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Breakfast is perhaps my favorite meal, and one of my favorite summer breakfasts is my version of a broiled tomato.

Cut a deep crater at the stem end of a large tomato. Salt and pepper the crater. Sprinkle with some oregano and slivers of fresh basil leaves. Nestle the tomato on a slice of toast. Fill the crater and the edges of the toast with cheese (cheddar, mozzarella or asiago are great. Today I used Mexican Four Cheeses.) Drizzle the tomato and toast with olive oil. Now microwave for 90-120 seconds depending on size of tomato.

Voila!

Looks and sounds better than just my cup of coffee. Will have to give it a try soon.

While very creative and certainly attractive, I just can't wrap my mind around tomato and cheese with basil for breakfast. Give me bacon, sausage, eggs, pancakes, waffles and, Cane Syrup, toast and marmalade any day.

Stay tuned for tomorrow then. I plan to have British beans on toast - "w'if a egg."

I love beans on toast, but I can no longer buy Heinz canned beans which are what I prefer, and the brand I buy while in the UK.

Not long from now and I will be enjoying a Great British fry up at my favorite little place there. Bacon, sausages, eggs, fried tomatoes, fried mushrooms, fried bread and baked beans. Fried blood pudding is also available, but not for me thanks. Once a week while I am there I will eat like this, the rest of the week I eat yogurt, fresh fruit, tea/coffee and toast (whole grain bread), like I do here at home. I seem to favour a larger breakfast on Sunday mornings.

Like Sam, I have a heart condition, along with diabetes, and staying well means staying in shape and balancing wonderful and sinful with wonderful and downright healthy.

I am wondering how that would taste with a nice smoked cheddar or smoked provolone ?

Use cheese of choice, Miss Lynn. It's all delish. I like asiago best, but don't have any in the fridge right now. I've used pepper jack, cheddar, feta, queso fresca, parmesan, and mozzarella.

I believe you are supposed to have bangers with that, right? And sliced tomatoes and mushrooms?

Not really. BoT is actually a British evening meal dish. I make it breakfast by adding the egg.

What you describe is a "fry up" and it is indeed THE classic Brit breakfast. Egg, sausages, beans, broiled tomato, mushrooms, and black pudding.

Living abroad for the past 11 years where the British breakfast was as good as it got I am damn happy to be home where I can have a proper breakfast. This from someone that eats breakfast maybe twice a week and usually a bagel or sourdough toast.

If you do, the banging comes 2 to 5 few hours later, depending on your digestive tract.

John

Plans for "BoT w'if" are on short hold. Wife has her Mahjong group coming today and she doesn't want me to cook eggs. (What, women have never smelled eggs before?)

Anywho, it means I'll be playing golf after a bowl of cereal or something. But tomorrow...

As promised, here's my version of BoT w'if. Toast, buttered and with a skim of Marmite; then good old baked beans; and finally an egg on each piece of toast. Yum.

(Oh, my apologies: I forgot to white balance - and it's too late now!)

Good enough !!

But, I would swap out the marmite (crap) for vegemite, like a good Aussie bloke.

And I'd be delighted to do so, also. It's hard enough to get Marmite - I had to import the dang jar and it cost a fortune.

Isn't that interesting !

I'm in a small town in the middle of nowhere, & our Walmart stocks Marmite in their "English" section.

Not so lucky for the vegemite, though.

Have to wait for friends or family to bring it over.

Couple of links for you Rocky.

http://www.jollygrub.com/index.php?...on=1&keyword=marmite&x=0&y=0

http://www.britishfoodshop.com/marmite.asp

I have seen Marmite on the shelves at the Walmart near the house in Enterprise, Alabama, and not far from the house here in Canada is a Fish and Chip Shop that sells Marmite and several other British Foods.

I wonder in the end how Walmart picks the places to sell such unique items ? Southeastern Alabama seems like an out of the way place, but I have seen it on the shelves there. Strange.

Huh. Guess I'll have to check my local Wally. Whoda thunk?