Breakfast Casserole

• 5 to 6 medium potatoes, peeled, boiled and sliced
• ½ cup bacon, cooked and crumbled
• 4 eggs, scrambled and crumbled
• ½ cup onions, chopped
• ¼ cup green peppers
• 1 can mushrooms
• 1 can creamed soup (mushroom or chicken or celery)
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1 cup cheese, diced or shredded
• Seasonings- (salt, pepper, dill, garlic, curry, etc)

Arrange potato slices in a 9 x 13 inch baking dish. Add bacon, eggs, onions, green peppers, and mushrooms. Mix together soup, sour cream, ½ cup cheese, and a little milk along with the seasonings. Pour over casserole. Bake at 350° for ½ hour or 15 minutes in microwave, or unti heated through. Sprinkle remaining ½ cup cheese over casserole and return to oven until melted. Garnish with parsley. Delicious hot or cold!

Serves 7-8 people.

Dutch Babies (or Puff Pancake)

• ½ cup butter (almost too much butter)
• 6 eggs
• 1 ½ cup milk
• 1 ½ cup flour
• Nutmeg and cinnamon (optional)

Heat oven to 400°. Place butter in 4 ½ to 5 quart casserole or a 9 x 13 inch dish and set in oven until melted and foamy. In the meantime, beat eggs with wire whisk, then add milk and flour. Beat well. When butter is melted, pour egg mixture in. Sprinkle with nutmeg and cinnamon if desired. Bake at 20 to 25 minutes or until puffed and well browned. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve with either maple or fruit syrup or cream cheese and jam.

Breakfast Puffs (like delicate, glorified doughnuts)

• 1/3 cup soft shortening
• ¼ tsp nutmeg
• ½ cup sugar
• ½ cup milk
• 1 egg
• 2/3 cup butter, melted
• 1 ½ cup sifted flour
• ½ cup more sugar
• 1 ½ tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp. cinnamon
• ½ tsp. salt

Heat oven to 350°. Mix shortening, ½ cup sugar, egg. Combine flour, baking powder, salt and nutmeg. Stir in alternately with milk. Fill greased muffin cups 2/3 full. Bake at 20-25 min. until golden brown. Immediately roll in melted butter then in mixture of ½ cup sugar and cinnamon. Serve hot.

Makes 12 puffs.

Mom’s French Toast

• ½ cup milk
• 1-2 eggs
• 1 tsp. vanilla (optional)
• Slices of bread
• Cinnamon and nutmeg

Mix milk and eggs together. Add vanilla and pour into glass pie pan or onto a large plate. Dip a piece of bread into milk mixture. Cook in a medium hot fry pan that has been sprayed with non-stick spray. Sprinkle cinnamon and nutmeg and then turn to cook the other side.

Easy Orange Pull Aparts

• 2 cans buttermilk biscuits
• 1 cube melted butter
• ¾ cup sugar
• Juice of 1 orange ( ¼ cup orange juice)
• Orange zest

Preheat oven to 375°. Grease bundt pan. Split apart biscuits. Zigzag as you layer the sections in the bundt pan. Melt butter and sugar and orange juice until mostly dissolved. Pour sugar, butter, orange juice mixture over layers. Bake at 375° for 20 minutes. Dump upside down on plate immediately. Tear apart and eat.

French Toast

• 1 cup half and half cream
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 4 eggs
• 1/8 tsp. nutmeg
• 3 Tblsp. Sugar
• 1 loaf Texas Toast or French bread

Beat half and half, eggs, sugar, vanilla and nutmeg until frothy. Slice French bread 1” thick. Dip bread in egg mixture, coating both sides. Place on a greased cookie sheet. Bake at 450° for 5 minutes or until golden brown. Serve sprinkled with powdered sugar. This is a favorite at the Greene Gate Village

Birchermeusli

• 3 or 4 kinds of fruit with different 8 oz. flavored yogurt
• Textures (pomegranates, pears, 1 cup uncooked rolled oats, apples, grapes, bananas, oranges, peaches)

Mix cut up fruit in large serving bowl. Fold in yogurt (if you are using plain yogurt add ¼ cup brown sugar or sugar to taste). Mix in oats and set dish aside so oats will soften. Serve chilled or at room temperature, any time of the day.

Yummy Breakfast Rolls

• Rhodes frozen rolls
• 3 oz. pkg. instant butterscotch pudding
• ½ cup brown sugar
• Sliced almonds
• ½ cup margarine

Spray bundt pan with non-stick spray. Place 16 -28 frozen rolls evenly around pan. Melt butter and sugar. Spoon over rolls alternately with ½ pkg. of dry pudding mix. Sprinkle with almonds. Cover and let stand overnight. Bake at 350° for 30 minutes. Invert onto plate.