I hope that you like breakfast! It is our favorite meal… I’m one of those guys that will put an egg on or with just about anything. Of course, that doesn’t mean that every breakfast has to include eggs.
What
follows is a selection of my recent breakfasts at our house.
OK, this
one is pretty basic…but I like simple and basic. In this case I heated up a slab of Laurie’s
fantastic meatloaf, melted cheddar cheese on it and then added my easy over
egg.
On
another morning, I had a little deli style ham lying around so I did a simple
scramble…adding feta cheese to the mix. Note the pan grilled hot dog bun as my
Spam, in its original form is just too overpowering for me…too much fat and too much salt. But Spam now offers Spam ‘Lite’. It contains 37% fewer calories, 50% less fat and 25% less sodium than the original Spam. For me at least, Spam Lite is a winner…maybe once every 5 weeks.
So…I
started this breakfast with a toasted buttered bun, halves face up. Then I added 2 slices of fried Spam Lite to
each section of the bun.
Then of
course, to push the limits of dietary wisdom, I ladled Hormel Chili (no
beans) over the buns and the Spam.
They say
that eggs are good for you so to complete my meal, I placed a couple of
over-easy fried eggs on top of my creation. (Note my generous application
of Tabasco) I was a happy camper!
We love
good sausage gravy. Most sausage gravy
that we’ve found lack much sausage…or uses some bland sausage that lack any
seasoning. We do have a local restaurant
that produces the best sausage gravy in the area, bar none to date. It's so good, we have purchased a quart to take home at times...
Then
Laurie found a recipe for sausage gravy that we could make at home… We like
spice…a little heat…so our version incorporates Jimmy Dean’s Hot Pork
Sausage. As you can see, we made a vat
of sausage gravy!
Then what? The first time we had our homemade sausage gravy, we just spooned it over some biscuits. Of course I added Tabasco to mine after the photo was taken…
The
second time I had ‘our’ sausage gravy, I did it up even better than before by heating it in the frying pan and adding a couple of over-easy eggs! Yum! In this case I used a leftover hamburger bun for the base. Biscuits are better but the bun was what I had handy.
FYI, here is the recipe we use for sausage gravy. Thanks to the Pioneer Woman! Other than the spicy Jimmy Dean sausage, our only other major variation from the original recipe was that we used half and half milk. It does tend to make the gravy thicker. We keep half and half milk in the house because it has a really long shelf life as compared to regular milk.
Note the
Pioneer Woman’s caution at the bottom of the recipe. If you aren’t making your own biscuits, do
not use Pillsbury’s canned biscuits.
Instead use Pillsbury’s Grands…from the frozen food case.
Leftovers don't survive for long at our house. Laurie doesn't care for them but I view them as an opportunity. I toasted and buttered a couple of small slices of bread from a baguette. Then I fried some leftover pork from a roast, also heating up the carrots and a couple little pieces of turnip in the frying pan. At 2 easy-over eggs and I had a satisfying start to my day.
For my
last breakfast in this post, we had eaten at Aubrey’s, a local chain here in
East Tennessee. Laurie had ordered the
panko crusted Alaskan Pollock with their fried potatoes for dinner a couple of
nights earlier. She couldn’t finish all
of it so I took the opportunity to reheat the Pollock in a frying pan along
with a couple of their left over thick fried potatoes plus a couple of mine…
Then add a couple of eggs, (and of course Tabasco after taking the picture), and I was set until dinner time!
FYI…I
have a complaint for the Heinz Company!
They have apparently stopped making Heinz Ketchup with Tabasco… L I’ve had to go on-line and order a six-pack
of Brooks spicy ketchup.
Just
click on any of the photos to enlarge them…
Thanks
for coming by for breakfast!
Take
Care, Big Daddy Dave
Breakfast is the only meal I eat :-)) I have never had spam, nor do I ever have Heinz ketchup, but I do LOVE eggs, esp. yolks.
ReplyDeleteLovely sounding breakfast foods! I'm enjoying my seeded multi-grain croissant, with coffee.
ReplyDeleteMe dio ganas de la sala de salchicha. Se ve muy rica . Buenos desayunos. Te mando un beso.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful blog
ReplyDeleteBreakfast food is my favorite as well and your creations all look delicious ( except perhaps the Hormel chili). I'm glad I ate before reading this or I might be licking the computer screen. I'm glad to know about Spam light and will give it a try. Your sausage gravy looks just like mine and I can imagine your last meal was awesome.
ReplyDeleteBreakfast is my favorite meal as well, Dave, and while I have never had such variations, all the descriptions and posts made me hungry despite it being well past dinner!
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