Breakfast, anyone?

What do you serve a pack of 10-year-olds for breakfast after a sleepover?

Pancakes, Bacon and Sausage, of course!

Last week was an exceptionally busy week, with several tossed-together dinners and last-minute lunches - of course it was also the week that culminated with my son's first "big" sleepover party.  Making the cake was the hard part (more about that tomorrow!)  So breakfast had to be predicable.  And good.

I'd recently read a handy method for cooking up lots of bacon at once (I can't remember where, now).  You take a cooling rack (the kind with squares that looks like graph paper, not just rods in one direction) and put it on top of a rimmed baking sheet or jelly-roll pan.  Lay the bacon strips close together on top and bake in the oven at about 425 until they're browned on both sides - about 20 minutes in my oven.  I did notice two things - having the baking sheet lined with foil is a good idea and the back of my oven heats much faster than the front!  (Turn the sheet, if you're willing to brave the splatters!)

The sausage tossed up okay in a skillet and the pancakes were from a mix, with apples, cinnamon and diced apples (unpeeled).

This breakfast fueled some serious basketball, hide-and-go-seek and general rough-housing, so it must have been good!