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A scotch egg?

And a potato.

That'll do

Scotch and eggs? Now that's what I call the bfast of champions!!!

Oh goodness, not English breakfast again! You'll all die of cholesterol poisoning I'll have you know!


*s offline to get some normal food *

The usual bfasts around my house are soft boiled eggs with toasted homemade bread and/or homemade sausage. Or in a pinch oatmeal simmered with spices laid over at the last minute. The cream seems to work out better when you don't attempt to cook it in.

When we find meats on sale at the market we'll generally buy quite a bit of it and spend a weekend making sausages. Breakfast sausage, bratwurst, Polish sausage, etc. Then we'll fire up the smoker in the yard and make some barbecue while we're smoking the sausages. Bob forbid we fire up the smoker and not have barbecue of some sort!

Batty you're making me hungry , you make your own sausage and you have a smoker, can I come and stay

Come on over, Reef!

The neighbors have actually said when they die they want to come back as my because of the food around here (of course Her Royal ness gets some of it).

I grew up in a family that loves to cook. One weekends my mom and I will generally make sausages or bread or something like that for the coming days. We do very little from packages so weekends we're often making things to keep in our cupboards. We'll grind the meats then cook/smoke the sausages and freeze them. We'll also do other things that there is really no time for during the week.

As a rule, when we fire up the smoker we smoke everything in site. Neighborhood s and s beware! If we're using the smoker we will always plan to have sausages ready to smoke and we'll do other things than just that night's dinner.

For today we had found a very good price on hams in the market so we bought two huge pork shoulders. One is being smoked as barbecue and the other was seasoned and ground for different sausages.

Last weekend was a bread weekend. We made pita breads and a wholegrain bread that has nuts and oats and such in it for toasting.

*gets very hungry indeed*

*Comes back from dinner*

*brings in a platter of pulled barbecue pork and fresh smoked polish sausages with her redneck step daddy's barbecue sauce for dipping*

I just went offline for a bit for dinner. Yum!

Reef there is actually a way to make a ceramic smoker on the cheap. It's not perfect but it's workable. You use terra cotta planters (new and clean of course) and a hot plate. Buy a barbecue thermometer at one of those places that sells grills and smokers and just stick it in the top to track temperature.

I'll see if I can find the details online for building one.

The smoker we use is a ceramic smoker called a "Green Egg" and if I can find the plans for this other one it should mimic an egg.

Ta Batty, I tend to cook from scratch, we make a lot of out own bread cos shop bought bread doesn't agree with mum, it makes her quite ill

You're a lot like me and my mum then.

I found the plans for the ceramic smoker. I had first seen it on TV when a chef who has a show called "Good Eats" made one. His show is good because it often shows how to improvise expensive equipment.

http://mike.reed.org/archives/journal/Aug03/080803.html

did someone mention pork

*entices Cal with barbecued pork and sausages*

Reef - I also found plans for a (believe it or not) cardboard box smoker. The same chef as mentioned above, Alton Brown, has posted it on foodtv.com (the U.S. cooking channel).

Alton Brown is one of my favorite cooking show hosts. By best description he is what happens when you send a to school. I also highly recommend his website, altonbrown.com

hiya!!1