Last Day of Farmhouse Breakfast Week

It's been fun posting all these different breakfast ideas for Farmhouse Breakfast Week and I think I may even have convinced a couple of people that breakfast is worth a few extra minutes to make.  If you have seen my post about Bircher Muesli Yogurt you will know that we are creatures of habit and generally eat muesli Monday to Friday.  On a Saturday we will vary what we eat, sometimes eggs, sometimes porridge or other cereals. However on Sunday, unless we have visitors when we might have a full 'Scottish' breakfast, we will usually have a bacon roll and lots of coffee.

A nice granary roll from a local bakery, two slices of grilled smoked bacon and a squirt of HP sauce!  Brian goes for tomato sauce, but for me the spicy flavours of HP sauce go perfectly with the salty, smoky bacon.



I hope you have enjoyed Shake up Your Wake up with Farmhouse Breakfast Week.  If you’ve been taking part in the Breakfast Week Challenge then you can submit your entries now! Just fill in this form to tell them what you ate for breakfast each day during Farmhouse Breakfast Week (from Monday 21^st – Friday 25^th January 2013) and how it made you feel. You could win a luxury break!

Labels: bacon, breakfast, Farmhouse Breakfast Week, granary roll, HP sauce, Shake up your Wake Up

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Fruity Porridge in a Flask for Breakfast Week

A lot of people who don't eat breakfast say that they don't have time in the morning.  This super tasty porridge in a flask takes only a few minutes to make before you go to bed and it's ready to eat when you get up next morning.

The original recipe for this is  Slow Cooked Vanilla Spice Oatmeal from 'Pure Vanilla' by Shauna Sever, which I blogged about last November.  But I've made some changes this time, leaving out the vanilla and adding a bit more cinnamon and mixed spice and an additional 1/3 cup of mixed luxury dried fruits.

I served my porridge with banana and a sprinkle of cinnamon, but you can add cream, yogurt, nuts and any other fruits you enjoy. 

It's Farmhouse Breakfast Week all this week and there are loads of breakfast ideas on the Shake Up your Wake Up website.


You can follow @breakfastweek on Twitter and tweet a picture of your breakfast every day with the hash tag #BreakfastWatch. You can also post your photos to Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest.

As this is a 'cooked' breakfast I'm adding it to Breakfast Club, if you make a cooked or baked breakfast you can join us until 24th February.

Labels: breakfast, Breakfast Club, Breakfast Watch, Porridge, Pure Vanilla, Shake up your Wake Up, vacuum flask

posted by Janice @ 07:00 2 Comments

Bircher Muesli for Farmhouse Breakfast Week

As part of National Farmhouse Breakfast Week, the Shake up Your Wake up team are asking us to follow @breakfastweek on Twitter and share a picture of your breakfast every day from 20th - 26th January with the hash tag #BreakfastWatch. You can also post your photos to Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest.



Anyone checking out my breakfast every day is going to be in for fairly monotonous viewing because from Monday to Friday every week, both my husband and I eat a bowl of muesli soaked in yogurt.  We have been making and eating this breakfast since 1979.   Even when I was in the maternity hospital after giving birth, he would bring me in my muesli at evening visiting and the midwives would put in the fridge for me for the next morning, I'm of an age where they kept you in!   As this breakfast is very much an institution for us I thought it would be fun to get Brian to show you how it is made.

 Bircher Muesli (6 portions)

375g wholegrain muesli (no added sugar)
500g natural yogurt
1 tbsp runny honey

Mix together in a plastic bowl or tub with a lid.  Place in the fridge overnight, this will keep for 2-3 days refrigerated.

I will tweet my bowl of muesli tomorrow but I will also be posting alternative breakfast ideas all week, here at Farmersgirl Kitchen. 


Here are some breakfast facts

• Breakfast eaters tend to be slimmer than breakfast skippers.
• Eating breakfast can aid concentration and mental performance at work and at school.
• It provides you with the nutrients and energy needed for an active lifestyle.
• Research shows that breakfast eaters are less depressed and have lower levels of stress than breakfast skippers.

Labels: Bircher Muesli, honey, muesli, National Farmhouse Breakfast Week, Shake up your Wake Up, yogurt

posted by Janice @ 06:00 8 Comments

Making Whoopies on Sunday Morning!

Perhaps this is not quite what you had in mind when you read the title of this post?  But this is indeed a Whoopie Pie, it's a Croque Monsieur Whoopie Pie and I made mine large for a weekend Shake Up Your Wake Up  Farmhouse Breakfast Week breakfast.

It comes from this beautifully presented book, Let's Make Whoopies by Sophie Grey, featuring recipes for over 70 whoopies as well as some over 30 cupcakes.  Sophie Grey is the founder of the artisan bakery company Crazy Baker and will be judging the Pie Bake Off next Sunday 27th January,  at the special showing of Nora Ephron's Julie and Julia at the Lexi Cinema in Kensal Rise.  The competition to win tickets is open until 12.00 noon on Sunday 20th January.

So what exactly is a Whoopie?  

Sophie describes it as "two partially risen sponges with a filling, sometimes capped with a set topping"  The recipes for the whoopies reminded me of making muffins, where you prepare the dry ingredients and the wet ones, then lightly fold them together but this time you whip the egg whites separately so

 

Let's Make Whoopies has 7 chapters covering a wide range of flavours and presentation ideas.

Classic Whoopies and Cupcake consists of 15 recipes including Classic Vanilla whoopie, Red Velvet whoopie and Toffee Banoffee whoopie.  Vanilla cupcake, Coffee and Walnut cupcake and Sticky Toffee cupcake

Chocolate Whoopies and Cupcakes has 18 recipes including Devil's Food whoopie, Brownie whoopie and Sachertore whoopie.  Jaffa cupcake, Mississippi mud pie cupcake and White chocolate cupcake.

Fruit, Vegetable and Flower Whoopies and Cupcakes gives us 16 recipes including Lime and Cardamom whoopie, Apple and Cinnamon whoopie and Beetroot whoopie.  Spiced Pear cupcake, Courgette cupcake and Rhubarb food cupcake.

And then the chapter which intrigued me the most: Savoury Whoopies and Cupcakes with 14 savoury treats including Sun-dried tomato and basil whoopie, Porcini whoopie and Croque Monsieur whoopie.  Corn and chilli cupcake, Rye cupcake with smoked trout mousse and Feta spinach and dill cupcake.

There's a fun chapter for Wacky Whoopies and Cupcakes with 15 fun bakes including Frog Prince Whoopie, Hairy Spider whoopie and Fower head whoopie.  Alien cupcake, Ginger cat cupcake and Monster cupcake.

Some lovely ideas in the Celebration Whoopies and Cupcakes with 15 small celebration cakes including Valentine's whoopie, Wedding whoopie, Easter Bonnet whoopie.  Easter nest cupcake, Halloween Dracula cupcake and Christmas cupcake.

And finally Specialist Whoopies and Cupcakes with 14 bakes for those with allergies and intolerance, these include Egg free apple plum and cinnamon whoopie, Gluten free lime drizzle whoopie, Sugar free sweet potato, carrot and sultana spelt whoopie.  Gluten free orange almond cupcake, Egg free vanilla sponge cupcake and Egg free chocolate cupcake. 

It's Farmhouse Breakfast Week from 20th - 26th January and I'll be blogging about breakfast all week.

You can follow @breakfastweek on Twitter and tweet a picture of your breakfast every day with the hash tag #BreakfastWatch. You can also post your photos to Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest.

The Croque Monsieur whoopie contains many of the ingredients of a cooked breakfast: ham, eggs and tomato and ideal for a special breakfast.   It's made from  a basic whoopie recipe with added cheese, salt and pepper.   The two 'sponges' are sandwiched with a very thick bechamel with added cheese and a small slice of ham.  You then add a little bechamel on top, a slice of tomato and a little more grated cheese, then back in the oven for 5 minutes. You can make  the whoopie sponges and bechamel and then assemble and reheat in the morning.  I made half the quantity of the recipe and made them big enough for a meal, rather than a bite sized canape as shown in the book.  They were very filling but I would say it is quite a lot of work for what you end up with so would need to be for something special.  I will definitely try some of the sweet whoopies though, I really like the look of  of these recipes. 

"I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all times"  Nora Ephron

I'm adding this to Breakfast Club which is all about Cooked and Baked breakfasts and runs until 24th February right here at Farmersgirl Kitchen.

Labels: Croque Monsieur, Farmhouse Breakfast Week, Lets make Whoopies, Shake up your Wake Up

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Are you ready for Farmhouse Breakfast Week?

Labels: Farmhouse Breakfast Week, Shake up your Wake Up, The Nation;s Breakfast

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Breakfast Club at Farmersgirl Kitchen

 

If you would like to take part in Breakfast Club here is what you need to do:

• Mention Breakfast Club in your blog post and use the logo
• Link to this post at Farmersgirl Kitchen and to the Breakfast Club page at Fuss Free Flavours
• You are welcome to send in old recipes, but please add the Breakfast Club information and republish
• Entries can be sent to other events, but please respect their rules
• If you tweet please tweet using #blogbreakfastclub
• Add details to the Linky, feel free to grab the code as this is a blog hop
• By entering you are allowing Farmersgirl Kitchen to post your image
• Please email your name, blog details and entry url to Farmersgirlkitchen at gmail dot com by 24th February 2013 and I will post the round up on 28th.

Labels: Bangers and Mash, Breakfast Club, Farmhouse Breakfast Week, Fuss Free Flavours, poached egg, potato cake, Shake up your Wake Up

posted by Janice @ 07:00 17 Comments