A Valentine Breakfast Menu

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Valentine's Day at Les Trois Chenes Bed and Breakfast in Limousin, S W France

Valentine's Day is a good excuse to go over the top with our breakfast menu and I'm always looking out for good breakfast ideas for our bed and breakfast in Limousin, South West France, espcially for special celebrations, when we want to serve the best breakfast ever. I do like to have a healthy breakfast menu so anyone on a diet won't find the calories being piled on, but on the other hand, holiday breakfasts have to be scrumptious too.

For special days we serve spiced bread, eggs benedict, breakfast muffins, breakfast burritos, pink scrambled eggs with caviare, breakfast pancakes, delicious smoothies and so much more for breakfast, although not all at once of course!

Image: Valentine breakfast at Les Trois Chenes guest house: pink caviare scrambled eggs
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Our Everyday Breakfast At Les Trois Chenes

A varied, healthy, French farmhouse breakfast

I've missed out the cereals and yoghurt! We normally offer coffee, tea, herb teas or hot chocolate, fruit juice, a choice of cereals, fruit and natural yogurt, bread or toast with butter, honey and jam, croissants, brioche or pain au chocolat, fresh eggs from our hens and a fruit bowl. Of course you don't have to eat everything!

Take a look at our site here Les Trois Chenes, or contact us on info@lestroischenes.com

Valentines Day Breakfast Menu No. 1

We like to ring the breakfast changes

Love Fresh Free Range Farm Eggs!

Heart shaped toast and eggs are fun for Valentines Day

Pink Scrambled Eggs Recipe

Red Caviare adds a touch of luxury

SCRAMBLED EGGS WITH RED CAVIARE FOR TWO

Ingredients

4 large eggs (fresh, free range are best!)
small jar of red caviare
Splash of milk
Butter (optional)
Seasoning - salt and coursely ground pepper

2 slices of hot buttered toast

Method

Melt the butter in a pan, (if you wish to add butter; I think the eggs are just as nice without). Beat the eggs in a bowl and add to the butter. Add splash of milk, say two tablespoons and salt. Heat gently stirring all the time as the eggs cook, when they are just firm and cooked add a teaspoon or two of caviare. Cut the toast into heart shapes with a heart shaped cutter, then put the cutter onto the plate, fill with the scrambled eggs and press firmly. Lift the cutter off carefully. Sprinkle with pepper and serve with a rose on the side to decorate!

Heart Shapes Make Your Valentine Day Breakfast a Bit More Special

Heart shaped egg shapers and heart shaped cookie cutters

Shape your fried eggs, scrambled eggs and cookies with these heart shaped egg shapers and heart shaped cookie cutters. It's just a bit of fun!
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Yogurts and Cheese from Local Farms

... nothing like local, traditional produce

The farm where we often buy our yoghurt and cheese, Gaec de la Moulde, is about twenty minutes drive from Videix, on the road to Lesignac Durand. They produce milk and make their own yoghurt and cheese and, if I have time and have a few bookings, I enjoy the pretty drive to this wonderfully picturesque farm. The yogurt is full cream, rich and full of flavour. Their natural yogurt is also brilliant for making my own yoghurt, which I do by the pan-full, and I use their fresh farm milk to make it. No artificial additives there!

Breakfast Food From Les Trois Chenes

Make your own natural yogurt
This is teh simple way - no equipments, no fuss!
How to make medlar jam
Medlars are an old-fashioned fruit enjoying a well-deserved revival.
How to make peach jam
Use that glut of peaches and enjoy the sunshine all winter.
Quick & Easy Sweet or Savoury: French Toast Recipe
French toast is delicious and easy!

Valentine's Day Breakfast Menu No. 2

Valentine menu

Eggs Benedict Recipe

Breakfast for two

EGGS BENEDICT

Ingredients

A little white wine vinegar to poach eggs
4 large eggs (fresh, free range are best!)
2 muffins
Hollandaise sauce
4 slices cured ham, pancetta or bacon
Butter

Method

Fry your ham, poach your eggs, toast and butter your muffins. Put the ham followed by the eggs onto the muffin and top with sauce. If you like you can grill them to slightly brown the sauce.

Our Eggs are From Our Own Hens

Nothing like a freshly laid egg!

Les Trois Chenes hensWe are fortunate to have enough land to have truly free range hens. It is true that we make a six foot enclosure, but this doesn't stop the hens going wherever they please! Our hens rove all day in the hay meadow, under the hedges and in our flower garden! They eat grass and herbs and this means that the egg yolks are an incredible, bright yellow and they are full of natural goodness.

On top of this we feed our hens just maize and wheat together with a bit of dry bread from time to time: nothing is wasted here if I can help it!

Free Range Eggs from our Copper Black Maran Hens

They lay wonderful, dark brown eggs

Most of our hens are copper black marans, a local Charante breed of dark coloured hens with coppery necks. They are an egg and meat breed, so we get fewer eggs than we might, but the eggs that we do get are a wonderful, dark brown. At their best the eggs can be a rich burgundy colour, but, alas, I've never achieved this with my tiny flock.

We Make Our Own Jam and Jellies

And serve our own fruit when in season

Life is just a bowl of cherries, or that's the way it seems here. If not cherries, which are ready in June, it's plums, then raspberries, strawberries, blackcurants, peaches and grapes, apples and, last of all, medlars.

We also have wild fruits, blackberries, elderberries and sloes. I try to make as much of our own jam, cheeses and jellies as I can, but keeping up is hard work! It's fun, though, going through my Granny's old cook books and finding new and interesting combinations. I had fun making apple jelly flavoured with lavender this year.

Honey From Our Bees

Sweets for your sweet ...

Honey from Les Trois ChenesWe have our own bees at Les Trois Chenes. They have all the wild flowers of Limousin to produce their honey and it tastes gorgeous. We collect the honey from up to three hives in the autumn and extract most of the honey, filter it and put it into jars. That's all. We don't intervene any more than that with the product. Over winter the liquid honey solidifies and crystalises. This is a natural process and while you can gently warm it to recreate the liguid state, we like to just leave ours - it stays on the bread more easily! What could be more natural?

All Our Breakfasts are Served on Limoges Porcelain

It makes your visit to Limousin just that little bit more special

Limoges is famous for its beautiful, translucent, fine and strong porcelain and to this day porcelain is produced in Limousin. You can find some excellent bargains if you visit one of the many factory shops. Why not make a shopping holiday of it? I've written several guides which you might find useful, and if you're thinking of buying a loved one a Valentine gift ...... then what could be better?

Find out more about Limoges Porcelain

White Plates of Limoges, Princess of Porcelain
Background and history of Limoges porcelain
Where to buy Limoges Porcelain in Limousin, France
A shopping guide to the best places to buy Limoges porcelain in Limousin. Great for organising your shopping break here.
Limoges porcelain lamps
Limoges porcelain is translucent and make wonderful lamps and light shades
Limoges Porcelain Decorative Eggs for Easter
Limoges porcelain jewlry boxes in the shape of eggs make a perfect Valentine Day gift or Easter gift
Limoges Porcelain Easter Bunny Boxes
Limoges porcelain boxes come in all shapes and forms. These Easter bunnies make great Easter gifts too

Buy Limoges Porcelain On Line

If you can't make it to Limousin

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Beautiful Breakfast Books

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  • Pastiche Apr 29, 2012 @ 1:49 pm | delete
    Such a romantic way to spend Valentine's Day. But then again, if I spent any time in the French countryside I would find it over the top romantic!
  • naheedahsan Feb 22, 2012 @ 6:23 am | delete
    thanks for the idea...
  • mamabush Feb 19, 2012 @ 12:54 am | delete
    Wow! I wish I could have had Valentine's Day breakfast at your place! I think I had Cheerios... :) This looks amazing!
  • Helene-Malmsio Feb 14, 2012 @ 3:15 pm | delete
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    Happy Valentine Day!

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  • KimGiancaterino Feb 13, 2012 @ 11:10 pm | delete
    I'd love to wake up to this breakfast tomorrow. Happy Valentine's Day!
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