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Sausage, Cabbage, and Potato Dinner

25 Oct

I’m at a loss at what to call this one, but I can promise you that it tastes good!  I just picked up 20 pounds of breakfast sausage yesterday, so I wanted to use some of it to make dinner.  I also had onions, carrots, potatoes, and shredded cabbage, so why not put it all in a pot and see how it comes out?  Delicious!  The breakfast sausage is a little spicy, and I don’t really like eating as links, but with the casings removed, all of it broken up and browned, then mixed with other things, it’s perfect.  What I also love is that aside from chopping things, this meal was very quick to prepare.

Sausage, Cabbage, and Potato Dinner

Sausage, Cabbage, and Potato Dinner

What you need:

1 lb sausage (I used breakfast sausage, removed the casings, and broke it up.  You could also use smoked sausage, that would just need to be sliced into 1/2 inch slices)
1 small onion, diced
2 carrots, cut into thin slices
1 cup water
2 medium potatoes, cut into thin cubes
4 cups shredded cabbage

How to make it:

In a large pot, brown sausage over medium heat.  Add in onions and carrots, and continue to cook until onions are soft.  Next, add water and potatoes.  Reduce heat to low, and cover.  Cook for 15 minutes.

Finally, add cabbage and stir in well.  Again, cover, and cook for 20-25 minutes, or until all vegetables are tender.

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Breakfast Biscuit Bowls

9 Jun

As promised, here is the update on my next round of biscuit bowls!

Once again, I used 1 can of Grands biscuits.  This time, I sprayed the small Pyrex bowls on the outside, rolled together 2 Grands biscuits, and spread it over the outside of the bowl.  I lined a baking sheet with aluminum foil, placed the upside down bowls on the sheet, and baked in the oven at 350 F.  After 12 minutes, I started checking them, and mine were finished in 20 minutes.  Time may vary by oven and by what you bake them on.

Biscuit bowls after bakingThen, I worked on the filling.  You can see a peek of the skillet in the picture above.  I started by removing the casings from breakfast sausage and crumbling and cooking in a  large skillet over medium heat.  Once browned, I left the fat in and mixed in small cubes of red potatoes.  I let this cook for a while to let the potatoes soften.  Next, I added in some diced red onion, and cooked until the onions were translucent.  Then, I added in diced mushrooms and chopped fresh spinach.  Once the spinach wilted, I pushed it all up to one side, and on the empty side, added in 6 eggs that I had whisked with a couple of tablespoons of milk.  Once this cooked up and I stirred to scramble, I mixed the eggs in with the rest, giving me this delicious-ness:

Sausage, red potato, red onion, mushroom, spinach, and scrambled egg filling for biscuit bowls

 

Then, assembly time!  My older daughter added grated Parmesan to hers, I added crumbled feta to mine, and my younger daughter and my husband added shredded cheddar to theirs.  I had some filling leftover, so I made a few burritos using large flour tortillas that I had on hand.

Breakfast Biscuit Bowl with Parmesan cheese Breakfast Biscuit Bowl with crumbled feta

 

I was very pleased with how it all turned out, and we will be having this again, and soon!

 

 

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Zaycon Foods Breakfast Sausage

21 Mar

Zaycon Foods recently had another pork event, once again bringing their delicious ham, which of course I ordered.  But, this time, there was breakfast sausage instead of bacon.  I’m just about out of bacon, but decided that we east breakfast sausage quite a bit as well, and it’s also something I can use in other dishes as well.

The unit was 20 pounds, and came in 2 10 pound boxes, and came already frozen.  My only complaint in the packaging was that the bag inside the box was not sealed, and I couldn’t repackage right away, so some got freezer burn.  Each sausage link is 1 ounce, and in a casing.  You can find more information on the sausages here.  Also, here is a picture of the label on the side of the box.

Label on Zaycon Foods Breakfast Sausage

So, I counted out 16 sausages to put in bags to vacuum seal.  I found that the pre-cut quart size FoodSaver bags were perfect for this.

Vacuum sealed breakfast sausage links

We have had this sausage a couple of times now.  I used my electric griddle to cook it along with pancakes for breakfast.  It turned out really well, was easy to cook and tastes good too!

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