So what do you do with leftover Blue & Gold sausage patties?
Blue and Gold Sausage patties
Well you can have biscuits and sausage for a quick on the go meal.
You can crumble it up and use it wherever you use ground beef.
Or you can make biscuits and gravy!
YUM!
biscuits-gravy
OK, for tons of people snow day food is beans and cornbread. Followed by snow ice cream.
Well I couldn’t talk Chili-man into snow ice cream so I had to go another route.
Comfort food starting with breakfast. There’s no sausage better in my mind than Blue & Gold. Man oh man is it good! I received a log at Christmastime and it’s been in my freezer ever since. Snowed in? That’s a good time for biscuits and sausage.
Blue & Gold sausage
And yes those are frozen biscuits. HEY, I don’t normally have time to make biscuits from scratch; I’m a busy lady! (Hence the bagged frozen biscuits that I’m not buying again. They didn’t hold up well in the freezer. MAYBE if they were in some kind of flat package where they didn’t mold onto each other. They also don’t rise well when they’ve been in the freezer awhile. Even canned would have been better…)
I saw something similar to this ’somewhere’ the other day and decided to make my own version. This was breakfast on Sunday!
Simple and easy.
Brown some sausage patties. Peel and cut up an apple. Toss into the SAME pan with the sausage and cook until the apples are done.
apples and sausage cooking
Man oh man.
Makes me want to have time to cook breakfast every day!
apples sausage and eggs
and no time?
Make THIS in your crockpot in the evening and it’ll be hot and ready in the morning!
Ham & Taters Breakfast Casserole
1 lb bag of frozen tater tots
1/2 lb chopped ham (or canned ham works great)
1 onion chopped
1 bell pepper chopped
3/4 c shredded cheddar
6 eggs
1/2 c milk
In your crockpot, layer the tots, the ham, the onion and peppers followed by cheese. You can layer them several times. Three seems to work best. Always END with the cheese on top.
In a bowl, beat the eggs with the milk and add salt/pepper to taste. Pour over the items in the crockpot. Cover on cook on LOW 10-12 hours.
It’ll still be hot when you take it in! People will love it!
Banana bread makes a great breakfast bread, a snack bread and a dessert!
And the best part, you can use those bananas that are going fast!
Banana Bread
1 3/4 c flour
1 1/4 t cream of tartar
3/4 c baking soda
1/2 t salt
2 eggs
1/2 c butter
2 bananas
3/4 c sugar
1 t vanilla
Spray a baking loaf pan with Pam. Combine the flour, cream of tartar, baking soda and sale in a bowl. Add in the eggs, butter (room temperature) bananas (ripe), vanilla and sugar. Pour into pan and bake at 350 for 40-45 minutes or until toothpick inserted into center comes out clean.
DELISH!!!!!!!!!!!!
banana-bread
Well at least one piece!
Here’s your traditional quiche lorraine.
Pastry shell (CHEAT - buy it already made!!)
6 slices bacon
1/4 lb swiss cheese
1 T flour
3 eggs
2 c cream
1/2 t sea salt
1 onion chopped
Pre-bake your piecrust. While that’s cooking, cook your bacon. When both are done crumble the bacon into the pie shell. Add the cheese, sprinkle in the flour. Beat the eggs with the cream and seasonings and onions and pour over. Bake at 375 until custard is set and lightly brown.
quiche
Quiche can be used for breakfast, or brunch or lunch. It’s great for anyone on a diabetic diet, or a low carb diet or Atkins…. and it’s yummy!
Here’s a great way to use zucchini for breakfast!
Use it in an omelet!
Now, I’ve never had zucchini in an omelet before but I thought I’d give it a try.
I took a smallish zucchini and peeled it, then diced it.
I sauteed the zucchini with a little chopped onion, a little bit of diced ham, and one cut up banana pepper (THANKS MOM & DAD) in a skillet then set aside. Cooked a 3-egg omelet and ladled the zucchini mixture in and over (with a little shredded cheddar).
YUM!!!! This will be on the menu AGAIN!
zucchini omelet
Doesn’t it look good?
Come on - don’t you want a bite???
zucchini omelet
I used to use this recipe whenever the kiddos would ‘beg’ for doughnuts. It’s a must. Do you KNOW how FAR it is to a place to buy doughnuts?
DROP DOUGHNUTS
1 1/2 c flour
1/2 c sugar
1/2 t salt
2 t baking powder
1/2 t cinnamon
1/2 t mace
1 egg
1/2 c milk
2 T oil
OIL FOR A SKILLET ABOUT 1/2 ” DEEP OR MORE
Sift together the dry ingredients and add the milk and egg. Blend in the oil. Drop by teaspoons into hot oil and fry until golden brown. Roll in sugar.
doughnut
These are a holiday tradition around here. The kids always want their sausage balls, and they’re SO easy!
1 lb hot bulk sausage (Jimmy Dean is a southern tradition) (or BLUE & GOLD sold by the FFA guys)
3 c bisquik
10 oz grated cheddar
Mix the raw sausage with the bisquik. Add the cheese and knead. Make small balls and bake at 350 for 15-20 minutes
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EASY!
TASTY!
DISAPPEARING!
Grab some taters
taters
Wash ‘em down, scrub ‘em, make sure there’s no dirt on them. Heat up a skillet with your choice of fat (extra virgin olive oil’s what I use coz it’s better for you but I bet Crisco would taste ‘right’ good).
Once the oil heats up, put your grater right over the pan and grate the potatoes straight into the skillet.
gratin' taters
This time I’m not peeling the potatoes, just shredding them skin and all into the pan. It’ll make these hash browns more ‘provencial’ don’t ‘cha think? J
Let them brown, and cut up an onion and a jalepeno
chopped onion and jalepeno
and toss into the pan.
onions & pepper
Turn the potatoes over, let brown on the other side. If everyone’s not down for breakfest yet, well turn the burner down low and set a lid on top. The potatoes will steam and they’ll be nice and tender.
Cook up some sausage, make some gravy and some scrambled eggs and you have a grand meal!
hash brown breakfast
