There are several non-negotiable traditions in our family, and chief among them are Sunday morning waffles with maple syrup. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less. Waffles and maple syrup. Ever has it been, ever shall it be. I fiddled around with a variety of recipes when we started out on this weekend ritual. I wanted [...]
Last week, I made one of those freak miscalculations that left me stranded in Leeds Station fairly early in the morning with nothing to do. My train left at 10am, so I had an hour to wander around and explore the parts of the city south of the River Aire around Holbeck. Breakfast seemed like [...]
I’ve started to eat a lot more porridge, as an alternative breakfast to my usual couple of slices of toast. The benefits have been enormous. Porridge is a slow-burning food that provides fuel for the body over a much longer period of time than bread. I don’t feel hungry until much later in the morning, [...]
We had breakfast at the eclectic Roots & Fruits the other day. Sat in the window on mis-matched chairs looking out onto the quiet Grand Arcade, we ordered a standard English breakfast of eggs, toast, mushrooms, beans, hash browns. Nothing fancy, nothing out of the ordinary, but well cooked and served with early Stevie Wonder [...]
Eating breakfast in a hotel is a tedious, expensive and predictable business, to be avoided when possible. I discovered The Troubadour about a decade ago whilst wandering round trying to avoid just this problem, and I’ve been back there every now and again ever since. Opened in 1954, The Troubadour is the last remaining of [...]