It Begins

Today we started our new way of eating.  The girls usually have sausage every morning, but I always buy the pre-cooked, just heat in the microwave stuff.  No more.  I bought some ground pork and spices and mixed up my own sausage.  I found a recipe online and decided to give it a go.  Mixing it was the easy part.

My bowl of mixed up pork and spices.

I made some fat little patties and cooked them on the stove top.  However, after the first batch, I realized that I shouldn't have made them so fat because it was burning the outside and leaving the inside pink.

Cooking up my sausage patties

I tried making them a little thinner and went at it again.  Same result, burnt outside and pink inside.  Vince told me I need to cook them at a really low temperature and let them cook for awhile.  I don't have time for that what with homework and three little kids running around.  So instead, I made some really flat strips of sausage and cooked them that way.  They got down much faster and weren't burnt.  Horray!!

The burnt sausage

 The strips of sausage that turned out

And this whole process took me all of about 2 1/2 hours.  I didn't think it would take so long and I had test today that I should have studied for last night.  Never got to it, so I studied some this morning.

Aimee had an appointment at the ENT this morning, so I got her up early and made her a lovely breakfast, or that's what I thought.  This is a typical breakfast for the girls.  Scrambled eggs, fruit, sausage and almond milk.  We use almond milk because it has more calcium than regular milk and the girls love the vanilla flavor.  Logan drinks the dark chocolate almond milk or his Pediasure.  

Aimee didn't eat much and I just figured it was because it was early in the morning and she just didn't feel like eating.  When I got home after the appointment, I asked Vince if he had fed Anna and he did.  She threw the sausage on the floor.  This is what she does when she doesn't like something.  Apparently it's too chewy.  So I guess I will be eating the sausage.  All that work for nothing.  Live and learn.  For lunch the kids and I had peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with natural peanut butter and some fruit.  Logan, Anna and Aimee also had a cheese stick.  I put dinner in the crock pot and then it was off to school for me.  Test completed, and it was terrible but it's over.   Dinner was Pepper Steak with brown rice.  I didn't cook the rice long enough and it ended up being somewhat chewy.  And we all know what the girls think of chewy food.  They played around with it for awhile and ate some of it.  It actually tasted pretty good.  You can find the recipe here:  Pepper Steak

I'm working on some blueberry muffins for breakfast right now and I'll have to see how those turn out.  Hopefully better than the sausage.

 While I was busy making the sausage, the girls were keeping me company just lounging around on the kitchen floor.  Don't mind the drinks everywhere, sometimes it can take me a few days to put all the groceries away.