OT: Can I please get your Christmas breakfast casserole recipe?

[jillyjoey]

My casserole is the same as MousekeeterMom's

I am definitely going to try the Sausage Braid Bread. We are not having Christmas Dinner this year -- rather Christmas Brunch because DH now works midnight shift He will get home at 8am == (I'll try to keep the kids away from their presents). He'll play with them for a while then crash the rest of the day. Midnight shift really stinks!

Anyhoo -- I make Paula Deen's French Toast Casserole -- it is da'bomb. Everyone has loved it except the morons I work with -- they don't like anything that is different. But, my entire family loves it -- and DH took 3 batches of this to work and all the deputies loved it too: (Don't eat if on a diet) It was plenty sweet enough that we didn't need the maple syrup.

Paula Deen's French Toast Casserole

1 loaf French bread (13 to 16 ounces)
8 large eggs
2 cups half-and-half
1 cup milk
2 tablespoons granulated sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
Dash salt
Praline Topping, recipe follows
Maple syrup

Slice French bread into 20 slices, 1-inch each. (Use any extra bread for garlic toast or bread crumbs). Arrange slices in a generously buttered 9 by 13-inch flat baking dish in 2 rows, overlapping the slices. In a large bowl, combine the eggs, half-and-half, milk, sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt and beat with a rotary beater or whisk until blended but not too bubbly. Pour mixture over the bread slices, making sure all are covered evenly with the milk-egg mixture. Spoon some of the mixture in between the slices. Cover with foil and refrigerate overnight.
The next day, preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Spread Praline Topping evenly over the bread and bake for 40 minutes, until puffed and lightly golden. Serve with maple syrup.


Praline Topping:
1/2 pound (2 sticks) butter
1 cup packed light brown sugar
1 cup chopped pecans
2 tablespoons light corn syrup
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
Combine all ingredients in a medium bowl and blend well. Makes enough for Baked French Toast Casserole.

 

[mouseketeer_mom]

My casserole is the same as MousekeeterMom's

I am definitely going to try the Sausage Braid Bread. We are not having Christmas Dinner this year -- rather Christmas Brunch because DH now works midnight shift He will get home at 8am == (I'll try to keep the kids away from their presents). He'll play with them for a while then crash the rest of the day. Midnight shift really stinks!

Anyhoo -- I make Paula Deen's French Toast Casserole -- it is da'bomb. Everyone has loved it except the morons I work with -- they don't like anything that is different. But, my entire family loves it -- and DH took 3 batches of this to work and all the deputies loved it too: (Don't eat if on a diet) It was plenty sweet enough that we didn't need the maple syrup.

Paula Deen's French Toast Casserole

1 loaf French bread (13 to 16 ounces)
8 large eggs
2 cups half-and-half
1 cup milk
2 tablespoons granulated sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
Dash salt
Praline Topping, recipe follows
Maple syrup

Slice French bread into 20 slices, 1-inch each. (Use any extra bread for garlic toast or bread crumbs). Arrange slices in a generously buttered 9 by 13-inch flat baking dish in 2 rows, overlapping the slices. In a large bowl, combine the eggs, half-and-half, milk, sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt and beat with a rotary beater or whisk until blended but not too bubbly. Pour mixture over the bread slices, making sure all are covered evenly with the milk-egg mixture. Spoon some of the mixture in between the slices. Cover with foil and refrigerate overnight.
The next day, preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Spread Praline Topping evenly over the bread and bake for 40 minutes, until puffed and lightly golden. Serve with maple syrup.


Praline Topping:
1/2 pound (2 sticks) butter
1 cup packed light brown sugar
1 cup chopped pecans
2 tablespoons light corn syrup
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
Combine all ingredients in a medium bowl and blend well. Makes enough for Baked French Toast Casserole.

Oh yummm! I love new recipes. I'm gonna try this one Christmas morning.

 

[kg66]

This has been our family's favourite for years! Enjoy!

1pkg frozen hashbrowns
1Can Cream of Chicken Soup
lge container of Sour Cream(500ml)
2 Med Onions chopped
8Tbsp Butter
6oz Can Cheddar Cheese Soup
1cup of Crushed potato chips

Thaw hashbrowns 1 hour first, then combine everything except Chips. Pour into a greased 9 x13 casserole dish, flatten evenly, and sprinkle with potato chips. Bake @ 375 for 1 hour.

 

[chrisn]

Cake Pan Breakfast

Sliced Bread
6 Eggs
1 Lb. Bacon (or Ham)
1 Lb. Sausage
1 Can Cream of Mushroom Soup
1 Can Milk
2 C. Shredded Colby Jack Cheese

Place single layer of any type sliced bread on bottom of rectangular pan. Beat Eggs adding a little milk or water to fluff then pour over layered bread. Brown Sausage and cook Bacon to a crisp. Drain grease well then layer meat over bread. Mix Milk with Cream of Mushroom Soup then pour evenly over meat. Layer Cheese over the top and bake at 350 degees for 30 minutes.

My peeps absolutely LOVE this. It's filling and feeds a lot. I only make it once a year on X-mas morning to keep it special. It's my tradition. I also make Crepes or Gooey Butter Cake to go along with it for something sweet. Those two are as follows:

Crepes

1 C Milk
3/4 C Flour
3 Eggs Beaten
1 T Butter or Margarine melted
1 T Sugar
1/4 t Salt
1 8 oz. Package Cream Cheese
Jar of your favorite Preserves (I love Aprocot!)

Stir together milk, flour, eggs, butter, sugar and salt. Beat until smooth then let stand 30 minutes. Pour 1/4 C of batter onto hot, lightly greased 8" skillet and cook until lightly browned on both sides. Spread crepe with cream cheese and preserves. Fold in half and enjoy!

Gooey Butter Cake

Crust:
1 Box Yellow Cake Mix
1 Cube Butter - Semi Soft
1 Egg

Mix with fork until crumbly. Press into non stick rectangular cake pan coated with Pam.

Filling:
2 Eggs
8 oz Cream Cheese - Semi Soft
1 1/2 - 2 t Vanilla
1 C Sugar

Mix well with spoon. Place on top of crust. Bake at 325-350 for 20-25 mins until center is set. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve warm.

 

[FormrCastMbr]

Quiches work well for us...serve with fruit and maybe some pillsbury cinnamon rolls...yum! I don't use one general recipe but find diff ones on the internet...

Happy Holidays!

 

[Pixiedust34]

This isn't a casserole, but it's what we have every Christmas morning. It's make ahead Gingerbread Pancakes. All we have to do on Christmas morning is pop them in the oven for 5 minutes.

Make Ahead Gingerbread Pancakes

1 Tbsp. ground cinnamon
1 Tbsp. ground ginger
4 cups buttermilk pancake mix, complete
2 1/3 cups water mixed with 1/2 cup molasses

Stir spices in pancake mix, then add the molasses mixture just until moistened. Heat lightly oiled griddle or non-stick skillet over medium heat. Drop 3 Tbsp. batter for each pancake. Cook 4-5 minutes, turning once until puffed and lightly browned. Cool on wire racks, then freeze on cookie sheets until firm. Freeze in airtight containers with waxed paper between layers.

To serve: Heat oven to 350. Place frozen pancake directly on oven racks Bake 5 minutes or until hot.

We like to eat these with maple syrup and Reddi Whip.

 

[InstImpres]

ok, shame on me...I didn't copy down the recipe and the boards went down. Now I want to make the french toast casserole and don't have the half and half. I am far from the galloping gourmet...will it work if I just use skim milk or are we having waffles in the morning?

 

[vhoffman]

Here's my Christmas morning brunch idea--pop tarts! they're a real nifty invention, pasteries in a little foil bag. Just open and toast to desired setting. Always a crowd pleaser--well, at least my crowd!

Between cooking for Christmas Eve dinner and Christmas day dinner I tend to tonot worry about "brunch" Its whaever's left over from Chistmas Eve, along with a pop tart and a big pot of coffee. Honestly, after reading this thread I'm starting to feel inadequate Here's another deficiency of mine-I buy prepard gray. Even though I make a full turkey with plenty of pan drippings that could make a great gravy I never could get the hang of those brown bits The frozen stuff comes out great everytime. I;m the great eater, not the great cooker around here!

 

[PA Princess]

A big thank you to all who shared recipes!!! I made the hashbrown casserole and Laura Deen french toast and they were HUGE hits with our family. Both were just so tasty, and they were so simple to put together the day before and just pop in the oven for the morning. I like to have good food for Christmas, but I refuse to be a slave to the kitchen on Christmas day. For years I have made lasagna (which we all love and again is a simple meal when the ingredients are put together ahead of time). Both of these dishes meet our requirements and are certain to be traditions in our home for years to come! Thanks again everyone

 

[aes74]

I just thought I would resurrect this thread in honor of the yummy holiday season!!!

 

[pbharris4]

sure, this is essentially the same recipe that a pp posted a link to but here's mine....

6 slices of bread, buttered on one side, placed buttered side down in a 9X13 baking dish.

1 lb or so of sausage, cooked and drained
1 1/2 cup shredded cheddar
6 eggs
2 cups half and half
1 tsp salt
1 tsp dry mustard

spead sausage over bread slices, top sausage with cheese, mix remaining ingredients and pour mixture over cheese, chill over night.

preheat oven to 350, bake covered with foil approx 35 mins, remove foil and bake an additional 10 to 15 mins.

NOTE: I feed a large group Christmas breakfast. I usually make 3 lbs. of sausage and divide it between two 13X9 pans of this casserole. To one of the casseroles, I add a very small can of sliced mushrooms and a little diced onion. Kids tend to choose the one without the additions and adults tend to like the one with.

Yumm..thanks for this recipe! I am going to make it, but with turkey sausage.

 

[goinback]

This is a great breakfast casserole that we have every Christmas morning. I make and bake it on Christmas Eve, then just nuke individual portions on Christmas morning. I always serve it with a fesh friut salad!

Biscuit casserole

2 cans refrig biscuits (small cans from 4 pack)
1 pk canadian bacon (or meat of choice)
1/2 yellow onion chopped
1-2 c shredded cheese (your prefference)
optional veggies (gr peppers, mushrooms etc)
10 eggs
salt & pepper to taste

place biscuits in 13x9 sprayed baking dish
saute bacon, onion and veggies until slightly tender. Whisk together eggs, salt & pepper. Mix in cheese, and meat / veggies. Pour over biscuits. Cover in foil and bake at 350 until eggs are done in middle.(abot 30 min.) Remove foil and bake 5-10 more mins to brown a little.


This casserole is really delicious! The biscuits and cheese rise to the top and the eggs, meat and veggies are on the bottom. You could omit the meat to make it vegitarian. You could also use egg beaters.

 

[goinback]

My casserole is the same as MousekeeterMom's

I am definitely going to try the Sausage Braid Bread. We are not having Christmas Dinner this year -- rather Christmas Brunch because DH now works midnight shift He will get home at 8am == (I'll try to keep the kids away from their presents). He'll play with them for a while then crash the rest of the day. Midnight shift really stinks!

Anyhoo -- I make Paula Deen's French Toast Casserole -- it is da'bomb. Everyone has loved it except the morons I work with -- they don't like anything that is different. But, my entire family loves it -- and DH took 3 batches of this to work and all the deputies loved it too: (Don't eat if on a diet) It was plenty sweet enough that we didn't need the maple syrup.

Paula Deen's French Toast Casserole

1 loaf French bread (13 to 16 ounces)
8 large eggs
2 cups half-and-half
1 cup milk
2 tablespoons granulated sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
Dash salt
Praline Topping, recipe follows
Maple syrup

Slice French bread into 20 slices, 1-inch each. (Use any extra bread for garlic toast or bread crumbs). Arrange slices in a generously buttered 9 by 13-inch flat baking dish in 2 rows, overlapping the slices. In a large bowl, combine the eggs, half-and-half, milk, sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt and beat with a rotary beater or whisk until blended but not too bubbly. Pour mixture over the bread slices, making sure all are covered evenly with the milk-egg mixture. Spoon some of the mixture in between the slices. Cover with foil and refrigerate overnight.
The next day, preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Spread Praline Topping evenly over the bread and bake for 40 minutes, until puffed and lightly golden. Serve with maple syrup.


Praline Topping:
1/2 pound (2 sticks) butter
1 cup packed light brown sugar
1 cup chopped pecans
2 tablespoons light corn syrup
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
Combine all ingredients in a medium bowl and blend well. Makes enough for Baked French Toast Casserole.

Holy Cow! Looks like we are having 2 casseroles for Christams Breakfast!!! This sounds heavenly!

 

[grammynelliebelle]

Thanks for bringing this one up again. Just jotted down the french toast. Grammy

 

[loveabargin]

Here's a super easy one, but soooo good:

9 c shredded cheddar (or mixed) cheese
12 eggs, beaten with a little milk added
salt and pepper to taste
add in(if you like): green and/or red peppers, mushrooms, etc.
2 tbsp flour
1 lb cooked bacon, torn into pieces (or more if you like bacon like I do)

grease a 9X13 casserole dish. Lightly coat cheese with flour so that eggs "stick" to it, place in casserole. Pour egg mixture over cheese. Put add ins in if you like, cover with bacon.
Cover and refrigerate overnight.

Bake at 400 degrees until eggs are done (about 40 minutes).

This casserole can be made into any type of omelet (ie. western, carolina, etc)

 

[Califgirl]

Thanks for bumping up this thread - these casseroles sound wonderful.

 

[aes74]

I know, I can't figure out which one to do!

 

[snowy76]

Here you go...

Hashbrown casserole

One large bag of frozen hashbrowns (I like the shredded kind)
1/4 cup chopped onion
1 lb. bacon, cooked
2 cups cheddar cheese, shredded
1 cup milk
6 eggs, beaten
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp dry mustard

Spread hashbrowns in bottom of 9X13 baking dish, scatter onions on top of hashbrowns, tear bacon into bite size pieces and spread on top on hashbrowns, top with cheese. Mix remaining ingredients and pour mixture over casserole. Cover and refrigerate over night. Preheat oven to 350. Bake, uncovered aprrox 45 to 55 minutes.

I made this one last year for the first time and it is fanastic!! Our family loved it so much, I'm making two this year... we're also having Paula Deen's french toast casserole for the second time! That one is INSANELY good. Just don't think about the cholesterol and you'll be fine!

 

[Califgirl]

I'd like to make the sausage 'braid bread' ahead of time, so I can take it to my BIL's house tonight. Think it would reheat ok in the microwave for them? Or will the cheese separate and get all greasy?

 

[LisaNJ25]

Here's a super easy one, but soooo good:

9 c shredded cheddar (or mixed) cheese
12 eggs, beaten with a little milk added
salt and pepper to taste
add in(if you like): green and/or red peppers, mushrooms, etc.
2 tbsp flour
1 lb cooked bacon, torn into pieces (or more if you like bacon like I do)

grease a 9X13 casserole dish. Lightly coat cheese with flour so that eggs "stick" to it, place in casserole. Pour egg mixture over cheese. Put add ins in if you like, cover with bacon.
Cover and refrigerate overnight.

Bake at 400 degrees until eggs are done (about 40 minutes).

This casserole can be made into any type of omelet (ie. western, carolina, etc)

This sounds yummy.. I am going to make this tomorrow.