Currently in the province of Noord Holland, the sunrise is somewhere between 8-9am. It's hard to know exactly, and some days the sun doesn't even register. When the mornings are that dark, cold, and colourless, it's important to inject a bit of life and colour. Kicking breakfast week 2015 off this morning was Glenn (always a dab hand at talking about himself in the 3rd person), who sprung out of bed at 6.20am to make baked avocado and shiitake mushroom omelettes...
(to serve you and your loved one)
Ingredients: 1 avocado, 2 eggs, a small ciabatta, a few shiitake mushrooms, and cherry tomatoes.
Method: First, pre-heat the oven to 175c, then half and de-stone the avocado. Remove a little more flesh from the avocado, just enough to fit an egg yolk and a little white as the supporting cast. Place the two avocado halves in a large ramekin, and bake for 15mins or so. In the meantime, in a drizzle of olive oil (or butter if you're bold), fry up the chopped mushrooms, tomatoes, and slices of good ham/chorizo/serrano. Serve on toast, sat amicably next to the fresh-from-the-oven avocado.
Tips: Remove the avocados while the egg white is still transparent.
Music: Roy Ayers - Everyone Loves the Sunshine
