Breakfast is an important meal, as anyone who thinks they know lots will tell you. On holiday, though, breakfasts seem to get a little lost… you stay up half the night and sleep half the day, you arise like a zombie when the sun gets too bright to sleep through, and pretty soon you realise you are very hungry. So you toddle off to the kitchen for… breakfast? Lunch? Brunch? Something else entirely? Who knows. For me, the meal is a blend of all of those… it isn’t breakfast because it’s too late, it’s too early for lunch but whatever I eat will probably replace lunch because I’ll still be full well past lunch time, and who cares about dinner because it’s too far away to think about. But whatever the name, the “holiday breakfast” is a beautiful thing. You have plenty of time – no rushing off to school, work or university/college. You have the inclination – you’re not doing anything else all day! You usually have plenty of ingredients because you have all the time in the world to shop and want plenty of awesome foods on hand while you sit and be lazy. So with time, inclination and ingredients, the world is your (vegan) oyster.* Holiday breakfasts are awesome! Here are a couple I recently experimented with:
Tofu Scramble (Spinach, Avocado, Cheese)
Spinachy avocadoey tomatoey tofu goodness
Me being me, I made some changes to this recipe.
I added some tomato and garlic, replaced the soy cheese with wholegrain mustard, and sprinkled savoury yeast over the top.
Definitely the best tofu scramble I have made so far!
EEE-ZEE-CHEE-ZEE Grilled Cheeze
Healthier than your average grilled cheese sandwich...except for the frying bit
I used the recipe above for the cheezy sauce, but a plain grilled cheeze sandwich is so boring!
I added tomato, shallots, avocado and mustard – heavenly!
That’s it for pictures for now. As my holiday continues, prepare for more kitchen carnage and holiday breakfasts!
* I’m sure they exist somewhere. They have vegan everything else. Turkey, duck, bacon, etc… I never actually saw much point in fake meat. But then I never saw the point of meat full stop, so fake meat seems even odder. Except for vegetarian sausages. No offense to vegetarians and vegans who like fake meat a lot, that’s cool, I just think other stuff tastes better. But if I ever find a vegan oyster I will be sure to try it. Just so that I can say I did it 🙂
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