Egg In A Hole with Turkey Sausage Crumble and a Tomato, Avocado, Onion Dice

This is a fun, quick and easy way to try eggs in a slightly different way.  It's also great in the way that you really can eat it at any time of the day!

What you need

Your bread of choice (I chose whole wheat)
1 egg per serving
2 turkey sausage links (out of casing, hot or sweet I used one of each)
8-10 chopped cherry tomatoes
1/2 avocado
1/2 chopped Onion
1 tbsp. lemon juice
Cooking spray

 Start out with your frying pan on medium cooking the turkey sausage for about 7-8 minutes.  once that's all cooked up, start up another frying pan on medium.  Make sure to spray some nonstick spray on the bottom. 

 

 

Take your sliced bread, bend it in half and remove small piece from center.  Place down in the hot pan.  Now just crack your egg and place right over the hole you made in center of bread.  I cooked mine about two minutes before flipping it over for an additional minute or so.   

After your egg in a hole is done cooking through dice up your cherry tomatoes, onion, and avocado.  I topped it with 1 tbsp. of lemon juice and a dash of black pepper.

Now just add turkey sausage right on top of your egg in a hole followed by your tomato, avocado, and onion.  Then eat! the best part ; )  EAT! ENJOY! YUM!

Pink Princess Pancakes

How's that for alliteration? 

Princess Leah (PL) asked to make some pink strawberry pancakes the other day for breakfast, and I thought this might be a great opportunity for me to beef up our freezer pancake stock (more on this later).

Originally, I thought about doing raspberry flavored pancakes, but that didn't work out. Why, you ask? Because here in East Texas, they have many kinds of extract - mint, rum, banana, orange, butter (seriously?)...but NO raspberry. Readers, send me raspberry extract, stat. 

I could have used fresh or frozen fruit, but since these would be frozen later, fresh berries don't always work out during reheating. (HINT: you use a toaster, so YIKES).

Soooo...I used....Strawberry Nesquik! Go ahead and laugh, but it did give the pancakes a very slight strawberry taste that wasn't too sweet at all!

Ingredients

• 2 cups Original Bisquick mix
• 1 cup milk
• 2 eggs
• 1/4 cup Strawberry Nesquik
• pink gel food coloring

I usually double this recipe, then wrap each pancake individually and freeze flat. Store them in freezer bags, and when PL wants a pancake, I just unwrap, pop in the toaster on the "freezer" setting, and she's all set! Cheaper than buying frozen pancakes, folks.

Mix the first 4 ingredients together, and you will see a pink color start to form, like this:

But PL states this simply isn't pink enough...so I add a small amount of pink gel food coloring, and get this:

Much better! Use a 1/4 cup measure to ladle out circles in your skillet or pan:

And cook normally - a minute or two on each side should do it. Set the pancakes out on paper towels to cool for freezing:

Or, cut into them right away to admire the beauty of the color pink:

Don't let the pink fool you - these are pretty versatile. Like 'em plain? Leave out the Nesquik and color! Like 'em with fresh fruit? Put some in! Like 'em blue? Purple? Orange? Swap out colors and flavors!!