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A Real Plowsters Breakfast

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For Leon,

Have I ever told you about the Plowster family?

Okay here goes, the Plowsters are a family only stories and legends are made of.

They live in a remote home in the mountains somewhere in the middle of somewhere.

Papa Plowster drives a plow truck around, and Mama Plowster cooks, I mean this woman can cook and cook and cook breakfast and only breakfast, from sunrise to sunset, every day of the week.  Mama P makes the biggest breakfasts you can image.

Mama P makes platters of ham, bacon, sausage, French toast, waffles, pancakes, muffins, southern potatoes, toast, hash browns, fried eggs, scrambled eggs, poached eggs, jam, jelly, and syrup.

Along with all this she always makes sure there are pitchers o milk, tomato juice and orange juice on the table.

So the story goes like this, one day after Mama P, Papa P, and all 13 of the young’uns, sat down at the large large breakfast table, and after they gobbled and consumed the delicious Plowster breakfast, Papa P announced he was going out plowing for the day, and needed some help.

As was always the case, all 10 children, beside the babies they did not go on these adventures, because who wants to watch a baby all day, piled into the back of the plow truck, you know to give it good traction on those back tires with the weight, or so they were told.

Papa P started up the big big hill, you see because their house was at the very bottom of the big big hill , this hill made the best sledding you could image, because where the Plowsters lived it was always winter and snowing.

As Papa P chugged the plow truck up the big big hill, as he barely made it to the top, giving that old Ford petal to the medal and he could muster, the plow blade hit upon something in the road.

Papa P and all the young’uns piled out of the truck to see what they could see, and low and behold they saw something!

Right there in the middle of the road was a large rock, a rock that had not been there the day before the day before the day.  Or had it?   Papa P scratched his head trying to recollect if this rock was really there today as it presented itself, and if it was even there before this day.

As the young’uns strained and scratched trying to get the rock to budge, and move so they could plow on thier merry way, Papa P had a better idea.  Papa P got back into the old Ford, yelled out the window “watch out young’uns!!Git on outta the  way now”.   Papa P put that plow blade up, put the pedal to the metal, floored the good old Ford and as he hit that rock head on he had a moment of wondering if this was such a good idea after all.

Well it worked the rock budged, I mean it moved a good foot outta the way, and as the old Ford came to a complete stop, there where the rock was, was a large hole.  Now you see this was not just a hole in the road, I mean this was a real deep hole,  The young’uns got on their hands and knees and all peered into the hole.

You want to know what they saw?

Well as they looked into the dark hole, a small glimmer of light started to appear, you know that yellow light that only the sun can give you, that was it, a small crack of yellow started to appear.

The young’uns decided to put the youngest young’un down into the hole head first by holding onto his legs and slowly lowering him into the hole head first.  As the youngest young’un was in the hole, you suddenly heard ” oh my gawsh, I see! I see!”.  Quickly he was raised up back to daylight, set upon the ground.  The young’uns gathered around him and said “well what, what did you see?”.   As the youngest young’un was in his fifth year of life, you can imagine his descriptive language skills were a bit lacking, however at this one moment, he said ” a gold chest, I see!”

Papa P and all the young’uns stood there scratching all the heads at once, digesting this information, and just at that moment, Mama P was heard ringing the breakfast for dinner bell!

 

To be continued……….

 

 

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Cowboy potatoes with Sausage and Eggs

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One of my favorite foodies sent me this quick, easy and delicious breakfast for dinner recipe.

For this dish,  Cowboy potatoes with Sausage and Eggs, you will need southwest hash browns, yellow onion, polska kielbasa sausage, and Perfect Peach Salsa  or( any sweet salsa will do).

This dish was named after a very hungry attitude one night after working a very long tiring day.

Once the refrigerator door was opened, a blank stare too ahold, when this passed she saw a package of kielbasa, a few farm fresh eggs, and cheese.

After rummaging thru the freezer to find another ingredient to add to this dish, to make it hearty, and also fulfilling, a bag of southern hash browns was just waiting there for the chef to create with. You know the hash browns that are those cute little cutup potato pieces, you can even use the ones that come with the added green peppers and onions.

The southern style hash browns are quickly put into a pan with a little oil, brought up to temperature for that mouth watering sizzle to take hold of the senses.

However have you ever noticed, when your that hungry after a long tiring day, anything on the stove seems to take days to cook!

While the hash browns were cooking, the kielbasa was cut up into nice bite sized pieces, a small onion was sliced up, and both were put into a frying pan with some butter to cook until golden, and the sausage nice and sizzled.

Once the hash browns were crispy to perfection, the sausage and onions were added in, mixing well for all the flavors to blend in.

Finally salt and pepper to taste,  try adding in your favorite seasoning blend, such as a hot and spicy mix, or an herb blend, whatever your taste buds desire.

In the same pan the onions and sausage were cooked, cook the eggs. If you like runny fried eggs, this is the perfect addition to the dish.  However I am a fan of scrambled eggs, so scrambled it is for me, when I make this dish.

Place the potatoes, sausage, and onions onto your plate add the eggs, and if you really want to take this to the next level add delicious wonderful cheese, I mean you cant go wrong with adding in cheese!

Place the eggs on top of the cheese, and you can spoon salsa on top of it all.

Salsa adds a nice deep flavor, and a little heat.  I like to use a peach, or apricot salsa, they both add a sweetness with the heat and added flavor.

Perfect Peach Salsa

 

See what variations you can come up with, perhaps add sliced avocado, or Salsa Verde.  

Sprinkle smoked paprika on top of the eggs for added flavor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Healthy, Hearty, ready set go Breakfast Burrito

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As life would have it, there are many times I am extremely spontaneous.

This live by the seat of my pants attitude comes with the need to give myself a hearty, healthy breakfast to literally run out the door with.

I wanted to share with you my quick, and easy breakfast burrito recipe, so you too are prepared on your spontaneous adventures.

Before I share this recipe, I wanted to remind my readers, that , dirty dishes will be in the sink when you arrive back home, floors are never really clean, laundry in the dryer is really dry laundry you can grab and wear, and as long as the cat has food and water, a day out is good thing for the soul and mind.

When you keep wheat tortillas, eggs, shredded cheese, hash browns and of course your favorite canned fresh salsa from your amazing summer garden this year on hand, you will never go hungry.

Add on kale, and fresh tomatoes and you will be able to feed yourself, both breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Here goes the process; right after you jump out of the shower and hop thru the house trying to get dressed while walking, open the fridge get out all the ingredients, turn on the burner, get your shirt completely on, grab two fry pans, slide your feet into your shoes, tidy your hair, and finally crack the eggs adding them to a bowl to whip into scrambled.

Make sure that somewhere in there you get those hash browns into the sizzling pan of hot oil.

Because this is cooking at high heat, its super important to keep the multi-tasking to the kitchen area, so you don’t set the whole place on fire!

As the hash browns cook turn on the other burner for the smaller fry pan, open the jar of salsa, and stir some into the hash browns, now you can turn the heat down, because the hash browns are almost done cooking.

If your feeling real fancy, grab some fresh kale, or arugula, and a fresh tomato.  Toss the greens into the small fry pan for a good cook, about 3-4 mins, do this right before the eggs go into the pan.    You can even pour the scrambled eggs onto the greens and make your skillet scrambler that way, all one process.

I have been known to mix things together that sometimes should not go together, however this really works, the greens and eggs.   Or you can eat the greens on the side, whatever your breakfast heart desires!

Add butter to the preheated pan for the whipped eggs, pour the eggs in, and quickly scramble.

Keep the heat on! once the tortilla is filled with all this goodness, roll everything up in a burrito, and put the burritos into the hot pan to sear on each side, until golden and crunchy.

If you have time, plate everything, run out to the car with the plate, and eat while your driving, don’t forget a fork!

Seriously, if that does not work for you, just put the burritos into foil , wrap and go!

I have timed this recipe and I can make two breakfast burritos, get completely dressed, and put everything back in the fridge in 10 minutes!  I’m not saying the kitchen is in good shape or the dogs are happy, however I have two delicious burritos that will get me to at least dinner time.

Enjoy! and Drive safe to get where you spontaneous self is taking you!

 

 

 

Adventures in Happy Face Pancakes

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It goes like this:

Each summer my family would pack into the 1964 panel sided brown station wagon and take a road to trip to Minnesota and Wisconsin.  Our main goal was to visit the grandparents for 2-3 weeks each summer.

The city grandparents of my mom, and the farm grandparents of my dad, city mouse and country mouse.

Mom and Dad would spend the days prior to leaving preparing the house, and making appointments for the house and family dog at the local kennel.  They would tidy and clean and make sure everything was in perfect order for our trip away from home.

They even packed pots and pans, so they could bring the cooktop, to provide us with a good home cooked meal in our hotel rooms.  Yes you heard me, we had one room for the kids and one for the adults, mom wasn’t able to tolerate us in the same room- do you blame her. LOL

The cat was packed into the back of the station wagon in her luxury cat carrier.  I am pretty sure she looked forward to her trip every summer as much as we did.

It never failed there was a mad dash in the morning of everyone rushing to get into the car with pillows, teddy bears, books in hand.  Finally finding ourselves piled into the car and ready to go, mom would say “Wait , did I unplug the iron?”.      I mean god only knows what she had been ironing that morning, for some reason she always felt that the iron was left on.

Dad would put the car back in park, rush into the house check the iron that was off, rush out the front door, and back into the drivers seat.

He would literally run into the house to avoid any more delays, or sudden items needed for our overpacked car.

Dad would put the car in drive and off we would go. down the driveway, out onto the street and our journey begins.  I always would turn and look back one last time at the house , whispering ” see you again real soon”.

Hours passed which feel like days, as I was sandwiched into the back seat between my older brother and sister.   It never failed someone would say ” Are we there yet!”  Lol.

We made many pit stops during our travels, and would stay the night in some small motel midway thru the journey, usually in Northern Nebraska most of the time.

Finally we arrived at the city mouse’s house, my mom’s parents in Minnesota were always our first stop on the journey.   We unloaded the cat, letting her out in the garage for her vacation.

Unpacking and talking nonstop came next, to grandparents, aunts, cousins, everyone would show up to celebrate our return to the homeland.

 

Upon going to bed that night, as I was getting tucked in, it suddenly dawned on me, teddy was no where to be found.

The troops banded together and tore apart the house, the garage ( not sure why that was), the inside of the car, and my bags.

Teddy was no where to be found.  How do you explain this to  8 year old who was very tired and somewhat cranky.  I cried my eyes out, crying myself to sleep as the adults sat in the corner of the room whispering.

The next morning with puffy red eyes I made my way downstairs to breakfast.  As I entered the kitchen I could hear everyone talking and laughing.

My dad saw me first, he comes over to me gives me a hug and says ” I made your favorite breakfast!, sit down and lets eat”

A plate was placed in front of me with one very large pancake on it, that had a huge happy face. I mean there was spam, bananas and strawberries placed onto the pancake for eyes, nose and a big smile!

This pancake was the best thing I had ever seen, a happy face pancake!

Immediately I was starting to feel better,  it only got better as I ate these delicious happy face pancakes.

Right before my last bite, out of nowhere the most beautiful teddy bear appeared in front of me, with someone making a goofy voice introducing the teddy bear to me as “teddy”.

As we wrapped up our trip, scooped the cat up and put her back in her luxury carrier and headed off to the country mouse house in Wisconsin of my other grandparents I made sure I had teddy placed securely in her seat in the car.

We all piled into the car, with our books “teddy”, and blankets, everyone was so happy!

The very best happy face pancakes, have become a tradition.   I found that I loved making them, not just for the memory for me, but for the memories I was giving my own children.

When ever I would make Sunday morning pancake breakfast, you betcha, those delicious happy face pancakes were on everyone’s plate.

 

We would have fruit pancakes,  and of course our happy face pancakes with our beloved spam.   Two eggs for the eyes, berries or banana for the nose and spam for the mouth!