Baked Beans

I've always like baked beans. Especially on toast and topped off with poached eggs for breakfast.

So what you may ask.
Well sad to say this treat of a start to the day isn't quite as easy to enjoy here in the paradise islands as you might imagine for 2 reasons.

1. A can of decent tasting baked beans are about as rare as hens teeth hereabouts
2. Finding tasty unsweetened bread of any kind can be a challenge

But this morning for brekky I managed that perfect one I'd been craving

Molinera baked beans.
Available at Roninsons supermarket at Abreeza Mall Davao City
P52 per can

To be truthful it was such a surprise to find they as tasty as they were.

Freshly baked French bread from my local EuroBaker. Wonderful toasted or au naturale

Quite a few British foodie delights become a dream when you just can't get them.
Decent sausages are my next challenge.

Just sharing a magic moment

I just bought a toaster that also heats the baked beans!

Last week I was in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

One morning the breakfast buffet in my hotel was devastated by a Chinese family who sent their children to "play" with the toaster.

Plate after plate of toast was taken back to the family table, none of the Europeans could get any toast, the pile of "toast bread" was flattened by the kids palms, chopped up with a knife, the toaster smeared with marmalade...

Then an adult from the family walked over in his pyjamas and flip flops, buttered a slice of bread, spread marmalade on it, toasted it in the vertical toaster then threw it on the buffet table uneaten.

The family left and went back to their room. Every slice of toast the kids had made was piled up in the middle of the table, no plate, along with other assorted food from the breakfast buffet.

Thankfully they were not there the next morning.

Sorry for the rant.

But I hope your "beans on toast" toaster is not a vertical toaster Howerd.

Wish you luck on the sausages I never found any until my last few weeks in Cebu and found a American type restaurant that did an English breakfast mmmmm the food was good.
I found baked beans in marks and spencer in Cebu but never a decent sausage. Also found bacon I mean English bacon hard to find but when I did I bought it all and popped it in the freezer. Good luck on your hunt

BEANZ MEANZ FARTZ

It is a Toast N' Eean toaster with a separate tray where you can pour in water. It comes with a small measuring cup for the right amount of water to heat 200g (half a large tin) of baked beans. It will also boil 4 eggs - soft, medium or hard, depending on the amount of water used. It will also poach one egg and re-heat meat. When the water is boiled away, it switches off...

http://www.tefal.co.uk/Breakfast/Toasters/Toast-n'-Bean/p/1500578163

There is a slightly smaller version called a Toast N' Egg toaster, which will not heat beans or re-heat meat, but as it was the same price on Amazon as the Toast N' Bean toaster, I plumped for the latter.

There used to be a retired Pork Butcher in Cebu who made a variety of sausages and very good they were too even though a bit pricey. Here in Davao, other than those maple syrup soaked abominations S&R imports from the US, the Swiss Deli does sell "home made", deep frozen English style sausages.

I wonder if I could import a sauage making kit from UK ?

I'm still trying to make some time to get going with some home-made pickled onions. I just can't understand where my time goes

Why not try home made baked beans?

Lots of different recipes on the net.

Thanks for the interst and the response Dave_E
Truthfully, I did spend hours trawing the net for recipes. Some even claiming to taste just like Heinz.
Cost me quite a bit in both cash and time to actually get together decent ingredients and prepare samples.
My wife is a great cook and helped a lot but we never managed to prepare anything that tasted they way I wanted.
Certainly nothing that tasted like Heinz.
Maybe baked beans are just not suitable for small home batches and processes.

Finding ingredients for all sorts of things can be challenging here when the old cravings bang in.
On the positive side there are plentiful fresh, cheap and wonderful ingredients that really lift 'Asian cuisine' up.

The Molinera baked beans I bought here certainly hit the spot for me. Even at P52 per can they make me happy.

This could be useful, Micawber:

Make 'em

http://www.lovefood.com/guide/recipes/19499/make-it-dont-buy-it-baked-beans

I like eating cold beans out of the tin sometimes.
From my early twenties when loads of us came back from the pub.

Sorry Micawber.. Cant help with baked beans.. They completely spoil a good English nosh up IMO!!
the Yanks here make a bean dip.. I mistakenly dunked a perfectly good cracker in it...YUCK!

It's like quite a few things, the more you can't have them the more you crave them.

Still enjoying those Molinera baked beans and even managed a taste improvement by adding a small local chillie