(Family Features) Baseball practices, dance rehearsals, school work, and other weekday activities often make family mealtime seem like a thing of the past.
If you’re looking for ways your family can spend more quality time together, consider bringing back breakfast this weekend.
Enjoying each other’s company and a delicious breakfast is the perfect opportunity for your family to reconnect. Use the added time weekend mornings provide to prepare a wonderful, warm meal for your family to sit down and create lasting memories. Make your morning meal a weekend tradition the whole family can look forward to all week long.
Here are some easy tips to help make breakfast a family occasion:
Make Breakfast Special – Each week, request that a family member choose a fun theme for the breakfast table. From sports teams to movie themes to favorite colors – you’ll see that the choices are endless and they can inspire creative breakfast menus.
Find Some Breakfast Helpers – Let the whole family practice their cooking skills by helping you in the kitchen. Serve foods that are easy to dress up, like Hungry Jack® pancakes. Sometimes the simple pleasure of a warm plate of pancakes is all you need to create the perfect start to your weekend mornings together.
Create Breakfast Menu Magic – The sky is the limit when you have extra time to craft a hearty breakfast, so serve a variety of foods your family will love. You can’t go wrong with breakfast classics – from fresh veggie and egg dishes to the warm, fluffy goodness of a stack of Hungry Jack pancakes. Does your family enjoy creating breakfast masterpieces? Try these Upside-Down Breakfast Stacks, made with Hungry Jack pancakes, sausage patties, cheddar cheese and eggs, for a magical take on an ordinary meal.
For more recipes and breakfast tips to bring families together on the weekends, visit www.hungryjack.com.
Upside-Down Breakfast Stacks
Ingredients
- Crisco® Original No-Stick Cooking Spray
- 3 large eggs lightly beaten
- 6 fully cooked sausage patties OR
- 6 vegetable sausage patties
- 3/4 cup Hungry Jack® Complete Buttermilk Pancake & Waffle Mix
- 1/2 cup water
- Shredded sharp cheddar or pepper jack cheese optional
- Hungry Jack Original Syrup
Instructions
- Heat oven to 375°F. Coat 6 muffin cups or glass custard cups generously with no-stick cooking spray.
- Divid eggs evenly into prepared muffin cups. Top with sausage patty. Whisk pancake mix and water together in medium bowl until smooth. Pour evenly over sausage.
- Bake 14 to 16 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 2 minutes. Invert onto baking sheet. Sprinkle immediately with cheese, if desired. Serve warm with syrup.