My daughter, who is stationed in Norfolk aboard the USS Monterrey and her friend Evan, who she went to A-School (??) with and is stationed in San Diego, flew in Friday night for a few days. I guess the US Navy doesn't want the entire branch of the service shut down for the week of Christmas so they broke the leave time down and Courtney (my daughter) and her friend Evan drew the week of New Years. He'd never been to TX but has always wanted to come so Courtney asked if it was OK for him to join us. Of course it is!! We spent yesterday touring some of the world-class wineries in Fredericksburg, which is about 100 miles southwest of us. We load everybody into my big ol' crew cab truck and I drive. I'm not into wine so I assume that role so everybody else can enjoy the wine samplings and not have to worry about any problems. We made a full day of it and hit 4 of Tracy's favorite places. Glad I have a 3/4 ton truck to bring the bounty back!! Great God they loaded up!! Fast forward to this morning. Courtney and Evan are going to Courtney's mom's house for a belated Christmas dinner but I wanted to make a nice breakfast for everybody. She was enamored with some pics I showed her yesterday of a breakfast quiche I made so I decided to go that route. Here we go...for my 2nd SMF trip this morning 
Started by cutting up a bunch of stuff for home fries. Taters, red & yellow bell pepper, green onion, olive oil, salt, pepper, and garlic
Breakfast sausage and bacon on the grill (both homemade)
Nice grill marks coming along on the bacon and sausgae. Whoda' thunk it??
All done
Grate a half pound of smoked extra sharp cheddar cheese
Home fries about done. Time to add the Ro Tel tomatoes with Habaneros
Ro Tel tomatoes added
Take a 9x9 baking dish, spray it with non-stick cooking spray (you MUST do this) then line it with burrito sized tortillas
Put the 4 sausage patties in
Add the home fries
Mix 6 eggs with a splash of milk then add 12 oz. of cottage cheese
Pour milk and cottage cheese mixture into the baking pan over top of the home fries
Top with the grated cheddar and a nice sprinkle of black pepper
Place the bacon on top that we grilled earlier
....and onto the grill
Getting happy, poofing up, and looking good. Grill running about 400* and it's gonna take about 40 minutes to cook
All done. Ready to slice and serve
My quarter of this monster. 2 pics from different angles. This just looks so good!!
Well...I'll say this was one really interesting but extremely good meal. It was also VERY filling!!Courtney was really impressed. She was thinking foo foo fancy yuppie food when she saw it just before going onto the grill. While eating it she said it was definitely a Texas style breakfast but with an interesting twist that was really cool. Courtney is big into physical fitness and eating healthy so I took that into account. I did the healthy version and grilled the bacon and sausage instead of frying it. Aren't I the thoughtful father?? Seriously folks, this was really good and was not a huge problem to make. It took a few minutes to cut up all the stuff for the home fries but that's about the only thing that took any time at all. This one certainly goes onto the "to do again" list. the beauty of this is that you can use any combination of ingredients you want to create any flavor profile that you (and yours) will enjoy. I've probably used this concept about a dozen times, none have been the same, and all have been really good.
Well, I gotta go start thinking about dinner now. Have no idea what it's going to be but I'll address that after my much deserved post-breakfast nap
Y'all have a great day and see everybody soon,
Robert
Started by cutting up a bunch of stuff for home fries. Taters, red & yellow bell pepper, green onion, olive oil, salt, pepper, and garlic
Breakfast sausage and bacon on the grill (both homemade)
Nice grill marks coming along on the bacon and sausgae. Whoda' thunk it??
All done
Grate a half pound of smoked extra sharp cheddar cheese
Home fries about done. Time to add the Ro Tel tomatoes with Habaneros
Ro Tel tomatoes added
Take a 9x9 baking dish, spray it with non-stick cooking spray (you MUST do this) then line it with burrito sized tortillas
Put the 4 sausage patties in
Add the home fries
Mix 6 eggs with a splash of milk then add 12 oz. of cottage cheese
Pour milk and cottage cheese mixture into the baking pan over top of the home fries
Top with the grated cheddar and a nice sprinkle of black pepper
Place the bacon on top that we grilled earlier
....and onto the grill
Getting happy, poofing up, and looking good. Grill running about 400* and it's gonna take about 40 minutes to cook
All done. Ready to slice and serve
My quarter of this monster. 2 pics from different angles. This just looks so good!!
Well...I'll say this was one really interesting but extremely good meal. It was also VERY filling!!Courtney was really impressed. She was thinking foo foo fancy yuppie food when she saw it just before going onto the grill. While eating it she said it was definitely a Texas style breakfast but with an interesting twist that was really cool. Courtney is big into physical fitness and eating healthy so I took that into account. I did the healthy version and grilled the bacon and sausage instead of frying it. Aren't I the thoughtful father??
Seriously folks, this was really good and was not a huge problem to make. It took a few minutes to cut up all the stuff for the home fries but that's about the only thing that took any time at all. This one certainly goes onto the "to do again" list. the beauty of this is that you can use any combination of ingredients you want to create any flavor profile that you (and yours) will enjoy. I've probably used this concept about a dozen times, none have been the same, and all have been really good.Well, I gotta go start thinking about dinner now. Have no idea what it's going to be but I'll address that after my much deserved post-breakfast nap
Y'all have a great day and see everybody soon,
Robert
