Breakfast 


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Apple Pancakes     

Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Sauté apples in frying pan and set aside. Mix flour, milk and salt together until smooth. Add eggs, one at a time, until batter is smooth. Add the apples to this mixture. Melt 1 tablespoon butter in a large frying pan (one with sloping sides is best). Fry until golden brown tipping pan and lifting pancake with spatula to cook the batter.

Cut an "X" in the pancake. Pour 2 tablespoons butter and 2 tablespoons cinnamon sugar over the pancake and place the frying pan in the oven for 12 minutes. Serve with syrup or powdered sugar.

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Breakfast Burritos


Combine sausage, eggs and tomatoes. Place about 1/6 mixture into center of
each tortilla. Top each mound of the mixture with 1 slice of  cheese.
Fold bottom 1/3 of tortilla up over the filling and then bring right side of
the tortilla toward the left, folding over filling. Fold left side of
tortilla to the right, leaving the top end open.  Microwave each briefly just to melt the cheese and serve promptly with picante sauce on the side. Do not freeze.

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Breakfast Shake


In blender container, combine strawberries, banana, milk, yogurt and sugar. Cover, blend until thick and smooth. Pour into chilled glasses; sprinkle with nutmeg. Garnish each with whole strawberry if desired.

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Cheesy Sausage Muffins

Combine first 5 ingredients in a large bowl; make a well in center of mixture.  Combine eggs, and milk; add to sausage mixture, stirring just until  moistened.  Spoon into greased  muffin pans, filling 3/4 full.  Bake  at 350 for 35-40 min.  Remove from pan immediately.  Makes 12 muffins
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French Toast

 Let bread slices lay out for a few  hours or lightly toast them so they  are slightly dry to the touch.  Preheat a large skillet or griddle  over low heat.  In a shallow dish, beat together the  eggs and milk.  Add the vanilla and  nutmeg and beat.  Dip each slice of  bread into the egg mixture, let it  soak for about 30 seconds and turn  it over to coat both sides.  Carefully remove the dipped slice  and place it in hot skillet.  Turn  up heat to medium and cook until  toast is brown on both sides.  Serve the toast right away with  syrup, jam, or fruit.  Yield: 2 servings
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Ham and Cheese Breakfast Muffins

 Beat egg until light.  Add sugar, sour cream, shortening and mustard; stir  well.  Add dry ingredients; stir just until moistened; do not over beat.  Gently, stir in ham and cheese.  Fill greased muffin tins 3/4 full.  Bake at 400  degrees 20 to 25 minutes.  Makes 12 muffins
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Orange French Toast


 Beat together eggs, orange juice, orange liqueur, 2 tbs..  confectioners sugar  and vanilla.  Place bread slices in one layer in a large roasting or baking  pan.  Pour egg mixture over slices.  Turn to soak.  Place in refrigerator for at  least 2 hours, turn bread slices occasionally.  On a plate, combine  confectioners sugar and brown sugar.  Preheat electric skillet to 375  degrees.  Melt butter and set aside.  Remove bread slices from egg  mixture.  Place in skillet.  Cook French Toast about 3 to 5 minutes on each  side or until golden brown.  Add more butter to skillet, if necessary.  Toss  slices in sugar mixture and serve immediately.  Makes 4 to 6 servings.

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Pumpkin Pancakes

Mix all ingredients (except the oil) in a large bowl. Preheat a large skillet of griddle. Add a little oil to the pan. Drop a 1 1/2 ounce ladle full of batter on the hot pan. Cook about 3 minutes per side (or until lightly browned). Serve warm

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Sausage Gravy

 In a skillet (preferably cast-iron), brown sausage over medium high heat, breaking up with a fork until the sausage is cooked and no pink remains. Using a slotted spoon, remove sausage, pressing to
 drain fat back into skillet. Place sausage on paper towels. Reduce heat to medium. Sprinkle flour over the fat in the pan, stirring  with a fork until flour is pasty. Pour in milk, stirring constantly
 to break up any lumps of flour. Increase heat to medium high. Stir slowly. When gravy begins to thicken, stir cooked sausage back in.
Season to taste with salt and pepper. Serve immediately over biscuits.
Makes about 4 servings
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Impossible Bacon Pie
This is perfect for breakfast, lunch or brunch.

Preheat oven to 400.  Grease pie plate, 10 x 11/2". Sprinkle ham, cheese and  onion in pie plate.  Beat remaining ingredients 15 seconds in blender on high  speed.  Pour into pie plate.  Bake 35-40 min.  or till knife comes out clean.  Cool 5  minutes and enjoy.
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Colorado Omelet

Colorado Omelet
(this is my favorite omelet. I order this every time I go to IHOP) In a sauce pan on medium low heat melt butter and add onions and bell peppers. Stir until onions and pepper are soft but not browned. Add diced ham and stir until the ham is limp and heated through. Immediately remove from heat and set a side.
In a mixing bowl add eggs, water and salt beat and stir well. Set aside.
Heat a 12" fry pan on medium low heat, add a little oil (1 tsp.) or spray with a non stick vegetable spray. A non stick pan works great. Place egg mixture in pan and sprinkle with onions, bell pepper, ham, tomato, sausage, bacon, and  roast beef, and 1/2 cup of the shredded cheese. Place a lid on until omelet starts to set. Immediately remove lid and fold omelet from the sides to the middle. If this is difficult fold in half. Sprinkle with the rest of cheese.

Serve with a side order of Picante Sauce, Sour Cream and a little diced green onion.

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Monkey Bread

This is one of Joe and Ben's favorite breakfast specialties. Simple to make, yummy to eat.

Put cinnamon and 3/4 cup sugar into a plastic bag. Quarter biscuits. Shake them in bag. Place in bundt pan. If using nuts, spread on bottom of pan. Bring butter and sugar to a boil in saucepan. Pour over biscuits. Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes. Remove immediately. Serve warm.

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Omi's Jelly Crepes

I remember my mom making these when I was young. My brother and I would eat them as fast as she would make them. YUMMY!!!!
 

Beat eggs, add flour and water alternately. Heat a 10" fry pan and pour a really thin layer. Keep tilting the pan so that the batter will move around to insure an evenly thin blintz. Remove from pan when cooked and lay gently on a towel, cooked side up. Keep repeating this process until you have used all the batter. Fill with jelly, and roll up. Sprinkle with sugar. Makes about 28 blintzes.

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These recipes have been gathered from all over the Internet and from various recipe books. I do not take credit as the author of any, unless specifically stated in the recipe. 
Revised: April 21, 2005 .

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