Egg & Soldiers
I admit it. I am definitely an anglophile. I have spent the majority of my life living in the USA, but I am the daughter on a Danish father and a Belgian mother. I was born in Belgium and my Nana was 100% English. That translates into me being only quarter English, but I have always been drawn to all things English - the homes, the gardens, the towns, the traditions, the people, the history. You name it. And on rainy mornings when I make my children egg and soldiers for breakfast and don my orange wellies to walk to school in the rain I like to pretend I'm a little more than just a quarter English.
Growing up I had egg and soldiers many a mornings before school seated at the kitchen table with my brother while my Mum prepared our lunches in her dressing gown. My children have it at least 3X a week and it makes me happy to know I've continued this simple little breakfast tradition. In case you don't know, it is a soft boiled egg cracked open, sprinkled with salt and served with slices of buttered toast (the soldiers) that you dip in the egg.
I would like to be preparing them in this lovely English kitchen.
And eat them around this table.
Happy Monday!
all images from The English Home magazine
Growing up I had egg and soldiers many a mornings before school seated at the kitchen table with my brother while my Mum prepared our lunches in her dressing gown. My children have it at least 3X a week and it makes me happy to know I've continued this simple little breakfast tradition. In case you don't know, it is a soft boiled egg cracked open, sprinkled with salt and served with slices of buttered toast (the soldiers) that you dip in the egg.I would like to be preparing them in this lovely English kitchen. And eat them around this table.Happy Monday!
all images from The English Home magazine