Dinner Last Night: Sausage and Egg Breakfast Bites

Apologies for the not-so-pretty photo. I’m not the best at pancake shaping, and there are a LOT of chocolate chips in that.
I was looking forward to breakfast all week. I just love it. Sausage, bacon, eggs, pancakes or toast or waffles or French toast or English muffins.
It’s all so dang good.

Usually, when I make breakfast for dinner, I scramble a bunch of eggs. But I decided to go with something different, something Brad has made for us a few times but my family has never tried. That would be sausage and egg breakfast bites from Mark’s Daily Apple.
It is the simplest thing to make and so delicious.

My family ate the whole thing. I was looking forward to some leftovers for a quick breakfast today, but alas.
I’m glad it went over well, though.
I love cooking now, and my family are the best critics. Mostly because they love what I make.

 

In other news, I’m off to Seneca NY for the weekend! It’s Brad’s cousin’s joint bachelor/bachelorette party. I love the Finger Lakes, and I’m in desperate need of escape. I have a three day weekend. We should be back on Sunday, but we are taking are time, so I’m looking forward to a day to recuperate from partying in a limo-bus and drinking wine for long periods of time.

I’m a little bummed out, Mohegan Sun is having their Oktoberfest and I had such a blast last year. I was looking forward to it.
But come on. There’s no way I won’t have a good time this weekend.

Have a great one, guys!

Dinner Last Night: “Brinner”

I don’t know about all y’alls, but this week has been painfully slow. And, yes, it’s Friday, but I have work tomorrow. So. Boo. To top it off, another one of my friends is moving out of state for a job. I’m super excited and happy for him, but it’s a bummer nonetheless.

Anyway, I have been craving a good breakfast and, since my sister and I both said we’d contribute to dinners more often, I decided to make “brinner” for everyone. I think breakfast is always delicious, but there’s something about eating it after 12 PM that makes it that much more enjoyable. And it’s always simple. Eggs, bacon, sausage, and some pancakes. Ya can’t go wrong.

It’s been a while since I did a Dinner Last Night post, but I hope to bring it back regularly!

And as for the weekend, enjoy!
I’ll be doing a farewell dinner with friends, seeing The Artist with Brad, and heading to the Philly Car Show with my family.
Sounds like a good one to me.

Sunday Brunch

I’ve mentioned this before, but one of my favorite parts about Sunday morning is making breakfast. I often let Sundays get me down (they do lead to Mondays, after all), but it’s impossible to be moody when you’re whipping up a tasty morning meal.

I am super disappointed that my stomping grounds don’t have a brunch spot (Maybe I’m mistaken?). There are tons of diners to go to, and I do love me some diner food, but I’m talking a place with fancy sandwiches and quiches and Bloody Marys and Mimosas. The best option, in our case, was to bring the brunch spot to ourselves. Brad made freshly squeezed orange juice, which we spiked with Spumante, and we ate a super-delicious Eggs Benedict Salad (we got the recipe from his Primal Blueprint cookbook). It was an excellent way to start a beautiful day.

Pancake Breakfast

While I tend to get a case of the grumpies on Sundays, I love Sunday morning breakfast. The day is usually wide open to relax, wander around or do a bit of shopping (I bought all 4 seasons of Mad Men on DVD for $40 bucks…SCORE!) so we get out of bed a little later than usual and take our time making something tasty. This week was gluten-free pancakes, made with almond flour (which was used in this previous recipe).
I was excited to try something new with the almond flour (we don’t do a lot of baking, and I didn’t want the rather expensive item to go to waste!), and also indulge in some pancakes. Brad tried a different pancake alternative before and…I’m not a fan. At all.

Facing the facts, nothing will ever be as good as a stack of traditional, yummy, buttery pancakes. These pancakes have a dryer, nuttier (obviously) flavor/texture. However, the almond meal was a good gluten-free alternative for those that simply cannot eat gluten/wheat.
I drizzled mine in syrup, of course. Brad mashed a couple of fresh berries and made himself an interesting jam/syrup.
All in all, it was a great breakfast and a successful recipe!

Super simple ingredients. Vanilla Extract, Cinnamon, the flour, and 3 eggs.

Batter up! (Oh, cheesy….)