My sweet husband made me breakfast today. He made a delicious breakfast hash with potatoes, bacon, and eggs. he served it with hot coffee and toast. Well done my love! Delicious 🙂
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Meal #71: Lunch
Meal #27: Breakfast
Another amazing meal at the castle! They use only locally sourced ingredients and wow are they tasty. I had a huge breakfast of Irish bacon, black pudding, mushrooms, potato bread, soda bread, and white porridge with local heather-honey, heavy cream, and Bushmills whiskey!!! Why haven’t I ever had boozy oatmeal?!? It is sooo good! We also loved the black pudding. I’m still not exactly sure what it is- a strange blend of bread and sausage…? The bacon tasted more like a pork chop than American bacon- delish! Finally, I must tell you about the apple juice- it was so amazing. Adam drank five glasses!!! It tasted similar to my grandma’s fresh homemade apple sauce. Pure apple. So sweet and natural. Unbelievable.
Meal #63: Lunch
This salad jumped right out of the menu at me. Who wouldn’t want to eat a mushroom and bacon salad? The salad was made up of a buttery lettuce somewhat like Boston, tomato wedges, cucumber slices and crunchy croutons with a creamy dressing. The salad itself was a good salad, but then they decided to make it an awesome salad so they topped it with a heaping pile of warm mushrooms and bacon. The bacon was awesome, like it always is when it’s actual bacon, from the belly. And the mushrooms were heavy and earthy. It was an incredible salad, one of the best salads I’ve ever had!
Charity’s first course was a shrimp croquette with salad. The croquette was hot and creamy on the inside, with a really crispy exterior, and very delicate flavors, which pared very nicely with the salad and simple vinaigrette.
I had no idea what to expect when I ordered Flemish stew. I was pleasantly surprised. The tender chunks of beef were in a really great silky ale and beef gravy. I would have appreciated some carrots, onions, and peas in the stew. The frites were crispy and salty. The apple compote was a nice sweet relief from the very salty stew and frites. Overall, a very strange lunch combination, however, very pleasing and I will definitely try to make this at home.
Meal #46: Lunch
For her first lunch in Oxford with me, I had to take Charity to Pret A Manger, where else? I had the always amazing chicken bacon club, as previously described, it did not disappoint. There were no especially good soups today, so I accompanied my club with a bag of sea salt crisps. Everything was tasty and fresh as always.
My first meal in Oxford! It was simple and lovely. The smoked English river Trout was mild and delicious, especially with the horseradish mayonnaise to brighten it up. The coffee was really good- I know it’s a strange combination, but I really needed some caffeine. The nectarine was sweet and sour perfection. Overall, a great first meal in Oxford!
Meal #36: Breakfast
“Bacon” which is really more like ham as it is cut from the shoulder instead of the belly where the real bacon comes from. Scrambled eggs today instead of fried, trying to stay fit, and a load of beans dumped wherever they will fit. Not the best breakfast ever, but for sure the funniest.
Meal #23: Lunch
Pret is my new favorite lunch spot, it’s like Eat. but better. They sell sandwiches and salads and soups and weird drinks with a flair for interesting combinations that are inexpensive as well as delicious. My sandwich was awesome! Marinated grilled chicken that was slightly shredded and added to the mayonnaise, layered with thick pieces of salty English bacon, and a fresh punch of mixed greens. The soup was a bacon and tomato with crème fraiche. I normally don’t go for tomato soups, but it sounded so good, I just had to get it. And it was well worth it, so creamy and smooth with chunks of that amazing salty English bacon. The drink was pretty great as well, it was another “no nasties” sparkling beverage flavored this time with grape and elderflower! It was more tart than sweet, but also very pleasantly aromatic. Overall, it was a great lunch! I will be back to Pret again!
Meal #10: Breakfast
This is not my first English breakfast here, but it is the first one I remembered to take a picture of. This is my breakfast everyday here at the college, (when I decide to wake up for it.) It’s usually the same choices, with only slight changes sometimes. I usually just go for the fried egg, the bacon, and the beans. The toast they bring around as it becomes available. I usually put the egg on the toast and then top it with a little beans. I just wish the breakfast sausages were better so that I could eat those everyday as well, but they are terrible – mostly filler I think. We also get orange juice, but only in tiny glasses and it takes forever for the workers to refill our pitchers.
Breakfast. Lunch. Dinner. 