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Arthur's Seat Cook-Out Breakfast

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  • Started 11 years ago by Wilmington's Cow
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  1. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    Hoping the weather holds for tomorrow morning. Last year I rode up to a spot on the slopes of Arthur's Seat for a wee cooked brekkie. Planning on doing the same tomorrow. Get there a wee bit after 7 I reckon - camp stove, some bacon, maybe an egg, couple of (homemade GF) potato scones; coffee in a thermos mug.

    I'll be atop the knobble on the left just before the road turns downwards again, overlooking the uni halls, below where the kestrel is normally hanging out.

    Means I can also have my first Strava crack at the Arthur's Seat climb.

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  2. Min
    Member

    This sounds like a nice idea and probably good to grab the good weather while we can. I'd up up for it if I can find your knobble (ooh er).

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  3. kaputnik
    Moderator

    My stove currently missing its piezo so won't light, but if I can dig myself out of bed in time I will bring coffee and a prepared cold breakfast.

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  4. kaputnik
    Moderator

    ah yes, anth, can you give us more precise knobble location please! I'll probably ride up the "wrong way" to it...

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  5. Stepdoh
    Member

    Hey'anth, do you have a recipe for your GF tattie scones. Think roro and al would appreciate.

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  6. wingpig
    Member

    I think he means the wee ridge bit. There's a gap in the wall and a wee path leading to it.

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  7. DaveC
    Member

    Opps I can see this going wrong for Anth.

    #AnthBreakfastRide

    Ingredients:
    3lb of Smoked bacon,
    2 dozen eggs,
    15 tattie scones,
    one dozen potato scones,
    2 litres of Tea,
    13 esspressos....

    ;O)

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  8. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    Precise-a-mundo Mr Pig. That's the one.

    Exact GoogleMaps Location: http://g.co/maps/d8ecy

    @Stepdoh, I've basically just got a standard tattie scone recipe but use GF flour instead, though sometimes needs an egg yolk adding for a bit of moisture to make them easier to roll and cut. I'll dig it out tonight for you (will have to find it anyway to make the scones).

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  9. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    Should have said DaveC, it's BYOB (Bring Your Own Breakfast...) ;)

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  10. DaveC
    Member

    What is Girl Freind Flour??

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  11. cb
    Member

    "My stove currently missing its piezo so won't light"

    Matches?

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  12. kaputnik
    Moderator

    @Cb, probably possible, but they've tried to be too clever with the design, the piezo sparks in an area not easily accessible. Perhaps that's deliberate, perhaps not. It's not normally happy lighting via a lighter, or whatever, and tends to do a minor explosion when it does!

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  13. Arellcat
    Moderator

    What is Girl Friend Flour??

    Say that ten times quickly! Homemade GF is where you take a felt-tip pen and draw a face on an egg. :> I think Anth meant gluten-free.

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  14. Instography
    Member

    Bah. Friday. Always a Friday.

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  15. Tom
    Member

    Could I be a nuisance and ask for porridge?

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  16. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    @Insto - was just a sudden whim this afternoon, will try for midweek if the weather holds as well!

    @Tom - you can ask. Certainly. ;)

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  17. PS
    Member

    I've got tomorrow off, so may join you if i can haul my carcass out of bed early enough.

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  18. Instography
    Member

    Ha. It's fine. On any other Friday I'd have made the effort and gone to work for it but it's M's birthday tomorrow. Friday's the day for doing these things.

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  19. wingpig
    Member

    I should be able to make it for before-eightish. As I have more flasks than a gentleman strictly requires in order to make it through a working day without having to buy coffee by the cup I can probably bring a spare litre-and-an-half or so of coffee if anyone was fretting about the logistics of getting to the wee ridgey bit with a filled thermal mug.

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  20. kaputnik
    Moderator

    I'm living up to the stereotype of outside-breakfasting early morning cyclists and bringing my museli. Hope that's allowed at a cook-out...

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  21. Dave
    Member

    Ergh. Up before 6 so I can pack for Skye, fix the bike and still pop in sociably for a bite, and what do I find? SEA HAR.

    Keeping my fingers crossed it gets annihilated in the next hour!

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  22. Min
    Member

    I take it this isn't happening then?

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  23. wingpig
    Member

    Twitter indicates that anth is at least somewhere outside where there is grass, but the hast conceals the true location.

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  24. SRD
    Moderator

    hast = haar/mist?

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  25. Min
    Member

    I found him in the end, can't see much else though..

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  26. chdot
    Admin

    What a difference not a day makes -

    "
    LBFRS (@LBFire)

    24/05/2012 23:08

    Fire at Arthur's Seat now extinguished by crews. Control got about 40 calls to approximately 100 sq metres gorse and scrubland alight.

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  27. PS
    Member

    Maybe it's smoke rather than haar? ;o)
    View from Anth's breakfast table

    I looked out the window at 6.50, saw the haar and went back to bed. #Fairweatherbreakfaster

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  28. amir
    Member

    I did look up from the Innocent as I passed but just fog.

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  29. kaputnik
    Moderator

    I made it a little bit late, poked around the place, saw some promising silhouettes that turned out to be gorse bushes in the haar so eventually slithered back to the road and just finished my breakfast at my desk instead.

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  30. Min
    Member

    Shame you missed us Kappers. I am not sure I would have walked as far along the ridge as where we were. I only found Anth because I went further on thinking I might be in the wrong place and then came back at it from a different path to make my breakfast anyway. It was a bit like being at the end of the world though.

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