Oh happy day!

The past weekend was a perfect balance of happy, excited, stress, relaxing, fun, and drunk!

Those weekends don't happen often and when they do it's hard to come to terms with them ending (I actually shut off my alarm thins morning and went back to sleep thinking it was Sunday...witch it was not and I was late(ish) for work).

Anyways as traumatic as that was that's not really what I am here to talk about.

Part of all the flurry of mostly good things that happened this weekend was finding out my roommate that I don't get along with is moving out (we actually found this out a week before I think...but I was in shock for the week). So with someone leaving and someone new coming in we get a chance to sort of restart, to make house rules that are actually followed and do a little redecorating and fingers crossed the person we want to move in can! I am very excited in case you couldn't tell!

Seeing as I was in a really good mood, I obviously wanted brunch and since all of my friends/ people I force to eat food I cook were busy I thought maybe it would be nice to just have a Kelsey and Joe brunch.

What ended up happening was a totally unplanned celebratory roommate brunch, with my roomie that's staying! To make this all more crazy, because it wasn't planned I had to go to Shaws in the morning, witch means I woke up before Joe got dressed (even put on lipstick because I was feeling fancy) took the train to Shaws and walked home! That's impressive for a Saturday morning!

So I decided that I wanted to make a somewhat healthy brunch (weather or not I actually did or not is up to debate) but we had over-easy eggs on potato sausage hash, with sourdough toast and a strawberry arugula salad with grapes and lemon pepper dressing!

How I did it: I got tiny red potatoes because they were cute and on sale so I washed and cut them into little chuncks then boiled them for just a little bit, while those were boiling I thawed the sausage I had and chopped strawberries for the salad and made the dressing (juice from 1 lemon and about 1tsp. olive oil and some fresh ground pepper). I then strained the potato and set aside while I chopped up the sausage then on the flattop grill I mixed the potato and sausage with a little Italian grinder spice, ground black pepper and a tiny bit of crushed red pepper, I then covered it and put the salad together. Once the sausage and potato start getting crispy start to toast the toast and fry the eggs, when that's done you are done! YAY!

I actually got some rectangle white plates/platters (like on fancy food network shows) and had this all plated really nice but we forgot to take a picture, we suck!

I totally didn't think the boys would like the salad or the whole concept of morning salad but it was well after noon when we sat down so they tried it and well at least said they liked it...small victories.

We had no mimosas (or any other booze) because Doug was sick and we needed the champagne I had for a toast earlier in the week anyways.

If it looks like a bubbling pan of sick and smells just about the same...

...Than it must be Cheesy Sleezy

Ah sounds appetizing right?

Brunch when you are broke is a little hard to pull off, or at least for me it is because I want to go all out. I want it to be fancy and pretty and elegant (it never turns out that way anyways but...).

So seeing as I am more broke now than I have been in the past few months and well June is going to be an insane month (and baby Bears brunch didn't happen surprise surprise...) I am going to dust off one of Joe and I's favorite cheap brunches.

We really can't get anyone else we know to eat this so normally is is just me and Joe super hungover eating this till we explode, while watching a Steven Segul movie at 1pm in our pajamas.

We found this recipe (along with our favorite sangria recipe) in this book, it's an awesome cook book and you should buy it!

All you will need is:

2- 4 eggs

1/4lb cheddar cheese sliced

1/2 tube breakfast sausage

1 green pepper diced

2- 4 slices of toast

1 can refried beans

black pepper

crushed red pepper

(It says to add onion and salt I think but we don't like onion so we leave it out, also optional hot sauce)

Okay I know it sounds gross, but just try it...

The book says this is all two servings but that is insane! Even if you half this or split it in fourths you will feel like a fat piece of shit after eating it...just a warning!

I promise it is good!

  

So basically what you do is, fry the sausage in a large fry pan when it's almost done all green pepper, black pepper and red pepper (not too much pepper, unless you like things spicy then do whatever you want). Once that's all cooked add the beans, mix it and then cover the top with cheese. Put a cover on it, let it get all melty! While it is getting gooey gross, fry the eggs (however you like, we do sunny side up), and toast the toast. When the cheese is melty get a plate put down the toast then a heaping pile of the beans/sausage/cheese and the egg goes on top cover in hot sauce and serve with a Korbel mimosa and a lot of black coffee and TA-DA! The only thing left to do is find someone brave enough to eat this with you!

That's pretty much our go to cheap brunch meal!

I would like to someday try this on biscuits instead of toast I think that would be yummy!

Short post for today but, like I said June is going to be crazy and I am too broke to host...and all my friends suck too much to do a potluck type thing...

There are some things to look forward to though, like maybe some Tips & Tricks guest posts and a brunch that incorporates my two new obsessions: Bellini and food that is served on skewers (Pinterest told me anything can be made into a kebab)!

Also I found this today and it is funny and this not quite so funny but interesting...so read them because I have nothing else to say! 

Byeeee!