Sausage Bread - The Gift that Keeps on Giving

If you ever find yourself presented with a gift of sausage bread, as we were recently, you are very lucky. Sausage bread is a savory, dense bread with sausage, cheese and some spices all rolled up into an eggy dough. The first couple of days we just enjoyed a slice of it for breakfast or lunch. It's the type of food that blurs the line between breakfast and lunch or maybe it is so good that I was just looking for an excuse to eat it any chance I got.

By the end of the week I was ready to be more adventurous with the bread. The ah ha moment came on Saturday morning when my husband and I were sitting around debating whether to have something savory or sweet for our regular Saturday morning breakfast. We will make french toast using the sausage bread.


Sausage bread french toast is prepared just like you would regular french toast only it is so much more. Pour some maple syrup on top and you have solved to the age old savory/sweet breakfast dilemma. You don't even need a side of bacon with it. During my euphoria upon tasting this concoction, I convinced myself that this was the next big thing to hit the New York brunch scene.




Our second a-ha moment with the sausage bread came a day later while making a tomato soup with garlic croutons from the Red Cat cookbook. Instead of the regular day old bread the recipe called for for making the croutons, we used the sausage bread.


The result was delicious. Eating the last crouton the next day with the soup for lunch, I felt a pang of sadness realizing there would be no more sausage bread to come home to that evening.