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Re: Bikers love a fry up...
Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2021 6:45 pm
by MotoCP
daveuprite wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 4:29 pm
DavidS wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 4:20 pm
But can we possibly believe you?
You can fill a croissant with cheese and a few bacon rashers when no-one is looking.
Yep, fair point. I have been known as Dave Three Breakfasts from time to time. I sneak in a bowl of frosties (well they're Carrefour fake frosties actually but pretty good), and marmalade toast makes an appearance too sometimes. I'd rather have loads of breakfast and skip lunch all together, which isn't very french at all but I can never get anything done after a fat dejeuner.
During my early twenties I would visit the girlfriend for the weekend and on Sunday her French mother (now my mother-in-law) would present something gorgeous like roast lamb with flageolet beans and potato dauphinoise swilled down with a red from her fathers favorite ‘cave’ before tucking into a tarte au citron. We would eat around 2pm which enabled me to leave for 4pm, fly up the motorway and arrive at my parents by 5.30 for roast beef and Yorkshire puds.
Speaking of Carrefour, I wish I could find Reglisse Menthe herbal tea here in the UK.
Re: Bikers love a fry up...
Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2021 7:15 pm
by daveuprite
MotoCP wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 6:45 pm
daveuprite wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 4:29 pm
DavidS wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 4:20 pm
But can we possibly believe you?
You can fill a croissant with cheese and a few bacon rashers when no-one is looking.
Yep, fair point. I have been known as Dave Three Breakfasts from time to time. I sneak in a bowl of frosties (well they're Carrefour fake frosties actually but pretty good), and marmalade toast makes an appearance too sometimes. I'd rather have loads of breakfast and skip lunch all together, which isn't very french at all but I can never get anything done after a fat dejeuner.
During my early twenties I would visit the girlfriend for the weekend and on Sunday her French mother (now my mother-in-law) would present something gorgeous like roast lamb with flageolet beans and potato dauphinoise swilled down with a red from her fathers favorite ‘cave’ before tucking into a tarte au citron. We would eat around 2pm which enabled me to leave for 4pm, fly up the motorway and arrive at my parents by 5.30 for roast beef and Yorkshire puds.
Speaking of Carrefour, I wish I could find Reglisse Menthe herbal tea here in the UK.
Can't stand licorice myself, but if you want I can post you some? It won't be cheap these days, I'm afraid. Lots of taxes and duty even to send a box of tea bags to a third country. Maybe make some mint tea and dangle a stick of licorice in it for a minute?
Re: Bikers love a fry up...
Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2021 8:10 pm
by MotoCP
I appreciate the offer Dave but it will wait until I get over that way. Hopefully a trip to visit PIF/Jax Shack is on the cards at some point.
Re: Bikers love a fry up...
Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2021 11:06 pm
by steve the grease
daveuprite wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 6:21 pm
johnnyboxer wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 5:41 pm
Is there a Vegan option?
Well yes, you can sort out a perfectly decent vegan fry up, if you don't mind TVP or tofu sausages. Very nice:
I was mainly veggie myself for decades, but not vegan. which is harder. I couldn't keep it up while travelling though. These days we keep chickens so we have a constant supply of superb free-range eggs. When I combine those with veggie sausages, beans, toast/hash-browns, home-grown toms and mushrooms I'm quite happy. Add salt and pepper, but no Peppa...
Surely tempeh in preference to tofu?
Re: Bikers love a fry up...
Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2021 7:28 am
by daveuprite
Yeah, tempeh's a bit chewier isn't it? Hard to find here, but there are some specialist bio-shops springing up now that sell it.
This thread is straying nicely. We'll be discussing helicopter engines eventually...
Re: Bikers love a fry up...
Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2021 8:28 am
by Brenhden
daveuprite wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 7:28 am
This thread is straying nicely. We'll be discussing helicopter engines eventually...
Hope so.
Vegan sausages are improving all the time, I'm quite a fan of the Richmond ones and although I've no idea what they are made from, I've no idea what normal sausages are made from either so that fine. The aldi copies are just as good.
As a camping addict I really like veggy sausages because they can't leak meat juice inside my cool bag and you never really worry about them going off. Nothing can replace a butchers finest but they aren't so bad.
Re: Bikers love a fry up...
Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2021 9:35 am
by Hugh
Greetings Dave,
Funny you should mention that, does anybody have the valve clearance settings for a BMW111a engine?
TTFN
Hugh.
Re: Bikers love a fry up...
Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2021 9:43 am
by DavidS
If you can get a hash brown in the gap, it’s too big.
Tesco, but not Asda, streaky bacon is about right.