The end of the big breakfast

For many years now, my main chore on every trip to the snow has been to cook breakfast. It doesn't matter what people eat at home normally - when they are at the snow, they want a big, hot breakfast to give them enough get up and go to get through the morning without stopping for more food.

Cooking up a storm has generally not been a problem as we've been staying in apartments with 2 or 3 bedrooms and 8 or so guys racked out across every room (including the lounge room).

Cooking for that many always meant getting up at sunrise - and I have many photos taken at sunrise to prove it.



The usual feed was a bacon and egg roll. That sounds simple, except that the roll was toasted under the grill with some cheese on it (so that the cheese melted into the roll) and it also came with lettuce, carrot, tomato and avocado. And mayo. A good bacon and egg roll should have lots of mayo.

I am not much of an assembly cook, so cooking up 8 rolls usually made the kitchen look a bit like a disaster area. No one ever complained though, since the rolls did the trick, and the washing up really was minimal.

This year however is going to be a first - it's a family snow holiday, so instead of having 8 farting men packed into a small apartment, it's just going to be the four of us in our own place. It's going to be "civilised". It's going to be the same for almost everyone else who is going - kids are popping out all over the place, so we even have a nanny that we can all share.

I can see that the next logical step is to join a lodge and see if we can book everyone into the same lodge for the week. Sounds more sensible to me.