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.

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!!

Jalapeno and Cilantro Potatoes and Eggs

When I was a kid I had a babysitter who had one front tooth (the one on the left, I think) didn't wear a bra and definitely should have, a husband who just sat in a chair and stared straight ahead (I wonder why) and 5 children (she and chair-sitter must have liked each other at least 5 times) BUT she made the best damned fried potatoes! I've never been able to replicate those but these aren't too bad.

Jalapeno and Cilantro Fried Potatoes for One

1 medium to large organic (ORGANIC) potato scrubbed  and baked (or microwaved). If it's not organic peel it and boil it.

After cooking the potato cube it and put it in a small skillet with two teaspoons of melted coconut oil. Add 1 tablespoon of red bell pepper and 1/2 to 1 tsp of chopped jalapeno (depending on how hot you like your potatoes) and cook until nicely brown. After browning toss in 1 tsp of chopped cilantro and top with two poached farm eggs from farm raised chickens (look for a local farmer, do the both of you a favor), add salt to taste.

This makes a great breakfast or brunch or light supper. Delicious!

If the earth doesn't make it, don't eat it!