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19-05-2025
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Everyone At My Friend's Baby Shower Was Surprised To Hear That I Made This Breakfast Casserole From Scratch
A couple of years before I started working at Southern Living, my mom pulled a recipe page out of our 2014 December issue, just as she'd done dozens of times before. Like all the lucky magazine recipes that end up in her spiral-bound cookbook alongside the ones on recipe cards in her or my grandmother's pretty penmanship, this one has been used many times in our house. Southern Living's recipe catalog is proof that there are countless delicious ways to cook up a breakfast casserole, but for some reason, this Cheesy Sausage-And-Croissant Casserole has stuck with our family. get the recipe Though it initially fed my friends and I on weekends visiting home from college, this dish continues to see us through different life stages. Recently, as a host for a lifelong friend's baby shower, I was tasked with providing breakfast casseroles to the food lineup. While I could've easily spent a lot more money but a lot less time picking up a ready-made option, I knew only the Cheesy Sausage-And-Croissant Casserole would be worthy of the occasion. Multiple guests at the baby shower asked me where we had the breakfast casseroles catered from, and I was more than happy to let them know they came straight from our own MyRecipes, your personal recipe box, you can save and organize your Southern Living favorites and thousands more in one Saving Now This breakfast casserole has all the usual suspects—eggs, sausage, cheese, milk, bread—but what makes it a standout is all in the details. Instead of regular bread cubes, the base of this dish is buttery croissants. Gruyère cheese is the surprise ingredient that makes people ask for the recipe. Get The Recipe To start, cook hot ground pork sausage in a skillet and drain it on paper towels. We added the whites of the green onions the recipe calls for into the skillet with the sausage for even more flavor. Next, tear up a package of mini croissants. This is a great step to have the kids help with, as there's no right or wrong way to do it. As any Southern cook knows, for the best casserole results, you should shred your own cheese instead of buying pre-shredded. For this casserole, I go half and half. For the Parmesan cheese it calls for, I buy pre-shredded to save a little time (sorry, Test Kitchen pros!). But for the pièce de résistance, the Gruyère, I shred it myself. Just like any eggy casserole, you stir together eggs and milk and pour the mixture over the dry ingredients before letting it chill and baking. This casserole only calls for five eggs with both milk and heavy cream. At first, it might seem like the eggs-to-milk ratio is wonky (Only five eggs? Four cups of milk and cream together?), but trust the process, y'all. Don't stray from the recipe here! It's exactly what makes the end result so incredibly creamy instead of spongy and dry.I use store-bought, pre-shredded Parmesan cheese but shred the Gruyère That's one of the best things about this breakfast casserole recipe! It actually needs to be prepared ahead of time for the best texture and taste, so all you have to do the morning you're hosting brunch is pop it in the oven. Related: 12 5-Star Casserole Recipes We Can't Stop Making First of all, the recipe is topped with chopped green onion, and I would definitely recommend you don't skip that ingredient or step. It adds some much-needed color to the presentation and a welcome bit of bite. As far as sides go, because this casserole is so rich, you can never go wrong with a fresh fruit salad or simple green side salad. Don't forget a big batch of Bloody Marys, y'all! Read the original article on Southern Living
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01-03-2025
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A two-day tour of Hot Springs, Arkansas
Inspired by a coworker's recent trip to Hot Springs, Arkansas, along with memories of a family trip there as a teenager, my wife and I spent last weekend there to celebrate her birthday. Having arrived late Friday night, we left our hotel Saturday morning and parked downtown for breakfast at The Pancake Shop, a modest diner with large front windows and a neon sign bearing its name. There were at least a couple dozen people standing outside, signaling that what awaited us inside was either fantastically over-hyped or everything you could hope for in a breakfast. I had a sausage and cheese omelet with toast and a side of bacon, along with a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice. It was every bit as good as I'd hoped it would be — and I don't think it was because the long wait made it seem better. From there, we explored the long line of shops and stores on Central Avenue and walked the Grand Promenade. At a downtown park, we stopped to feel a pool of near-scalding water, steam rising from the surface with outdoor temperatures in the mid-40s and icicles still in view from a freeze earlier that week. That night, we went to Deluca's Pizza, which has received praise from the likes of Southern Living Magazine and Barstool Sports' Dave Portnoy in his famous "One Bite" pizza reviews. We ordered the Sidetown, which is topped with a simple whole milk mozzarella over tomato sauce and cooked in a brick oven. It was seriously a fantastic pie — as good as you could hope for at a New York pizzeria. The next morning, we drove up to the Hot Springs Mountain Tower and climbed the steps to the observation deck, which offers a great view at 1,256 feet above sea level. We spent some time walking around Hot Springs Mountain before making our way back down to explore the parts of Bathhouse Row we hadn't yet seen. A highlight of the day was touring the Fordyce Bathhouse Visitor Center and Museum, operated by the National Park Service, which includes antique equipment and furnishings used in the bathhouse. We were awed by in the ornate grandeur of the town's largest bathhouse, including a stained-glass skylight, while learning the history of the industry that made the city famous. Sticking with the historic side of things, we had lunch at The Ohio Club, Arkansas's oldest bar that has counted notorious gangsters and baseball legends among its visitors since opening in 1905. We wrapped up our trip with cupcakes at Fat Bottomed Girl's Cupcake Shoppe, which has been featured on Food Network's "Cupcake Wars" — a delicious ending for a birthday trip to Hot Springs.
