Pork pie and piccalilli - the breakfast of kings!

...Or something like that!

Here some gala (or grosvenor or pork with egg down the middle) pie from Ellisons of Cullingworth accompanied by home-made piccalilli.

There is no better breakfast. No sir!

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Friday Fungus: possibly the best breakfast dish in the world ever!!

Thought I'd share with you this awesome breakfast dish (which of course you are free to eat any time of the day or night) - mushroom & bacon toasts.

You'll need:

3oz butter
6 rashers of green bacon (chopped)
8oz mushrooms, sliced (shitake are good as they're quite sweet but ordinary button chestnut mushrooms are fine)
Handful of chopped parsley
Salt
Black pepper

8 thin slices of good bread
4oz full fat soft cheese

Melt half the butter in a shallow pan and fry the bacon for a couple of minutes. Add the mushrooms, parsley, salt & pepper. Cover the pan tightly & cook for about 5 minutes (not too long or the mushrooms go all slimy - they need to be just tender).

Lightly toast the bread and spread thickly with the soft cheese and sandwich together into pairs (you'll have toast, cheese, toast, cheese in a pile) and spoon the mushroom & bacon mix over the top. Melt the remaining butter and pour over the top (if you're a pig like me you might need to melt a bit more).

For Christmas morning serve with prosecco & good coffee!