{"id":35,"date":"2015-03-07T18:53:41","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T18:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.outofthebilge.com\/?p=35"},"modified":"2015-03-07T19:17:28","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T19:17:28","slug":"simple-toaster-oven-breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.outofthebilge.com\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"Simple Toaster Oven Breakfast"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Small space cooking means simple cooking.\u00a0As I’ve mentioned in other posts, I don’t have counter space to do any real prep.\u00a0 I don’t have a hot plate or a microwave – just a little convection toaster oven and a crock pot.
\nThis easy\u00a0breakfast takes only 2 ingredients: frozen hash browns and sausage links.<\/p>\n

First, I lined the toaster oven rack with aluminum foil. Then I piled up a couple handfuls of\u00a0organic hash browns (these are the Alexa brand from Costco).\u00a0Next I lined the potato perimeter (I love alliteration!) with\u00a0good breakfast sausage links (fresh in the Costco meat department).<\/p>\n

Bake at 350 or 375 for a while – say 15-20 minutes. Or more. I’m not awesome at that whole timing thing.<\/p>\n

Tip<\/strong>:\u00a0Turning up the edges of the foil keeps any juice\/grease from running into the bottom of your oven.<\/p>\n

I did find\u00a0a thin layer of hash browns stuck to the foil. Someone recommended spraying the foil first. I don’t do that. For me, that’s just one. more. thing. to find a place for AND it’s just one. more. step. I need less stuff and less steps. But, it may be useful for you.<\/p>\n

I’d think you could lay the sausages like little logs and put the potatoes on top and that might be a good alternative. The sausages won’t brown up that way, so if that carmalizing, browning effect is important to you, keep that in mind.<\/p>\n

Someone else suggested breaking a couple of eggs over the pile. I haven’t tried that, but I’d think it would be good.<\/p>\n

Besides this being crazily easy and FAST to prepare I love, love, love that I don’t have a pan to scrub. I seriously love using foil as a pan. Crumple that sucker up and toss it in the trash once it’s cool. From my boat-living perspective, it saves on water which I really appreciate since we have to fill tanks less often when dishes are easy.<\/p>\n

I’d LOVE to hear some of your ideas for variations on this. I’m particularly interested in “whole food” additions that can be bought pre-packaged. Diced onions would be awesome. Leave me a comment with your suggestions!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Small space cooking means simple cooking.\u00a0As I’ve mentioned in other posts, I don’t have counter space to do any real prep.\u00a0 I don’t have a hot plate or a microwave – just a little convection toaster oven and a crock pot. This easy\u00a0breakfast takes only 2 ingredients: frozen hash browns and sausage links. First, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-practical-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.outofthebilge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.outofthebilge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.outofthebilge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.outofthebilge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.outofthebilge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.outofthebilge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39,"href":"http:\/\/www.outofthebilge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.outofthebilge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.outofthebilge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.outofthebilge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}