Sweetheart Breakfast In Bed Recipe

Directions:

1. Maple Fennel Country Sausage Patties
2. 1 teaspoon coarse salt
3. 1/2 teaspoon coarse black pepper
4. 1 teaspoon fennel seeds
5. 1 pound ground pork
6. 2 tablespoons maple syrup
7. 1 tablespoon olive oil or vegetable oil
8. Combine salt and pepper, fennel in the bottom of a bowl. Add pork and mix to combine spices. Pour 2 tablespoons maple syrup over the pork and work the meat again to combine the maple syrup. Form meat into patties, 2 to 3 inches round. Cook patties in 1 tablespoon oil in a nonstick skillet over medium high heat 4 or 5 minutes on each side. Drain sausage patties on towel lined plate, then serve.
9. Mimosas
10. 8 ounces orange juice
11. Dry Champagne
12. 2 ounces Triple Sec or other orange liqueur
13. 4 curls orange peel
14. Rinse and chill Champagne flutes in freezer to frost glasses. Pour 2 ounces of orange juice into each flute, about 1/3 of the flute. Fill almost to the rim with Champagne. Top each glass with a splash of orange liqueur and garnish with a curl of orange peel.