Breakfast made with ingredients from the Amish Market

[Clipper]

Buurp!! I ate too much this morning for breakfast, but it was Soooooo good. I couldn't resist it. Two large buttermilk biscuits made with their biscuit mix, sliced in half, smothered in sausage gravy made with their spicy variety store made breakfast sausage, and two eggs over easy on top of the biscuits and gravy. All washed down with two cups of hot black Folgers. I won't be wanting any lunch today. In fact I may not want much for supper either.

I may never have to make my own home made sausage again. Their sausage is very similar in taste to my own recipe with just enough fat to allow it to fry up well and sear on the outside without floating in grease. I also seldom make the sausage gravy from a roux anymore either. There is a packaged mix at Krogers that makes a cup and a half of peppered cream gravy, so I just add the cooked sausage and simmer it until thick. I tweak it a bit by using whole milk instead of the water, and some extra fresh cracked black pepper to wake it up a bit.

I try to eat healthy for two out of the three meals in a day, but breakfast has always been my downfall. I often don't eat lunch and normally eat a fairly healthy and diet conscious dinner, but for breakfast I tend to over do it and eat stuff that is far from healthy. At least 3 days a week I eat eggs, either sausage, bacon, or scrapple, grits with butter and salt and pepper, or hash brown potatoes, and topped off with two slices of rye toast with butter and two cups of black coffee.

Old habits die hard. I was never a cup of coffee and a pastry type breakfast eater. I want something that will carry me through the day. I may die of a heart attack at some point, but I will die with a smile on my face and gravy on my chin.

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As long as you enjoy that is all that counts.

[Clipper]

I was right. I wasn't hungry the entire day and only ate a small slice of roast beef, a few cooked carrots, and a small portion of mashed potatoes with gravy at 5:30. Kathy made her strawberry cream cheese pie for dessert. She combines 2 8 oz bricks of Philadelphia cream cheese, a small container of cool whip, a cup of powdered sugar, all whipped together and put into a pre-made graham cracker crust. When it has sat in the fridge and set up, she serves it with fresh strawberries and glaze scooped on the top of it. I might have a small slice of that later.

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Now that pie sounds delicious. I'm jealous.

[kit]

I shop at Price Chopper not far from where I live. They often have a "Buy-One-Get-One FREE" (or even a Buy-One-Get-Two-FREE) special on Thomas' English Muffins, which I like and keep on hand most of the time. I use the toasted halves as a base, topped with Sausage Gravy, and I still make it with the roux thickened with milk. I add black pepper, chopped onion, a pinch of ground Sage and a bit of grated Parmesan* cheese to it as it cooks. I sometimes put in a touch of cayenne and use it like Hollandaise Sauce for making pseudo-Eggs Benedict with a couple of poached eggs on top of the muffins, covered with the gravy. Our family is definitely 'Upstate NY' folks and we were never big on biscuits like they are in the south. The closest we ever came was my mom's homemade biscuits covered with a fresh strawberry sauce topped with real whipped cream. That could be why I still think biscuits and shortcake are the same thing, although I know they're not.

* I never, ever buy cheese in a cardboard tube off the shelf. I always buy REAL cheese, either in a chunk or freshly grated and refrigerated. It melts properly and tastes much better. The cheese in a cardboard tube (which I call 'crap cheese') contains preservatives and cellulose,which is actually sifted sawdust. Not for me, thank you (I get enough cellulose just chomping on table legs and door jambs).

[Clipper]

I never thought about making eggs benedict with sausage gravy. I will definitely be trying it soon. We always have English muffins on hand. Kroger's has their own brand that are comparable to Thomas's. They are 6 in a package for $1.39 so I buy them 3 packages at a time and freeze them. We seldom make white toast any more. If I don't have rye toast I have a muffin with my breakfast.

When you make your own sausage gravy Kit using evaporated milk instead of plain whole milk makes it nice and creamy and thickens nicely

As for the Parmesan cheese, I don't like the fake stuff either. We keep a block of real Parm in the fridge and grate it as needed. We do have a plastic fake cheese bottle in the fridge that we fill with freshly grated Parmesan that I use on salads or for Kathy to mix with bread crumbs to top a casserole with.

My sis uses the fake stuff. I am going to ask my sister to save one or two of the bottles to use with a ball jar for a drinking glass. I saw a hack on FB the other day that the green lid off Kraft grated cheese fits on a ball jar and a straw fits in the holes. It would work perfect for picnics or for drinking my iced tea in the evening while I watch tv.

[clarencebunsen]

My son brings home a block of parm so we can grate it. We usually have some of the fake stuff because some kids prefer it. They are coming around. They now prefer Grandma's mac and cheese to the stuff that comes in a box.