Pioneer Woman Sausage Kale Strata

Sausage-Kale Strata

Added by Ree on January 25, 2012 in Breakfast, Eggs

Prep Time 30 Minutes Cook Time 45 Minutes

Servings 12

Difficulty Easy

Ingredients

• 12 whole Eggs
• 2-½ cups Half And Half (or Milk, If You Prefer)
• Salt And Pepper, to taste
• 4 Tablespoons Minced Fresh Oregano (or Parsley, Basil, Etc.)
• 1 loaf Crusty French Or Italian Bread, Cut Into Cubes
• 2 pounds Breakfast Sausage Patties, Cooked And Cut Into Cubes
• 1 bunch (large) Regular Kale, Torn Into Pieces
• Olive Oil, For Frying
• 16 ounces, weight White Mushrooms, Halved
• 2-½ cups Grated Monterey Jack Cheese

Preparation Instructions

*Note: Recipe can easily be halved.

Mix together eggs, half-and-half, salt, pepper, and minced oregano. Set aside.

Drizzle olive oil over mushrooms and sprinkle with salt and pepper, then roast in a 425 degree oven for 15 to 20 minutes, or until golden brown. Remove from oven and set aside.

Heat olive oil over medium-high heat, then throw in kale. Cook for 2 minutes, or until slightly wilted. Remove from heat and set aside.

Layer half the bread, half the kale, half the mushrooms, and half the cheese in a large, buttered lasagna pan. Repeat with the other half of all the ingredients, ending with the cheese. Slowly pour egg mixture all over the top.

Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight if possible.

To bake, remove from fridge 20-30 minutes before baking. Replace plastic wrap with foil and bake in a 350 degree oven for 30 to 40 minutes. Remove foil and continue baking until top is golden brown and slightly crisp.

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The best bread pudding recipe. EVER.

Source:  http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2007/06/bread_pudding_f/

The Best Bread Pudding

2 eggs
2 tablespoons melted butter
2 tablespoons vanilla
2 1/2 cups milk
2 cups sugar
3 1/2 to 5 cups sourdough bread, cut into 1-inch cubes
1/3 cup pecans, chopped finely

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Beat together eggs, butter, vanilla, and milk. Add sugar and mix until sugar is dissoved. Arrange bread cubes tightly in a nine-inch baking dish, keeping the crust facing up around the edges in scattered within the dish. Pour liquid over the bread. Sprinkle pecans all over and bake for 55 to 70 minutes, or until crust is golden brown all over the top.

While the bread pudding is baking, make the Whiskey Cream Sauce:

1/2 cup sugar
1 stick butter
1/2 cup cream
1/4 cup Jack Daniels

Combine all ingredients in a saucepan. Stir constantly over low heat until mixture reaches a low boil. Pour a small amount over the individual servings of bread pudding.

Store leftovers in fridge. Walk by every hour and pop a cube of bread in your mouth. Smile contently.

Pioneer Woman Leftover Turkey Pot Pie:

The "before baking" picture.
I highly recommend the PW link to Sylvia's Perfect Pie Crust.  Others just pale in comparison.

You can see my system for organizing online recipes in the background:  print out a page and keep it in a 3-ring-binder (ala "Mittens" ;)  )  and on the blog.  

  

Leftover Turkey Pot Pie

1 pie crust (1/2 of Perfect Pie Crust recipe)
1/2 stick butter
1/2 cup finely diced onion
1/2 cup finely diced carrot
1/2 cup finely diced celery
2 cups leftover turkey, light and dark, diced or shredded (or both!)
1/4 cup flour
2 cups low-sodium chicken or turkey broth
splash of white wine (optional)
1 cup heavy cream
Frozen peas (optional)
Fresh thyme, chopped
salt and pepper to taste

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

Melt butter in a skillet or dutch oven. Add onion, carrots, and celery, and cook until translucent (a couple of minutes.)
Add turkey and stir. Sprinkle flour over mixture and stir. Cook over medium heat for a couple of minutes, stirring constantly.
Pour in chicken or turkey broth, stirring constantly. Splash in wine (you can leave this out if you’d like.) Pour in cream. (May add frozen peas at this point if you’d like.)
Bring to a slow boil and allow mixture to cook and thicken for a few minutes. Add salt and pepper to taste (do not underseason), and fresh or dried thyme to taste. Do one final taste at the end and add what it needs.
Pour mixture into a casserole dish or deep pie pan.
Roll out crust so that it’s about 1 inch larger than the pan you’re using.
Place the crust on top of the pot pie mixture, and press crust into the sides of the dish. Cut vents in the top of the crust.
Bake for 30 minutes or until very golden and bubbly.
Allow to cool for a little bit before serving.

Serve with a large spoon.

Delicious!

"After" photo, post-baking, pre-digging-in.

It's awesome.  Quick, easy, and a great way for me to get my kids to eat tons of veggies! (Well, okay, mostly juts Finn...)

Source:  http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2009/11/quick-recipe-leftover-turkey-pot-pie/

Changes I made:

--  I leave out the cream/milk because I've been dairy free, or kids have been dairy free, for so long that it's just become habit.  It's also fewer calories that way.  :)

--  I add as many veggies as I can/want:  corn, carrots, sweet potatoes, green beans, onions, garlic, celery, etc.  Lots of CSA stuff!

--  With the Sylvia's pie crust recipe, I make one batch for 2 crusts, not 3.  If I make 3 they are too small/thin.

--  I use lots of thyme, but dried, as I rarely have fresh on hand.  LOTS of thyme!

Tres Leches cake for Cinco de Mayo:

My recipe came from the one and only Pioneer Woman.  It's MUCH easier than it looks, even, and it's really very easy.  I'd do this one again in a heartbeat.  :)

From: http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2009/09/tres-leches-cake/

Recipe: Tres Leches Cake

Prep Time: 45 Minutes  |  Cook Time: 1 Hour  |  Difficulty: Easy  |  Servings: 12

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Ingredients

• 1 cup All-purpose Flour
• 1-1/2 teaspoon Baking Powder
• 1/4 teaspoon Salt
• 5 whole Eggs
• 1 cup Sugar, Divided
• 1 teaspoon Vanilla
• 1/3 cup Milk
• 1 can Evaporated Milk
• 1 can Sweetened, Condensed Milk
• 1/4 cup Heavy Cream
• _____
• FOR THE ICING:
• 1 pint Heavy Cream, For Whipping
• 3 Tablespoons Sugar

Preparation Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 9 x 13 inch pan liberally until coated.

Combine flour, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl. Separate eggs.

Beat egg yolks with 3/4 cup sugar on high speed until yolks are pale yellow. Stir in milk and vanilla. Pour egg yolk mixture over the flour mixture and stir very gently until combined.

Beat egg whites on high speed until soft peaks form. With the mixer on, pour in remaining 1/4 cup sugar and beat until egg whites are stiff but not dry.

Fold egg white mixture into the batter very gently until just combined. Pour into prepared pan and spread to even out the surface.

Bake for 35 to 45 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Turn cake out onto a rimmed platter and allow to cool.

Combine condensed milk, evaporated milk, and heavy cream in a small pitcher. When cake is cool, pierce the surface with a fork several times. Slowly drizzle all but about 1 cup of the milk mixture—try to get as much around the edges of the cake as you can.

Allow the cake to absorb the milk mixture for 30 minutes. To ice the cake, whip 1 pint heavy cream with 3 tablespoons of sugar until thick and spreadable.
Spread over the surface of the cake. Decorate cake with whole or chopped maraschino cherries. Cut into squares and serve.