morning breakfast casserole

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 This is what I had made for Christmas morning, I had many people staying at my house and instead of making Eggs, hash browns, and sausage I made it all into an easy casserole. I made it the night before and on Christmas morning just threw it in the oven.  Perfect and easy.  This would be great for any brunch or Easter morning or any morning you want a yummy filling breakfast.
I made this in a 10x15 dish and it fed 10 big eaters with leftovers.  So you may want to cut in half for your family.

Ingredients
1 pound Italian sausage it is just what I had,  but breakfast sausage would be good too, or even ham.
16oz O'Brien hash brown (with onions and peppers mixed in)
12 eggs
1 -2 cups cheese depending how cheesy you like it
8 oz sliced mushrooms ( I used baby bellas)
1 onion chopped
1 bell pepper, chopped

3/4 cup favorite salsa
2 cups spinach. chopped

 Instructions
1. Saute in a lightly oiled pan onions, mushrooms and pepper until a soft.
2.pour hashbrowns into buttered dish, place sausage on top, mushrooms onion pepper mixture
half of cheese.
3. Beat all the eggs together in a separate bowl then add salsa it flavors the eggs nicely.  add a little salt and pepper and stir in spinach.  Then pour egg mixture over casserole.  Top with remaining cheese.
Bake at 350 covered tightly with foil. For this many eggs I baked it for 80 min. then removed foil and baked for another 10-15 minutes.  Until middle is set. A tooth pick comes out clean
 For a smaller amount one hour should be plenty.
  Let cool for 10 minutes then sliced it and top with salsa or ketchup.

sweet potato fries.

I generally do not ever like sweet potatoes, not my thing. I have heard people rave about them made as fries though and thought I would give it a shot. They were actually pretty good. I love the olive oil and kosher salt they made this dish. They had more flavor than regular fries. I did not deep fry these, it might be good that way too, but this is the much healthier option.

{sweet potato fries}

fresh sweet potatoes, peeled & cut into 1/2 inch fries
kosher or flake salt
fresh pepper
other dried herbs~thyme, rosemary, oregano, ect.
Olive oil

Pre-heat oven to 475 degrees. Place peeled & cut potatoes in to a medium bowl. Toss with olive oil, I use 2 TBSP per 1 large potato. Spread onto a baking sheet, keeping in a single layer. Sprinkle with a healthy dose of seasoning. Bake for 10-12 minutes, remove from oven & toss. Return to oven & continue to bake another 10 or so minutes. Watching carefully so as not to burn.