This picture is one I took off the internet, but mine looked just about like this one.  Today, I decided to try out an idea I have had for a few days, what with the upcoming holidays approaching fast and the fact that the grandkids usually spend New Years Eve with Winemaker and me, I always try and have something extra special for their breakfast on New Years Day.

Well, everyone likes a good old omelet and so this morning I decided to give my idea a try and test it on Winemaker.  So, while she was down in the basement listening to the news and working out on the treadmill, I mixed up the following:

In a bowl, I mixed up

2 cups of shredded and frozen hash browns

1/4 cup diced red peppers

1/4 cup diced green peppers

4 eggs

1 cup shredded cheddar cheese

1/2 diced medium sized yellow onion

4 pre-cooked cut up sausage links

1/4  cup diced up pepperoni stick

Blend it all together in the bowl and pour it into a baking pan (I used a pan similar to the one in the picture)

Sprinkle some more shredded cheese on top

Pop it into a preheated oven set at 350 degrees and leave it for 35 minutes

At the 35 minute mark, turn the oven to Broil, and start some toast

When the toast pops up, turn the oven off, butter the toast and get ready for some yummy eating!

Served with milk or orange juice, a bit of home made jam for the toast…..what better?

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Well, Winemaker had no idea what I had concocted up and when she came up to get her shower she said on her way past the “den”, “Something in the kitchen doesn’t smell right”.  I remarked as she continued down the hallway, “It’s the smell of a clean oven”!  She cleaned it last week.

At the table, she remarked it was kind of spicy, but not too spicy.   I asked her what the “secret ingredient” was…she said she didn’t know….yet.   When the meal was all gone, she asked me what the secret was….I told her Pepperoni….Bingo, that is when she put two and two together.

So, next time you are ready for a really tasty, wake your mouth up, breakfast…give this one a go!

Bears Butt

November 20, 2014