Sausage And Potato Breakfast Skillet Food

SAUSAGE, POTATO AND EGG SKILLET

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°.
• In a 10-inch cast iron skillet brown sausage until crumbly and medium brown in color.
• Stir as required.
• While sausage is browning peel potatoes and cut in to 1/2-inch cubes, chop onion and mince garlic.
• After browning, remove sausage from pan with a slotted spoon, add potatoes to pan and carefully brown them in the sausage fat.
• Remove potatoes from pan and add to reserved sausage.
• Add butter to pan (if required), once butter is melted add onion and cook until slightly brown and soft, add garlic and cook till aromatic.
• While onions are browning, light whisk eggs, half-and-half and sugar till slightly foamy.
• Return potatoes and sausage to pan, mix well with onion and garlic.
• Season with salt and pepper.
• Pour egg mixture over sausage/potato/onion, sprinkle on 1/2 the cheese and mix, sprinkle remaining cheese on top.
• Place pan in preheated oven; cook for 10 minutes and then lower heat to 350° and cook for an additional 10-20 minutes (depending on how you like your eggs). Keep an eye on the pan--if the cheese gets too brown, then cover with buttered aluminum foil.
• Serve with hot sauce and toast.
• •Variations:.
• Add mushrooms, green pepper, red pepper and sauté with the onions.
• Season the egg mix with hot sauce, replace half-and-half with yogurt.
• Cheese selections, I prefer a small amount of provolone and Parmesan mixed in the eggs with none on top--the wife likes cheddar on top and mixed inches.

JO COOKS' SAUSAGE POTATO BREAKFAST CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400.
• Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the sausage and cook until it's no longer pink, crumbling with a spoon. Transfer the sausage to a plate and set aside.
• In the same skillet, add the onion and mushrooms and cook until onion is soft and mushrooms have cooked down.
• Add bell peppers and stir. Cook until bell peppers soften a bit.
• In a small bowl, whisk the eggs with the milk, salt, pepper, and red pepper flakes.
• Add the sausage to the vegetables, add the potatoes, 1 1/2 cups of the mozzarella cheese, the egg mixture, and about 3/4 cup of the chopped green onions and stir everything together until well combined.
• Pour the mixture into a 9x13 inch baking dish and sprinkle remaining mozzarella over top. Bake for 30 minutes or until slightly browned (mine was bigger so I baked a little longer).
• Sprinkle with remaining green onions and serve.

POTATOES AND SAUSAGE SKILLET FRY

Steps:

• In a 10 inch cast iron skillet crumble and brown the breakfast sausage over medium heat. The crumbles should be about marble sized and cooked through. Remove the sausage from the pan and drain on paper towels. Reserve for later and try not to eat it all.
• If you must, pour off or blot a little of the sausage grease out of the pan, but really you don't have to. Add the cubed potatoes to the pan and stir to coat with the grease and to keep them from sticking. Liberally salt and pepper the potatoes and sprinkle with garlic powder. Stir and turn again, turn the heat down a little and put a lid on the pan. Check the potatoes every 5 to 10 minutes, stirring and turning so they brown evenly.
• When the potatoes are almost done add the onion to the pan. Turn and cook another 10 minutes or so or until the onion is cooked and the potatoes are browned and cooked through.
• Add the sausage back to the pan and cover everything with the cheese. Put the lid back on the pan and let the cheese melt, another 2-4 minutes.
• Serve with slices of tomatoes, a sprinkling of parsley or other fresh herbs or just ketchup.