Uruguay

Group D - URUGUAY

What was it?

Alfajores! I basically made some small cookie-style biscuits, and used them to sandwich some of my caramel spread/dulce de leche. See here for a recipe.

How was it?

They tasted great, although I am unsure whether this really works as a breakfast. It is very similar problem to that faced by the Spanish breakfast. Still, the biscuits themselves felt quite wholesome and filling, which was good, and the dulce de leche worked brilliantly as a sandwich filling.

Overall thoughts:

The best way to approach these would be to make them, or at least the dough, the night before, as it did take quite a while for me to prepare the dish. The sense of satisfaction on eating them was far greater than that for any of the other breakfasts though. I will definitely make these again, albeit probably not for breakfast.

If it was a Uruguayan footballer?

Tricksy attacking midfielder Gaston Ramirez.

*          *          *          *          *          *          *          *          *          *          *          *          *

NB - due to me accidentally forgetting to publish the "End of Group D" blog post, I've had to stick it in here...

END OF GROUP D:

1. England
2. Costa Rica
3. Uruguay
4. Italy


It was fairly inevitable, really. The English breakfast stormed through at the top of the group. It was a close encounter between Costa Rica and Uruguay, but ultimately the gallo pinto felt more apt as a breakfast. The less said about the Italian breakfast, the better.