4-Course ... Breakfast?

Good evening (or morning or afternoon depending on where you are) my fellow followers, hope you have all been well. There are a few posts that I do intend on posting up this week if I do get a minute or so. 

Today was a beautiful Sunday, where the sun was shining, sky was magnificently blue, birds chirping outside with a perfect 25 degrees celcius. There was a very slight breeze in the air and honestly, it is definitely one of the most relaxing days I've had in a while (unfortunately still a lot of things I'm worrying about at the back of my mind, but that's not the point). 

One of the most perfect ways to start a day like this, is of course, a sleep in without being woken up by alarms, but rather have the sunshine peeking through the windows. After that, it is time for a 4 course breakfast ... yes, you've heard right, BREAKFAST! The even better thing was, it was actually made by myself. Most of my friends were either busy today (especially at this time of the year) or away on holidays. So I decided to cook up something magical instead of going out for brunch:

4 main course breakfast

As I was feeling creative, I have decided to whip up these four elements, but instead of separating it into different dishes, I was feeling rather inspired by some of the other restaurants and have basically used a similar idea...serve up all the courses on one huge dish. Typically in the 'upper class' chic restaurants, a course like that would be considered a tasting plate with literally sample sizes of each course. However, as I was feeling rather generous at home and this is home cooking at its best after all, I decided to use bigger than average portions to ensure that the breakfast/lunch was adequately filling. So on the menu today was (rotating from bottom left anti-clockwise):

Entree: Butter-infused with garlic, shallots and Italian parsley on rye toast

First main: Portobello mushroom steak with freshly cracked black pepper and sea salt

Second main: Grilled eggs with chilli napolitana sauce

Dessert: Layered blueberry yoghurt with banana and freshly toasted hazelnut and organic maple syrup muesli

So you see, these elements were not very hard to produce individually. The only challenge was knowing what to do whilst preparing the other element as you want all the dishes to be warm/cold/crispy, i.e. as fresh as possible. There was not a better way to start this lovely morning but with a huge 4-course breakfast. I hope this has inspired some of you to start your day with a huge breakfast.

Au revoir ~~