This meal was inspired by one of a local diner’s breakfast specials.
As I may have mentioned, I wound up in the hostibule again last month. Part of the recovery process involves a high-protein diet; I have a couple of open wounds on my knee where the giant pocket of infection was draining.
A few days after I got out, Stacie took me out to dinner as a half-joking celebration of not having died. We like this Greek diner near us, so we headed there. I narrowed my selection down to either their Smokehouse Omelette (3-egg omelette with gyro meat, bacon, smoked sausage, onion, and cheese) or the Brutus’ Breakfast. I’d had the omelette before, and it was delightful. But I’d been eyeballing the Brutus for a few years but was never quite hungry enough to justify it.
Brutus’ Breakfast consists of two eggs, 2 bacon, 2 chunks of smoked sausage, 2 sausage patties, a quarter-pound burger patty, and hash browns or fries. It arrived on two plates. One had the eggs and fries, the other had all the meat. And it was everything I thought it would be. Including enough leftover meat to make a nice breakfast the next day.
I’ve been known to have Spam, eggs, and rice for breakfast. As long as you keep the amount of rice reasonable, it’s perfectly diabetes-compatible. If anything, my breakfast issue is usually not enough carbs rather than too many, so having a small bowl of rice with a bunch of protein isn’t a problem. So I had Spam and eggs one day. That meant I had leftover Spam in the fridge when Stacie went to one of her shows the next day.
That started the gears in my head working. I had enough time to place a grocery order, so I got a bag of frozen sausage patties and some really nice fresh breakfast sausage links from the meat counter.
As soon as Stacie left, I descended upon the kitchen.
Three small sausage patties, the two sausage links, and two slices of Spam were a nice fit for the pan. Fried them up real nice, then carefully removed them, leaving as much of the grease as humanly possible in the pan. Added a little butter, and had three scrambled aigs. When everything was said and done, it pretty much filled a plate. And it was Glorious.
That said, it wasn’t probably something anyone should eat every day, because holy Elvis the fat and calories.
1,075 calories, 13.5g carb, 51g protein, 89g fat, ~$4.00