There are many ways to start the day, but some breakfasts are just more scrumptious than others...
Pancake Art
Tim: Every Sunday we have a big family breakfast in bed. French toast is popular, but the house favourite is definitely pancakes with fruit and maple syrup. A while ago we started experimenting with shapes, like pancakes in the shape of each person’s initials. Now we’ve gone a step further by adding colour to create more ambitious pancake art.
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Muesli Mornings
Tamsin: I am not that good at breakfast. Cooking early in the morning is not a good start for me (which is a pity for my growing son who can think of nothing better than an English fry-up to start the day). My favourite beginning is a fresh fruit salad but even that seems like an awful lot of hard work when your eyes have yet to focus from their night of slumber. I think this comes from being spoilt as a child by my father who prepared us breakfast each day. All we had to do was lay the table and enjoy. Thank you dad, I look back at those ‘breakfast all prepared’ days with belated appreciation.
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Pancakes
Thin and crispy or fat and moist, the choice is up to you when you make your own classic pancakes. You can make the mixture the night before and enjoy a very easy breakfast with the added fun of everyone tossing their own.
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Posh Polenta Pancakes
This is the kids’ favourite Sunday morning breakfast, slathered with golden syrup or lemon juice and caster sugar. They taste lovely and light and if you cook them in a cookie cutter or egg-poaching ring they come out looking perfect.
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Mini-Cooked Breakfast
Kids of all ages find miniature things entrancing - especially miniature food. For maximum impact, serve on the biggest plates you have.
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Redcurrant Muffins
These are lovely for picnics or even for an alfresco breakfast on a hot summer's day.
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Hot Cross Buns
You can make the dough in a bread machine - fast and easy - or by hand with quick-rising yeast. Home-made buns don't look as perfect as the ones in the shops but they taste 1,000 times better!
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Awesome American Pancakes
American pancakes are much lighter than English ones because of the air bubbles from the baking powder. In this recipe, the bubbles tell you when to toss the pancake. Ask the kids to look out for them (about two to three minutes), then they can flip the pancake over.
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