Breakfast Turkey Sausage Patties and the New Year!

A few more days until the New Year. I have to be honest; I'm looking forward to 2011. I don't want to be a negative Nancy, but this year seems to be full of death and disappointments. For some reason, when I have a bad year, I always believe that the next year will be much better. I'm weird like that. :) I also think we need to bring back the saying "Negative Nancy." I hope you will all work with me to achieve this goal. hehe

Here's my Top 5 from 2010

1. My baby girl's 1st birthday
2. Buying a house
3. Planting a super-huge garden
4. Making new friends
5. Starting a bloggy blog :)

And here are some plans for 2011:

1. A vacation please!
2. Expanding the house
3. Planting a not-so-super-huge garden
4. Potty training my toddler --- oh please let this happen. 
5. Wear lots of dresses, drink lots of sweet tea, stay outside all summer gardening and getting sunburns.

Tile earrings.

Cute little box.

And here are some earrings I bought recently on Etsy. An artist in California designs them to match tiles (California, Mexican and Turkish tiles). I think they are adorable and they happen to have my favorite shades of red, purple and green. Even the box they came in is adorable.

Okokok, now to the breakfast sausage. Not only is store bought sausage over-priced and full of who-knows-what, but we are a pork-free house. That means I have to find sausage without a pork intestine casing, which leaves a weird man-made casing that I'm not comfortable eating. So, I thought we could buy sausage patties instead, but why spend the money when I can make my own exactly the way I like them? I can shape a patty. Sheesh. I found a recipe online, but I did change a few things. I bumped up the ingredients a bit, and reduced the salt. The sausage turned out very flavorful and a little spicy. I made 2lbs worth, so I froze most of them for later.

Here's How:

Just take a freezer safe dish, line it with wax paper and place the patties next to each other, but not touching. Freeze until solid, remove, place into a freezer bag and freeze. I'm still going to separate them with wax paper though just to prevent any possible sticking.

Breakfast Turkey Sausage Patties
Original Recipe: Allrecipes.com
Serving Size = 7 (I had about 21 patties)

• 2 lbs ground turkey
• 1 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 teaspoons dried sage
• 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• 1 teaspoon ground black pepper

1. Mix together the meat and the rest of the ingredients. Form into small patties. 
2. Cook over medium heat until done, or skip the cooking and freeze them. 

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