Fried Sage Potatoes with Basted Farm Eggs

I love fresh sage. It reminds my of my Aunt Fairy who grew it outside and used it all year. I grow it outside myself now and use it all year. I love going out early in the morning and picking a few leaves and using it in breakfast. She would put it in fresh ground pork (that she and Uncle George raised) and make sausage. I don't do that but I did put it in fried potatoes this morning and served it with a basted farm egg. It was SO good! So, here's the recipe for you. It's simple, it's quick, it's healthy, it's from the earth. Give it a try. I think you'll like it. Aunt Fairy approved!!

FRIED SAGE POTATOES with BASTED FARM EGGS

(SERVES ONE)

1 medium organic potato sliced thinly (using a mandolin slicer makes it much easier to get them really thin)

1/4 small organic onion sliced thinly

3 fresh organic sage leaves, chopped or snipped into small pieces

1 tablespoon organic extra virgin olive oil

salt and pepper

Fry the potato and the onion until lightly brown. Toss in the sage leaves after chopping or snipping into small pieces. Cook until the potatoes and onions are as brown as you like. Sage will cook quickly and will burn if cooked too long. Salt and pepper to taste.

Basted Egg

Using a small skillet with a lid, bring about 1/2 cup of water to a simmer. Place the (hopefully) locally pasture raised organic farm egg (or eggs) in the water and put the lid on and cook at a simmer until it's a done as you like your eggs. Salt and pepper and serve with the potatoes and some sliced tomatoes if you like. I liked, so I did and they were good!! Happy breakfast! Or lunch, or supper for that matter.

Eggs and Avocados - Perfect Combination

My favorite breakfast, hands down is poached eggs on avocado toast made from this bread recipe. Simple, easy and fast, it contains all the nutrition of eggs from pasture-raised chickens and avocados and whole grains. Besides being delicious, the health benefits of avocados are all over the place lately and the difference between supermarket eggs and pastured eggs...well, besides the color of the yolks and the taste and buying local, there's this - From Mother Earth News - "New test results show that pastured eggs producers are kicking the commercial industry's derriere when it comes to vitamin D! Eggs from hens raised on pasture show 4 to 6 times as much vitamin D as typical supermarket eggs."

I eat eggs frequently. My cholesterol level is nowhere near too high and, with the old but new news coming out that dietary cholesterol isn't harmful (and never was), I plan to continue eating eggs from pastured chickens frequently. And to the local lady who raises the chicken we buy the eggs from - thank you!! May you continue to raise chickens for many years to come!

POACHED EGGS AND AVOCADO TOAST

This is so simple it really doesn't need a recipe but here it is anyway. Toast a piece of your favorite organic, unprocessed bread. Spread it with 1/2 of a ripe avocado and top with two (or one) poached eggs. Salt and pepper and breakfast is ready. Takes about 10 minutes max. Fast and nutritious and protein-packed. Using organic unprocessed bread, there should be no craving issues caused by processed commercially made bread that's full of chemicals, sugar and preservatives. Simple? Yes. Rustic? That, too. AND, you should be good to go until lunch.

Spiced Up Sweet Potato Pancakes with Honey and Toasted Pecans

Sweet potatoes! Something to get excited about! No, really, they are! Made by the earth (not some factory), they're loaded with nutrients, including a LOT of Vitamin A and beta-carotene.  These pancakes are topped with locally grown honey and toasted pecans (also courtesy of the earth) and they're delicious. Nothing in them comes from chemically loaded processed foods devoid of nutrients and they contain no refined sugars. No cravings caused by junk food here plus they contain the nutrition your body wants.

SPICED UP SWEET POTATO PANCAKES

1/2 cup cooked and mashed sweet potato

1/4 cup organic wheat flour

2 eggs

1 packet of stevia

1/4 tsp aluminum free baking powder

1/4 tsp ground cinnamon

1/8 tsp ground nutmeg

1/8 tsp ground ginger

Milk of your choice (I used unsweetened cashew milk)

Mix the potatoes and eggs and flour together until no lumps remain adding just enough milk to make it a pourable batter. Add the remaining ingredients and cook just like any other pancake. This recipe makes 3 but 2 were plenty for me. Top them with honey and toasted pecans (I toasted mine by putting them in a dry skillet and shaking them around on the hot stove burner until they were crispy). Yum!!

Choices and...$1.71??!!

So, today is the day my husband is having carpal tunnel surgery, his second. We had to leave the house at 4:30 this morning and he couldn't have breakfast so neither did I. Since he's been taken to surgery I thought I would check out the hospital cafeteria and see what I could find for breakfast that the earth made and won't set me up for craving.

Hmmm...the earth didn't make this.

or this.

There were, however, other choices. I chose eggs and potatoes. There were other things like bacon and sausage and gravygravy, little boxes of cereal, juices, bread, etc. but I thought I'd stick with what seemed to be the safest path and hopefully didn't have anything in it that would set me up for cravings. I got up to the cash register and the cafeteria lady rang me up, said $1.71, I paid her and took a seat. I was so sleepy that I got through about half of my breakfast and quite a bit of coffee before it struck me that I had just paid ONE DOLLAR AND SEVENTY-ONE CENTS for breakfast! It wasn't bad at all, it didn't cause me any cravings, extremely reasonable and perhaps I should reconsider my choice of dining out options! 

AND surgery was quite successful, by the time I was done with breakfast my husband was already done and we were home in no time. And he got his own home cooked breakfast upon arrival and then proceeded to snooze the day away.