My wife found this method of creating a special breakfast on a YouTube video, so we had a go at making it (well, she did, ’cause I’m pretty useless in the kitchen)!
Buy an uncut loaf of bread.
Cut the top off, hollow it out and then butter it.
Cook a boatload of healthy food for a breakfast or, better still, unhealthy food! There were also mushrooms and tomatoes to go with this lot, but they’re being kept warm while the serious frying goes on!
Stuff everything into the loaf and put the top on.
Carefully cut the loaf in half (only if you’re sharing – I was told I was sharing).
And voila!
Brilliant! Thoroughly enjoyed it! After all, an army marches on its stomach!
Just Needs Varnish! 
What time do you have breakfast? I can be there tomorrow. 🤗
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Haha, too late, Dave, it’s already eaten! 🙂 Maybe I should post advance notice of when the next one’s planned for!
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A handy way of keeping all the breakfast in one place John
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You’re right, Dave and, surprisingly, it did not go all over the place while I was scoffing it! 🙂
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I’m revolted but at the same time want to lick my monitor…
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Haha! 🙂 Monitors do not taste anywhere near as nice!
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Haha, this is awesome, John! Your wife is quite the culinarian. 🙂 May I reblog this and post it on Facebook, etc.?
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Thanks Ann, I’ll pass on your kind words 🙂 Feel free to re-post/blog it!
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Thank you! One can’t keep a High Cuisine recipe like this under a bush! 🙂
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That sounds delish! Though i just can’t eat like that too often nowadays. Been trying to be healthier, but it’s paid off with a bit of weight loss. Something I thought would never happen with the pandemic and my work schedule!
What’s the black circular thing in the picture? Guessing some sort of meat/sausage?
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We don’t often have a cooked breakfast but just had to have a go, and the sausages are meat free! The black circular thing is black pudding – you’ll probably be revolted if you google it!
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Hehe, I’ve heard of black pudding. Never been crazy about blood sausage, but if I was in the UK, I’d give it a try! Breakfast looks so yummy for sure. I love bread like that, and stuffed with some eggs and whatnot, too hard to pass up!
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I love black pudding but it goes especially well with a runny egg yolk
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I’ll have to give that a try! 🙂
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Forget the army I certainly do. Minus the marching bit of course.
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Haha, me too! 🙂
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hey John looks delicious! it reminds me of a breakfast stottie i used to get in that town of yours! full English breakfast jammed into soft fresh bread……
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Haha, thanks Will! 🙂 I haven’t had a stottie in ages (for those not in the know, a stottie is like a big, flat bread roll/bun)!
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Amazing
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Thanks Sheree! 🙂 Actually takes a bit of care to get the bread hollowed out!
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They do similar things here in France with a salad Niçois and also with mini sandwiches
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Thanks Sheree, that’s worth knowing! 🙂 More things to try out!
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Indeed
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A dream come true. Many thanks to your good lady for the practical and delicious demo and recipe. I shall endeavour to try this out….I may not survive, but it must be done.
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I like your attitude! 🙂
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Reblogged this on Ann's Immaterium and commented:
I thought this piece of High Cuisine by John (or John’s wife, rather) of Just Needs Varnish! was pretty awesome so I thought I’d share it. I might have to try making it at some point, using all plant-based ingredients of course so my husband can have it. He has a birthday coming up soon — perhaps I will surprise him with a magnificent breakfast courtesy of John’s wife. 🙂
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Now that’s what I call a breakfast, though I’d have to add a tin of plum tomatoes on top so the juice runs through and makes the bread soggy on the bottom…
…Oh!… Can you hear my stomach rumbling? I think I’m going to have to raid the cupboards!!!
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Thanks Justin! 🙂 Tinned tomatoes and beans are on the list of things to try already! I think I’d try haggis as well!
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Haggis! You’ve just ruined it for me 🤢
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Sorry Justin! 😉 I could remove my comment but you can’t unsee it!
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Lol! I’ve resorted to the Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses. 😎 (hitchhikers guide, anyone!)
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Haha, brilliant! 🙂 They go black when danger threatens so you don’t get frightened because you can’t see! And I didn’t even need to look that up! The other brilliant tech was the SEP field!
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Great, I remember that – unfortunately SEP fields have become readily available, they’re everywhere now!
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Sadly, Justin, that is a very true observation!
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Afraid so.
Nice to chat with another fan of THG – I really must dig the books out and watch the series, though I have it on VHS!
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I wasn’t really a fan of the TV series or the film! Heard the odd radio episode but not many. I read all the books in my 20s and really liked them, but I bought them again last year and gave up part way through the fourth book – just didn’t seem to click with me anymore!
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I actually enjoyed the TV series, but I saw it before I read the books, which probably helped.
Amazing how somethings stand the test of time and some things don’t. I think here it is to do with the humour; tastes change as you get older.
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I’m thinking more a sense of humour failure! 😉
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Just saw this on Ann’s page, I have to say John, this is glorious. Will definitely be trying this at some point!
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Thanks Steve! 🙂 Go for it!
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Commander Vimes would approve!
Regards, Chris
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Haha, I think he would at that! 🙂 Thanks Chris!
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Wow!
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Thanks Mark! 🙂 I believe that is the shortest comment I’ve ever seen you leave!
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Already had breakfast, but having read that the stomach is rumbling ominously 😋😋😋
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Haha, lunchtime now though! 🙂
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Breakfast of champions!! (and with Black Pudding too! you’ve just gone up in my estimation!!!, have you tried “White Pudding” its delicious too!).
Cheers Roger.
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Thanks Roger! 🙂 Wouldn’t be the same without black pudding! I have tried white pudding, but a long time ago, so I maybe need to try it again! I’m sure there’s a line from Ripping Yarns to do with someone making black pudding that was so black even the white bits were black!
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Now that looks like a proper English breakfast there! It might even beat a “Grand Slam” from Denny’s 😉 Might have to Google that one to know what I’m talking about and I’m having a bit of fun because Denny’s is truthfully barely better than most fast food restaurants but for whatever reason, I always consider it the “gold” standard for a breakfast when you’re eating out in the States 🙂
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Thanks Jeff! 🙂 The Grand Slam looks pretty good mind you!
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Over where I am, there’s a chain of ridiculously popular bakeries specialising in loafs stuffed to the brim with all sorts of fillings — the two most popular being sweetened pulled pork and mayonnaise-lathered crab sticks — each costing no more than 50p. So the overall concept is in no way novel to me. What did surprise me though was how a full-on helping of English Breakfast could look so delectable! As they say in Singlish: so jealous lah!
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Thanks Veroo! 🙂 To be honest, my mind has already started considering what else could be assembled into a loaf!
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Breakfast in a loaf…perfect.
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Haha, too right! 🙂
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That looks deliciously disgusting. Or disgustingly delicious? Certainly a worthy candidate for the title of cheat meal!
…how did you feel after eating all that! 😀
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Haha, thanks Azazel! 🙂 Well we split it between two of us and my wife then halved her bit and let me have that later! Not sure that even I could have eaten the whole thing in one go!
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That looks absolutely amazing. Luckily I’ve just had lunch otherwise I’d be seriously tempted to have a crack at making it for myself here and now. And you’ve got black pudding in there too – very sensible. Reminds me of a greasy spoon I went to with my dad, many years ago now. They advertised “The biggest all-day breakfast you’ll ever eat” so of course we got ourselves one each (like the pair of fat piggies we were!). As I recall there were twenty four different items (which I suppose means if I ate one thing per hour it really would have been an all day breakfast…). Being a teenager I cleaned the plate, don’t think I could manage a fraction of it these days though.
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Thanks Wudugast! 🙂 Love your breakfast story – I think I’d have done the same when I was a teenager!
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Sorry John, I just received an E-mail from my doctor regarding my cholesterol, warning me if I even think of making it I’ll have to fine another doctor! Bloody kill joy!!
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Well, just because it’s you, I’ll ask my wife to make another one and I’ll eat it for you! 🙂 After all, what are friends for!
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Cheers mate you are a champion!!
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I so want to try this but definitely not one for my missies!
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You’ll no doubt get the opportunity sometime! 🙂
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The Health food of a nation!
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🙂
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That. Looks. Amazing! And with the black pudding too!
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Haha, thank Liam! 🙂 It really was nice and you can never have too much black pudding (medical practitioners will probably argue otherwise but they can’t even make their minds up about red wine)! Hope all’s well with you!
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