sausage & hashbrown casserole

 

{This recipe is courtesy of Erin.}

I found this recipe while reading Erin's blog and thought: this is AH-MAY-ZING! Ironically enough, just a few days after she posted it, le boyfriend came home and said that he needed something to take to a "breakfast potluck" at work the next day. Well, insert happy-Sara-face here, because I immediately knew what to make!

 

Badda Bing, Badda Boom, I give you {well, technically Erin gives you} some delicious casserole goodness!

 

*Sidenote: I was going to label this "Erin's sausage & hashbrown casserole" but something about "Erin's sausage" just didn't sound right. Especially since Erin is a girl. And we're talking about food here. Okay, moving on...





First, gather all of your ingredients:

1. 30 oz bag of hashbrowns - her recipe says to use country style ones {the chunkier kind}, but I prefer the shredded ones. Po-TAY-to/pa-TAH-to... literally.
2. 1 can of Cream of Chicken Soup
3. 1 can of French Onion Soup
4. 2 cups of shredded cheese, your choice!
5. 1/2 cup of red pepper and 1/2 cup of green pepper
6. 1 cup of sour cream
7. 1 cup of onion
8. 2 pounds of ground sausage - I used 1 pound of hot and 1 pound of mild
9. Not pictured: salt and pepper to taste

Directions:

1. Chop up all of your veggies!
2. Combine and brown the sausage
3. Mix all other ingredients in seperate bowl
4. Once sausage is browned, add to the mixture
5. Spoon into a 13x9 baking dish/casserole dish {and a miniture ramekin for yourself since your boyfriend will be whisking said casserole off to work the next morning and you just have to try some right when it pops out of the oven!} and bake for 45-60 minutes at 350* -I baked mine for about 50 minutes
6. ENJOY!

*Be warned: This makes a TON of servings. I couldn't even tell you how many, but I can say that about 1/4 of it is still sitting in our fridge {even after he took it to the potluck!}. I'm sure you could probably cut all of the ingredients in half to make a smaller casserole and it would still be delish!


That's all, folks!



our weekend.

 

This weekend consisted of:

• Me, working... per usual.
• Peyton trying on different outfits to pack for vacation!

{All poses are her own. And that last one? Oh lord, am I in  t r o u b l e  when she hits her teen years!}

• Getting Peyton all packed and ready to go for Wednesday!
• However, I am not packed and ready to go. How I am going to cram 10 days worth of clothes into a carry-on sized bag is a total mystery to me!
• {Oh, and the numbers she has in a few of those pictures above? She was using my closet as her "dressing room" and about halfway through trying on clothes she peeked around the side of my bed and said "Momma, I need a number! You know, the one you hang on the door handle? So you know how much you have?" Ha! She never ceases to make me chuckle. So, naturally, I made her "numbers".}
• Saturday night were the fireworks at a local Christian summer camp (that is set up like an old western town, so cool). We've gone almost every year since before I can remember and it is always so insanely packed with hundreds of people.

{that's my Dadda - not some random firework watcher.}

•  This next picture is of the line for the funnel cakes. It. Was. RIDICULOUS. We waited for probably a good 45 minutes and barely even got close to the front. So sad. Hopefully we can cross that off our summer bucket list at the carnival this week before we leave!



• I was so, so, so happy that we got to see fireworks this year! Since we're going on vacation over the 4th and to a British-owned island, I kinda figured we would miss out on that this year. But we were in luck! And of course, they did not dissapoint! :)

•  Sunday was spent working early at "the Pier", going to the grocery store for some toiletries for vacay, and then spending the evening at my parent's house - relaxing in the hammock {& testing out my phone's panorama setting} and spending quality time with my family.

How was your weekend?