The Breakfast Challenge: Day Three
June 4, 2009 > 3 Comments
We got an earlier start on breakfast today thanks to the children. They managed to get up, dressed, have personal devotions AND get all their chores done by 8 o clock this morning! I was very proud of them and am hoping that this is a new feat I’ll be seeing more of.
Since I have a 5 gallon bucket full of corn grits I like to have at least 1 meal a week that incorporates grits into our menu. This morning we had Layered Breakfast Bowls, for lack of a better name.
I like this breakfast because I can use up bits of cheese, breakfast sausage ends, and eggs. Of course I have also bought the ingredients just to be able to make this dish because it is one of my children’s favorites.
What you need
- Grits – The amount depends on the size of the group you’ll be feeding. For my family of 7 I prepare 1 1/2 cup of grits
- Sausage – as much or as little as you’d like to use
- Scrambled eggs – I usually scramble 1 egg for each person, but this morning we only had three eggs so we were a little short this time.
- Cheese, butter, a little cream or milk, salt and pepper
No real recipe or secret here!
- Fry and scramble sausage. Sometimes I scramble the sausage the night before to make it a bit easier to prepare in the morning.
- Prepare grits according to package directions. Add a little milk and a lot of butter to create a creamy consistency. Then add shredded cheddar cheese. I usually put the same amount of cheese as grits. So I made 1 1/2 cups of grits, I added 1 1/2 cup cheese. Throw in a dash of salt and pepper to taste.
- Scramble eggs.
- In individual bowls layer egg, sausage & grits.
Easy enough!
Of course if you’re not a “grits person” ie. northerner who puts sugar in their grits {gasping in horror} you may not like this recipe. But may I suggest as Mikey in the old Life commercial said, “Try it you’ll like it.”
Be sure to check out what Joy cooked up for Wednesday’s Breakfast Challenge. She needs some help from our readers to make her breakfast a bit healthier.
Are you up for a challenge? Do you need some inspiration and motivation to get back in the kitchen and cook? We’d love for you to join us in this adventure. Just focus on making breakfasts every day this week, trying out new recipes or bringing back some oldie-but-goodies.
Then next Monday Joy and I will each host a Mr. Linky and you can link up your post about the breakfasts you tried this week (and of course include pictures and mouth-watering recipes, too!).
For each of the the following three weeks, the challenge will be lunches, dinners, and then snacks. Then, at the end of this 4-week cooking challenge, Joy and I will be compiling master menu plans from which we can more easily plan our meals. So we’re both looking forward to some new meal ideas from our fabulous readers. We’d love for you to join us!
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June 4th, 2009 @ 9:16 pm
I have to say the timing of this challenge is ironic. I feel like I’ve fallen off the “breakfast bandwagon” by serving a few too many milk-and-cereal breakfasts as of late. To complicate matters, I work outside the home full-time and only cook on weekends or evenings. And I cook vegan vegetarian food (and it’s hard to find time to veganize/ vegetarianize recipes). But happy for me, I just discovered a newly-released vegan brunch cookbook that I ordered a couple days ago. I hope I can get back on the bandwagon! Thanks for the motivation.
(I don’t think I’ll be able to join up this coming Monday as I’ll be out of town, but maybe another time.)
June 5th, 2009 @ 2:49 am
So. I’ve never had grits, but that looks really tasty!
June 8th, 2009 @ 4:42 am
[...] – Layered Breakfast Bowl is another keeper as I have a 5 gallon bucket of grits. I see now why, when I placed my order, they [...]