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Hash browned potatoes, scrambled egg beaters, turkey bacon, wheat toast with butter and cherry jam, and hot coffee.
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Off to Burgh Island for the night, an odd little throwback hotel beloved of the rich and famous back in the 1930's, where by all accounts they still have a very formal way of doing things (dressing for dinner and the like). In sympathy with this I'm getting in the mood by staging a pretty formal breakfast at home: table laid with bone china teapot and crockery, smoked salmon and poached eggs, toast and thick cut marmalade. It's a game but hey......... :lol:
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Part of me wishes I'd lived in those days. People these days are always in a hurry/aggravated because they're in a hurry/have no attention span. Makes me wonder if they ever stop and wonder why they're in a hurry. Maybe we'd be happier if we slowed down a little.

I wrote a whooooole long post here on that subject, and now I'm going to see if there's somewhere more appropriate to post it.

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I always have the same thing for breakfast. A bowl of instant porridge.

See, I hate breakfast...on weekends, I don't eat my first meal until 11h00 or 12h00. On weekdays, I choke down some porridge before leaving for work, because my next meal is when I get home again at 16h00-ish.

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I have a seriously bad memory of porridge from my first boarding school. Made with mainly water and a splash of milk, lumps all through it and salted not sweetened. Just what an eight year old boy needed to start off the day. :roll:
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I'm okay with unsweetened, but making porridge with water should be at least a misdemeanor. Milk (soy milk is fine if you can't have the moo sort), a pinch of salt, a pinch of cinnamon, and a little butter on the top. Sugar is acceptable, but unnecessary. I don't eat breakfast, so when I make 'breakfast' foods I generally don't add sugar.

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Yesterday in the hotel I had the 'full English' breakfast - and paid the price with chronic indigestion all day! Today I have got to be more careful (thin soup and milk sops) in order to re-establish calm in my ravaged interior! ;)
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Today, I made a "Something" from chapati flour for breakfast.

In our family, a "Something" is basically a giant, pan-filling pancake or pan-filling frybread.
(microwave variants are acceptable too.)

Another breakfast innovation here is a "Don't Ask Too Many Questions." That is like a "Something," except ...well, I'm not really sure what the differences are - I'm not the one who makes those!
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I like that. There's a local bakery here that makes a pastry they just call a Chocolate Thing.

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:clap: My kind of cooking Linna! (Hi, by the way! :) )
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Sorus wrote:I like that. There's a local bakery here that makes a pastry they just call a Chocolate Thing.
The other day the GF did the following:

Rolled out a sheet of puff pastry, and covered it in chocolate spread. Then, spread marmalade over that. Then sprinkled it with chopped almonds and dark chocolate pieces. Then rolled it up like a swiss roll, cut into slices, and baked.

Dark chocolate orange and almond pastry...it was delicious.

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Mmmmmmm!!!!! Gimme some of that Sorus! :lol:
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Sorus wrote:I like that. There's a local bakery here that makes a pastry they just call a Chocolate Thing.
The other day the GF did the following:

Rolled out a sheet of puff pastry, and covered it in chocolate spread. Then, spread marmalade over that. Then sprinkled it with chopped almonds and dark chocolate pieces. Then rolled it up like a swiss roll, cut into slices, and baked.

Dark chocolate orange and almond pastry...it was delicious.

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..... and some of that Av!
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So easy to make.

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OK - I'll give it a whirl! :D Bake at - what -180 C for thirty minutes or so and serve hot with clotted cream?
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peter wrote:Mmmmmmm!!!!! Gimme some of that Sorus! :lol:

It's basically a sort of scone with chocolate pieces baked in. Not terribly exciting, but pretty good. I will buy you one if you ever come visit here.

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peter wrote:OK - I'll give it a whirl! :D Bake at - what -180 C for thirty minutes or so and serve hot with clotted cream?
180 until the pastry "puffs" and browns. Might only be 20 mins or so.

I don't like cream, so I just had them plain. And they were damn good cold as well to my surprise. (Just be careful, when they're hot, they're really hot. Chocolate and Marmalade get seriously volcanic. :D)

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peter wrote:Mmmmmmm!!!!! Gimme some of that Sorus! :lol:

It's basically a sort of scone with chocolate pieces baked in. Not terribly exciting, but pretty good. I will buy you one if you ever come visit here.
That's a deal Sorus! :lol:

I do a lot of the baking at work Av and am pretty good at judging when pastry is at it's optimum (if I say so myself! ;) ) so I'll play it by ear ..... eye ..... ear. Yes hot sugar! Good point! In my desire for sticky sweet stuff I'd probably have forgotten that! :lol:
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:LOLS: Lemme know how it turns out. :D

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Today, we're back to oatmeal... not telling how I made it, though, after reading upthread!
peter wrote:Mmmmmmm!!!!! Gimme some of that Sorus! :lol:
I second that!
Oh, and my kids were delighted by the description of a "Chocolate Thing" (TM) as well.
Av wrote:Rolled out a sheet of puff pastry, and covered it in chocolate spread. Then, spread marmalade over that. Then sprinkled it with chopped almonds and dark chocolate pieces. Then rolled it up like a swiss roll, cut into slices, and baked.

Dark chocolate orange and almond pastry...it was delicious.
Mmmmmm, awesome.
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