Swiss Sausage Casserole

 

Who doesn't love a good breakfast casserole? This one was super easy to put together. Refrigerate overnight, pull it out the next morning and let it sit about 45 minutes or so. Then bake it. Now I'm sure my kiddos would have liked it better with a different cheese and my husband would have added some hashbrowns to the mix. Made exactly how the recipe states though...I thought it was good.

Here's my interpretation of the recipe:

Swiss Sausage Casserole

Serves: 8

From the Kitchen of: Pat Brayton

6 slices of bread - white

2 lbs of mild bulk sausage - I use less sausage

1 teaspoon prepared mustard

1 (6oz) swiss slice cheese

3 eggs

1¼ cups milk

¾ cup half & half - I use Coffee Rich

¼ teaspoon salt

dash of pepper

dash of nutmeg

1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce

Arrange bread in a lightly greased 13x9" pan. Saute sausage. Drain thoroughly. Combine sausage, mustard; sprinkle over bread.

Place cheese sliced over sausage. Combine remaining ingredients. Beat well. 

Pour mixture over sausage. Refrigerate overnight. 

Allow to come to room temperature and bake at 350º for 30-40  minutes.

*I used all 2 lbs of sausage

*I used 9 slices of cheese

*I could not find Coffee Rich brand so I substituted a different brand.

*I baked it for 35 minutes

Here's the link to see the actual video on YT :)

I hope you enjoy and give this recipe a second chance in your kitchen too.

Forgotten Cookies

Alright, so I know this blog is supposed to be about handwritten recipes and this one is obviously not. Let me explain. This binder is probably just a tad bigger than my hand. Someone had to take the time to type out each recipe to make sure they'd fit in this little binder. So although it's not written by hand, it still was typed with love. Also, I'm not sure I'd actually call these cookies. They were more like a meringue. So I'd consider it more of a candy. I actually had to trash my first batch because a tiny bit of egg yolk got into my whites. I thought I had spooned it out but my whites never got stiff :( So I had to start over again. Lesson learned!

Here's my interpretation of the recipe:

Forgotten Cookies

2 egg whites, beaten til frothy

¾ cup sugar

*12 tsp cream of tarter (actually ½ tsp)

¼ tsp vanilla

16oz chocolate chips

1 cup pecans, finely chopped

1 brown paper bag

Heat oven to 375.

To egg whites add sugar, cream of tarter, and vanilla. Beat until stiff. Add food coloring if desired.

Add chocolate chips and pecans. Mix well. Drop like divinity onto cookie sheets lined with brown paper bag.

Place in oven. Turn off oven and leave over night. Go to bed. The cookies are ready when you awaken.

*I thought 12 tsp of cream of tarter was a lot so after consulting with my mom, we agreed that it was probably ½ and they forgot to put the / in there.

*I used mini semi-sweet chocolate chips

I hope you enjoy and give this recipe a second chance in your kitchen too.

Shrimp Salad

 I've been looking for recipes to make that require a short baking time or no baking at all since it's so hot in Texas this summer. This sounded like the perfect one to try. I personally love a cold pasta salad. Plus shrimp? Yes please! Now, I'll be honest. I've been the only one eating this. My family snubbed their picky little noses at it. It's been a good lunch for me the past few days. 

I used the big shell pasta. Not the big ones that you can stuff, but bigger than the shells and cheese kind. They were the only ones my Aldi carried so that's what I bought while I was there. I like how the little pieces of shrimp and things get caught inside the shells. I can't help but wonder if the smaller shells would work better though for more even bites. Either way, I liked this salad!

My interpretation of the recipe:

Shrimp Salad

Mary Ann

12oz noodles (shell)

1½ pounds shrimp (or 3 or 4 cans -> drained but don't rinse)

pineapple (cut up 4 little "tibbits) just a few

dash of black pepper

2 green onions (greens and all cut-up)

4 or 5 hard-boiled eggs cut up

Miracle Whip -> add milk and about 2 teaspoons sugar

Mix - let sit overnight

Next day add more mayonnaise if dry

* I used the medium sized shell pasta

* I used jumbo shrimp and then cut them up into smaller pieces

* I used 4 pineapple chunks cut up into 8 pieces each

* I used 4 hard boiled eggs

* The ingredients called for miracle whip, so that's what I used. Although the directions say mayonnaise.

* The measurements I used for the miracle whip/sugar/milk mixture were: 6Tablespoon miracle whip, 4 Tablespoons milk, 2 teaspoons sugar. You might use less if you use smaller pasta shells.

* After letting it sit overnight, the next day I did end up adding more salt and pepper along with 2 Tablespoons of miracle whip. 

I hope you enjoy and give this recipe a second chance in your kitchen too.