Sweetheart Toasted Sausage Sammies are the melding of two recipes: Sweetheart Maple and Sage Sausage Patties and Heart in the Hole. When I made Heart in the Hole for breakfast, I ended up with 4 leftover heart-shaped pieces of bread. And, when I made Sweetheart Maple and Sage Sausage Patties, I ended up with 12 sausage patties.
Since my Heart in the Hole recipe technically serves 4 and my Sweetheart Maple and Sage Sausage Patties technically serve 6 (at 2 patties per person), this left me with 4 leftover Sweetheart Maple and Sage Sausage Patties and 4 leftover heart-shaped pieces of bread.
Whew, are you still following me?
My higher math skills tell me that Sweetheart Toasted Sausage Sammies really aren’t a solution for the dilemma {grin} because you need 2 heart-shaped cutouts per sammie, so if making these for 4 people, you need 4 more heart-shaped cutouts!
Such a conundrum!
Here’s my solution: make Heart in the Hole twice! Since Valentine’s Day is today (Happy Valentine’s Day) and it’s Friday, make Heart in the Hole today, tomorrow and Sunday and celebrate Valentine’s Day all weekend!
And, if you don’t make Heart in the Hole twice, just so you can make Sweetheart Toasted Sausage Sammies, save your leftover bread for feeding the American Coots (or other birds and waterfowl)! I save all my leftover bread ends and pieces just for that reason: so that we can feed the American Coots and their friends at the Lake Poway Recreation Area.
Here’s the recipe:
Sweetheart Toasted Sausage Sammies
These mini-sandwiches are a delicious treat for a special Valentine’s Day breakfast. Made with Sweetheart Maple and Sage Sausage Patties, you can substitute regular ground sausage.
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 10 mins
- Total Time: 25 mins
- Yield: 4 1x
- Category: Breakfast
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
- 1 pound of ground sausage or 1 recipe of Sweetheart Maple and Sage Sausage Patties
- 8 slices of sandwich bread
- Mayonnaise, mustard, butter and/or jelly or jam for spreading (optional)
Instructions
- Make Sweetheart Maple and Sage Sausage Patties per recipe or spread ground sausage on a wax-paper lined cutting board and flatten with palms of your hands.
- Using a 3-inch heart-shaped cookie cutter, punch out hearts from sausage and carefully transfer with spatula to non-stick skillet.
- Cook over medium heat for about 5 minutes, turn the heart sausages over and cook the other side about 3 minutes more.
- Remove from skillet and transfer to plate.
- In the meantime, place 8 slices of bread on a cutting board.
- Using 3-inch heart-shaped cookie cutter, punch out hearts (reserve leftover edges of bread to make Heart in the Hole or to feed the American Coots).
- Place heart-shaped cutouts on a cookie sheet and lightly toast in the broiler for a few minutes.
- Turn toasts over and toast other side.
- Remove from broiler, spread each toast with your choice of butter, mayo, mustard or jelly.
- Top one side of toast with sausage heart and cover with other slice of heart toast.
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