New Breakfast Tried ~ Butternut Apple and Kale Hash with Sausage

 

The photo is my husband's breakfast packed up the day prior.  I have to say, it would be absolutely fantastic with eggs over easy made fresh, but I do have to send breakfast on-the-go for him during the work week days.

Oh my goodness, it was delicious!  Time consuming to make, but healthy and very good.  It's a keeper recipe, with some tips to make it easier.

First, remember I ground up some of our dehydrated sage a while back?  I put it in a spice jar for easy use for making homemade chicken or turkey sausage?  Well, I'm not doing that anymore.

I discovered that the delicious sage flavor goes stale after weeks of sitting in a spice jar.  It's just not the same as crushing the full leaves dehydrated.  I'll just have to take the time to crush them for really good flavor.  

Tips:  Most butternut squash is about 3 pounds or so.  Unless I grow it myself, and have a dry year, I have never seen a "small" or 1 1/2 pound butternut squash. 

I bought a 3# one, diced it up, and saved half to freeze.  Next time I will make sure that the dicing part is done on a day with less work, and have that prep work already done.  Butternut is too hard of a squash to dice up small in my box cutter.

Tip:  I cooked 1# of organic ground turkey and 1# of ground chicken, with sausage spices on a earlier day, froze half and kept half for this breakfast. 

You could also wash and dice up the greens the day before too.  I used kale in our breakfast.

I cooked my husband's eggs the day before, and sent it with him to work to re-heat.  It re-heated well for him and he loved it.  Freshly cooked is wonderful, but this was fantastic.   

You could use any breakfast sausage, but we love to rotate ours with chicken/turkey for a lower fat breakfast.  Also, I can chose to leave out the brown sugar when I make it myself too.  Who knows what kind of sugar they use in the breakfast sausage bought in stores.  

Anyway, sharing a I-tried-it-so-you-don't-have-to breakfast recipe. 

Recipe is online with Real Food Dietitians - Butternut Squash and Apple Hash with Sausage.

Have fun, and don't make too many dirty dishes, ha ha!

New Breakfast Tried ~ Butternut Apple and Kale Hash with Sausage  ©  May 2026 by Kristina at Pioneer Woman at Heart 

Borage ~ More Asparagus and Rain

 

Last year, we planted borage and rosemary in with the zucchini, yellow squash and other squash plants.  It was an attempt to deter the nasty squash bugs.  It for one, did not work to deter those bugs (did not even grow well enough to harvest anything from the plants either).   Two, it re-seeds itself very well, so don't plant it in your big vegetable garden like I did.  It's not spreading too badly this year, but I'm yanking it as I see it, and you know I hate to waste anything....

By the way, I'm actually seeing borage plants for sale this year.

Borage tea?  

Has anyone dehydrated or dried the borage flowers and leaves for a medicinal tea?  I'm not finding a lot of information in the resource books I have.  So far anyway.  I'm reading online that the tea from the plant, is good for reducing a fever and for reducing a bad cough.  Does anyone have any information, or experience, with borage used in this way?

Borage for dinner?

I'm doing more research on cooking borage.  Just in case I have to yank some plants ha ha!   I don't think it would be eaten very often.

I'm thinking a chimichurri over salmon, a pesto for meals, and possibly other recipes.  

I read that the borage seeds themselves contain omega-6?  Need to do more research on that.

Just when I thought our asparagus season was about over, the rain brought up more, and more is coming up.  I doubt it will amount to a large amount, but we are thankful for the continued harvest.  

Speaking of rain.....

Well, prior to the the rain, and the beginning of our high 80 degree weather, I got 3 full hours of garden work done on the flower beds.  I am not done yet, so I have much to do, but the rain returned yesterday, making the opportunity to work outside zero.  Guess what's returned again this morning?  Yep, the rain.  It's saturated.  Again.  Just one of those wet years for a start.  

It rained so hard yesterday, I had to shut windows in the house and in the chicken coop.  We do not have our AC on, despite the 80 to almost 90 degree weather.  We need help with the lifting and installing of the AC units.  Willing help is hard to find.

I can proudly say, I have earned my first blister on my hand from weeding, and for the first time, bruises on my knees from kneeling over the flower beds.  Ha!  It's all good!

Borage ~  More Asparagus and Rain  ©  May 2026 by Kristina at Pioneer Woman at Heart