Stokes Sauces: Breakfast in Bed - romance isn't dead, just resting

Breakfast in Bed, with love

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Relationships - it's not all roses and eggs benedict:

Groucho Marks:
"Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife."
Micky Rooney:
"Get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day."
Rita Runder:
"My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to."
Oscar Wilde:
"One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry."
Margaret Attwood:
"The Eskimos have 52 words for snow because it is so special to them. There ought to be as many for love."

Say it with eggs

Bloody Mary Baked Eggs

Oeuf en Cocotte (baked egg) is an old classic that we don't see very often, which is a shame because it tastes wonderful.

As with most things we do at Stokes, we have taken an old classic and given it a tasty modern twist adding our Bloody Mary Ketchup and baking the eggs in a scooped out tomato.

Here's how:

Take 2 big round tomatoes, cut off their tops and scoop out the inside flesh and pips. Fry the tomato pulp with a finely chopped shallot and the meat squeezed from the skin of a good Cumberland-style sausage and add 1 tbsp of Stokes Bloody Mark Ketchup.

Put each scooped out tomato into a ramekin (this stops it collapsing while baking) and half fill each with the sausage mix. Put the ramekins in a roasting tray sitting in half an inch of boiled water, then put the tray into the oven at 200°C/Gas mark 5 for 25 minutes (you'll see the egg white is cooked). Served with toast it's fun and flavoursome.

Sausage & Egg Mess

Here's how:

Shop-bought waffles make an easy alternative to toast. Here, we toast them until crisp, tear them and keep them warm.

Take the meat from the skin of 2 or 3 butcher's sausages, smash it up on a plate, add 1 or 2 tbsp of Stokes Brown Sauce and break the meat into smaller pieces. Put the sausage meat onto a baking tray then bake it in a hot oven until it becomes well coloured and slightly crunchy.

Dress the plate with crunchy broken waffles, sausage crumbs and a poached (of fried) egg. Finish with a good drizzle of hollandaise sauce (this can be shop bought, home made, or you could try this instant hollandaise sauce recipe, below).

Instant Hollandaise - Stokes Style

Here's how:

Mix 4 tbsp of Stokes Real Mayonnaise with 3 tbsp of sour cream, 1 or 2 tsp (to taste) of Stokes Dijon Mustard and the juice of 1/2 a lemon. Beat this together and add 1 tbsp of melted butter. Whisk this vigorously to avoid it splitting.

http://www.stokessauces.co.uk/page/sauces/mayo-range

Smoked Salmon Eggs Benedict

Here's how:

For this dish, use the hollandaise sauce as above or, to marry with the smoked salmon, use 1 or 2 tsp (to taste) of Stokes Mustard & Dill Sauce instead of the Dijon mustard. It's a fabulous match.