MENDIP HILLS 29 – THE FULL ENGLISH AT PRIDDY GOOD FARM SHOP

 

 

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The Full English Breakfast at Priddy Good Farm Shop, on Townsend Farm, northwest of Priddy; 7 Aug 2014.

Tired and hungry after early morning photographic sorties out onto the Somerset Levels, I’ve often dropped into the Priddy Good Farm Shop on the way home to buy some of their wonderful meat pies, sausage rolls, scotch eggs – and their large, thick fruit pies, which are just like my mother used to make!   And, seeing the small restaurant that has now been built onto the shop, I’ve been meaning for ages to sample their cooked breakfasts – because if they’re up to the standard of their other meat products, I want in!!!

So earlier this month, after a minimal first breakfast at home and some enjoyable photography in East Water Lane, wild horses couldn’t have kept me away from a full-blast second breakfast, Priddy Good Style!

I was not disappointed.  In my gourmet parlance, this was “a good plateful” (even though they forgot the black pudding), and there was also toast and butter, and a whole pot of delicious steaming coffee!

What did I like about this meal?  Well, the eggs and the beans are always good, I’m never going to dislike them, but each of the other ingredients here added something special.  First, the mushrooms were tasty, not some bland supermarket product.  And then the tomato was fresh as opposed to tinned, and not over-fried to a textureless mush.  And as expected from this carnivore’s paradise, the meat products were excellent – very tasty chipolatas (sausages can often be the blandest parts of English breakfasts), and quite thick, tasty bacon.  English breakfasts can often be pallid and bland affairs, and in many instances the more colourful they are the better – this was in the more colourful league.

And although not in the picture, the pot of coffee was a wonderful accompaniment – I can see that it would be even more so on cold winter mornings – although only 1,000 feet high, the Mendips can get cold – bleakly cold! – during those months that have an “r” in them.

D800 with 12-24 Sigma at 24mm; 800 ISO.
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