SATURDAY-Full English Breakfast

So this is the kind of thing that's pretty straightforward and you could certainly make it at home, but it's fun to see what it's like made and served up in it's native land.

The Full English Breakfast or Fry up as it's sometimes called is a pretty huge plate of food with lots of different things. It sometimes has potatoes or mushrooms as well, but my FEB this morning had a standard offering of a lovely soft egg, baked beans, fried tomatoes, bacon/ham (the Brits don't have bacon like us, they call ours 'streaky bacon'), toast, and black and white puddings.

Brit foodies will know puddings are usually just another name for dessert, but in a FEB, the black and white puddings are blood sausage and white sausage.

The black pudding is usually a slice of a larger blood sausage fried up with nice big nodules of pork fat, like you see in my picture. Yup, that black circle thing. Nope, it's not burnt-it's really black. Yes, that's right, it's sausage made of blood, mixed with spices, pork fat, and usually something like barely or oats. The white sausage is a very lightly seasoned pork sausage.






So yeah, i had some trepidation trying the blood sausage, but it is lightly sweet, kind of crumbly, the pork fat in it is great, and it really pairs perfectly with the fried tomato slices. Yumm!

And yeah, baked beans for breakfast; odd for americans, but the baked beans here are just a bit more tomatoey than in the US and pair really nicely with the eggs, the sausages, and pretty much everything on the plate.

Yummy start to my day in Great Britain!!!