Breakfast for Dinner
It’s Monday, and I’ve come off the weekend feeling almost more exhausted than I started it. So, dinner tonight consisted of breakfast. I scrambled some eggs with a fresh diced tomato and added some Colby jack cheese. Along with the scramble, I toasted some whole grain bread, slathered on some home-made butter and added a knife full of my home-canned strawberry jam. Even though it was a “cheater” dinner, it was still a pretty nutritious meal and the girls gobbled it up. The benefit of working with what I created myself is that I know the ingredients. I know my butter is nothing but a small sprinkle of sea salt and heavy cream, and I know my strawberry jam is relatively low sugar and otherwise only made up of fresh strawberries and natural pectin. Although it is still a far cry from the homesteaded existence I want, every jar of home-canned produce that accumulates in my cupboard makes me feel one step closer to living the way I dream. And I also feel, with every meal I cook with those jars, that I am one step closer to ensuring that everything my family consumes is the highest quality I can provide. Now, if only I had more time to make my own cheese…
I love breakfast for dinner which we call “upside down”. Yours looked delicious!
Thanks! It was really tasty, and it reminded me why I love cooking and canning. And also why I’ll never store buy butter again if I can help it! 🙂