Shannon here: Mary Ellis shares a recipe for yummy breakfast casserole, plus a chance to win a copy of her latest Cozy Mystery, One for the Road. Comment or answer the question in this post to enter the drawing. US readers only for hardback print edition. Out of the country will receive ebook edition. Deadline: Dec. 26th, 11:59 pm central time. Here’s Mary:
Merry Christmas, readers of Inkslinger blog!!
With great pleasure I give you my favorite recipe for the season. I make this casserole whenever I have out-of-town guests for the Christmas holiday. It can be made
beforehand and refrigerated. Then reheated on Christmas morning when everyone is up and around the tree. Everyone seems to love it.
Don’t worry. Even a rather ordinary cook like me seems to get this one right every time. Merry Christmas!
Christmas Morning Breakfast Casserole
by Mary Ellis
Melt 2 Tbls butter in a skillet and add 4 cups of hash brown potatoes. Season to taste.
Scramble about 18 eggs (add a small amount of milk and salt before cooking)
2 lbs bulk sausage – sauté until brown and crumbly. I add a small amount of Lawry’s seasoning salt while sautéing.
Add 1 can of cream of mushroom soup and 1 can of milk to ½ the cooked sausage. Mix well and heat thoroughly.
Layer in the bottom of a 9 x 9 x 3 inch pan the hash browns, followed by the scrambled eggs, the sausage, and finally the sausage/soup mixture. Bake at 350 degrees approximately 15 minutes or until bubbly. Then add 2 cups of a finely shredded cheese of your choice (mild or sharp cheddar works well) and continue to bake until cheese melts.
This recipe can be prepared the day before, refrigerated overnight, and then baked. You might need to add a little extra baking time.
About Mary: Mary Ellis is a former schoolteacher turned USA Today bestselling author who’s written twenty-five novels including Amish fiction, historical romance, and suspense. Her first mystery, Midnight on the Mississippi, was a finalist for the RT Magazine’s Reviewer’s Choice Award and a finalist for the Daphne du Maurier Award. Her latest books are One for the Road from the Bourbon Tour Mysteries from Severn House and Nothing Tastes So Sweet, in The Amish Sweet Shop anthology from Kensington. She lives in Ohio. Learn more & connect:
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About the book – One for the Road: Travel writer Jill Curtis loves her job, but she desperately needs a break if she’s to achieve her dream of becoming an investigative reporter. Sent to Kentucky by her boss to find out why thousands of tourists flock to Bourbon Country every year, Jill’s dream seems to be slipping further away. After all, nothing interesting ever happens in rural America . . . does it?
Staying at an estranged relative’s B&B, Jill’s plan to uncover what makes the state’s bourbon tours so popular goes awry when she discovers a body at one of the distilleries and quickly becomes a suspect in a brutal murder. Can she navigate high-stakes bourbon rivalries, centuries-old family feuds and ill-fated romance to catch a killer?
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Question for Readers: What is the weirdest/funniest/scariest thing that ever happened to you while on a tour or vacation?
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Hey Mary, I’m so glad you shared this recipe. It reminds me of one a church member used to make before she moved.
The scariest & funniest thing that happened to me on a trip took place all in one fell swoop. Before I was published, my awesome father drove me to Dallas for a writers’ conference, where I’d finaled in a novel-writing contest. He baby-sat my five-year-old while I went to the conference in a separate hotel. To get to the conference, I had to take a train shuttle. He and my son went with me that morning to make sure I got where I needed to go.
After the conference, I went to my shuttle stop and waited. The train came, didn’t even slow down, and whizzed past. I was in panic mode since it would be 20 minutes before the next shuttle.
“Why didn’t it stop?” I asked people I didn’t know and who probably didn’t speak my language, since there was another conference full of women with jewels in the middle of their foreheads. They all looked at me like I was nuts. Finally one motioned to the other side of the tracks.
I was on the wrong side of the tracks. Literally. The stop and shuttle door was on the other side. I felt really stupid. And relieved. I moved to the other side of the tracks and 19 minutes later, my shuttle arrived. It stopped, I got on, and got to my hotel.
Thank you for the recipe!
Scariest thing – we’ve got lost on a tree farm while looking for a perfect Christmas tree…in the middle of the snow storm AND it was getting dark…with four kiddos
I can laugh about it now LOL
Thanks for the recipe. We were on a bus tour in Norway 13 years ago. On one of the stops a friendly reindeer approached us and let us pet it. Of course, we took pictures with it. When we were going to get back on the bus, it tried to get on the bus with us. We had to shoo it away. We still laugh about it.
This sounds like an interesting book, thank you for the chance to win a copy.
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Looking back a very ling time to when I was a girl of about 12. Our family always went from the Chicago area to Cincinnati over the Memorial Day weekend to visit my mother’s twin brother. Of course we travelled country roads til we hit Indianapolis during the big weekend. One day very late at night our car broke down just outside of a small town. The police were patrolling and stopped to help. They took us back to town to wait until the garage opened. The only place left that we could get warm and sit down was a combination bar/ restaurant. But we kids were too young to be admitted to the bar. So they unlocked the restaurant door and we went in. It was the same space as the bar and when we entered , we were allowed to sit at the bar!
Seems strange but when a cop takes you to a bar, you abide by the law!
I have a winner! Vivian Furbay won the drawing. I appreciate Mary for being my guest and everyone else for stopping by.