FOODS OF THE CAPE: lightly buttered toast

SALMON AND EGGS WITH TOAST

Breakfast is undoubtedly the most important meal of the day. Most people rush off to work in the morn without eating a morsel only to suffer from headaches and hunger pangs later in the day. Often opting to eat a huge or heavy meal at lunch only to become sleepy due to over indulgence. But even if you eat as little as one slice of toast for breakfast, you have done justice to breakfast, because "breakfast" means to "break the fast" you've endured throughout the night. Anyway now that you're awake, how does a few ribbons of Norwegian oak Smoked Salmon; two scrabbled eggs flanked by a dollop of Cream Cheese; a slice of advocado, and a few cherry tomatoes on the side, with 2 slices of lightly buttered toast, sound to you. Followed by a frothy mug of Jacobs Krönung coffee made with a third mug of milk. Scrumptious, No? Now that's the way to start your day. There is a trueism that says "the day a woman doesn't eat an egg, is the day that she aged".

Normally my wife fries my tomatoes along with the scrambled eggs, together but separate. But today I wanted them over easy (sunny side up) with the tomatoes fresh. Normally I have a freshly baked buttered croissants in place of the toasted digesta, but I've got to watch the calories these days. However, this meal has all the nutrients and protein, fibre, carbohydrates, fructose and caffeine you need to be mentally alert and functioning at your best for the better part of the day. Brought to you by Foods of the Cape.