So many “simple” recipes take ages, are fiddly and need a lot of washing up. If you agree – read on.
Can you make toast, or is that too fiddly? Do you have butter and Marmite? Do you have an egg past its sell-by date? Have you got a jar of herbs and a pepper mill? Everyone has a tin of baked beans in the cupboard.
Slather the toast with butter and Marmite, plenty of Marmite. Spoon cold baked beans on and then a fried egg; garnish with pepper and herbs. If you are too indolent to follow my recipe just open the beans and eat from the tin. But you will want to adapt to suit yourself. Replace the egg with slices of foie gras or black pudding for instance but the Marmite is crucial.
A fino sherry pairs well with Marmite.
I love my daily Marmite but believe in reducing my salt intake and therefore eat the reduced salt version, stocked by Sainsbury’s. I do not claim that I have achieved anything for my health by this pernikettiness. Or that Sainsbury’s is the only stockist of the product.
Apropos Cedric Morris, I often think him a rather wishy-washy sort of a painter in the Bloomsbury and Charleston manner. His partner in many things, Lett Haines, was a more interesting talent I think.