Cooking with Mary: Breakfast sausage potato hash...

We like breakfast for dinner. Well really, we like breakfast in general. We are just beginning the process of moving. & since were moving, and things will be in storage for a while, we need to start working on cleaning out our freezer. Which will be interesting.

So, tonight I made breakfast sausage potato hash. Just like the potatoes we made in the breakfast post a few weeks back. The pork that I used is actually from the pig my husband and I owned last year and harvested this past winter. After doing the "slaughtering" ourselves on a cold winter weekend in Talkeetna, Alaska (approx 2 hours north of Anchorage)...we took "Hamlet" to the butcher to be smoked and packaged. We could have done it ourselves, but after doing two pigs, we were pretty tired of dealing with it.

Holy crap...it was worth it.

I took a one pound package of our breakfast sausage, and browned it. I did this in a separate pan because I didn't want super greasy potatoes. Although, I'm sure it would have been delicious.

While my pork was browning in a pan, I got out some potatoes. Just regular russet potatoes. You can use any potato you'd like and use your judgement on how much it'll make. It'll depend mostly on how big your potato chunks will be & how many people are eating.

& Make sure you wash them. Because really you're not going to be peeling them unless you so choose. I dont.

I then went through the potatoes and made sure that anything that was budding off of the potato was trimmed off.

Once I did that, I sliced the potatoes in relatively thick slices.

Because I use a slap shot. These things are an "As Seen on TV" product. & most products from TV are pretty dumb, but thins thing is pretty cool & makes chopping pretty quick. It also comes with different size options. The only thing, don't put it in the dishwasher cause it'll warp, like ours.

Put a chunk on the grill of the chopper

Press firmly until the potato is completely through

& you have little chunks. You can easily do this with other products or you can be "old fashioned" & just use a knife.

Then I use my potato cooking trick. I put all of my potato chunks in a bowl & put it in the microwave for 2-4 minutes based on how much potatoes you have. Then I throw it in my cast iron pan with some olive oil and let it cook away.