Recipe: Omelet and Breakfast Sandwiches

In this week's Pathmark supermarket circular, I noticed that a carton of 18 large eggs is selling for $1.69, Banquet Brown 'N Serve Sausage Links or Patties is $1, and Pillsbury Grands Biscuits are $2 (use the $1 off 2 coupon here and get the cans for $1.50 each).

Putting them all together, I can make my own breakfast sandwiches just like the famous "Golden Arches" and save!
Total cost for all the ingredients: $4.19 and makes 8 breakfast sandwiches.

Before we start, we must first learn the technique of how to make a basic omelet.
Here is a video of Julia Child showing us just how it is done:



Ingredients

• 1 box of Banquet Brown 'N Serve Sausage Patties
• 1 can Pillsbury Grands Biscuits (I prefer Southern Style)
  
• 8 eggs
• butter or oil to cook the eggs
  

Directions

1. Prepare and bake biscuits as per manufacturer's instructions on can.
2. While biscuits are baking, prepare and cook sausage patties as per manufacturer's instructions on box.
3. Using an 8 inch non-stick pan, cook the eggs omelet style 2 at a time.
4. Flip the omelet in half and then cut in half with a spatula.
   
5. To assemble the sandwich, cut a biscuit in half sideways and lay half the omelet and then a sausage patty and then top with other biscuit.
6. Continue cooking the rest of the eggs the same way.
   

This is a recipe to make all the breakfast sandwiches at once (great for a family) but you can just bake the biscuits and then prepare the eggs and patty on the day that you are going to eat one (or two).

I don't season my omelet with salt & pepper as the biscuit and sausage have salt and seasonings already.

Recipe: Pasta with Broccoli Rabe and Sausage

Pasta is on sale this week for 80¢ a box at my local supermarket. Italian Turkey Sausage is on sale for $2.99. Broccoli Rabe is $2.99 per pound. I already have extra virgin olive oil and garlic in my pantry so I decided to buy all these ingredients to make this popular Italian dish for about $7.

Orecchiette (Italian for "ear") is the pasta shape that is normally used for this dish. I substituted Medium Shells which is similar.

Ingredients

• 1 large bunch of broccoli rabe (stems trimmed off and rinsed)
• 1 pound of Medium Shell pasta
• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 pound Italian sausage (hot or sweet, the taste is up to you) cut into bite sized pieces
• 4 garlic cloves, peeled and chopped
• 1 cup reserved broccoli rabe water
• 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese

Directions

1. Bring a large pot of water to the boil. Add a handful of salt and bring back to boil.
2. Add the broccoli rabe and cook for a minute. Remove from water with tongs and allow to cool and drain in a colander.
3. Bring the water back to a boil.
4. Heat oil in a large saute pan over medium heat and cook the sausage until browned, about 12 minutes.
5. Add the chopped garlic and saute for a minute more.
6. Add the drained broccoli rabe and toss to coat everything in the flavored oil.
7. Add 1 cup reserved broccoli rabe water and salt and pepper to taste.
8. Meanwhile, add the pasta to the boiling water and cook until al dente (about 10 minutes)
9. Drain pasta and return to the pot.
10. Add the broccoli rabe and sausage sauce to the pasta and toss.
11. Transfer everything to a serving plate and sprinkle the Parmesan cheese on top.

Sausage, Egg, and Cheese Breakfast Sandwich

Just made a sausage, egg and cheese breakfast sandwich. Bought the sausage patties from Walmart and English muffins when on sale. They keep nicely in the freezer until needed. A large cookie cutter sprayed with PAM makes a nice egg mold and prevents sticking.

I was so hungry that I forgot to take a pic of it and ate it voraciously. It was SO good!

Ingredients

1 egg
1 English muffin
1 sausage patty
1 slice American cheese

1. Spray a small saute pan and the cookie cutter with spray oil (I used PAM)
2. Heat pan over medium heat.
3. Break the egg into a cup and gently pour it into the cookie cutter. Cook until white sets.
   
4. Lightly toast the English muffin
5. Microwave the frozen sausage patty according to package directions
6. Gently remove cookie cutter and flip egg over to other side and cook until done.
7. Assemble sandwich with English muffin, sausage, egg, and layer cheese slice. Top with English muffin.
8. Enjoy!

I used maple flavored sausage patties for a slight sweet taste against the salty sharp tang of the American cheese.