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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

My breakfast obsession: Sausage & Egg Quesadillas

I. Love. Breakfast. We're talking some serious love here. As in we have breakfast for supper at least once a week around here. Minimum. I immediately love all restaurants that serve breakfast all day long. Thank you....I'm sending some serious love your way. That's part of the reason I'm so excited about Ohio farmers giving away free breakfast for a year! At Bob Evans...where you can eat breakfast all day!! Can you say, "heaven"?

So when I saw Food: Cooking & Capturing had a post on 10 quesadillas, is it any wonder the one that immediately drew my eye was scrambled egg quesadilla? Be still my heart. The only thing I thought that could make it even better was a little meat. I love meat, ok?
 Here's what you need for these yummy breakfast quesadilllas: eggs, sausage, tortillas and cheese. How simple is that?
 So simple, even Baby Boy can do it...or at least help!
 He is fascinated with the whole egg-cracking business.
 Brown up your sausage. I went ahead and used the whole pound of maple sausage...so mine was pretty heavy on the sausage considering it was just me and the three kidders for supper. But I love, love, love the flavor of maple sausage with eggs! Adjust to your taste and the number of folks you are cooking for.
 Whisk your eggs and milk together for the scrambled egg part. We used 5 eggs. Now for the cool part:
 When I used to make egg and sausage scrambles, I'd brown my sausage, pull it out of the pan, scramble the eggs and put them back together. It's been a recent discovery (can't remember where I read this, though) that you can just pour the eggs in with the browned sausage and scramble them that way. Maybe everyone else already knew this, but it was news to me. Way simple and way less work. I'm all for both of those!
 So as your eggs scramble, you'll end up with something kind of like this. Now it's time to break out the griddle for the tortillas.
 I give mine a good shot of olive oil spray then toss the tortillas onto the hot griddle.
Then load 'em up with the sausage and eggs and add your cheese. We really like cheese here. It's out own personal campaign to support America's dairy farmers!!
 No I loaded mine up a little too full...thus the difficulty in flipping them. But boy did they taste good...
 Everything browned up nicely and the cheese got all melty-gooey. Yum.
After both sides have browned, plop them on a plate to cut and enjoy.


 Even the kidders loved it...especially Baby Boy. But that's what assistant chefs are for, right? To print a copy of the recipe, just click on the recipe card below.

10 comments:

  1. Yum! My kids are gonna love this one!

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  2. Ohhh, yummy! We have breakfast for dinner all the time, too! And you're using one of my favorite ingredients -- Jimmy Dean is king around here. These look delicious and we'll be trying them ASAP.

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  3. Very delicious! I love to use chorizo in my breakfast burritos, it just adds that delicious something :) I never thought of doing quesadillas before..good call!

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  4. What time shall i show up for breakfast??
    YUMMO!!

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  5. Oooo....that sounds great. Whenever I've gone camping I always make sure to bring fajitas and egss and sausage....and my secret: salsa. Then, we make wraps and it's the perfect breakfast!!

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  6. No wonder you're obsessed. That looks delicious! Your little helper is adorable.

    I'm following back!

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  7. These look amazing and thanks for the tip on scrambling the eggs with the cooked sausage. I didn't know you could do that either.

    P.S. I have a little boy that LOVES to crack eggs too. Really he loves to cook period, but cracking eggs is his favorite and he prefers baking to cooking. :-)

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  8. This sounds extremely tasty!
    Thanks for linking up!
    ~Liz

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  9. Thank you for sharing this great breakfast recipe with us at Anything Related!
    {Rebekah}

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  10. What a great idea! We love breakfast for dinner too and my 9 year old LOVES quesadillas!

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