Breakfast in - Eggs and tea

Which tea to have today.........

I am always a fan of a decent breakfast and eating out for breakfasts is a pretty regular occurrence on any given weekend. Great way to kick start your day and catch up with friends. Years ago a worked in a kitchen for a part time job making basic breakfasts for the punters and through this got plenty of practice making scrambled eggs, mushrooms, grilled tomatoes etc. the basics for breakfasts but the menu was fairly limited there are so many other options. To me the mark of a good breakfast venue is interesting items on the menu and a decent range, turns out not everyone feels like eggs for breakfast all the time. Variety is also the key word for me when it comes to tea as well why simply have an English breakfast all the time when there are so many other more interesting teas out there depending on your mood on any given day - strong, mild, semifermented, green.

Poached Eggs and Orange Pekoe brewing

Friday was a day off and a decent morning trip to the gym was in order. Following in my workout I wanted something packed with protein to keep me going for a while so decided on poached eggs on toast. Poached eggs are probably one of my favourite ways of having eggs but not necessarily something I cook very often. One thing that makes a massive difference to your eggs though is the freshness of the eggs - the fresher they are the more they stay together when you crack them in to that gently simmering water with a dash of vinegar. Matched with a leaf tea - Orange Pekoe probably my favourite black tea - a perfect start to the day.

 Inspired by my poached eggs and wanting to catch up with a friend KJ I decided to have her over for breakfast the next day. This time something slightly more exotic - though not necessarily more difficult - Shakshuka eggs with Chorizo and toast. Realising that I had forgotten to buy parsley and coriander it was the perfect excuse to head down into the cafe strip and pick up a take away coffee (flat white of course) to drink while getting the breakfast ready. Have to say it was a bit of a cheats Shakshuka using good quality tinned tomatoes instead of fresh tomatoes and marinated roasted capsicums and chilli flakes instead of charred green banana chillis. However the substitutions worked out fine. I served it with a hot chorizo sliced and fried up and multigrain toast. A cup of tea along side to temper the heat of the meal - only hard bit is choosing which tea to have. Thumbs up from me and the girls - just like shop brought! One of those breakfasts where you get to about 4pm in the afternoon and realise that you never had lunch because you hadn't noticed you were hungry.

SLs cheats Shakshuka - why would you go out!