]

Not for me. Fried bread turns my stomach. Hash browns all the way.

Indeed. I find fried bread quite disgusting. I've seldom seen it on offer in any B&B I've stayed in over the years - fortunately, since those are the only times when I'm likely to eat anything like the full repertoire of the 'Full English'. At home I might eat single items from the FE on toast, or porridge, but never the whole caboodle.

[Dicky Underpants]

Black pudding is cooked blood?!!

The Spanish have their own version, known as morcilla. Quite popular all over Spain, I believe, and all part of the Spanish propensity to eat all parts of the pig except the squeak. In Britain, I'd say black pudding tends to appeal more to the 'northern palate', especially Yorkshire and Lancashire. Unlike the Spanish, I think the Brits would tend to draw the line at eating pigs' ears, though (please tell me there's no one here who likes those!)

[jeremyp]

And absolutely revolting!

in your opinion. I like it.

[jeremyp]

Indeed. I find fried bread quite disgusting. I've seldom seen it on offer in any B&B I've stayed in over the years - fortunately, since those are the only times when I'm likely to eat anything like the full repertoire of the 'Full English'. At home I might eat single items from the FE on toast, or porridge, but never the whole caboodle.

i actually quite like the taste but my stomach says no to the fat.

[Robbie]

Nothing wrong with a cooked breakfast occasionally. It's only if you have it regularly that it is bad for you.Nice to have poached egg and bacon with tomato, mushroom and toast at weekends I don't eat sausages, nor bacon now but used to like it. We go to a cafe at work which we call 'the canteen' though it's not 'our' canteen, just a greasy spoon cafe. You'd be surprised at the size of the 'builder's breakfasts' people have there!  I tend to go for jacket potato with cheese or a crusty cheese roll.

Blimey why am I talking about grub at this hour? Back to bed I think. Thinking about a cheese roll may give me nightmares, yes/no?