Starting Off the New Year with Saddlebags

New Years morning Mike and I knew we would need a good after party breakfast. We decided to go for it and make a dish we learned about... where else, but Man vs. Food. In this episode Adam was visiting Boulder, Co and discovered a dish called Saddlebags. It consists of a fluffy pancake with a breakfast meat cooked in it and with an over easy egg placed on top. Liam's philosophy is that adding egg yolk to anything makes it better, so off we went to test the theory. Since I was the chef in this case, I chose to go a little bit healthier with the breakfast meat, so I used turkey sausage links and turkey bacon. Andi joined us for this breakfast, so I put her to work dicing up the meat I just cooked while I whipped up the pancakes. I used a buttermilk pancake recipe that my brother in law Mark taught me. It makes the most delicious pancakes-- light and fluffy. You pour the batter in to a greased pan and while the pancake starts cooking you add the breakfast meat of choice to it. Flip it, and it is ready to go. I placed them in the oven to keep warm while I finished the batch and moved on to the eggs. Mike supplied the syrup (it is my opinion to use a good one free of high fructose corn syrup and preservatives, but use what you prefer), and once the eggs were fried we were ready to go.

And the results... brilliant! The person who created this breakfast item is genius. It is the perfect balance of sweet and salty. I loved the egg yolks soaking in to the pancake and the sausage.
This is a winner and we will definitely be making them again... perhaps it will become our New Year tradition. =-)