Happy Weekend \\ English Breakfast

 

English Breakfast by yours truly!

You probably wondering, hmm, what is so difficult about whipping an English Breakfast in the morning. Well for starters, to me, an amateur cooking mummy who is by day a full time Architect, doing up an English Breakfast actually requires quite a fair bit of planning for me!

I want my breakfast served warm and not have some items cool while some are hot. So here are my steps. It is really a multi-tasking breakfast cooking here.

1. Heat up oven at 180deg.
2. Sliced the baguette or if you have sourdough bread even better. Spread mango chutney on the bread. If you don't have, you can skip this step. Add sliced cheese on top. Put the bread with cheese on a wire rack.
3. Spread out steaky bacon or back bacon on the oven tray. I like to line it with parchment paper as it makes cleaning up easier later. I also cut my tomatoes into halves, season with salt and pepper.
4. Once both bread and bacon are done. Leave one side, you only need 20mins for the bacon and halved tomatoes. 5 mins for the bread.
5. In a frying pan, add 1 punnet of sliced button mushrooms, leave it there for 3-4 minutes. Be patient. Stir once the liquid starts to come out. Add 3 cloves of minced garlic, 2 tbsp butter and continue to sautéed it for another 3 mins. Leave on the heated stove.
6. While waiting for the 3 mins to  be up for the mushrooms, in 1 saucepan, heat up baked beans, add Worchester sauce, sugar, paprika, ketchup (if need) and water. Leave on stove with low heat. Stir occasionally,
7. In another frying pan, sauteed spinach leaves with garlic. Let it sweat by covering the frying pan. Once done, add salt and pepper for taste. For today, I didn't have spinach  leaves, so I'm using French beans here. Same steps but for French beans as they don't have much liquid coming out as much as spinach, you will need to add some water.
8. Now is the time to put the bacon and halved tomatoes into the oven. Keep a timer, last 5 mins to add in the bread.
9. Dish out the spinach or french beans on to plates. Start frying up your eggs, scrambled or sunny side ups. As I have approx 6 eggs to cook, this will probably take up similar timing for the bacon and tomatoes to be done. Before finishing up your eggs, you should be adding your rack of bread now.
10. Dish out the eggs onto the plates. By now your bacon should be done together with the tomatoes and bread. Plate it with the sautéed mushrooms and baked beans. 
11. Serve hot!