I know that everyone says this, but I was so lucky to get my Secret Recipe Club mission for this month! (And a HUGE thanks to Angela at Big Bear’s Wife for organizing Group C and putting up with all of my dumb questions and email issues!) For those of you who are unfamiliar with SRC, it is a foodie club that seems to be going viral! Every month Amanda, Tina, Angela, and the newest host, Tami, organize and pair up club members for a secret reveal.
Today is the day for Group C. Again, let me just state how thrilled I was with my SRC “secret pal” this month!
I wish the Kitchen Witch were my next door neighbor. She is such a cool chick.
- She rides a Harley.
- She is retired from the Air Force after twenty-two years.
- She and hubby, “MacGyver,” have a Brady Bunch-type of blended family with “Baby Boy” being the last of the bunch at home.
- She has lived in Germany (where she met “MacGyver.”)
- She has traveled to Africa and Tunisia just to name a few exotic places.
- She has a weekend cabin in the mountains.
- She can bake bread in a cast-iron Dutch oven over an open fire.
- She is unapologetic and real:
I am who I am, I am not politically correct, if you don’t like what or how I say things, read someone else’s blog, I am not snarky, I try to be considerate. I have the proverbial champagne taste and beer budget. I’m not trying to be something I’m not, I’m very happy with the beer, but given the opportunity (read: cheap or free) I’ll be happy to take the champagne! I still love Velveeta cheese, Miller Lite, boxed wine, cheap costume jewelry and many other tacky things. On the flip side I enjoy truffles, foie gras, veal, seafood and other expensive and sometimes exotic ingredients.
Kitchen Witch (aka “Giggles”), will you be my best friend?
OK, I promise not to gush too much during the rest of this post.
That being said, she has great recipes, great ramblings, and a great logo.
I know that everyone says this too, but I truly had a hard time figuring out what I wanted to make. I at least narrowed it down to the following recipes:
Berry Cherry Chipotle BBQ Sauce
Oreo Cookie Brownies (I am hooked on anything mentioning Oreos and brownies in the same recipe after last month’s SRC post. )
The Ultimate Breakfast Sandwich (And, I mean ULTIMATE!)
Since this post is due on Monday and I needed a fantastic weekend breakfast, I decided that “The Ultimate Breakfast Sandwich” had to be the featured recipe for this post. (Not that I rushed picking a recipe, but I did have my Cook the Books post due on or before Monday as well as attending a Harvest Beer Festival on Saturday. Really, I needed to do a breakfast dish for Sunday!)
This is her recipe straight from her site (with some additional options in italics from me):
The Ultimate Breakfast Sandwich
Health Alert Warning! Before proceeding please check your cholesterol, blood pressure, lipids, blood sugar levels or anything else that may be affected by a totally decadent sandwich.
- 8 slices Texas Toast or homemade honey-wheat bread
- 8 slices peppered bacon, cooked crisp or 4 sausage patties
- 4 fried eggs
- 4 slices of sharp cheddar cheese or a sprinkling of grated cheese
- 4 teaspoons of strawberry jam or blackberry-thyme jam
- 2 eggs, lightly beaten
- 1/4 cup milk
- butter and maple syrup
Heat a large griddle over medium heat. In a shallow bowl whisk together milk and eggs. Assemble sandwiches, lay the slices of Texas Toast bread out on the counter, spread 4 slices with strawberry jam top with two slices of bacon. On the other half layer the cheese then the egg, put the two halves together and dip in the egg batter, about 30 seconds on each side. Lightly butter griddle and griddle sandwiches until they are light golden brown, 1 to 2 minutes on each side. Serve with maple syrup and butter.
You may be wondering about the strawberry jam. That is another reason that I swapped out the bacon for sausage. My hubby worked at McDonald’s during high school. Apparently, a secret known only to former employees is to spread jam on the sausage biscuits. Grape jelly will do, but strawberry was to die for. (I always thought this was a little excessive until I tried it.)
I tweaked her recipe just a bit with some more breafasty options. I made homemade honey-wheat bread to replace the Texas Toast, used local sausage to replace the bacon, and used homemade blackberry-thyme jam to replace the strawberry.
I also did just a sprinkling of cheese and I found some agave maple syrup to help our “cholesterol, blood pressure, lipids,” etc. And, because I have tried to make Monte Christos before with little success, I decided to make the French toast in the traditional way and do my assemblage after everything was cooked.
Luckily, on the weekends, we typically eat a big breakfast and then skip lunch to grill something scrumptious for dinner. This was more than a big breakfast—it was huge. It definitely kept us going until supper.
I am going to make the other recipes mentioned above, and I am going to try making my own Suet for the birds this winter from her recipe. I, mean seriously, the variety of this biker chick’s recipes is limitless! Giggles is now on my Google Reader and Favorite Blog list.
For my previous SRC posts, see the following:
Drunken Caramel Sauce from Loves Yoga and Veggies
White Chocolate Oreo Brownies from Hugs & Cookies XOXO
Please check out the rest of Group C’s reveals today:
And I think my husband would be just fine with YOU being our next door neighbor! He’d love one of these for his ride in to work each morning (:
Well, I am certainly blushing! Although I really think that you’ve out done me in the ultimate department! Homemade bread and jam, it doesn’t get better than that! BTW after living in Virginia for a few years I discovered that jam on sausage rocks (it was almost always grape there)! Great sub, I will have to try that after my next doctor’s visit 😉
Rhonda—
Really enjoyed exploring your site! You’ve got some great recipes!
What a sweet SRC post!! and WOW, that sandwich looks and sounds fantastic!
What a great choice for SRC, this looks delicious!! 🙂
Well i am so going to check out her site after this comment. Wish I read your post before breakfast…or lunch. I could do this for dinner 😉 yeah the jam through me off at first and I love your blackberry-thyme jam!
Hello you beautiful sandwich! I work this next weekend, but I think the one after will require this for breakfast, yum!
I’m with Jo, Hello beautiful sandwich! It’s really nice to meet you too Eliot and thanks for swinging buy and leaving such kind words. I’m super excited about meeting all the new bloggers/friends on SRC and making fantastic recipes we all get to share. I could this everyday… is that a bad thing! I also want giggles to be my best friend too!
What a great introduction to Rhonda! She’s my next stop! And what a fabulous breakfast sandwich…I know my hubby would be on Cloud 9 if he woke up to this beauty 🙂
I WILL BE OVER FOR BREAKFAST TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m learning to enjoy breakfast (baby steps) but this sandwich looks like I would really enjoy it! Great choice for a SRC recipe and awesome job talking about the Kitchen Witch’s site!
I have a teen aged son who would be very happy if I whipped up this breakfast sandwich in the AM! Loved your post about the Kitchen Witch. Wonderful writing and a good choice in recipe. Nicely done! (as always!!)
Thanks to everyone for all the kind comments today, SRC Reveal Day. You are all welcome for breakfast anytime! And, I hope you all will check out The Kitchen Witch.
I love this post! You are so sweet to gush over your assigned blogger–aww! This sandwich looks SO good. I feel it happening in my kitchen soon. And has it really been a month since you posted those white chocolate oreo brownies? And I still haven’t made them? I still day dream about them! lol
This would make an excellent start to the day!!!
Such a fun pick from the Kitchen Witch! Awesome to be in the Secret Recipe Club with you. Here is my post from group C – http://su.pr/2rtACr
I had no idea about the trick to use jelly on sausage biscuits! How cool!! Great choice for this month’s SRC!
When I read this recipe and saw the jam, I instantly thought of when I worked at Hardee’s as a biscuit maker. I love grape jam with my sausage biscuit. What a great recipe you picked for SRC. You also got a great blog. Very cool logo! Thanks for sharing.
This is a wonderful sandwich:it has all the food groups, has great blend of sweet and salty and the extra bonus is that you can carry it on the go. I think you did make a good choice to pull this one out. Well done!
I don’t eat breakfast very often, but when I do this is exactly the kind of meal I want! Putting strawberry jam on sausage is one of those things that is probably delicious. I like maple syrup on sausage so why not jam!
umm… i am all over this! I love breakfast and my husband is obsessed with sandwiches so this is like the best of both worlds to us! Awesome recipe and great job with SRC
that IS the Ultimate breakfast sandwich!! whoa! love!!
Glad to be in Group C with you!
WOW! I think you picked the perfect recipe for your SRC post. Fantastic!
You’re right – it IS the ultimate breakfast sandwich! The kitchen witch sounds too cool for school! Thanks for a GREAT post and a terrific introduction!
This breakfast sandwich looks insane – in a very, very good way! Yum!
Oh how delicious!!!
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This looks amazing! Thanks for sharing – SRC is the best!