Pan-fried?

[janoel]

What is the difference between pan-fried and ordinary frying in a frying pan?
Bewildered.

[cherryelm]

There is no difference it is just poncey chef talk.

[Backdrifter]

Exactly - it's menuspeak. To be lumped together with terms like:

on a bed of
finished with
napped with
drizzled with
etc

[Siamsal]

None at all. It's just to emphasise that it isn't deep fried. Sounds sort of wholesome, though, doesn't it?!

[brionon]

Sweated down, Cooked Off, Poncy cooks who call themslves Chef even if the 're alone in the Kitchen.

[janoel]

Thanks everyone for replying. I will now happily pan-fry breakfast on Sunday - ie bacon, eggs etc. and make
it sound far posher than it is.

[Backdrifter]

I'm all over the place when I do a cooked breakfast sometimes. I like to grill the bacon, black pudding or sausages, fry the kidneys and poach the eggs. There's pans everywhere! I spend most of the afternoon washing up. I go for a variation on the theme of: crisp grilled bacon, 2 poached eggs, fried mushrooms, buttered toast, ice-cold orange juice - literally, in that both the juice and glass have been in the freezer for about 15 mins. It's the business. I rotate the meat bit of it - sometimes highland black pudding from my local butcher, or Lee House Farm pork sausages, or fried lamb kidney.

I'm interested you said "Sunday" specifically. I have a big cooked breakfast on Sundays - every other Sunday to be precise. Hopefully not too frequent so it's a health risk, but infrequently enough to make it a big treat.

[janoel]

Dear Backdrifter
Are you a man or a woman? Can't make up my mind.
The kind of things you cook seem a bit mannish and
the orange juice and glass in the freezer perhaps a
perfectionist woman. If I lived alone I probably wouldn't
bother with a cooked breakfast but have to cook for two
men. This is every Sunday I'm afraid and you have now
given me a complex with your delicious sounding menu.
Can I come for breakfast?

[Backdrifter]

janoel

"A bit mannish"... that made me laugh! Well, I could capitalise on the mystery and leave you twisting in the wind... but will satisfy your curiosity and confirm I am a man.

I don't see why you should get a complex about my menu. It doesn't sound like you're doing anything very different. I suppose I am a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to food, though. Even for a fry-up, I have to get the best quality ingredients I can, which is why I get it all from either the butcher or the farmers market - literally every ingredient. Cheaper too - if I only want 2 rashers of bacon, I just ask for 2 at the butcher (my partner doesn't eat meat).

Not sure what she'd think about my having you over for breakfast though! Is Surbiton handy for you?

[janoel]

Thanks for your response. Too far to come to breakfast I'm afraid - thanks for asking though. Keep up the good work.