Let's get serious - the fried breakfast

[blackal]

The black pudding was actually nice but not as good as some of my local butchers.

No mean recommendation!

Ramsays of Carluke do a very good Ayreshire Middle bacon. One of the great things is - it fits in a roll !

Dingwall Blackpudding is good, but maybe a little bit sweeter than Stornaway.

[Carlton-Browne]

I never have a fry up at home but love hotel cooked breakfasts. Only the 7 sausages on the plate. It was in a London Hilton so no tattie scone or square sausage. It was lovely !

I generally find UK hotel breakfasts to be mediocre; most of the food is put out over hot plates to wither at the start of the sitting and left to deteriorate. When I used to travel around the UK for work I'd much rather stay in pubs or B&Bs as they normally cook a much smaller amount of covers to order.

It's been a few years now but I used to have dining rights at the BBC canteen in Broadcasting House and we had a standing competition on who could sneak the most rashers of bacon past the checkout (the premise being that you only paid for one). The record was also 7 and mostly involved the tactical use of baked beans.

I am in a minority as I dont like crispy bacon.

I'm generally with you there but that looks a bit pallid and uninteresting.

[ktmog6uk]

RED ALERT! RED ALERT! THERE IS GREEN STUFF ON THIS F.E.B.!!
Surely thats illegal!

My Friday morning usual.



Job done.

R

[Mr Curta]

It's been a few years now but I used to have dining rights at the BBC canteen in Broadcasting House and we had a standing competition on who could sneak the most rashers of bacon past the checkout (the premise being that you only paid for one). The record was also 7 and mostly involved the tactical use of baked beans.

This also goes on at breakfast time in our 'restaurant' at HQ (we all still call it the canteen). You get a double breakfast score for smuggling a fried egg.

[andrewcregan]

Pinched from the BBC today

”Forget your smashed avocado or poached eggs, the humble fry-up remains the king of breakfasts. But what you get on your plate depends on where you order it. In England a fry-up usually consists of bacon, sausages, eggs (fried or scrambled), fried tomatoes, beans, hash browns, toast and black pudding.
Northern Ireland is renowned for the Ulster fry, which has all the main components of a full English, but some key substitutions. Rather than hash browns, an Ulster fry features potato bread - fried potato pancakes - and soda farls, which is delicious soda bread made with buttermilk.
Scotland has its own variation of potato bread known as the tattie scone, which is served with a traditional fry-up. Also a lorne sausage, which is square, is more common in Scotland than link sausages. You could also be given fruit pudding, which is made of flour, beef suet, sugar and currants.
In Wales your traditional fry-up could come with laverbread, or "Welsh caviar" as actor Richard Burton referred to it. The local delicacy is boiled, minced or pureed seaweed which is fried and coated in oatmeal.”

[luckywatch]

Pinched from the BBC today

”Forget your smashed avocado or poached eggs, the humble fry-up remains the king of breakfasts. But what you get on your plate depends on where you order it. In England a fry-up usually consists of bacon, sausages, eggs (fried or scrambled), fried tomatoes, beans, hash browns, toast and black pudding.
Northern Ireland is renowned for the Ulster fry, which has all the main components of a full English, but some key substitutions. Rather than hash browns, an Ulster fry features potato bread - fried potato pancakes - and soda farls, which is delicious soda bread made with buttermilk.
Scotland has its own variation of potato bread known as the tattie scone, which is served with a traditional fry-up. Also a lorne sausage, which is square, is more common in Scotland than link sausages. You could also be given fruit pudding, which is made of flour, beef suet, sugar and currants.
In Wales your traditional fry-up could come with laverbread, or "Welsh caviar" as actor Richard Burton referred to it. The local delicacy is boiled, minced or pureed seaweed which is fried and coated in oatmeal.”

From experience the Ulster fry and the full Scottish can hold their own but Welsh Caviar, Burton would have been pissed.......................

[Saint-Just]

Burton would have been pissed.......................

Wasn’t he always?

[luckywatch]

At £18 - you get 92 sausages in total and pay 19p each and its free delivery. Use the code SIXNATION. Very good stuff, my second order.

https://www.campbellsmeat.com/produc...ampaign=EASTER

[draftsmann]

We just had an excellent brunch at Plum & Spilt Milk next to Kings Cross before heading to Mrs Draft’s frozen north. Haggis, duck egg, smoked bacon and black pudding- perfection!

[johny]

Clonakilty is okay, but not superlative..........

McLeod's Stornoway blackpudding
Speyside Speciality blackpudding
Ramsays of Carluke blackpudding
Malcolm Allan blackpudding.

All eclipse Clonakilty for quality.

Macleod and Macleod Stornaway black pudding and

Ramsays dry cure bacon are both good.

Ramsays haggis are great....my favourite.


Fry your beans up in the frying pan once you have lifted your bacon out. This reduces and thickens the sauce....delicious. (Heating them up was mentioned in post 17)

[johny]

I'm sure it's illegal to only have one egg.

Correct...lol

[sid]

Another one brought up on the Ulster fry as detailed by the others, also partial to adding some vegetable roll ( a local sausage meat with herbs and spices)the vital condiment to top it all off HP sauce

[magirus]

Fry your beans up in the frying pan once you have lifted your bacon out...delicious.

I think I mentioned this earlier, it really is the only way to do your (Branston) beans.

[ktmog6uk]

At £18 - you get 92 sausages in total and pay 19p each and its free delivery. Use the code SIXNATION. Very good stuff, my second order.

https://www.campbellsmeat.com/produc...ampaign=EASTER

thanks for posting this, just ordered!

[hops]

Until recently I could take or leave it, however have recently discovered an Irish BP called Clonakilty which most supermarkets stock and it is SUPERB!

[johny]

I think I mentioned this earlier, it really is the only way to do your (Branston) beans.

Credit given in my amended post. lol

[luckywatch]

Until recently I could take or leave it, however have recently discovered an Irish BP called Clonakilty which most supermarkets stock and it is SUPERB!

The connoisseurs choice. See earlier posts in this thread.............................

[Mr Tetley]

I enjoy a good ‘Ulster Fry’, however this is taking it too far. Served in a cafe in Belfast and known as the Goliath XXL. The record for finishing it is under 8 mins, held by an American called ‘Notorious Bob’!



https://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/new...-30871937.html

[hughtrimble]

That Ulster Fry - lose the bread! Everything else would be gone in a jiffy.

[ktmog6uk]

Originally Posted by luckywatch
At £18 - you get 92 sausages in total and pay 19p each and its free delivery. Use the code SIXNATION. Very good stuff, my second order.


https://www.campbellsmeat.com/produc...ampaign=EASTER

thanks for posting this, just ordered!

this just arrived with me and i have to say i'm disappointed, the meat content of most of the sausages is below 40%!!!
i reckon these will end up in the bin, oh well. beware!