Scramble!

So, my husband found these awesome Chicken Breakfast Sausages at Aldi, and I've been craving sausage since I've been on my liquid Diet, so, I made an egg scramble last night. It actually turned out really good! You could add lots of other things to it to, but my fridge is kind of empty right now, so, this is what I made. :D

Sausage, Egg, & Cheese Scramble

-2 large eggs
-2 Aldi Chicken Breakfast Sausage Links
-About 1/4 c. milk
-About 2 tbsp. LF Sharp Cheddar Cheese
-Salt
-Pepper

-Slice up the two sausage links, set aside.
-Crack eggs in a bowl, mix in milk, salt and pepper.
-Beat eggs.
-Add the sliced sausage links and cheese.
-Mix until well combined.
-Saute in pan over medium heat, stirring continually until eggs are desired consistency.
-Refrigerate leftovers.

When I portioned this out, it made 4- 2 oz. portions, which is perfect for me. I had one last night for dinner, and one this morning for breakfast. Surprisingly, it warms up quite well. :)

So, as I think I said, I made SF Cheesecake Mousse to take to my husband's family Christmas (the big family Christmas, not the one with just his immediate family... that's this weekend). Well, my sister-in-law asked me to bring another dessert this weekend that I'm allowed to eat so that they could all try it. Well, at that Christmas, my brother-in-law had made this pumpkin pie, pudding, Cool Whip dessert. Totally something I couldn't have since it had a graham cracker crust, and asking him about it, it also had sugar AND powdered sugar in it... So, I decided to make my own version. :D

It starts with the low-carb pumpkin cake that I made before... but improved a bit... and then pudding, and then cool whip, garnished with cinnamon. So, here it is:

Pumpkin Pudding Dessert (I know, I come up with the best names xD)

-1 can 15 oz. pure pumpkin
-4 large eggs
-1/2 c. milk
-2 tsp. vanilla
-1 c. Splenda (one of the improvements)
-1/2 tsp. salt
-1-1/2 tsp. pumpkin pie spice (another improvement)
-1 tsp. cinnamon
For the Pudding:
-1 large box SF Vanilla Pudding
-3 c. milk
For the topping:
-1 tub SF or Light Cool Whip

-Preheat the oven to 350*
-Mix the pumpkin, eggs, 1/2 c. milk, vanilla, Splenda, salt, pumpkin pie spice, and cinnamon together in a large bowl until well blended.
-Dump pumpkin mixture into a well-greased baking dish (I really like the oval ones that I have in the picture, but you could really use whatever kind you wanted... however, I don't think this would stretch to a 9x13.
-While the cake is baking, mix the pudding mix and three cups of milk until well blended.
-Put in the refrigerator to set.
-Bake the pumpkin mixture until a knife comes out cleanly. For me, it took an hour in the pan that I used. Depending on the type of pan you use will depend on baking time.
-Let the pumpkin cake cool.
-Once cooled, top the cake with the SF Vanilla pudding.
-Top that with the Cool Whip.
-Sprinkle cinnamon on top for garnish.
-Enjoy.

This is so simple, it's stupid. It looks pretty, and I bet it's going to taste pretty darned good too. I tried a small bite of the cake, and it's much sweeter this time, which is good. The thing I didn't notice about the directions of the last pumpkin cake was that you're supposed to refrigerate the leftovers, so, last night we came home, and I went to toss the old pumpkin cake because it's a week old, and it was moldy, and smelly. Oops. Oh well. Now I know. :)

So, tomorrow, we'll be headed to Ohio to see my brother and sister-in-law, their kids, and my in-laws for Christmas. It will be fun. And then my mother and father-in-law will be taking my daughter home with them until the third because her sitter is closed. She's going to get spoiled rotten again. :) This will be fun for my husband and I, because I have New Year's Day off. He gets a half day that day... so, we're going to do a date night. We're going to go out to eat (Texas Roadhouse I think... they have a Steak and Shrimp combo for $15.50... AND I have a birthday coupon for a free appetizer), and then go see the Jumanji movie. It looks funny. I'll let you know how it is.

I'm interested to see how eating out goes post-op. I went out to eat with my in-laws about two weeks post-op, but the restaurant we went to didn't have any foods I could eat since I was still on the full liquids phase. We'll see how this goes. I'll let you all know. In case I don't write again, have a Safe and Happy New Year's! :)

~♥~
Lady D