EAT AT JOMAMA’S

Ever since I was a little kid, Saturday mornings were reserved for cartoons and a big, yummy, homecooked breakfast. Though the cartoons, at least on the local channels (we don’t have cable), have long since gone by the wayside, I still try to carry on the tradition of a good, hearty breakfast on Saturdays.

Though this blog is typically devoted to dinner meals, I’ve decided to add some of the Saturday breakfasts to it as well. Here’s the one I made this Saturday, modelled much after my mom’s “Inn’s Breakfast”, which is, in turn, a reproduction of one of our favorite restaurants from my elementary school years in El Paso.

We were so eager to tear into this one, that I didn't take the picture until after we had breakfast.

MamaJo’s Sooouuiii! Skillet

Ingredients:

• 1 large iron skillet (this is a MUST for this recipe)
• 1 roll breakfast sausage of your choice (we prefer Jimmy Dean Sage)
• 3 small russet potatoes, cleaned and diced in half inch cubes
  
• salt and pepper to taste
• 3 T canola oil
• 10 large white eggs
• 1/4 c 1% milk
• 1 c freshly grated cheddar

Instructions:

1. Heat skillet to medium, brown sausage (about 7 minutes).
2. Place sausage on a paper towel to soak up the grease, set aside.
3. Add oil to skillet, adjust heat to med-high,  allow oil time to heat.
4. Generously salt and pepper the potatoes, mix well.
5. Add potatoes to hot oil, cook until golden brown, flipping with spatula ever 3 min or so.
6. While potatoes are cooking, spray a large pan with nonstick cooking spray (we use spray olive oil) and heat to med.
7. In a medium sized bowl, mix eggs and milk and whisk until fluffy.
8. Pour eggs in pan, scramble.
9. Set oven to broil.
10. Place potatoes on paper towel to soak up oil, return to skillet, spread evenly.
11. Spread cooked sausage evenly over potatoes.
12. Spread cooked eggs evenly over sausage.
13. Sprinkle cheese evenly over eggs.
14. Place entire skillet in oven to broil 5 min.

This makes enough for breakfast on Saturday and leftovers for breakfast on Sunday. Serve with warm biscuits and a variety of jellies or as breakfast tacos wrapped up in hot flour tortillas.

Also, the sausage can be substituted for any other breakfast type pork. Try it with bacon, ham, Canadian bacon, whatever sounds good! Just remember, if you use something besides pork, you have to change the name!

Delish!