Breakfast

I am a breakfast guy. I could eat breakfast for every meal. Whether it's bacon and eggs, sausage, pancakes, omelettes, biscuits, french toast, grits, or even some chicken fried steak, hey I could eat it all.

When I was a kid, my four best friends and I would alternate who would host the sleepover night on Friday night. It was pretty cool, because all the parents were really close, so we'd all do something then the kids would go to one family's house and spend the night. All of my friends always wanted to sleep at our house, because of the infamous (what's infamous, "it's MORE than famous") "big breakfast." As a kid my dad would cook a big breakfast every Saturday and Sunday morning. My mom is the cook but she couldn't touch my dad when it came to breakfast. We would wake up to the smell of fried bacon. Then I'd have eggs usually, and english muffins to make a bacon sandwich. Wash it down with a nice tall glass of milk, and there was nothing better.

Last weekend, one of our close friends watched the kids, because I had a tennis match and my wife was working the weekend. When I brought the kids over, I had a kid moment. I walked into her house, smelled the bacon frying, the biscuits going, and it reminded me of my childhood. Not many families I now take the time to have breakfast on the weekends. Everyone is so "busy" that they don't take the time to do it. But I knew the minute I walked in that this is a weekly ritual, something that happens every Saturday and Sunday. It's nice to know that some things never really disappear. My wife and I have big breakfasts every once in a while, but I think it's something that has to be done more often in our household.

Here is an easy breakfast dish that can be made for a brunch or for a bunch of kids.

Breakfast Casserole

2 packs of crescent rolls
1 pound of breakfast sausage(the kind in a roll, spicy or mild)
5 or 6 eggs
cheese

Brown the sausage in a pan until cooked and crispy then drain. Heat oven to 350. In a 9x13 pyrex dish, assemble as follows:

Pam bottom and sides of dish. Take crescent roll dough and put on bottom of pan to cover. I don't remember if it is one can of rolls or two, so I put two to err on the side of caution. You put the dough so that it covers bottom completely. Next whisk eggs and add some salt and pepper. Pour into dish. Put cooked sausage in the eggs and spread. Top with cheese. Bake until eggs are cooked and the cheese is melted. Serve. I've done it with bacon before and it's worked really well. I've also added canned chilis, and some salsa at the end to make kind of a mexican version and that came out really well too. It's a nice base dish that you can fool around with and modify. Again it's a great dish for a group of kids, and it's an easy dish