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The English Breakfast Tortilla

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This is exactly what it says: the essential ingredients of a traditional English breakfast (sausage, bacon, egg and mushrooms), cooked in a single pan, with the end result resembling something like a Spanish tortilla. It's an epic breakfast (have it late morning and you're unlikely to feel hungry again until evening) and, being cooked in a single pan, it won't create as much washing up as the conventional English breakfast.

Cooks' Note

If you're not quite up to cooking for yourself the hearty meal that you so evidently need, then I suggest you head to a British pub—dangerous territory, perhaps—for a savory meat pie. A pie is exactly the kind of food that most people won't want to cook when they are hungover, particularly if it involves making pastry from scratch.

Most British pubs, though, will serve some sort of pastry concoction that will keep the hunger away for a few hours and may even persuade you that more alcohol is in order (please see disclaimers absolving this author of all responsibility for your mental and physical well-being). Have mashed potato with your pie in order to fulfil your stodge quotient. Some authors might recommend a mixed grill for this type of hangover, but in my experience overindulgence in meat (particularly that of dubious quality) can be, for all kinds of reasons, a serious mistake.

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