Homemade Breakfast Sausage

Good Morning!

The MN State Fair has ended, pools are closed, football has started...all of this means school is back in session!  All I can say this morning is that I miss the 90 degree days and humid mornings. 

What are you making for your family this morning?  My ears will burst if you say nothing.  Breakfast is so important for our health. A good breakfast is even more important. It breaks-the-fast from overnight and gives our brains and body the energy to get moving again. We hear it all the time, healthy people eat breakfast. Research shows higher test results in children who ate breakfast among many other great reasons.  Then why do so many skip it then?  Maybe no time?  Make it for 'Night Breakfast'  then stick them in the fridge for when you are on-the-go. 

I have been making this homemade sausage all summer and every time, no fail...it is gone within minutes. I don't like to eat sausage knowing the nitrates, fillers, MSG, chemicals and meat choices in them. So make your own in minutes! I choose to use ground chicken out of personal preference but ground turkey, pork, sirloin or combination would work. I also never have cared for the fennel seeds in sausage and this has zero, zilch, nada. This recipe gives good use to the beautiful sage I picked out just for the color. I love the look and smell of this plant. It is the only reason I bought it, thankfully I have been putting it to good use.


Homemade Breakfast Sausage
1 pound free-range ground chicken
1 TB coconut oil
1 TB fresh sage- sliced thin *
1 tsp sea salt
1/2 tsp fresh cracked black pepper
1/8 tsp dried marjoram
1 TB turbinado sugar
1/8 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
1 pinch ground cloves
* for dried measurement's

1. Place the chicken and all spices in a large bowl.


2. Mix well and form into patties.


3. Heat coconut oil in large skillet over medium high heat. Saute the patties for 5 minutes per side, or until browned and cooked through. You can also cook it crumble style for omelette's or a skillet hash. 
Serve warm and enjoy!


Note: Do not wash the pan. Just remove your sausage and continue making breakfast in this pan for great flavor, example: eggs, hash browns or pancakes. I made scrambled eggs directly after.


I got responses of "Best Breakfast Ever!" The eggs had so much flavor and brought me to Kitchen Technique #3- If you loose a piece of the shell... Use a large half of the egg shell to pick out the broken piece. It acts as a magnet to the little piece that broke off...otherwise it can be a hard little sucker to fish out.




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Sun-Ripened Peachy Vanilla Syrup


Happy 09-02-10 Day!  Beverly Hills, 90210 that is....don't act like you didn't watch it every Wednesday night throughout the entire 90's.  An hour every week throughout a whole decade of our life was spent watching this show. 
Do you remember the Peach Pit?  They would hang out there at the end of the episode and figure out their life's problems before the next commercial, but leave just enough to keep us watching of coarse.  I thought I would dedicate 09-02-10 day to the Peach Pit because when I was younger I thought that was just how life would be when I was in high school.
Even while in labor with my second child- I knew the very last episode ever was going to be on the next night...so before leaving for the hospital I was sitting there programming my VCR!  I don't think I ever even watched it when I came home, something to do with a wonderful bouncing baby boy I suppose!

For today we will make Sun-Ripened Peachy Vanilla Syrup for all the times I wished I could be sitting in the booth with Dylan at the Peach Pit!    I love this recipe because there is no peeling or dicing.  Just slice, pit and simmer.  Skins and all, how simple.  Peach skin is packed with anti-wrinkle antioxidants, potassium and Vitamin A.  All which are a very important part to wonderful skin tone, clarity and texture.  If you want skin as soft as a peach, eat peaches!


Sun-Ripened Peachy Vanilla Syrup
4 pounds organic peaches- About 6 cups
1 cup water
2 cups turbinado sugar
2 TB fresh squeezed lemon juice
2 tsp vanilla extract

1.  Sun ripen your peaches until tender in a window or deck/ patio if you are able to. I did mine from early morning to late evening. Be careful not to over ripen!


2. Slice up your peaches (skin remaining) and place in a large size pot.


3. Add water, turbinado sugar (or any), and lemon juice.
4. Simmer over medium heat until mushy and skins begin to peel off, which takes about 20 minutes.


5. Remove from heat, stir in vanilla.
6. Let cool down a little then mix immersion style or in a blender until your desired consistency. If you are “canner”, then follow your own canning instructions.


We however cannot keep it around long enough to can!
7. Serve over pancakes, cheesecake, ice cream or with a bowl and spoon.


Have a Happy 90210 Day!




Today's recipes where brought to you by, inspired or adapted from:  The Sisters Dish