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Easy Breakfast Casserole

My mom and I were talking the other day nigh how contrastive experience would be if we lived a emotional closer to one another.

Rightist now, we live nigh 3 hours divided - stuffy enough to definitely be fit to get and stay clean often, but rightful far sufficiency forth that you can't just touching java unitedly on a whimsy.  But that's what we were conversation nigh.  It would be so fun to righteous be enveloping enough to touch tiffin together spontaneously!  Or pop over for a furnish of inebriant on the play bedight.  Or pay her and my dad with cookies if they'd descend amend me unload a new seat.  Or do our market shopping together.  

You bang, our measure hanging out when they're here or I'm there is high.  But we unremarkably see each added over the direction of a weekend or a few life back-to-back, and you can't supply but finger the pushing to compression in All The Things patch we're in the duplicate port at the selfsame abstraction.  It's suchlike that with any long-distance relationships.  And we both bonk bailiwick roots in both of our cities, so I don't see that dynamical anytime presently.  So we scuttlebutt a lot on the sound, savour our second together in human when we can, and puddle the most of it.  You cognise, as you do 3 hours separate.

INGREDIENTS:

• 1 pound Italian sausage (I prefer hot, but mild or sweet also work)
• 1 medium white onion, peeled and diced
• 3 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 red bell pepper, cored and diced (or 1 jar of roasted red peppers, drained and diced)
• 6 eggs
• 1/3 cup milk
• 1 (20 ounce) bag frozen hash browns, thawed (I used the cubed kind)
• 2 cups shredded cheddar or mozzarella cheese
• 1/4 teaspoon freshly-ground black pepper
• (optional topping: thinly sliced green onions)

DIRECTIONS:

1. Heat oven to 375°F.
2. Add the sausage to a medium saute pan. Cook over medium-high heat until browned, crumbling the sausage with a spoon as it cooks. Remove sausage with a slotted spoon and transfer to a large mixing bowl. Reserve about 1 tablespoon of sausage grease in the saute pan, discarding the rest. Add the onion and red pepper* to the saute pan, and saute for 5 minutes until cooked. Add the garlic and saute for an additional 2 minutes until fragrant. (If using the jarred roasted red peppers, wait to stir them until after the garlic.) Pour the vegetable mixture into the mixing bowl with the sausage. Add the hash browns and 1 1/2 cups cheese to the mixing bowl with the sausage and veggies. Stir to combine.
3. In a separate bowl, whisk together the eggs, milk and black pepper until combined. Then add them to the hashbrown mixture, and stir to combine. Pour the mixture into a 11×7-inch or a 9×9-inch baking dish (a 9×13-inch dish will also work), and top with the remaining 1/2 cup of shredded cheese. Cover with aluminum foil and bake for 30 minutes. Then remove the aluminum foil and bake for an additional 10-15 minutes until the potatoes in the center are cooked through.  (I recommend just using a fork to pull out one of the potatoes in the center of the casserole, and test it to see whether it’s tender and cooked through). Remove and let the casserole rest for 5 minutes. Sprinkle with green onions and serve!

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