{"id":634,"date":"2015-02-06T00:51:15","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T00:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betondinner.com\/?p=634"},"modified":"2015-06-27T23:41:52","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T23:41:52","slug":"first-taste-homemade-breakfast-sausage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betondinner.com\/first-taste-homemade-breakfast-sausage\/","title":{"rendered":"First Taste: Homemade Breakfast Sausage (and cornmeal-maple drop biscuits)."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three things happened last week that led to this breakfast:<\/p>\n<p>1. I borrowed this book, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Whole Grain Baking<\/span> from King Arthur Flour from the library. I immediately wanted to bake ALL THE THINGS. There are hundreds of recipes &#8211; Whole Wheat Cranberry-Orange Country Loaf? Butter-Nut Blondies?\u00a0<em>Whole Wheat Croissants??<\/em> Where does one even start? I love that the recipes use a variety of whole grains, and they include ingredient weights (so if you have a kitchen scale, you can use less dishes and be more precise) and nutrition information.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ac&amp;ref=tf_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=beondi-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=0881507199&amp;asins=0881507199&amp;linkId=JWFPVWKMNN66HBVI&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>2. Jay went to the grocery store for me to pick up a couple of things. Ground pork was not on the list, but it appeared in one of the bags.<\/p>\n<p>3. Our three-year-old is obsessed&#8230;<em>obsessed<\/em>&#8230;with eating oatmeal for breakfast. She&#8217;s had\u00a0it every single morning for weeks. Fortunately, it&#8217;s easy to make a big pot of these <a title=\"Jay\u2019s Steel Cut Oats (the perfect make-ahead breakfast).\" href=\"https:\/\/betondinner.com\/jays-steel-cut-oats\/\" target=\"_blank\">steel cut oats<\/a> and just warm it up &#8211; but I&#8217;ve been having a bowl with her, and a daily <a title=\"Breakfast Cookies.\" href=\"https:\/\/betondinner.com\/breakfast-cookies\/\" target=\"_blank\">breakfast cookie<\/a>, and I&#8217;m a teeny tiny bit over oats for the moment.<\/p>\n<p>So last Saturday I made cornmeal-maple biscuits from the cookbook while Jay mixed up a slightly edited version of this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macheesmo.com\/2010\/08\/homemade-breakfast-sausage-recipe\/\" target=\"_blank\">breakfast sausage<\/a> from Macheesmo. We had never made sausage before, but I really liked being able to control the ingredients (since many brands include high fructose corn syrup and MSG) &#8211; and we loved the sweet\/savory balance from the maple syrup and herbs. It was also less greasy than sausage patties tend to be. Homemade sausage = definitely, definitely worth the effort. (And yes, we&#8217;re putting maple syrup in everything this week.)<\/p>\n<p>And those biscuits &#8211; I&#8217;ll make them again and again. They&#8217;re drop biscuits, so you just plop the\u00a0dough onto the pan, and the crunch from the cornmeal made me so happy. They&#8217;re not the kind of biscuit you could split open and make a sandwich out of, but they would be great beside\u00a0a bowl of <a href=\"https:\/\/betondinner.com\/glenns-chili\/\" target=\"_blank\">chili<\/a> or <a title=\"Nana\u2019s Potato Soup.\" href=\"https:\/\/betondinner.com\/nanas-potato-soup\/\" target=\"_blank\">potato soup<\/a>, and the subtle maple flavor made them perfect for breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>Another plus &#8211; we had leftover sausage and biscuits, so I got to experience this meal &#8211; and get an oatmeal reprieve &#8211; two days in a row! #winning<\/p>\n<p><em>*This post contains an affiliate link,\u00a0which means Amazon will pay\u00a0me a small commission if you make a purchase from my link. Thanks!*<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three things happened last week that led to this breakfast: 1. I borrowed this book, Whole Grain Baking from King Arthur Flour from the library. I immediately wanted to bake ALL THE THINGS. There are hundreds of recipes &#8211; Whole Wheat Cranberry-Orange Country Loaf? Butter-Nut Blondies?\u00a0Whole Wheat Croissants?? Where does one even start? I love&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/betondinner.com\/first-taste-homemade-breakfast-sausage\/\">Read On &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[12,18,49],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/betondinner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/sausage-biscuit-scrambled-eggs.jpg?fit=640%2C506&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p59xGs-ae","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/betondinner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/betondinner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/betondinner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betondinner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betondinner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/betondinner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1057,"href":"https:\/\/betondinner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions\/1057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betondinner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/betondinner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betondinner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betondinner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}