Dippy Egg and Soldiers

Who doesn’t remember having dippy eggs for breakfast as a kid? I remember my dad always had two. He would eat them both then turn one upside down and offer it to me as a full egg, as you can imagine when I went to take the top off the egg was empty and I’d be so shocked as how that could happen.

Sometimes, it just has to be a dippy egg.  When you can’t quite manage a full English or there’s nothing much in the cupboards, a dippy egg it is!

So many people say how hard it is to get a good dippy egg.  It’s simple, boil the water (add a bit of vinegar to stop the egg from cracking), once its boiling add the egg and take out after 5 minutes!

I like to serve it in my retro Garfield egg cup with good old fashioned soldiers!

Breakfast Brunch

It’s not very often we do it but every now and then we have a full English breakfast.  We tend to call it a monty bifta or if we’re not quite as hungry a mini monty bifta!
Today we hadn’t had breakfast and had it for lunch so I suppose it was a breakfast Brunch.
You may notice the little nose sniffing at just under table height.  Poor dog thought his luck was in! He places him self in the drop zone when we are eating so if anything might fall off the plate he’s in prime place to catch it!

Sausage and Egg Muffin

I love pintrest and often find new food ideas on there. I noticed a version of a McDonald’s breakfast and decided I had to try it! I only saw the picture not the recipe but thought it should be fairly simple so I tried it yesterday and Wow!

It was surprisingly simple to make so I made a couple of extra ones. These have been frozen and I will defrost the night before I want them and heat them in the microwave, a great breakfast to take into work.

Thinking of what they are, I reckoned an easy way to replicate would be to buy muffins, sausage meat, cheese and eggs. The muffin pack consisted of four muffins so that was how many I would make!

After I made them I realised I’d probably only used half of the ingredients I bought so I worked out if I had bought two packs of muffins rather than one including the pack of 8 pork sausages, 10 cheese slices I bought in Aldi and the fresh farm eggs in the cupboard, the whole lot of 8 sausage and egg muffins worked out at £4.16 which is 52p each! A significant saving of the cost at the restaurant and just as convenient!

Fresh farm eggs are always superior to shop bought eggs and a guarantee that they are genuine free range eggs. Always a better chance of getting a double yolker and the colour of the yolks are much more natural.

Ingredients for 8 make ahead muffins

2 x four muffins
1 pack of 8 pork sausages
Pinch of salt and pepper
8 fresh eggs
Pack of cheese slices

Method

Half the muffins and toast them, remove the meat of one sausage, add salt and pepper and shape onto a patty equivalent or slightly larger than the muffin. Grill both sides of the patty until browned, place on top of the muffin, add a slice of cheese. Fry the eggs in a metal ring again to comply with the size of the muffins. Once cooked add onto the cheese, put the top of the muffin on and there you go!

Once cooled wrap in parchment paper and pop in the freezer. When you want them, take them out to defrost overnight and put them in the microwave to reheat for 1and a half minutes!