Looking for a tasty serving of eggs and toast? Or a bit more? Hoping our trials can help avoid your errors! My husband and I eat breakfast out each Thursday, our day off. We have moved to Salisbury from London, so now head out by foot into town or by car into the Wiltshire coutryside on the hunt for a Cafe (pronounced "caff"). We share our collected experiences, and keep you up to date with the new venues we discover each week. Here goes...

Friday, April 11, 2014

Breakfast in Britain: Home can be heaven!

Sometimes the best place for breakfast is Home.  We enjoy a bit of a lie-in and gather in our dining room overlooking our London garden -- brilliant with a blaze of yellow blossoms.  Our regular feathered visitors drop by:  robins, Parrots, tits and woodpeckers.
Leaping squirrels and sunning foxes make a morning of it.

Happy Husband, enjoying a hot mug of tea, reminds me of an egg poacher we purchased at the Bodiam Castle National Trust Gift Shop a while back.
 Inspiring hope with its sunshine yellow glow, the poacher hooks over the side of a pot and holds the two eggs just above water level inside.  A dab of butter keeps the eggs from sticking.

I remember to create a pleasing geometric pattern with the bread triangles, and voilà! two poached eggs on toast with a flare! Yes, they are runny!

As for the decor -- fascinating spoon collection framing a large map of Britain.   Then there's the wall dedicated to the offspring, the cookie cutter display that reminds us of Happy Husband's Mum, and a recently acquired English country scene painted by a local artist.

And an item hanging in the window, over the sink, that always moves with us, a plastic bag dryer -- for the hard-core re-user of all those veggie bags from the grocers.










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