Crock Pot Breakfast Casserole

My husb loves his food all mixed up. Its not really my thing, but this breakfast casserole was really good.

Best part? It cooked itself - overnight! Nothing like waking up on a Saturday to an already made breakfast :)

What you'll need:

A dozen eggs

A bag of frozen hashed brown potatoes

Jimmy Dean sausage (we used HOT!)

Tomato (1-2)

Red Onion

Shredded Cheddar and Mozzarella Cheese

A littttle milk

Oregano

Salt & Pepper

 What to do:

Brown the sausage in a pan. Chop the onion. Dice the tomato. Whisk up your carton of eggs w/ a splash of milk. And start layering all the ingredients in a slow cooker (I sprayed w/ non-stick stuff first, just in case!) but save the egg/milk mixture til the end...

So, layer half of the potatoes + half the browned sausage + half of the tomatoes and onion + half a bag of each shredded cheese + a few dashes of salt, pepper and oregano...

 After you repeat the layering, pour the egg/milk mixture over the contents of the slow cooker as evenly as possible. Throw whatever is left of the shredded cheese on top -- and any other cheese remnants you find in your fridge if you have a cheese-loving husband like mine!

That's it for the prep! How easy?! Cover and cook on low for 7-8 hours... and when you wake up, your house will smell de-lish and you can roll out of bed to find this waiting for you:

Confession: We slept in way late, and this was left in the slow cooker on low for much longer than I care to admit. The cheese on the edges got a little burnt, but luckily we're weird and like burnt cheese ;) Really though, I wouldn't leave this in the crock pot on low any longer than you have to. It was awesome regardless - but would have been even better had we got our lazy butts out of bed at a decent hour.

Disclaimer: This makes so. much. food. We ate it on Saturday. Again on Sunday. And Andrew kept eating it for at least 3 days after that. You could just as easily half this recipe and bake it in a casserole dish for 30 or so minutes rather than slow cooking it if you didn't intend to feed an army. Or..... a family of 2 for a week. I think taking out the crock pot aspect sort of takes the fun out of the recipe - my opinion - but do whatcha want!

Self-cooking Saturday morning breakfasts -- file this recipe under: SUCCESS! Perfect weekend bfast for a hungry husb and a lazy, sleepy wife.