The Meat-Free Breakfast thread.

[Epona]

Had a full vegan this morning in a cafe which was pretty nice: vegan sausages, mushrooms, beans, toast, hummus and a grilled tomato. I deveganised it by having halloumi. I've had this before and it always makes me think that hummus and toast is a pretty good breakfast food when it's a nice home made hummus.

Halloumi is great in a breakfast, but should be sliced waffer thin, not in big wodges like it normally is. Then it goes all crispy and mmm.

I wouldn't have thought to do it until you mentioned it, but yeah I can completely see having sliced fried halloumi as part of a MFB. It's very moreish, and there is nothing else on my MFB plate that it doesn't go with. *adds halloumi to breakfast list*

 

[farmerbarleymow]

What is in a veggie black pudding?

Human blood - they use waste blood from the NHS.

Peas, quite simply, ARE NOT part of a MFB - they just can't be, it must be written somewhere, and if it's not written somewhere, well . . . I'm bloody well writing it now . . . otherwise you'll end up with "breakfasts" like farmerbarleymow has

There's nowt wrong with my breakfasts.

 

[Maggot]

Peas, quite simply, ARE NOT part of a MFB - they just can't be, it must be written somewhere, and if it's not written somewhere, well . . . I'm bloody well writing it now . . . otherwise you'll end up with "breakfasts" like farmerbarleymow has

Give peas a chance

 

[Baronage-Phase]

London's Best Vegetarian Fry-Ups

This one troubles me a lot

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What happened to the mushrooms?

 

[Baronage-Phase]

Doolin Cafe, if you're ever in Doolin. They do a fantastic veggie brekky with free filter coffee and they have all manner of tempting cakes for sale too
Doolin Cafe – Fresh tasty food in delightful surroundings

Also, Cobbs Cafe in Sydenham - biggest bestest veggie brekky I've ever had! Was a tenner like but we were starvacated and it was massive, so. Fried halloumi, poached eggs with hollandaise sauce, wilted spinach, hash browns, best veggie saussie I've tasted, fried tomatoes, big hunks of wholegrain home-baked bread, home-made spicy ketchup, and beans. Nom!
Home

Shout out for Doolin
You were only minutes from the cousins' place there

 

[Epona]

What happened to the mushrooms?

The thing is, most of the suggestions in that link look really good. It's just the dodgy dehydrated looking one that I don't fancy tucking into.

One of them even has the dreaded mass-produced golden hockey pucks, but still looks more appetising than freeze-dried MFB. I guess the latter would be welcome if I were an astronaut. But tbh I would put up with a lot just to be able to say I was an astronaut. (I think the golden hockey pucks wouldn't get clearance from NASA due to crumb potential. That can be risky in low/zero gravity environments with air filters/recycling and fuck knows what else).

 

[Maggot]

My lodger made me this today
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What are the dark things at the front?

 

[Callie]

Oh dear, I'd like to blame RubyToogood but I must be held responsible for my own breakfast choices....



I present Sainsbury's halloumi breakfast.

 

[spitfire]

Best yet

 

[Miss-Shelf]

What are the dark things at the front?

Tempeh bacon

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Oh dear, I'd like to blame RubyToogood but I must be held responsible for my own breakfast choices....

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I present Sainsbury's halloumi breakfast.

The halloumi, the egg and the toast look good but it's let down by the seemingly raw mushroom and tomato and the slapdash bean lake. I can forgive a hash brown on a veggie breakfast but I'd still try to subsitute for something else.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

My lodger made me this today
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That all looks pretty damn good! What's that lurking under the cherry tomatoes?
The chunk of avocado would distress me and I'd try to give it to a passing dog if one were available.

 

[Miss-Shelf]

That all looks pretty damn good! What's that lurking under the cherry tomatoes?
The chunk of avocado would distress me and I'd try to give it to a passing dog if one were available.

I had to eat the avocado first and pretend it wasn't part of the VEB

 

[RubyToogood]

Oh dear, I'd like to blame RubyToogood but I must be held responsible for my own breakfast choices....

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I present Sainsbury's halloumi breakfast.

Please don't associate me with that flabby thick wedge of halloumi. Did I not clearly state that halloumi should be thinly sliced and crisply fried?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

The chunk of avocado would distress me and I'd try to give it to a passing dog if one were available.

Made me wonder whether dogs would eat avocado. Just checked, and they can without too much ill effect, but it is quite poisonous to other species like birds and ruminants.

https://www.petpoisonhelpline.com/poison/avocado/

 

[Epona]

Made me wonder whether dogs would eat avocado. Just checked, and they can without too much ill effect, but it is quite poisonous to other species like birds and ruminants.

https://www.petpoisonhelpline.com/poison/avocado/

Birds, horses, and cats should definitely not eat avocado - very toxic to them.

Birds are sensitive to everything that is even slightly toxic (and some things that you wouldn't think were toxic, their metabolism is really quite different than mammals), horses/deer/cattle etc take so long to digest things that they can absorb more toxins from stuff that is just mildly toxic to other species - because they eat stuff that other species largely find indigestible, it spends a long time being broken down in their digestive system - grass, lichen, bark, stuff like that. Which means they are susceptible to smaller amounts of toxins in some other stuff. Cats are not evolved to eat much plant matter and their livers and kidneys are small and not as efficient as a herbivores, and cannot cope with even small quantities of toxins as efficiently.

 

[Epona]

Oh dear, I'd like to blame RubyToogood but I must be held responsible for my own breakfast choices....

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I present Sainsbury's halloumi breakfast.

That looks fucking delicious tbh - I would.

 

[Callie]

It was awful I'm not sure what they had done to the poor halloumi but it was like a dried out BRICK. I had visions of the thin crisp golden slices ruby mentioned. I got a dehydrated chunk of the stuff you had to saw into.

I'm not sure halloumi works with baked beans either

 

[Epona]

It was awful I'm not sure what they had done to the poor halloumi but it was like a dried out BRICK. I had visions of the thin crisp golden slices ruby mentioned. I got a dehydrated chunk of the stuff you had to saw into.

I'm not sure halloumi works with baked beans either

Oh no, sorry to hear that. I am a big fan of fried halloumi, but yeah I normally do it quite thin and brown it both sides - it should be crispy on the outsides and with a little squeak when you bite into it imo.

 

[xenon]

I don’t get it very often, I’ve still not been able to quite cook halloumi The way a friend did years ago. It tasted like one of those dodgy kebab shop pizzas. Greasy, salty, in a good way. Maybe she just used loads more oil than me. I have overcooked it sometimes.

 

[Epona]

I don’t get it very often, I’ve still not been able to quite cook halloumi The way a friend did years ago. It tasted like one of those dodgy kebab shop pizzas. Greasy, salty, in a good way. Maybe she just used loads more oil than me. I have overcooked it sometimes.

I actually think a very very small amount of blended olive oil or veg/sunflower/rapeseed oil (you only need a light film on the pan), medium to high heat, short frying time. Slices no thicker than 1cm, although a bit thinner is ok. Don't move them around in the pan except to turn them, just let them brown without moving them, which would cause moisture to be released from the slices.

 

[mr steev]

I actually think a very very small amount of blended olive oil or veg/sunflower/rapeseed oil (you only need a light film on the pan), medium to high heat, short frying time. Slices no thicker than 1cm, although a bit thinner is ok. Don't move them around in the pan except to turn them, just let them brown without moving them, which would cause moisture to be released from the slices.

I agree. When I cook it I usually use a lightly coated griddle. It's best when it is just golden and should be served immediately.

 

[RubyToogood]

I actually think a very very small amount of blended olive oil or veg/sunflower/rapeseed oil (you only need a light film on the pan), medium to high heat, short frying time. Slices no thicker than 1cm, although a bit thinner is ok. Don't move them around in the pan except to turn them, just let them brown without moving them, which would cause moisture to be released from the slices.

1cm is still way too thick. I aim for a couple of mm max, think crispy bacon.

 

[Epona]

1cm is still way too thick. I aim for a couple of mm max, think crispy bacon.

That works too, I just prefer a little thicker

 

[mr steev]

1cm is still way too thick. I aim for a couple of mm max, think crispy bacon.

That's way too thin imo. It would be like a crisp. 1cm is about right

eta: thinking about it, it might work if it was cooked until it had just started to colour. Cooked anymore though and you'd lose all of the texture and taste of the cheese

 

[Miss-Shelf]

Couldn’t decide if this should be here or the ‘what are you having for breakfast today?’

Baked sweet potatoes
Spinach, mushrooms, spinach , basil, olive oil , muscovado sugar, basil
Two poached eggs

So delicious I had to get a spoon to finish the sauce

 

[Maggot]

From Twins Cafe in Bromley. Scrambled eggs were overcooked and only one sausage, but the toast was excellent.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

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From Twins Cafe in Bromley. Scrambled eggs were overcooked and only one sausage, but the toast was excellent.

There's something really sad about that

 

[Maggot]

There's something really sad about that

Maybe cos the plate was too big, and the sausage looked lonely?

 

[Badgers]

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From Twins Cafe in Bromley. Scrambled eggs were overcooked and only one sausage, but the toast was excellent.

Maybe just have toast next time