Breakfast Sandwich

Recipe for breakfast sandwich.

My husband loves sausage and eggs.  He also loves onion.  One day I had only a small amount of pan sausage--probably one patty.  My husband is a bigger eater and I knew better than to put one sausage in front of him.  I decided to make a breakfast sandwich.  Here are the instructions.


Chop 1/2 small onion and saute it in a skillet.
Add the pan sausage to the onion, browning both the sausage and onion.
Add two beaten eggs to the skillet.
When the eggs are scrambled, place the entire mixture on toasted buns.

My husband loved it and requested it for the next three days in a row.  I got tired of cooking the same thing every morning, so I increased the ingredients as follows:
1 medium onion
1/4 lb. sausage
6 eggs

I refrigerated the leftovers and microwaved enough for one sandwich each morning.  Be careful not to cook the scrambled eggs too hard so they don't dry out in the microwave.

Spinach Breakfast Wrap

"Mom, I don't have time for breakfast.  I'll grab something on the way to school."  Have you heard that?  Well here is the answer.  Your teen or hubby can grab something on the way out the door and eat it in the car.

You can actually use any tortilla you like, but I prefer the spinach ones.  Spinach tortillas???  I have been asked that many times.  Yes, there are tortillas made with spinach.  Don't tell the kids.  They are very large and a mint green color.  They are much easier to roll and just plain fun.

You will need:

Spinach tortillas (6 in each package)

1 lb. pan sausage

1 chopped onion

1 chopped bell pepper

4-5 eggs

1-2 Tbs. milk

salt and pepper to taste

hot sauce (optional)

Brown pan sausage in skillet.  Add onion and bell pepper to skillet.  Cook until onion is transparent and pepper is soft. Meanwhile, break eggs into a small bowl.  Add milk, salt and pepper.  Pour egg mixture into skillet with sausage, onion and pepper mixture.  Cook until eggs are scrambled.

Lay one tortilla on a plate.  Spoon egg and sausage mixture down the middle of the tortilla.  Add hot sauce if desired.  Fold the tortilla top to middle, bottom to middle, left side to middle, and right side to middle.  (This takes a little practice.)  You are making a burrito type roll.  

Heat clean cast iron  skillet or grill. ( I use a George Foreman grill.)  When skillet or grill is screaming hot, place breakfast wrap on.  Cook 2-3 minutes on each side or until tortilla is slight brown and crisp.  When finished the wrap can be held in the hand and eaten on the run.

Sausage Rolls

Breakfast sandwiches are great.  Just pop them in the microwave and in a couple of minutes, your breakfast is ready.  However, most of them have cheese.  My husband doesn't like cheese.  We have tried taking off the cheese before heating, but it was messy and not worth the effort.  I decided to make my own and this is what I came up with.

Use Rhodes yeast rolls and your favorite pan sausage.  Place rolls on a cookie sheet and allow to soften.  Be sure they don't rise too much.  Meanwhile, roll tablespoon size pan sausage into balls and set aside.  

Flatten the yeast rolls by pulling or stretching the dough.  Place sausage balls in the middle of the dough.  Pull the edges of the dough together encasing the sausage.  Place back on cookie sheet and allow to rise for at least two hours.  Bake at 350 degrees until golden brown, approximately 20-25 minutes.  

I do these ahead of time and put the cooked rolls in baggies.  I keep them in the refrigerator and my husband zaps them in the microwave.  He enjoys them and best of all--no cheese.