Stuffed Breakfast Sausage Patty

This was easily my biggest kitchen experiment of the last three years. Not only did my kids eat every last crumb, they have asked me to make these again every night since the first (I haven't yet, but totally will).

Now, a stuffed burger? Those are all the rage right now, but how do you put the sure to please the family twist on it? You make breakfast for dinner!

And thanks to my Good Cook Burger Stuffer, it's going to be super easy to do again and again and again. This made pressing the meat together around the stuffing super simple.

 And it let's you measure the size with the handy lines!

And then you press it all together. The stuffer is three parts and it comes apart easily to get your food out of it. Each red piece detaches from the clear part, so not only can you slide the food right out, it cleans up easily too.

What you need for 4 servings:

1# Ground Breakfast Sausage (roll)
4 Eggs
1/4 Cup Shredded Cheese
Chopped Onion
Splash of Milk
Season to taste with salt & pepper
4 English Muffins

Directions:

Mix in a bowl the egg, milk and seasoning. Cook and scramble. Let cool slightly.

Mix eggs, cheese and onion in a bowl. Place 1/8# sausage in the bottom of the Burger Stuffer, scoop 1/4 of the egg mixture into the center, press 1/8# of sausage on the top. Repeat for 3 more.

I used the Cast Iron Grill to cook my patties until done.

Toast the English Muffins, add finished patties and voila!

Now, head over to Good Cook and vote for my creation (starting 9/3/13) and grab your own Burger Stuffer, Cast Iron Grill and more for 25% off with code BurgerLovers!

Lemon Pepper Chicken & Avocado Wrap

I got to play around with a fun tool from Good Cook.

We were going to be on the go and looking for a something light and easy to make that wasn't our typical "lake" food of hot dogs and hamburgers while visiting the family cottage.

When I stumbled across the lemon pepper marinade at Meijer last week during the 10 for $10 sale I had a light bulb moment, ran back to grab some chicken tenderloins and found the perfect avocado and lettuce mix from the produce section and snatched up a package of flour tortillas on price drop! I packed it all up this weekend and took it with us.

Before we left the house I put the marinade and chicken into a Ziploc container to marinate overnight, so it was ready to hit the grill at dinner time.

While that was cooking it was time to try out my new avocado slicer (head over there to check it and other Good Cook products out, save 25% with code LoveAvocado at checkout)! Loved the look of it from the start. Just seemed like it would do the trick. I've never been able to make pretty avocado chunks or slices with a knife.

With my just perfectly ripe avocado, it started slicing like a dream.

And they were SO pretty when I was done!

Then we just had to put the wraps together and enjoy!

B-17

We took a trip to Muskegon to tour a B-17 today. (We also went and walked down the channel in Grand Haven, dipped our toes in the lake and got some sun... but that's normal stuff.)

Old planes are cool. World War II planes are awesome. One that is very similar to the kind my Father in Law flew in, and ejected from over occupied France during WWII, are something of legend in our family.

Imagine any flight you've taken. Pressurized cabin, heat, comfy seat, very little real risk of going down. Now, take a look at these pictures and imagine being in a suit you had to plug into the plane to stay warm, having no room to move around and knowing that bullets and bombs are coming your way shortly after you leave the ground. It should leave no doubt in your mind as to the character and heroism of the people that did this over and over and those that continue to serve our country today.

It took 3 people to get these off the ground. The pilot & co-pilot were busy doing so much that the flight engineer was also needed to watch the gauges and call out readings.

My FIL's view when in place for missions. He shot from the top.

See the hatch on that little ball? Someone actually went into that to hang below the belly of the plane!

The view of the same from under the plane.

My Father in Law's crew only lost their tail gunner (they flew with 10 people total). Everyone else ejected, touched down and were immediately contacted and recovered by the French Underground. They were then moved through occupied France to Great Britain over the course of several months before they made their way home to the United States.

We spent almost 2 hours crawling around this plane. It was free to walk around the outside and $5.00 per adult, $3.00 per child, to go through front to back. It's worth much more than that.