Breakfast is the new dinner party. People can get the tube home after and they certainly won’t have to navigate a tricky night bus route. So what’s the big idea, nobody wants to get up early at the weekend do they? Well, perhaps.  A promise of champagne and eggs might do the trick, but what else is good and easy to make for breakfast? We’ve been finding out.

American Style Pancakes
Serves 4

I made these the other day and was blown away by how easy they were to make. Folding in the egg whites adds air to the mixture and the pancakes become more like a cake than your average crepe.

Before you start – think of 1oz as one tablespoon.

YOU NEED
6oz plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
1oz caster sugar
2 free-range eggs, separated
250ml milk
1oz butter
mix the flour, baking powder and sugar in a big bowl with the egg yolks and the milk, whisk until smooth. Find another bowl and whisk the egg whites until they form soft peaks, fold these gently into the batter. Now the fun part , place a ladleful of the batter in a hot oiled frying pan and watch them cook. Serve with maple syrup, cream, fresh fruit, yogurt, honey…well…most stuff works.

Feeling ambitious, flip the pancakes as opposed to turning them with a spatula!

Chorizo Scrambled Eggs
Serves 4

This is my favourite breakfast and there is no better place to eat it than at Banner’s in Crouch End. If you can’t get a table, make it at home!

YOU NEED
8 Eggs
1 chorizo chopped into small pieces.
Butter, a disturbing amount.
Salt and Pepper
so simple really, whisk up the eggs, salt and pepper. Put about a third of a pack of butter in your frying pan and let it melt, add the chorizo so that the flavour starts to spread through the butter. Now add the eggs and start stirring, making sure they don’t stick to the side of the pan, you gotta scramble them, that’s why they are called scrambled eggs.

Please don’t overcook your eggs, there’s nothing worse than a dry crumple of pale eggs on a plate. Serve on thick slices of granary toast.

SOME EASY CLASSICS
Beans on Toast
Baked Beans, butter, toast. Bang!

Croissants
I used to dislike croissants and butter. There must have been something seriously wrong. Try and stop me now with a freshly baked croissant smothered in Jam and creamy butter!

Grapefruit
Sliced in half and cut along the segments, sprinkle on some sugar, serve in a high glass and you might as well be back in the 50s.

TO DRINK
Smoothies
Base your smoothie around the banana. Then add whatever you fancy: berries, peach, pineapple, mango and a dash of juice to make it mix. Easy really, we don’t need to tell you how.

Espresso
Do it right in a classic Espresso maker and you might as well be in Italia.
Champagne
Breakfast just ain’t breakfast without champagne.

I recently discovered 'The Tracks of my Tears' an old Smokey Robinson album in my dad's CD collection. Intrigued I borrowed it and stuck it on. I was  dropped into a world of classic motown. The Album spans tracks that Smokey wrote for the Four Tops, Marvin Gaye, Mary Wells and the Temptations. Literally perfect music for a sunny Sunday morning.