Amish Breakfast casserole - or Nella's baby shower casserole

Ingredients

1 pound sliced bacon, diced
1 medium sweet onion, chopped
6 eggs, lightly beaten
4 cups frozen shredded hash brown potatoes, thawed
2 cups shredded Cheddar cheese
1 1/2 cups small curd cottage cheese
1 1/4 cups shredded Swiss cheese

Mom made this using lite cheeses, cottage cheese, and turkey bacon instead of regular bacon and it was so delicious!

Directions


1.In a large skillet, cook bacon and onion until bacon is crisp; drain. In a bowl, combine the remaining ingredients; stir in bacon mixture. Transfer to a greased 13-in. x 9-in. x 2-in. baking dish.

2.Bake, uncovered, at 350 degrees F for 35-40 minutes or until set and bubbly. Let stand for 10 minutes before cutting.
 
Easy and sooooo good.

Cinnamon Bread

(I would've taken a better picture of this right as it came out of the oven,
but we were hungry and the smell of this was so heavenly!)

Dry Ingredients
2 cups flour
1 cup white sugar
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp salt

Wet Ingredients
1 cup buttermilk
1/4 cup vegetable oil
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract

Crumb mix - (you can make more of this mix depending on how sweet you like your bread)
2 Tbl white sugar
2 Tbl brown sugar
2 tsp ground cinnamon
4 tsp margarine

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease one 9x5 inch loaf pan.

2.Mix set of dry ingredients together in a bowl. Mix set of wet ingredients in a seperate bowl. Pour the mixed wet ingredients into the dry, and stir in until well mixed. Pour about half of the batter into the loaf pan.

3. Combine the crumb mix ingredients until crumbly. Sprinkle about half of crumb mixture over batter in pan. Pour the rest of the batter in pan and sprinkle the rest of crumb mix over the batter. Using a knife, cut in a light swirling motion to give a marbled effect.

4. Bake for about 50 minutes. Test with toothpick. When inserted, it should come out clean. Remove bread from pan when cool enough to a rack. (If using a glass loaf pan, you may have to cook longer.) Enjoy!!!

Christmas Morning Casserole...

(the picture was taken after i had taken it out of the pan and cut

 it up in individual servings - ready or the fridge. :)

Christmas Morning Egg Casserole

12 eggs
1 1/2 pounds ground breakfast sausage
16  ounces o cheddar cheese (divided)
7 slices of white bread - torn into pieces ( i used day old bread)

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. (175 degrees C)
• Brown sausage in a large skillet.  Drain off grease and set aside to cool.  Pour eggs in to a lightly greased 9x13 inch baking dish.
• In a seperate large bowl, combine sausage, bread and 12 ounces of the cheese.  Mix well and pour this into the egg mixture.  Top with the remaining 4 oz of cheese and cover with foil.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 C) for 15-20 minutes.  Uncover and bake until cassarole is golden brown and bubbly.

you can also add cooked bacon.  I added about a tablespoon or so of dried onion, and that seemed to make it complete.

We had this recipe this morning for Christmas breakfast and everyone loved it!  I am going to make it again next year.  (or german pancakes...  i cant decide.)