I must admit, I’m not a morning person and definitely not a ‘breakfast person’. The last thing I need as I drag myself around the house in the morning is a plate, or bowl, of food. Coffee, however, is another matter entirely.
The problem is by mid morning at work I’m famished and with a deficit of cafes around selling anything other than heart-attack-inducing hot sandwiches, I tend to take those God-awful microwave porridges into the office. People of Scotland: please don’t judge me.
So come the weekend, with a little more time and a kitchen at hand, I try and make something properly. Ironically, Saturday tends to comprise the aforementioned heart-attack-inducing sandwich, or even the delicious but deadly “full English”. I see it as a reward for navigating yet another working week without killing anyone (I’m of the opinion that deceased clients are bad for cashflow and expired staff rather less productive).
This breakfast dish is typically something we have on a lazy Sunday. It’s quick, filling and actually inexpensive – a little smoked salmon goes a long way. I actually prefer it with some nice freshly hot-smoked salmon, but this is nearly as good. I made a ‘kind-of’ tartare sauce with home-made mayo, gherkins and finely minced picked onion. It was nice and sharp against the egg and salmon.
It’s not normally something I’d post about, especially as I wrote about something similar a while back, but there were a number of reasons for doing so today:
- We have a new dining table
- It’s the first time I tried making Mayo in the mixer therefore NOT getting it everywhere.
- This morning, for the first time in living memory, it wasn’t CHUCKING IT DOWN WITH RAIN and therefore had some decent light. Oh, now wait, it’s started chucking it down…..
Lastly, Helen’s bright idea was a simple and foolproof way of getting leftover mayo into the squeezy bottle – a greaseproof paper cone. Just top it up every now and again and let it drip through. She was very pleased with herself:
The mixer-mayo was actually brilliant: just beat one egg yolk, one tbsp white wine vinegar, one tsp of dijon mustard on the highest setting with the beater attachment.
Gently pour in the oil
A few minutes later, season with a little salt, et voila:
For the breakfast, I simply added some chopped pickled onion and gherkin (about a tablespoon of each) to a ramekin of the mayo to make the ‘tartare’ sauce.
Scramble some egg with a little butter and season to taste. Keep it soft if you can. Stir in the smoked salmon and allow to warm a little. Serve it on toast or potato cakes if you have them.
Food, Frankly 
I’m more of a brunch person too – I just had tuna with home made allioli 😉
I’ll be honest MD that DOES sound better!
No breakfast for me — unless there’s a slice of pizza leftover from the night before. I don’t now which is worse. 🙂
Hey now, leftover pizza changes things quite a bit John 😉 Glad I’m not alone in being more a night owl than a lark though.
Coffee only for me, must agree there. I am most certainly not a morning person. No one in this house is, not even the dogs. Brunch at the weekend is another matter, and yours looks ideal. Microwavable porridge, I won’t judge, I do the same, but not the floor scrapings they put in these sachets, you can microwave ordinary porridge and the texture is better, less like wallpaper paste 🙂
I know, I know, Tracey, I’m hanging my head in shame. I’ll have to try and make my own “sachets” to take in!
I’m not a breakfast person either at home. I enjoy a breakfast when we travel and then generally skip lunch. My husband would love this breakfast…I just bought him smoked salmon.
I must admit, I do that too. Maybe it’s because we’ve paid for it! Thanks Karen, our local fishmonger does great hot smoked salmon – I must post a dish using it one day…
So delicious & most certainly weekend worthy! Love the homemade tartare, truly elevates that dish!
Thanks vey much. The tartare variation took very little effort with the mixer and you can keep any spare mayo and flavour it how you want. Nice.
Well, I love breakfast and every other meal as well! But this looks fabulous!
Thanks very much Mimi. Just the sort of thing I like to do when I have time.
I never seem to have the time to make breakfasts I love – for I do love breakfasts. It’s been a long time since I had a smoked salmon brunch – as in years. So glad to have seen this. This is a brunch to make at home soon!
Thanks Liuba. It’s a shame isn’t it? Definitely a good brunch dish.
Yum Yum yumm, delightful breakfast..😉
Certainly was. I look forward to getting a weekend off this week to have some more….
🙂 yeahh! x
I’m not a morning person either which is why i usually shoot in the evening light rather than at the crack of dawn. Nor am I a breakfast person, but my solution is to make smoothies. It’s quick and easy. This dish does looks good for a lazy Sunday. 🙂
Thanks Beth. I agree smoothies do the trick nicely too – that’s abut the best I can manage before getting in the car to go to work….