EUROPEAN BREAKFAST Part 1

I really like breakfast. To begin with the food you get: coffee, toast - the basics -  love them. The occasional egg, super crispy bacon or order of hash browns - yumz. I will eat this at any time of the day or night but it just wows me that this is not only acceptable, but encouraged, daily. What a world!
In Europe my love affair with petite dejeuner, as with all things, gets more intense, elegant and refined. 
 At Pans (in Barcelona) which is a very unassuming looking chain McDonaldesque in appearance, we ate this meal, pictured,  To the left is the toast (you can see just a sliver in the white paper wrap. Mid photo is the small jar of strawberry jam, above that are 2 packets of olive oil and on the right is the tomato jam, salt and pepper. Along with a cafe con leche these 2 slices of toast made a satisfying reward for leaving bed and a crunchy bridge toward lunchtime. A drizzle of olive oil on a pinched off corner of toast with a small spoon of rough cut tomato jam smoothed o top, munch, sip, repeat.....sitting in the cool morning sun...lovely.  The toast a good sturdy white bread, toasted warm and crispy. The olive oil and tomato jam fresh and perfectly delicious. We had extraordinary breakfasts in Belgium so they'll get their own post. xo