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Sausage & Cheese Muffins/Breakfast Casserole/Stuffing
« on: December 17, 2012, 12:29:16 PM »
Found this recipes several years ago and use it often as muffins, breakfast casserole/quiche, and T'giving stuffing/dressing:

1 lb pork sausage
3 C shredded cheddar or any cheese
Optional: 1 pkg frozen chopped spinach, thawed & squeezed dry - I used fresh, sauteed in sausage fat.
8 eggs
1/2 C cream
1/4 C water  or 3/4 almond milk in place of cream & water
1/2 - 1 tsp onion powder
3 tsp dried chives
3+ tsp seasoning (I used Mrs Dash chipolte) - may need to adjust onion/chives depending on the seasoning you use...
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 C flax
sea salt & pepper to taste

375 Oven.  Spray muffin cups well - don't use muffin papers.

Brown/drain sausage

Whisk all dry ingredients to blend.  Beat eggs & cream well, and gradually add to dry ingredients. 

Put a small amount of batter in each muffin cup; add a layer of sausage, then a layer of spinach if using, then cheddar, topped off with batter. OR to save time, you can just mix everything together, pour into muffin cups, and bake :D :D, but they do look prettier in layers...

Bake 375 for 25 min till brown.  Cool on racks.  They are delicate at first but firm up when cool.  I package them in individual servings and keep in the freezer for a quick breakfast/snack. 

Breafast Casserole:  Just layer in a sprayed oven-safe dish and bake - optional add-ins:  bacon, mushrooms, peppers (watch carb count). 

Stuffing/dressing:  Grabbed several from the freezer, thawed, crumbled up in a casserole dish, dash of water,  and nuked.  They did double duty as stuffing/dressing with gravy and no one was the wiser ;)

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Re: Sausage & Cheese Muffins/Breakfast Casserole/Stuffing
« Reply #1 on: December 17, 2012, 02:03:03 PM »
This is really versatile!

Thanks for sharing, Romarc! :) :) :)

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Re: Sausage & Cheese Muffins/Breakfast Casserole/Stuffing
« Reply #2 on: December 17, 2012, 08:55:53 PM »
This is a great idea for stuffing and dressing! I've been thinking about low carb gravy, but wondering what to put it on. This will be excellent! Thanks Romarc!

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Re: Sausage & Cheese Muffins/Breakfast Casserole/Stuffing
« Reply #3 on: December 17, 2012, 08:58:59 PM »
Hey, another thing I just thought of, if you add a can or two of smoked oysters to this you'd get some great oyster dressing! I used to do that with stove top stuffing, and it was close to gramma's oyster stuffing.

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Re: Sausage & Cheese Muffins/Breakfast Casserole/Stuffing
« Reply #4 on: December 18, 2012, 09:30:29 AM »
Hi Ya Romarc!You guys are very creative! Let me know how the oyster stuffing turns out ;)

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Re: Sausage & Cheese Muffins/Breakfast Casserole/Stuffing
« Reply #5 on: December 18, 2012, 11:10:31 AM »
Be sure to add the carbs in those smoked oysters, too! ;)

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Re: Sausage & Cheese Muffins/Breakfast Casserole/Stuffing
« Reply #6 on: December 19, 2012, 11:11:55 PM »
Tony,

My smoked oysters have 7 carbs in a can. Shouldn't add up to too much in a serving! I think I'll try this out for the family Christmas this Sunday.

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Re: Sausage & Cheese Muffins/Breakfast Casserole/Stuffing
« Reply #7 on: December 20, 2012, 07:27:58 AM »
Sounds good  ;)