"This is madness." "Madness? This is STRATA!!!"

Strata is pretty much the greatest breakfast food of all time as long as you plan on dying young. It's basically bread pudding for breakfast.  At my request, Katie made it with sausage, mushroom, shallots and monterey jack cheese. Although it takes a while to bake, it can be prepped the night before and left in the fridge.

The night before we went all out. Grilled steaks with caramelized onions and blue cheese butter, sauteed baby spinach with garlic and lemon and smashed potatoes. First, a word on the blue cheese butter. It's exactly what it sounds like (plus some parsley) and once you've had something like this on steak, there's no going back. Now, the smashed potatoes: these things are a brilliant combination of crispy french fry on the outside and mashed potato on the inside.