Breakfast (… and 2nd Breakfast)

I guess you could call 1st Breakfast the Breakfast Appetizer but really if you’re a hobbit deep inside (who longs for adventure) the proper names are 1st and 2nd breakfast.

1st Breakfast

Donut Muffins
Dry Ingredients. Whisk together.

• 2 cups flour
• 1 tbsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/4 tsp nutmeg

Wet Ingredients. Beat together.

• 2 eggs
• 1 cup yogurt (I used strawberry-honey greek gods. yum.)
• 2/3 cup packed light brown sugar
• 1/4 cup vegetable oil
• 1 tsp vanilla

Combine the two bowls. Mixing just enough. If you mix too much you’ll have tough muffins. The more you mix – the tougher the muffin.
Bake for 14-15 minutes at 400 degrees in greased muffin cups. (do the toothpick test to make sure they are done)
Melt half a stick of butter or so in one bowl.
In another bowl mix:

• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp nutmeg

When the muffins come out. One by one dip the muffin tops in the melted butter and then roll the tops around in the sugar mixture. Set them on a wire rack to cool.
It’s like a donut muffin and just kind of melts in your mouth. Yum.

2nd Breakfast

Sweet Potato Hash

• 2 large sweet potatoes, peeled and diced
• 1 cup sweet onion, diced
• salt and pepper, to taste
• 1 tsp cumin
• 1/2 tsp oregano
• 1/2 tsp garlic powder
• 1/4 tsp red pepper
• pinch of crushed red pepper flakes

I sautéed that in a skillet until it was all done the potatoes where soft pieces and the onions soft and browned some. Then I moved the whole lot to a cookie sheet and set it in the 400 degree oven to keep roasting while I fried some eggs.
Oh I also took some of that really that “microwavable” bacon and laid it across the top of the sweet potato hash in the oven. It cooked like that. It’s the best way. Trust me.

PS That’s the egg no one ate. The others all had the appropriately runny yoke. Promise.