Sausage Biscuit Sandwich for Breakfast

One of my favorite sites to look through is GameandGarden.com. Stacy does a wonderful job explaining through photos and videos how to cook fresh meals for your family. If you have a hunter in the family, or you have your own garden where you grow fresh produce, she's your gal!! She has cookbooks and we first discovered her doing a segment on the outdoor channel! We tried her venison breakfast sausage (ours was already made, she explains how to make your own), and homemade biscuits! You can of course use regular pork sausage if you don't have venison ready in your freezer! Venison is a much healthier less greasy alternative to pork sausage! You actually have to add a little oil in the pan because you hardly get any grease off the meat! We love venison in our house, but if you don't have a hunter then of course you can substitute in the meat you do have. We made her biscuits quite a bit smaller than a regular biscuit because D loves to make sandwiches with just about anything! So to make it easier on us to eat, we made them thinner so we could easily eat them as a sausage biscuit sandwich!  You can find her recipe here, on her brand new updated site (it's really beautiful and easy to navigate)! So let's get started!

Ingredients
3 c of flour +some for dusting
1 TB Baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
3/4 tsp salt
1 stick (1/2 c) butter
3 TB shortening (cold)
1 c buttermilk

Preheat the oven to 425 degrees.

Mix all your dry ingredients together in a large bowl.

Cut the butter into small, pea sized pieces and add them to the dry mixture. Work it all together until it resembles oatmeal texture. Be careful to not overwork the butter into the dry mix because it can alter the outcome of your biscuits!

After the butter has been integrated into the dry mix, add the buttermilk into the mixture and mix well. Place the dough onto a lightly floured surface and roll out until it is about 1 1/2 inches thick. Cut into rounds (I couldn't find a circle cut, however I did find a nice flower shaped cookie cutter that worked just fine), and place onto a greased cookie sheet!

Make sure the biscuits are touching when you add them to the sheet.

If you are making "thicker" biscuits, make a thumb print in the middle of each

biscuit to ensure they rise properly. 

Place them in the preheated oven for 10 minutes then brush the tops with melted butter, and bake for another 10 minutes (20 minutes total). While the biscuits were cooking DJ made sausage patties on the stove top! Once everything was finished we put them together to make our breakfast sandwiches and thoroughly enjoyed our homemade biscuits and sausage!! Her recipe is easy, and delicious, and puts making "Bisquick" biscuits to shame! 

Incredibly delicious!! You can even freeze them and pop them in the microwave to re-heat for an easy on the go breakfast!! 

I hope ya'll go check out Stacy's site! She has a flavor boosting herb butter that we can't wait to try on some of our dishes!! She'll give you tips on gardening, hunting (along with some videos from her and her husband), cooking, beekeeping (would LOVE some fresh honey with these biscuits), and sustainable living tips!! We will be all over her fish recipes this spring/summer when we get back out to the lakes and ponds with our fishing poles!! She also has a Facebook page you can follow, which you can find here. Go give her page a like and follow her work, I promise you won't be disappointed!!

Until next time...

~Happy Eating~

Pork Sirloin and Broccoli Stir Fry

I found a recipe that will save you some money when it comes to ordering Chinese take-out! I pinned this recipe to my Pinterest page, we tweaked it to fit the meat we had in our freezer (Bone-in pork sirloin chops) and went to work creating this wonderful and delicious stir-fry dinner. You can find the original recipe on Rainy Day Gal's blog. She has many great ideas and recipes on her blog and I can't wait to try some more of these delicious creations! Here is how our Asian dinner happened...

We started with the pork chops and sliced them into thin strips.

Be sure and trim some of the fat off before putting these in the skillet

In a large bowl you are going to whisk together a half teaspoon of baking soda, one teaspoon of sugar, one tablespoon of cornstarch, one tablespoon of soy sauce (low sodium if you have it), and one tablespoon of water. Then take your pork strips (or steak strips if you prefer) and place them in the bowl with the marinade and mix it all together to make sure the pieces are coated. Place them in your fridge to marinade for at least an hour. 

While this is marinating you can make the sauce! In a bowl add a half of a cup of soy sauce, two tablespoons of brown sugar (I used heaping tablespoons) four cloves of garlic, two tablespoons of flour, and one tablespoon of sherry (which is optional but tastes great). Whisk this all together and set aside. 

When you pull the marinated strips out, you will heat up two tablespoon of vegetable oil in a large skillet. Add two heads of broccoli (just the tree top parts) and saute in the hot oil for three minutes. Once your broccoli has turned a nice dark shade of green, place them on a plate and off the heat. In the same skillet you just sauteed the broccoli in you are going to toss in the meat with half of the sauce. Once the meat is cooked through, you can add the broccoli and the rest of the sauce and stir it all together. Remember to leave your post at the stove because the liquid you add will caramelize and burn quickly. 

We added a few sprinkles of sesame seeds to the skillet and sauteed them in with everything before we served it!

Once you have everything mixed together you will spoon it over a bed of rice and you will find yourself much happier than when you order take-out! 

  Feel free to add in your own vegetables or flavors! It almost looks like it's calling for the color of carrots! 

Again....Super easy and very tasty! Here is the direct link to her version with the run-down...

1-1 1/2 lbs. flank steak (or Pork)

1/2 ts baking soda

1 ts sugar

1 tbs cornstarch

1 tbs soy sauce

1 tbs water

Marinade the meat in the above mixture for at least one hour

1/2 c of soy sauce

2 tablespoons of brown sugar

4 cloves of garlic minced

2 tbs flour

1 tbs sherry (optional)

(whisk together to make sauce)

Heat 3 tablespoons in a skillet on high and stir in 2 heads of broccoli for 3 minutes.

Take broccoli out of skillet and place on plate then add the marinaded meat and half of the sauce to the skillet and cook through. 

Add broccoli and the rest of the sauce (sesame seeds if you like) and stir around until all the mixture is heated through. Serve on a bed of rice!

~Happy Eating~