Hot 'n' Cheesy Scrambled Eggs w/ Garlic Rashers

I spent the last 3 weeks travelling the four corners of Germany with my band Knoxville Morning and with all due love and respect to the wonderful people of that country, they don't, in my humble (and most likely narrow minded) opinion, have a bulls notion about how to prepare a decent breakfast.
We soon gave up on trying to find a morning meal with any semblance of familiarity and resorted to waiting for brunches or lunches from the trusty Turkish Kebab Shops which are in abundance throughout Deutschland.

After I got home, a couple of days ago, my body was, strangely enough, craving some healthy food which it was almost entirely starved of over the course of our long journey. After a 24 detox consisting of about 2 fields worth of vegetables I was ready to get back on the wagon.

I woke up this morning craving all the best flavours and I knew I had the ingredients at hand to make something special happen. I wanted bacon and eggs. But I wanted loads of cheese too. I knew I'd garlic and that had to go in there. AND HOT. It had to be hot, but with loads of flavour... Tabasco Sauce was the lad I was after.

I immediately had a fully formed picture in my mind of what was going to happen. I wasn't sure it would work, but I had the hope and boundless optimism that only a man about to dip his toe into the weekend could have.

I gathered my ingredients:

• 3 Rashers
• 3 Eggs
• A Clove of Garlic
• Cheddar Cheese (to be grated)
• Creme Fraiche
• Tabasco Sauce
• Hot Chilli Seasoning

I heated up a frying pan with some olive oil and crushed the clove of garlic into it. Then I cut the 3 rashers into strips and fried them up until they were nice and crispy.

While all this was going on, and I'll spare you the unattractive photos of it, I made the scrambled eggs. Simple.. 3 whisked up eggs into a hot pan with melted butter and stirred constantly. As the eggs were just about cooked I added a handful of grated cheddar cheese and a couple of teaspoons of creme fraiche and stirred them through until they melted.

Serve it up in a bowl like so, sprinkle some chilli seasoning and drizzle some Tabasco sauce over the eggs and your done.

This was the nicest, tastiest, most satisfying breakfast I've had in as long as I can remember. I've often added some grated cheese to scrambled eggs but the addition of creme fraiche knocks it up about 5 more levels, they were the creamiest most delicious eggs I've ever had, and it all worked perfectly with the little kick of the chilli and tabasco. 

The balance was perfect. 

Now the rashers and garlic combo... I don't know why this isn't more mainstream, maybe for the fact you can rule out getting a shift any time in the near future if you consume this, but I can tell you it'll be well worth it.

Spectacular is the only word for the explosion of flavours going on throughout this dish. 

This whole endeavour only took 10 minutes to make and about 40 seconds to eat. 

I think for Lent I'll give up eating anything other than this for breakfast.

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B.S. x

Brinner Bap

I've already hit on the fact on this blog that I really don't like the time of day that breakfast is served (Breakfast time. Anytime.) but now I'm gonna "sandwich up" a more traditional Irish breakfast.

But before I do I would like to take a moment to salute just about the only thing I do have for breakfast.

The 380ml bottle of Lucozade Original, and yes I can taste the difference between the 380ml and the larger bottle or the standard can. I don't know what flavour "Original" is supposed to be but it's a tasty pick me for those early mornings after a night on the pints. If anyone knows a similar product in the U.S let me know, it's about the only thing I miss when I'm over there and I'm Jonesing for a cure.

Anyway, less advertising for a huge company that'll never give me anything for it (prove me wrong Luco ya bastard) and on to the bap. The Brinner Bap to be exact, "Brinner" being a cross between breakfast and dinner, obviously, and although it is a word I would never use out loud, it serves its purpose for the sake of this post.

I must say my friends Co Brady and Sean Corcoran deserve a lot of credit for this post happening when it did, I've been messing around with these kinda breakfast sambos for a while and especially how best to construct them but lately they had gone to the back of my mind, that was until last week when Co sent me a delicious looking picture of a fry up in between some toast, something he better do up for the blog and last weekend when Sean and I had a great drunken chat about the wonderous ability waffles have of securing beans within a sandwich.

Here are tonights ingredients:

A bap, a nice white floury one is my favourite, black and white pudding, rashers and sausages,an egg, beans and a potato waffle. (Pepper optional, ignore the bananas)... Oh and some grated cheddar cheese, because why the fuck not?!



I'm gonna spare the photos of the actual cooking because using 4 different appliances at once was enough hassle without throwing a camera into the mix... I toasted the bap very lightly, microwaved the beans, grilled the rashers and fried the pudding, sausages, egg and waffle. Now I made a point of frying the waffle solely for the reason that on the box the cooking instructions mentioned grilling and oven cooking only, so in solidarity with the famous song (grill 'em, bake 'em, FRY 'em, eat 'em...) I 'm bringing back the frying option. I'd usually just give them 5 minutes in the toaster but this frying craic was far far superior.

On to the construction phase...

Butter the bap, (notice it is very very lightly toasted  so as to keep the bread really soft), build from the bottom up; waffle first, then plenty of beans...

Top the beans off with the grated cheese, place 2 sausages on top of that.

I've broken up the rasher cos I find a rasher in a sandwich like this could pull out all the other ingredients when you take a bite out of it, I sprinkled this and the pudding over everything..

Top off with the fried egg...

add a little pepper if you like, close it up, slice it in half and...

Aw sheeeit, this thing was just delicious, now I wouldn't recommend it to anyone with any kind of heart condition, this thing is not healthy eating but it is unbelievably tasty, there's something amazing about a runny egg in a sandwich... that said there's something amazing about rashers, sausages, black and white pudding, beans, a waffle and cheese in that same sandwich too...

Until next time when I make a smoothie out of fruit, vegetables and cholesterol lowering tablets.

B.S

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Pancakes, Crispy Bacon and a whole load of Maple Syrup by Karen Reid

This is the first of hopefully many guest posts that will be on this blog, this is by my friend Karen Reid and it really sets the bar high for a good old hangover cure, it looks delicious and I can't wait to try it for myself...
Take it away Karen:

What you need:
270g self raising flour, 4 tablespoons of castor sugar, 1 teaspoon of salt
2 eggs, 240ml milk, 4 tablespoons of real butter, 1 bottle of nice maple syrup(not the cheap stuff!) and 1 large packet of streaky rashers

...Mix flour, sugar and salt. Melt butter & mix with eggs and milk. Then mix everything together with a blender until the consistency is smooth and thick.
Trun on the rashers. The George is best for making them nice and crispy!
I reckon a soup ladle full is enough mix for one on the pan. They take about 3 minutes each to bake on a medium to high heat pan - 1.5 mins on each side.
The above measurements would feed about 6 people. Once baked serve with the crispy rashers and pack on the maple syrup.

Tip: Prepare before you go out the night before, so you’ll have everything ready to throw on the next morning. Best served when hungover and  it goes lovely with a cup of fancy coffee(not instant) or nice orange juice! Trust me.

Karen Reid


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Breakfast time. Anytime.

I'm a big fan of breakfast food, what I'm not a big fan of is eating that or any other shite first thing in the morning. Which is inconvenient. Beacuse that's about the only time you can get it. So one evening last week I got a craving for a breakfast muffin with some ham n cheese n egg and decided I was gonna make that bad lad happen.

Here's what you need:

A breakfast muffin, surprisingly hard to find in Ireland, Marks and Spencers were the only place I could find them (a few vouchers will be grand for that plug lads), a slice of light cheddar cheese, 3 slices of cooked honey roast ham and an egg. Toast the muffin, in a toaster ideally, poach the egg if you can, I generally make a mess of this 90% of the time so figure out how to poach an egg yourself, if not just fry the bastard. 

Now what you want to do is heat up the rest of the stuff, get a frying pan going and throw on the ham, let it heat up for minute then make a little ham and cheese sambo like above to the cheese melts just a little, keep a close eye on this or you'll make a burnt cheese mess. Butter the muffin, put on the single slice of ham, your hopefully not exploded in the microwave because you're too unskilled to poach  it properly egg and top with the cheese and ham sambo combo, the close the muffin.

Delicious, any time of the day, take the hint various international fastfood restaurants.

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