Bear Paw Meanderings

I got excited the other day because somewhere I had picked up a recipe for Christmas Morning Breakfast Casserole. Now there are many breakfast casseroles floating around but few that call for potatoes in them rather than bread. I love potatoes in my breakfast casserole and when I saw the first ingredient in this one was for cheesy hash browns it had my attention quickly.

I spent a lot of time in the frozen potatoes department of a grocery store looking for the cheesy hash browns only to find that they were not there! So I put my good recipe aside and life went on.

Months later I was in the boxed potato department of the grocery store and there were those cheesy hashbrowns so I bought them, went home and made a wonderful breakfast casserole that takes no time at all to make and to cook!

First the original recipe, than a variation that I liked even better.

You will need

A box of cheesy hash brown potatoes

½ cup buttermilk

1 cup sliced bacon, diced

1 small onion

3 eggs beaten

½ cup Swiss cheese, shredded

Preheat oven to 450. Prepare cheesy hashbrown potatoes using the directions on the box only substituting buttermilk for regular milk. Cook bacon and onion, drain and set aside. Stir in eggs, Swiss cheese and bacon, onion mixture. Bake uncovered for 25 minutes and if desired garnish top with crunchy onion topping.

What I did that I think was even better was to crumble a pound of breakfast sausage and cook that up with the diced onion and I diced up and cooked a jalapeno as well. All that took the place of the bacon and onion. Oh yes and I changed the buttermilk to cream. Yum!

Bon Appétit!