Breakfast is the favorite meal of the day for many people and rightly so! There are lots of foods that we tend to only eat for the first meal of the day, but sometimes it can be fun to mix it up a little bit. Of course breakfast for dinner (or brinner) is a wonderful change of pace, but you can also bring some supper to the breakfast table with this breakfast cottage pie.

Cottage pie is a lot like shepherd’s pie and many people use the two terms interchangeably. Technically a shepherd’s pie is made from lamb (hence the name), while a cottage pie is made from other kinds of meat. Whatever you want to call it this one is a treat.

The base of the recipe is a mixture of cooked breakfast sausage, spinach, onions, and diced tomatoes. Then this gets topped with a layer of beaten eggs, and then you season with salt and pepper. Now comes the fun part: adding the mashed potatoes on top!

These taters are extra tasty thanks to a generous amount of butter and some shredded cheddar cheese. Once these are mashed and ready to go you can either pipe them on top of the egg layer or you can use a spoon to evenly distribute the potatoes. It’s fine if some of the egg mixture peaks through the potatoes.

If using a piping bag, chose a tip with a star pattern on it for a ridged look to the potatoes. If using the spoon method, go back over the potatoes with a fork to make a pattern once you’ve smoothed it into an even layer. As the pie cooks the raised areas of the pattern will darken more readily, but it’s also normal for the eggs to bubble up during cooking and cover the potatoes just a little but.

This is a wonderful breakfast for a weekend morning. Serve with some fruit and you’ve got a really hearty meal. You can also make this one for brinner. It’s so delicious no one will argue with this morning time meal any time of the day.