My breakfasts, as you know are a trial. I don't enjoy them, and I'm not that good at eating stuff I dont enjoy. I can (and frequently do) skip meals rather than eat something I don't fancy, which I know is every bit as naughty as eating a whopping great big slice of chocolate cake with a side order of fries. At least that's what they would have you believe, even though it sounds like nonsensical tosh to me.
However, I decided the other morning to see if I could get creative and come up with some suitable, portable breakfast goods that don't make me wanna gag, that still (by and large) fit the programme.
I DID IT!
I trawled the net for some recipes, and ended up with a combination of a few different recipes and came up with a hybrid of breakfast sausage/scotch egg. Now before anyone screams at me, yes I know sausage is not really alloweed, but its a darn sight better than a chocolate croissant, so give me a break, yes?
The creation is now lovingly known as "Dinosaur Eggs", for reasons which may be apparent from the picture...
Anyway. The (not perfect) recipe is as follows:
4 large hard boiled eggs shelled
8 skinned sausages (look for quality sausages with lowest rusk content possible)
1 onion - finely chopped
handful of mushrooms - finely chopped
squirt of ketchip (yes, yes, I know its naughty, hence the not perfect comment above)
Mush all the ingredients except the eggs and divide into four. Take an egg and wrap the sausage mixture around it, taking care to ensure the are no gaps. Repeat for other three eggs.
Place on a wire tray and bake for 20-25 mins, or until sausage meat is cooked.
You'll see from the picture that in fact my meat casing did come apart in the cooking process, not sure why that was, but actually I think it made them look cuter! Hey, I don't get out much, little things please me.
The end result was deeee-lish. Although I do accept that this is perhaps because I've been living on protein shakes for breakfast for simply too long...
I'm now working on a similar recipe that does not involve sausages - perhaps minced pork would work? - so that I can make these an official Ferriss friendly morning staple. Also thinking that wrapping them in bacon might be a nice touch too... essentially I'm aiming for a full English wrapped up in handy bite size pieces!
And now that breakfast is sorted, who is willing to work on a carb free substitute for cheese and onion crisps?
Tomorrow's lesson, if I can be bothered, is slow carb stuffing and mashed non-potatoes... Martha Stewart has nothing on me.
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