Man Breakfast

As I have said before, Mr. Lucas does not cook. But, when he does it tends to be breakfast food. Typically a fried egg. But, he has branched out folks and moved on to sausage gravy and biscuits. He has made it before and I bought the ingredients at the store. I typically get turkey sausage, whole wheat biscuits, and low fat milk. Yeah, not this time. He was at the store with me and insisted on fully fattening ingredients  So, I went with it. It was damn good.

Ingredients:

Sweet pork sausage (or turkey if you fancy)

2 cups milk

1/4 cup flour

salt and pepper to taste.

Fry your sausage in a skillet until brown.

Add salt and pepper

Add the flour gradually while stirring.

Carefully pour in the milk and let cook until thickened. 

Slice open the biscuits and pile on the sausage gravy.

Mmmmmm good! 

Happy breakfast eating! 

Cheers! 

Crock Pot Sausage and White Bean Soup

Sometimes I like to just throw some stuff in a crock pot, have it do all the work, and come home to a sweet smelling house after a long day at work. Well, not just sometimes...practically all the time. It is just so dang hard for some reason to find good healthy crock pot recipes. But, I happened across a pretty cool cookbook with some pretty cook recipes. I have made this one several times and it is delish.

Sausage and White Bean Soup

Ingredients:

1 tablespoon olive oil

2 lbs sweet Italian sausage, meat pushed out of casings (I use turkey)

1 medium onion, finely chopped

1 tablespoon minced garlic

1 14.5 oz cannellini beans, drained (um, I actually use 3 15 oz cans, I like beans)

2 tablespoons tomato paste

1 teaspoon black pepper

1 tablespoon quick-cooking tapioca (not sure why but I did it)

1 14.5 oz can of chicken broth

1 head escarole, washed and chopped (I couldn't find escarole so I used cabbage)

1/3 cup grated Parmesan cheese

1. In a large skillet cook onions and sausage until meat is brown and onions are soft. Drain off fat (you won't get a lot of fat if you use turkey.

2. Add sausage and onion mixture to crock and then add all remaining ingredients except for the escarole and Parmesan. Mix gently until tomato paste dissolves.

3. Cover and cook on low for 7 hours. Chop escarole, stir well and cook 1 more hour. Scoop into individual bowls and top with Parmesan cheese.

Cheers! 

Torchy's Tacos Is Tha Bizomb

I have been obsessed with Torchy's Tacos for years now. We eat there like a gazillion times when we take road trips to Austin. The. best. tacos. period. Now...the gods have listened and they built one here in little old Funky Town. Praise all the is merciful. When they first opened in December there was a line wrapped around the building so Jeff and I ordered online and he went to pick up. But, today, we headed on down there for lunch and it was delish! Our eyes are always bigger than our stomachs when we go. So, it was only fitting that we ordered a metric ton of food. So much food the guy that delivered it to our table said "here comes the party" and a party it was. A bit honkin' food party that left us with big  honkin' food comas. It was all so worth it.

The street corn is to die for. I cant describe it really other than freaking awesome. Yum.

I always have to get the green chile pork taco because I am a green chile eating fool. I also like to throw a breakfast taco in too so I went with the migas taco. Again, yum, thank you very much. 

The queso is the best every. I didn't get a picture of that because we ate it all. :) So, there you go. If you live close to a Torchy's, go. Now. 

Cheers!