Tomorrow marks one year since I began "The British Chef. So, I thought it only fitting to go back to the beginning and re-post my first ever food blog...The English Breakfast!!! It is how any Englishman should start the day. It is so simple and so scrumptious. Some people refer to it as a "heart attack on a plate". They are right in the aspect that it is all fried up in a skillet. The slang term for it is a "fry-up". You start out with frying up some bacon and sausages in a skillet. You then add some Black Pudding. For those who don't know, black pudding is a sausage made from coagulated pig's blood mixed with herbs and spices. When you cook it it turns black, hence the name. You also fry up some tomatoes, mushrooms, potatoes and eggs. All of this is also served with some good old Baked Beans. The common brand is Heinz. It is hard to get Heinz Baked Beans here in the US. You can however find them online and at some specialty food stores. Once all this is done, you then make fried bread. Just take some sliced bread and brown it in the pan drippings. It is then all served up with some tea, and a bottle of HP Brown Sauce. It is delicious not only at breakfast but at any time of day. If you would like to find some of these products online, I would suggest the British Food Depot. They have everything from sausages and black pudding to HP Sauce and Baked Beans. Click on the link below to go to their site. Cheers!!
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This is a quick and easy breakfast. If you don't have a lot in your kitchen, I would be willing to bet you have bread, eggs, milk, and cinnamon. All you do is take some good thick bread (preferably homemade bread, or raisin bread). Then you just quickly coat each side in the mixture below:
Then, you just fry it up until nicely browned in some butter or for more flavor, use reserved bacon grease. That is how I make mine. I fry up some bacon to have along side it and reserve the grease to fry the french toast. Finally, top it with some butter and maple syrup or powdered sugar. Bon Appetit! Pesto is one of the world's best and easiest sauces. You can always buy it already made in a jar, but it is always a good and often better idea to make it yourself. Pesto has so many uses. It is wonderful used as sauce for pizza, or simply tossed over some linguine or penne pasta. But my personal favorite is to combine it with an Alfredo sauce and serve it with grilled chicken and pasta. Pesto also freezes very well. I used to make it in big batches and freeze it down at my school. We would simply pull it out of the freezer the day before and defrost it over-night in the fridge. Although the classic pesto is made with pine nuts, these days they can be really expensive. This recipe is made using lightly toasted walnuts. It tastes just as delicious. This recipe can also be found on page 97 of my cookbook above! Bon Appetit!
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