Rise and Shine! It's Brinner Time!

Brinner! 

For those of you unfamiliar with the term “Brinner”…it translates to Breakfast for Dinner!  Oh – and it’s delicious!  Who says breakfast food has to be in the morning?

Last week’s menu consisted of homemade blueberry pancakes, garbage potatoes, and mimosas.

Main Course: By Stephanie

Blueberry Pancakes

-2 Eggs (separated)

-1 ½ Cups Flour

-2 ¼ teaspoon baking powder

-3 Tablespoons Sugar

-¾ teaspoon salt

-3 Tablespoons Butter (melted)

-1 Cup milk

                      -1 Cup Blueberries                       

-2 teaspoons vanilla

-Directions:  In small bowl, beat egg whites until stiff then set aside. In separate bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, sugar & salt. Beat egg yolks in mixing bowl then add milk & melted butter. Stir egg mixture into dry ingredients. Mix until batter is smooth & then stir in blueberries. Fold in beaten egg whites. Then pour batter onto pan or griddle to cook pancakes.

Side Dish:  By Sabrina

Garbage Potatoes

-6 small potatoes cut into bite sized pieces (I used Golden Potatoes this time)

-Then….add whatever sounds goods!  I added:

-¼ green pepper diced

-¼ red pepper diced

 -1/8 yellow onion diced

-1 package of maple sausage links (pan fried ahead of time)

-Directions:  If you choose to use sausage (or bacon), fry that up first and set aside.  Then fry the potatoes in the pan used for the sausage so the grease can be reused.  Sounds healthy right?  Well, that’s why we’ll add veggies later to make you feel better about it.  The potatoes will be fried until they are  just a light crispy brown (medium/medium –high heat).  Next stir in the peppers, then the onions.  Stir often so everything cooks evenly and does not burn to the bottom of the pan.  A splash of oil may need to be added to ensure nothing sticks.   In this version of garbage potatoes I added about ½ Tablespoon of Cayenne Pepper, and salt and pepper to taste.  Once cooked, cut the sausages into bite sized pieces and stir into the mixture.

Beverage:  By Kala

Mimosas

-Champagne

-Orange Juice

-Directions: Pour champagne, pour orange juice, stir and enjoy!  We may or may not have added a whiskey cherry to the bottom of our drinks because…why not?!  We like to experiment!

“Cheers!” to another successful  Girls’ Dinner Night!  Up next:  Indian Food!