The most important meal of the day.
Certainly one I enjoy, I would rather be late for an appointment than skip breakfast!
Now that we are doing bnb, breakfast has become even more important. The guests’ breakfast that is. Ours on the mornings we have guests staying may never happen!
I was listening to Georgina Campbell who runs the annual Irish Breakfast Awards on radio some months back, where she was asked ‘how can you go wrong with breakfast?’. I loved her answer! ‘Let’s start with the orange juice’! And how right is she? Another guest on that radio programme who I think was a chef at a hotel, pointed out that you can give guests the best dinner in the world, but if they stay overnight and have an awful breakfast… that is going to be their abiding memory. Again how right?
Here at Oldfarm, I am generally the breakfast cook. Not everyone wants a ‘cooked’ breakfast, but we always offer freshly squeezed juice, homemade granola and homemade yoghurt. Then if a guest wants there is the ‘cooked’ option
I never start cooking breakfast until the guests come down stairs. Is there anything worse in the world than breakfasts that have been kept ‘warm’ somewhere!!! Yuck!
This is what an Oldfarm breakfast consist of …. take all, some or none!
Freshly squeezed orange juice
Homemade granola with homemade yoghurt
Fruit and Yoghurt
seasonal homegrown fruit – fresh or stewed
Poached Egg
Eggs – any which way – from our own hens
Banana Pancakes
Sausages and/or bacon (subject to availability) from our own pigs
Potato Cakes
homemade jams and marmalades, and maybe some of our own honey
Homemade Breads
Selection of homemade organic breads
Tea and/or coffee – real tea (with leaves) and real coffee (French press or Keurig)
Our guests enjoy their breakfasts…. well so they tell us!
When are you coming to stay? We promise a damn fine breakfast!
A Year In Redwood 