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?

http://www.walmart.com/search/?query=marmite

RockyRaab,

I have no idea how far you are from Salt Lake City, but it is a mite closer than the UK to you I am sure.

I spoke with the Lady from this shop for just a minute, and she has Marmite in 250g jars, it is 13.99 though.

Maybe you could somehow get it from them if Walmart does not pan out.

They have a Facebook Page called London Market.

London Market
439 E 900 S
Salt Lake City, Utah
+1 801-531-7074
Open
Today 10:30AM - 6:00PM

Lynn

Thanks, Miss Lynn. I get to SLC all the time. I'll check them out.

That would ruin my appetite!

It ruined mine, too. When the plate was clean.

I would never think of posting pics of the humble beans and toast! lol

As much as I enjoy them, I rarely have a cooked breakfast these days except when I am away stalking..When eating out, I prefer to find a good "Greasy Spoon" as generally they don't stay in business long if their breakfasts are not up to scratch.

Rather than Marmite, most folks have either tomato sauce or brown sauce, (HP or Daddies) which is my choice. If I don't have brown sauce, I will have Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce.

Another favourite of mine is black pudding spread on toast with plenty of coarsely ground black pepper..

The P.H. I have hunted with in Zimbabwe got me hooked on Bovril and toast for breakfast. You can't buy Bovril in the states because of the whole mad cow thing, but you can buy Bovrite which tastes exactly the same IMO.

Mike

I understand that Bovril/Rite is a kind of beef paste similar to bullion, right? Did you drink it or use it as a spread on your toast? Either way, it sounds good to me.

Yessir! I'd be a member of the clean plate club!

While I do try to eat healthy about five miles down the mountain is the Pack River Store where proprietor Arlene uses locally harvested Woods sausage to make the best biscuits and gravy I have ever had. In my three months here I have had it twice. Can't see taking BP meds and eating such a breakfast much but darn is it good.

Never microwaved a mater, good idea. I do something similar on the grill tho.