The fingerless gloves, so redolent of Dickensian misery, would be just the job today. They would be even more the job if they weren’t fingerless as it’s the tips of my fingers that turn to bloodless corpse white when the temperature performs that perfect jack knife off the 10m board and plummets into the icy blue. Running on the spot or just keeping moving can suffice to warm the body, but no matter how fast I try to type, my fingertips remain insensitive white blobs, and past a certain speed I can only type random letters, which would be like writing a novel on the Enigma machine…only warmth will set the blood coursing and warmth, particularly of the electric kind, is a luxury that I ration as carefully as the Beluga that I spoon onto my toast each morning. I’m forever planning to have toast but it would mean turning on the toaster, which expense has deterred me from buying Beluga which means that having cold hands is an extraordinarily smart way of saving money. I’m sure Warren Buffet’s hands are freezing..
Tip: Try this when the larder is bereft of sturgeon eggs.
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Nice, pretty, economical breakfast 🙂
Beluga on toast is never going to receive that accolade:)
It’s still too dry without butter 😉
That’s another reason why I don’t have it for breakfast, MD, I’m cutting down on butter:)
Mon dieu, quel dommage!
…I have to assure you,MD, that the butter intake reduction was a pleasantry.
Phew!
🙂
How about a pair of those mittens that you can lift the finger bit on and off of – they look a bit like something Nanny would have put on her charges in the nursery but they might be just what you need….the string attaching them to each other would be optional! Lovely breakfast with a regular egg or otherwise!
Maybe I should just buy the fingers and not the gloves:)
A perfect little morsel.. Fingerless gloves are all the rage this winter you know! Hand knitted ones.. though i have never seen the point.. c
There are no points to see on fingerless gloves, Celi:)
nice.
Many thanks for that, Mimi:)
I was a little slow on the draw today. I kept thinking, “isn’t Beluga caviar? Why is he showing a picture of an egg?” It took a moment, but I got it. I figured it out.
It’s odd, because I’d be happy with an English muffin, jam, and coffee. I’d make a terrible billionaire.
I’m the same, but I’d still like a chance to find out just how terrible I would be:)
Cutting down on butter! Oh the inhumanity of it all. I’m getting into the wrist gauntlets now as our house is so cold in the winter time but I still need to knit, type, and cook. So no fingers for me!
As I mentioned to MD, the cutting down on butter was only said in jest….I maybe cold but I’m not insane:)
I was going to say! Actually I think butter in moderation is much better than the processed stuff that is supposed to be better for you. That stuff is not natural!
You’re right…I would never use that stuff.
Fingerless gloves were a must when I was trying to take photos in sub-zero temps. Now I’m thrilled to give them away.
Is it even possible to cut down on butter in France? Sounds like le vrai sacrilège to me. 🙂
It’s not happening….really it’s not;)
Wasn’t sure where you were going with that post title.
I love bacon and eggs on toast but never eat it these days as I can’t digest any fatty stuff (without a gall bladder). Nearly all my breakfasts are gluten free rice cereal, rice milk (no cholesterol), ground linseed, pumpkin seeds & some sort of fruit. At the weekend I might have scrambled or poached eggs on toast.
Your bacon & egg on toast looks scrumptious though. I wrap my hands around a hot mug of herbal tea in winter if my fingers get too cold. I just keep topping up the same teabag so I ultimately end up drinking hot water while sitting at my desk.
I sometimes make a batch of hummus and have that on toast (without butter or margarine). A batch lasts about 4-5 days in the fridge. My recipe makes a fair bit though, so I usually only make a batch to share with my SIL or neighbour – hummus doesn’t freeze well.
Like you, I try to always some home made hummus in the fridge. Excellent snack. I try to like herbal tea, but I don’t 🙂
re: the sturgeon eggs ~ do I HAVE to abstain? Now that you have taught us how to have lovely warm hands it is such a wonderful reason to splurge . . . [well, I can dream of days past, can’t I 🙂 ?]
So strange to think that there are places in Europe and Asia where sturgeon eggs are cheap as chips…and much better for you…
This comes in at a pretty good second best 🙂 (Delectable photo, by the way.)
Thanks, Marina…..coming second to Beluga is not a bad performance for a humble egg:)
I need to find you a pair of my gloves, Roger. Fingerless, but with a flap that covers the fingers when not in use. Genius.
Oh, I like the sound of them, Andra.
I got them at Muji. There’s one in London, if you’re going to be up there around the holidays.
Muji is one of my favourite shops…I have lots of their stuff. I hate things with labels or names on them and Muji means “No Name” or something like that.That’s a good idea as we will be there in the New Year.
Ooh, that last photo…perfect for breakfast.
Go for it, Yummy:)
Yes, the flap turns your fingerless gloves into mittens. Very genius, especially if your are cold. Your photograph is delectable.
With the cost of electricity continually rising, indoor gloves will become de rigueur in the not too distant future:)
I, too, have a pair of fingerless gloves with a mitten flap. I use them when I need to work outdoors or walk the dog in Winter. Yes, they’re handy bur I’d be be willing to trade them for a smidgen of Beluga. 🙂
That’s an exchange which could be tinged with regret:)
The food shot is simple yet … a killer! I was biking with my fingerless gloves last night and I so relate …
I’ll have to get some, that’s for sure:)
The high is going to be 15 F tomorrow and 40 MPH winds. The ends of my fingers go numb when it is cold so I may need a pair of those gloves too.
Me too…it’s the tips of the index fingers that go deathly white the moment the temperature drops. It can even happen in the frozen food section of a supermarket:)