crawford
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Post by crawford on Jul 6, 2019 15:52:54 GMT -8
An English breakfast I was served was toast with a fried egg on it and beans (think Campbells baked beans) over the top. It is pretty good.
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BigLoad
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Post by BigLoad on Jul 6, 2019 18:08:18 GMT -8
But, it's hard to imagine beans on toast I don't eat beans on toast, but I eat them on heavily-buttered whole-grain bread. It's one of my favorite no-effort meals.
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Post by bobcat on Jul 8, 2019 18:52:59 GMT -8
Beans on toast is indeed a British standard for breakfast, with or without a fried egg on top. The B&B we stayed at in Churchill Manitoba Canada served it to us.
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Post by bobcat on Jul 8, 2019 19:01:05 GMT -8
Now that I think of it, in the movie “Bend It Like Beckham”, part of the storyline is the young soccer player who is too self-conscious to play in shorts because of burn scars on her leg, from when she spilled hot beans while making herself beans on toast. Very British. Just open a can of Campbell’s baked beans, heat some, pour generously over toast on a plate.
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Post by ukpacker on Jul 12, 2019 12:56:29 GMT -8
Well I'm British and we always assumed that Heinz baked beans ( which we have on toast) was American, but it doesn't just stop with beans a real breakfast also has (are you ready?) mushrooms, tomatoe,black pudding, egg ,sausage and bacon all on top of the toast. I used to cook breakfasts for hikers @ hostels and we tried dropping the traditional breakfast for a healthier 'continental' alternative,croissants and a choice of cheese fruit and charcuterie but there were too many complaints so we had to re instate the morning fat fest.
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crawford
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Post by crawford on Jul 12, 2019 17:20:32 GMT -8
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Post by rebeccad on Jul 12, 2019 20:12:48 GMT -8
Well I'm British and we always assumed that Heinz baked beans ( which we have on toast) was American, but it doesn't just stop with beans a real breakfast also has (are you ready?) mushrooms, tomatoe,black pudding, egg ,sausage and bacon all on top of the toast. I used to cook breakfasts for hikers @ hostels and we tried dropping the traditional breakfast for a healthier 'continental' alternative,croissants and a choice of cheese fruit and charcuterie but there were too many complaints so we had to re instate the morning fat fest. When I did my starving-student European travel, I was so happy to hit the British youth hostels, where breakfast had some serious caloric heft to it! A cafe au lait and a hunk of baguette didn’t last long, and I was budgeting every penny. Usually got beans, toast, fried tomatoes, and coffee. I don’t think we got the eggs and meat very often, but those were the IYH hostels, and their main claim to fame was affordability.
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Post by ukpacker on Jul 13, 2019 2:44:15 GMT -8
I worked in the YHA hostels and the number of breakfast ingredients seemed to grow every year,oh and I forgot the hash browns. But after a Full English lunch becomes optional, for a full Scottish Breakfast add fried haggis then not eating again till the next day becomes do-able!
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Post by rebeccad on Jul 14, 2019 7:37:29 GMT -8
I was in those hostels a very long time ago, so I’m guessing things have changed.The young people of today may be less willing to suffer :D
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Post by ukpacker on Jul 14, 2019 9:25:06 GMT -8
It wasn't so much the younger people who protested when we switched to continental more the old guard form whom a fat filled breakfast before a long hike or bike ride was a tradition they wanted to defend. A fatty breakfast before exercise does not make any nutritional sense. The continentals we offered were more like a Scandinavian breakfast without the pickled herring, quite substantial if you wanted to try all the options on offer. As the organisation became financially insecure and had to raise prices the corporate culture became more sensitive to complaints so the Full English option returned at least where I worked.
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Post by kirby on Jul 24, 2019 13:39:08 GMT -8
i just came across something called RightRice. It looks like rice but is is made withlentil flour, chickpea flours, rice flour & pea fiber. It has more than twice the protein than regular rice. I have switched it out for anything that calls for rice. soak it in boiling water for 10 minutes and its ready to go. check it out at RightRice.com
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Post by rebeccad on Jul 24, 2019 19:59:13 GMT -8
i just came across something called RightRice. It looks like rice but is is made withlentil flour, chickpea flours, rice flour & pea fiber. It has more than twice the protein than regular rice. I have switched it out for anything that calls for rice. soak it in boiling water for 10 minutes and its ready to go. Intriguing! I like the sound of that, both for the extra protein and because of the issues with arsenic in rice (especially brown rice, alas).
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Post by Lamebeaver on Jul 26, 2019 12:19:49 GMT -8
Pork and Beans!
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Post by bushmaster on Nov 21, 2021 11:50:08 GMT -8
I'm new to all the cooking meals during my wanderings. since most of my hikes are little more then day hikes, the thought of the continual cliff bar, jerky, and nut meats to satisfy the belly is getting old. I have now added rice to the menu, and found that my adding a simple bouillon cube to the mix actually makes it quite tasty. Prepared meals like mountain house are far to expensive in my opinion. Bare with me, I'm still learning. LOL. Also, lining my pot with tin foil makes my clean up easy.
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Post by darthmusturd on Dec 26, 2021 15:11:58 GMT -8
When boiling rice, add some salt to the water. If you have the room, add some unsalted butter to the rice after cooking. not salting the water and adding salted butter isn't as flavorful. the butter also has some good vitamins. maybe bring along some pouch salmon to add. Keep in mind that rice boils to 3x its dry size. luckily 3 is an easy number to remember. so when cooking only use a third of what you would use dry, if that makes any sense.
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