Holiday breakfast - smoked salmon and scrambled eggs on potato rosti

Last real holiday morning - OK there's Saturday, but that's voluntary work - and Sunday... but that can be a "normal" cooked type breakfast, and back to work chores - so this felt like the final breakfast treat of the holidays.  So, rosti with smoked salmon and scrambled egg.  Delish.

Rosti

olive oil
butter
2 potatoes
1 onion

1.  Grate the potatoes and onion together.
2.  Season and squeeze as much water as possible out, through a clean tea towel.
3.  Fry gently in a mixture of butter and olive oil - the olive oil stops it burning, the butter adds flavour and the lovely golden colour.  Takes about 5 minutes per side, depending on thickness.

Scrambled egg and smoked salmon

4 eggs
About 50g smoked salmon
butter
olive oil

1.  Whisk eggs.
2.  Melt butter and olive oil together, add egg and continue to mix over a gentle heat for a few minutes.
3.  When it is a little too wet, add the salmon.  Stir through as the egg finishes.

Serve rosti with eggs and salmon on top.  We liked it.

Price per portion:  Potatoes 20p, onion 10p, eggs 80p, smoked salmon 50p, extras 20p... about 90p

Rosti, tomato and feta casserole with mushroom and leek stuff

Really bad pics at the moment - apologies!

Rosti

6 potatoes
2 onions, 1 red one white

Grate potatoes and onion season well, put into seive and weigh down to drain out water.

Squish into patties.  Fry, when other stuff is nearly ready in olive oil and butter for a couple or 3 minutes each side.

Tomato and feta casserole

5 tomatoes
1/2 red onion
feta
handful of olives

Chop tomatoes roughly, and red onion finely, put in oven proof dish - crumble in feta and chuck in stoned black olives.  Bake, covered with foil for half an hour or so.

Mushroom, leek and pea sauce

olive oil
2 leeks
handful mushrooms
garlic
splash of white wine
handful frozen peas
creme fraiche

Sautee chopped and washed leeks in olive oil, when a little soft add mushrooms and garlic.  Adda  splash of white wine and simmer gently.  When nearly ready to eat chuck in handful of frozen peas, heat through, take off the heat and stir in tbsp creme fraiche.

My favourite bit was the hot sweet tomato with the salty feta and olives, against the fried potato.  Yums.