My turn to bring breakfast is coming again (previous request) and this time I want to try a good Irish (or even English) breakfast. Rashers, hash browns, and eggs would work I guess, but I seem to remember some fantastic breakfasts when I was over there that weren’t bacon ‘n’ eggs - salmon played a big part, and tomatoes.
Anyone have ideas for me?
Thanks
Baked beans, black pudding, mushrooms?
You need to get yourself some Irish bacon, white and black puddings. These might be available in Denver someplace, or else google them and order online. Each breakfaster should get a broiled rasher and one pudding each (they might like the white, if they like liver; they’ll definitely hate the black, unless they like blood), along with a gently fried sunny-side up egg, some broiled mushrooms, and a broiled half-tomato.
Baked beans are optional. I’ve never seen them included in a traditional Irish breakfast.
Smoked salmon is a whole 'nother story. I’ve had it in plenty of breakfasts in Ireland, but not in an “Irish Breakfast.”
And serve plenty of hot strong black tea.
Found a deli not a half mile from the house with blood pudding. Mwa ha ha ha ha!
I got fired the last time I brought a crappy breakfast…
Heh, your board-name is indeed apt if you think blood pudding :eek: will change matters this time around.
Be sure to include some Lucky Charms cereal.
Since I long ago tossed any shred of dignity or self-respect, mayhap I’ll wear this
Spam, grilled tomato, rashers, sausages, eggs, Twinings Irish Breakfast tea, salmon, Lucky Charms and Spam.
Toasted soda bread?
What’s that cereal everyone eats over there? Mucilage? Muesinex? Never mind, I’m not going to bring cereal. Someone brought a crock-pot full of oatmeal once, that didn’t go over well.
Hate black pudding? How is this possible?
Ah, well, more for me.
And Bob, Muesinex (or whatever it’s called) is just a brand name of what we Americans call shredded wheat. And the soda bread isn’t toasted, but it doesn’t matter, since it’s impossible to find the stuff in the US. Which is a darned shame; it’s tasty enough and substantial enough to just about make a full meal in itself.
“Muesli”, that’s what I was thinking of. We’ll have none of that, I assure you!
Found some blutwurst and kochleberwurst, so this is turning more German than Irish. Having never had blutwurst, I just have to hope it’s a fitting substitution for the Irish version. If not, there’s only maybe two of us here that’ll know the difference.
What?
No haggis?
You forgot the third Spam. It goes between the eggs and the tea.
I do believe haggis is the national sausage of Scotland.
Soda bread is insanely easy to make. The guy I linked to is pretty hardcore, but his recipes are the real deal. Baking it is so easy, in fact, that I think I might mix up a batch and bake it while I’m sewing a camisole. Maybe I’ll even bring it to the party I’m going to later. New camisole, loaf of Irish soda bread, White Russian. I’ll be the life of the party!
Haggis? I guess it’d be as authentic as the German sausage I used. Had a total of 5 kinds of sausage, eggs, ham, potato pancake/hashbrown patty type doohickeys, and a big bottle of Omega-3 fatty acid fish oil pills for after.
It was a hit, and a good half the lab recognized and scarfed the blood pudding, the other half was afraid of the color and wouldn’t try it, even after I mentioned pig snout and cow blood. Weirdos.
Gonna make soda bread now, thanks Miss Purl!
God this thread is making me blush. I’m half-Irish and I have no f’en clue how to make a traditional Irish breakfast. Potatoes? (or is it Potatos? darnit!)
I’ve always had black pudding sliced and fried, I’ve never seen an entire pudding served (they’re usually pretty big and rich) usually just one or two slices.
What does ‘broiled’ mean?
A full English breakfast round my way includes:
1-2 Sausages (Lincolnshire is my preference)
1-2 Fried eggs (with nice runny yolks)
2-3 Rashers of smoked bacon (fried)
1-2 slices of black pudding (fried)
Baked beans
1/2 tomato (cooked, either fried or grilled)
Fried mushrooms
1 Slice of fried bread
1-2 slices of white toast with butter (toast made with brown bread is the devil’s toilet paper and magarine is a crime against humanity)
Ofcourse all of it is accompanied by large mugs of tea (except in my house where we’re coffee drinkers).
And then a trip to casualty for clot-busting drugs and by-pass surgery. 
It’s just American for ‘grilled’.
And would the Irish eat that cabbage/bacon dish (whose name escapes me…) for breakfast? I know I would.
All this way and no one just said…
A six pack of Guiness and a potato= 7 course Irish Breakfast.
You mean this one?
I assume you’ve already seen the Wikipedia article?
If you substitute:
Sliced Haggis for the black pudding
Fried Potato Scone for the fried bread
and add in a slice of Lorne (square) sausage you have a Scottish breakfast.