Farmer’s wife shares holiday breakfast tradition

In today’s Home Grown we are talking about Christmas breakfast traditions.

Local farmer’s wife, Amanda Mellon shares with us her Christmas morning casserole tradition.

“We started baking this breakfast bake, it’s like a company bake every Christmas morning and it’s funny because my kids love it and they say every night before, ‘Do you have the breakfast bake ready to go?'” “So the nice thing about it is I make it up ahead of time before I get busy with the holidays and then I put it in the freezer and Christmas morning before we wake up the kids to open up presents I pop it in the oven and it bakes the whole time while we are opening up presents so you start to smell it and it starts to make the house smell good and then when we are all finished opening up our gifts our breakfast is ready,” Mellon shared.

Here’s the recipe:

1/2 lb frozen hash browns (shredded)

1 lb sausage browned and drained

6 eggs

3/4 cup of milk

3/4 teaspoon dry mustard

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 cup grated cheddar cheese

grease 9 x 13 baking pan

Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes (may vary for different ovens)

Let stand 5 to 10 minutes before serving

Serves 6 to 8 people

How to make: The bottom layer is just frozen shredded potatoes. You press them down into your pan. Then you cook up some sausage and crumble it over the top. Then you layer it with some shredded cheese. Then you make up a mixture of eggs, milk, dry mustard, salt and pepper and you whip that all together and pour that all over the top. That’s it!

“Everyone will think you are a hero because you have an amazing breakfast on Christmas morning,” Mellon said.