Diner Food - in West Africa

After browsing The Pioneer Woman Cooks late one night, I was left craving a delicious big breakfast.  Diner style.  I love eating breakfast out.  Eggs, hashbrowns, bacon, veggies... mmmmm.  I almost always order a breakfast skillet when we go out.

The next morning when Micah woke up early (as usual), instead of catching a few more winks on the couch while he played, I got cooking.  A big breakfast skillet.  Inspired by The Eggberts Sunriser.

Saute some onions, peppers and tomatoes, until starting to soften.  Set aside.

At the same time, cook up some hashbrowns.  Set them aside.  (We made them from scratch.  I posted about that here.)

Cook up some breakfast meat.  I would prefer bacon, but you can't get decent bacon here.  So I browned some sausage and deli ham.

Slice some green onions.   Here, green onions equal chives.  We have no green onions.

Assemble it all in an oven-safe pan.  We used our cast-iron skillet.  First hashbrowns, then veggies, then meat, then a layer of grated cheese.

Stick it in a hot oven to melt the cheese.  Meanwhile, fry some eggs (we did 4).

Pull the wonderfully melty skillet out of the oven and top with fried eggs and green onions.

Serves 2-3.  Depending how hungry you are.  And how much you like to pig-out first thing in the morning.  We had high ambitions (serving it for just Stew and I, and a little for Micah), but we ended up inviting in one of the guys who works on our yard to help us eat it all.

There you have it!  Diner food in West Africa!

 Thank you, PW!