Potato and Egg Scramble

Potato and Egg Scramble 

What do you do after an extremely stressful weekend with cranky people, bills to pay, disorganized house to clean and big decisions to make? Well when it comes to a worry-wort like me, I eat. And that itself is not easy to do because when I am stressed or depressed I eat and then I feel better, but I have been trying to eat healthy lately and so eating away stress is really hard to do. So what to do with those healthy baked potatoes from last night? You make breakfast.

I love Leftovers, especially potatoes. There are so many things I can do with them. I made some baked potatoes yesterday and I has some leftover baked potatoes that nobody ate. Usually leftover baked potatoes, I find are not really 

appetizing, but when fried up with a little bit of butter, everything is right with the world again:)

This is a breakfast that will bring anyone to the kitchen saying "what is that smell" 

The smell of bacon wakes everyone up. My favorite meal of the day is truly breakfast. And for me, well food just makes me feel happy. So here is a breakfast that I would like to share with you.

2 large baked potatoes (diced)

4 eggs

4 slices bacon

1 tablespoon of butter

salt

ground black pepper

Begin by dicing up the leftover baked potatoes into little bite-sized

Pieces, set aside. Take 4 slices of bacon and cook them in a pan on medium-high heat until browned. Remove bacon from pan to a paper towel lined plate to drain from fat. Discard all but 1 teaspoon of bacon grease from pan. Add diced baked potatoes to the pan with a dash of salt and ground black pepper and stir to combine. Let potatoes get a bit browned in pan for about 2 minutes. Chop cooked bacon slices in to bite sized pieces and add cooked bacon bits to potatoes. Let them cook together until potatoes have softened up and browned a bit more, about 2 more minutes. In a medium bowl whisk 4 eggs until combined. Add 1 tablespoon butter to potato bacon mixture and stir to melt butter and to combine. Add whisked egg mixture to pan and stir gently with a spatula to let the eggs scramble up light and fluffy.

I love making breakfast with leftovers. How about you?

Next up I will be working on a holiday meal that will provide a leftover meals

That will warm the upcoming winter.

Hash Brown Mash Browns - A Simple Family Tradition

I love cooking with leftovers of anything and so does my husband as well.

He loves to experiment in the kitchen with leftovers and he says that all leftovers can become a masterpiece with some butter and soy sauce :)

He once took some leftover Sunday Meatballs and Rice and removed as much sauce as he could from the meatballs, chopped them up and fried them with some leftover rice, butter and soy sauce to create a sort of asian meatball fried rice dish. It actually wasn't bad, it was really good!

Today we will be making a simple dish with leftover mashed potatoes.

Hash Brown, Mash Browns is my family tradition for leftovers of mashed potatoes. My mother-in-law introduced me to this simple leftover ritual.

My kids always look forward to breakfast when they know I am making mashed potatoes for dinner.

 I have done a lot with leftover mashed potatoes, I think my favorite was taking some leftover mashed potatoes, leftover meatballs and wrapped them in egg roll wrappers and deep fried them, yum!

But for a fast breakfast, what we like to do is just fry a couple spoonfuls of mashed potatoes in butter until a bit of crust forms on the bottom then flip.

Keep frying on high heat until mashed potatoes get a golden hue and there are little golden bits of crust throughout, about 5-7 minutes.

Pair this with a soft fried egg and some buttered toast and you have a quick and delicious breakfast to start your day.

 

Yummy Pumpkin Sausage Pancakes

Yay! Pumpkin season is here! I will be making all kinds of goodies and snacks

That involve Halloween and pumpkins.

I love Halloween. It is I feel my favorite holiday, because it is all about fun, food and dressing up!

I have always wanted to try making pumpkin pancakes and today I thought I might add sausage in the pancake as it cooks. It gave the pancake such a yummy goodness that my kids could not stop eating!

I can't wait for Halloween to get here. The eating, trick-or-treating, the costumes, It's the great pumpkin Charlie Brown!

So here is a great pancake recipe to kick off the month of fun! 

Ingredients

1 3/4 cups milk

1 cup pumpkin puree

2 eggs

1 1/4 cups all purpose flour

1 tablespoons brown sugar

2 tablespoons granulated sugar

2 teaspoons baking powder

2 teaspoons pumpkin spice mix

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

6 links breakfast sausage

Begin by chopping up sausage links and cook in a pan on medium-high heat until

Browned, then remove from heat, drain fat and set sausage bits aside. In a large bowl combine flour,sugars, baking powder, salt and pumpkin pie spice and mix until well combined. In a separate bowl add eggs, pumpkin purée, vanilla extract, and milk, mix well then add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and whisk until smooth.

heat a skillet over medium heat. I cook in batches, by pouring batter by 1/3 cupfuls into skillet. I then place four or five bits of cooked sausage on surface of batter in skillet.  Cook until you see bubbles form on surface of pancakes and bottoms are browned. this takes about  1 minutes per side.

These pancakes were a hit with the family! The sausage gave the pancakes a salty-sweet flavor!