An English Fry Up with a Kiss of California #NationalHotBreakfastMonth #SundayFunday

This week the Sunday Funday bloggers are sharing hot breakfast recipes. Stacy of Food Lust People Love is hosting. She wrote: "February is National Hot Breakfast Month. You've got most of the month left to make it count! Share a recipe you've made this month or one for your favorite hot breakfast dish."

Stacy of Food Lust People Love, Sue of Palatable Pastime, Rebekah of Making Miracles, and Wendy of A Day in the Life on the Farm coordinate this low-stress group; we only participate when we are inspired. I already mentioned that Stacy is hosting this week. Here's our line-up of hot breakfasts...

• An English Fry Up with a Kiss of California by Culinary Cam (you're here)

• Chinese Steamed Eggs by A Day in the Life on the Farm

• Corned Beef Hash by Amy's Cooking Adventures

• Leftover Veg and Paneer Paratha by Cook with Renu

• Mini Scones by Food Lust People Love

• Sausage and Spinach Breakfast Casserole by Karen's Kitchen Stories

• Soft & Spongy Dosa With Urad Dal Flour by Sneha's Recipe

• Sweet Italian Sausage Quiche with Ricotta by Faith, Hope, Love, & Luck Survive Despite a Whiskered Accomplice

Other Favorite Hot Breakfasts

I still am not really sure what designates something as a 'hot breakfast.' Do baked goods count? Pain au Chocolat is a favorite as are Laminated Bacon Biscuits, but somehow those didn't really seem 'hot.' I figured these were closer: Oven-Cooked Fries with Scrambled Eggs, Eggs Florentine, and Crêpes.

I decided to try something new-to-me...and joked with Jake that this was the food of his people.

An English Fry Up with a Kiss of California

An English Fry Up is traditionally fried eggs, sausages, bacon, tomatoes, mushrooms, and bread with baked beans. There are many regional variations of this staple, such as the Ulster Fry that has Irish soda bread; the Scottish Fry that features a tattie scone made with potatoes and a slice of haggis; the Welsh Fry is served with barra lawr, a seaweed-based edible; and the Cornish Fry comes with Cornish hogs pudding.

I couldn't bring myself to fry everything, so I toasted the bread. Also tomatoes aren't in season, so I swapped in local artichokes and my homemade (so, California) sourdough. And, because I served this as Brinner - breakfast for dinner - I poured a beer from Santa Cruz Mountain Brewery.

Ingredients

• bacon

• sausages

• mushrooms (I made my Crisped Mushrooms from this recipe)

• beans (I made my Fagioli all’Uccelletto)

• toast (I used my Revived Sourdough)

• fried eggs

• artichokes

Procedure

I usually cook my bacon in the oven and poach my eggs, but in the spirit of the English fry Up, I pan-fried the bacon, sausages, and the eggs!

To serve, place everything on together on a platter.

That's a wrap on my Hot Breakfast offering for #SundayFunday. We will be back next week with posts on Irish breakfasts. Wendy of A Day in the Life on the Farm is hosting. Stay tuned!