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    Home » Recipes » The Amish Editor

    Breakfast Haystack??

    Published: Jan 6, 2012 · Updated: Feb 2, 2021 by Kevin Williams | 14 Comments

    A haystack is a fairly common supper among the Amish.  It's a favorite among young people and those just seeking an easy but hearty Sunday dinner.  A haystack is a layered dish of usually taco-seasoning drenched hamburger, lettuce, tomato, peppers, sometimes potatoes and all covered with a mound of shredded cheese.  The supper resembles a haystack.  A breakfast haystack is a more recent but no-less popular variation making the rounds in Amish settlements.  As the photo below shows, you put biscuits as your base and then pile diced ham, tomatoes, peppers, even some jalapeno peppers, plenty of eggs, some cheese and then drown the whole thing in sausage gravy.  This is breakfast haystack or a.k.a. "heart attack on a plate.":)

    « Aylmer, Ontario
    The Amish Cook, Week of January 9, 2011 »

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    1. Magdalena

      January 06, 2012 at 7:57 pm

      That is a little much!

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      • Kevin

        January 06, 2012 at 7:58 pm

        agreed:)

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        • Angie Adair

          January 06, 2012 at 8:38 pm

          We have something in our restaurants here we call Breakfast Skillet....this is about the same thing. Ours usually has hash browns on bottom, then, ham, bacon or sausage(or all three), 2 eggs however you like em, peppers and onions(mushrooms if you like), then topped with shredded cheese or white sausage gravy...yummmmmm!

        • Kevin

          January 06, 2012 at 9:05 pm

          Let me grab the tums:)

    2. hazel kitt

      January 07, 2012 at 1:30 am

      Angie's Breakfast Skillet sounds great to me, I believe I'll make some for breakfast! YUM!!

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    3. Erik Wesner

      January 08, 2012 at 12:57 pm

      Where can I get the frozen TV dinner version of this bad boy? As much as I love it I've been on the Poland potatoes-and-pierogies diet too long, so I'll take my haystack, along with the Tums Kevin 🙂

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    4. Margaret

      January 08, 2012 at 10:49 pm

      My husband wants me to try making Angie's version! Yum! BUT, on the day I make it, that will be all we have to eat for the entire day!! :0)

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    5. Cindy/KS

      January 09, 2012 at 9:46 pm

      You lost me when you added the gravy! Not a gravy person at all here!

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    6. Jeff in Middletucky

      January 09, 2012 at 9:58 pm

      That does look mighty unhealthful, but it also looks to be mighty tasty. It sort of seems to be in the same spirit as a garbage plate from Nick Tahou Hots (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_Plate#Garbage_Plate) or Hawaii's loco moco (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loco_moco). Along with both of the aforementioned treats, I'll now add this to the list of just-this-side-of-disgusting (but not really) culinary feats that I long to partake of.

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    7. Kentuckylady717

      August 12, 2012 at 6:42 pm

      Looks great.....and I'm not really a gravy person 🙂

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    8. Atlene

      December 24, 2016 at 7:08 pm

      Nothing in the world as good as Kansas sausage gravy...

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      • Kevin

        December 28, 2016 at 10:30 am

        agreed!

        Reply
    9. Nana

      December 24, 2016 at 8:10 pm

      That looks good but would take up my calorie count for the day. Merry Christmas to you and your family. The girls are what makes Santa fun. Enjoy their childhood along with them as you are making indelible family memories. Sending you all the blessings this special time of year holds.

      Reply
    10. Ms. Catherine Melba Alston Hardy

      December 27, 2016 at 6:14 pm

      I like

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