Posts tagged ‘sausage’

January 17, 2010

Blueberry Pancakes

Blueberry Pancakes are really easy to make.  I made them yesterday for lunch and they were awesome.  Here’s how you do it…..

I bought

  • store brand pancake mix (the “just add water” kind)
  • 1 small pack of blueberrys
  • jimmy dean sausage

You’ll also need

  • oil (i use canola or vegetable)

Mix your pancake mix in a big bowl – they usually tell you how much on the back of the box.  However, their definition of 5 pancakes and mine are a little different.  For instance, this box said 5-7 pancakes with 1 cup of mix; one cup of mix made 2 pancakes for me.

Pour an ample number of blueberrys into the mix.  DO NOT MIX ANY MORE THAN NECESSARY; pancakes don’t turn out well if you mix the mixture too much.

Start your sausage in another pan if you chose to add sausage.

Put oil into the pan you’re going to be cooking in, add a layer of oil to the bottom of the pan.  Allow the pan to heat on the stove until it’s warm (test by holding your hand over the pan).

Pour enough pancake mix into the pan to where you don’t overfill your pan and give yourself room to get the spatula under the pancake – thin is good.  Flip when you start to see bubble forming on the uncooked side.  Don’t burn but you also want to make sure the middle of the pancake gets done.

Serve with syrup.  So easy to do and easy to impress someone if you happen to be making breakfast for someone else.

December 5, 2009

Pasta Bake

I decided to make what was told to me after the fact was a pasta bake.  Here’s what I did:

Pasta : Penne (i think you could put almost any pasta.  penne looked good when i was in the store)

Vegetables: Stewed Tomato and Spinach (I already had tomato, I love spinach)

Meat : Hot Pork Sausage (worst name ever, but delicious)

I mixed the tomatoes and the spinach in a big bowl

Then I browned the sausage and added that to the mixture

I boiled the penne until it was soft (the taste test is usually enough) and added that to the mixture.

Then I dumped the entire mixture into a pyrex pan (greased) and covered the top in a layer of parmesan cheese.

I let this bake at 375 for about 20 mins (these are estimates and I just guessed about how long)

End Result:

As I said, I think you could substitute almost any combination of vegetables, meat and pasta and make this dish.  Really easy and really good.

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