Brunch Ideas! Breakfast Casserole - MissLizHeart

Well guys, welcome back. I hope everyone is having an amazing Christmas season and today I wanted to share with you a Christmas

brunch

and show you how I would set the table. Yes, it will be very fun. If you enjoyed today's video, make sure to like this video and also consider subscribing before you go and let's go ahead and jump into it, so the night before I'm just going to make sure to go through and wash all of my chops. all my vegetables and to have an idea of ​​what I'm going to serve and make sure I go through my list and I haven't forgotten anything.

I'm also going to make a sausage and egg

casserole

and this. It needs to sit for at least 24 hours in the refrigerator, so I'm going to go ahead and make it right now. This

casserole

is very easy to prepare and what I love is that you can totally adjust it to your liking so we will only need a little bread and any bread you have. It's great to use leftovers if you like croutons or white bread, of course we'll need some egg and some maple sausage too. A mixture of cream and milk. Extra sharp cheddar cheese. and some red peppers and onions for flavor, as always, I'll have all the ingredients and exact measurements listed in the info box for you guys, so we'll start by browning our sausage and I'll actually use maple sausage. so I put my pan on medium-high heat, add a little bit of ghee and then once it's nice and hot, I'm going to start sautéing my onions and my red peppers and then just adding a little bit of salt and pepper to that, just sauté this until it's nice and translucent, I'll place it on the side of the pan.

I'll add my maple sausage, once my maple sausage is nice and browned, I'll go ahead and flip it. Turn off the stove and set it aside and then start with my egg mixture, so in a bowl I'm going to add all my eggs. I'll also add my heavy cream and a little mustard for flavor and salt and pepper. I'm going to go ahead and beat it real good. I highly recommend using a square shaped casserole dish if you have it, if not definitely use whatever you have and we'll start layering everything so we'll take our bread and A little tip I can give you, use at least day old bread if you get it fresh, try to leave it out uncovered so it can harden a little bit and then go ahead and put a layer on the bottom of your pan with the bread and then I'll go ahead and add my brown sausage on top.

I'm adding my shredded cheddar cheese. I definitely recommend using extra sharp if you can and also feel free to layer the cheese if you want. It will be incorporated into the entire casserole and that is the top. I'm adding some raw red peppers just to give it a little extra color and make it look super festive and I'm just going to cover it and put it in the refrigerator and let it sit overnight for at least 24 hours and then the next day make sure Take it out of the refrigerator and let it sit at room temperature for about 30 minutes until it comes down to room temperature and cooks through. evenly in the oven now this needs about an hour and a half in total to cook on high heat.

I put it in the oven at 350 degrees for 50 minutes. You should cover it with aluminum foil in the first round after the 50 minutes are up. I'll take it out of the oven, remove the foil, and bake it for another 20 to 30 minutes to get the top nice and crispy, so I feel like that casserole is pretty filling. I feel like it's going to be very filling, but I wanted to incorporate some vegetables into this

brunch

, so I'm going to roast some asparagus very simply, we're just going to have our oven at 400 degrees, we're going to coat our asparagus with olive oil, salt and pepper, you had a very good mix. and then we're also going to do some red onions in the same pan again, we're doing the exact same thing, we're adding salt and pepper, olive oil and you can even add some garlic powder to it and just stir it well, we're going to put it in the same pan this only takes 15 minutes so you can do this right after your egg casserole is completely done so once it's done baking I like to top it with a little bit. of sun dried tomatoes and also a little bit of almond I feel like it gives it a really nice flavor and it also looks a lot more festive.

I love incorporating some type of greenery into my table so I found them at HEV, they are real and I just made sure to keep them in water until I was going to use them. I added one to each side and I think it looks so beautiful that it is very understated but at the same time feels very festive. So I began kindly. to arrange everything where I wanted and I went ahead and started serving all the food, so on one side of the table I went ahead and set up a little yogurt station. I used vanilla yogurt.

I feel like it's a safe flavor that you don't need. to add more sweetener to it so it's one less thing to add to the table and it tastes really delicious, then I'm placing a variety of berries around it and I think it looks so beautiful and so fun, definitely feel free to use it. whatever fruit is in season and then I also wanted to add some little toppings. I feel like this makes it a little more special, so I added some chocolate chips and also some blueberry cinnamon granola, by the way, if you've never tried it. vanilla yogurt with chocolate chips and raspberries you are missing out you have to try that combination it is so good so on the other side of the table I added a small display of pastries I bought blueberry scones and also some mini muffins there were like cinnamon muffins alone very seasonal cakes and I bought them all at the supermarket just to make it feel a little more special.

I put three different containers with different spreads, so I put Nutella butter and wine and the other one and cream cheese and the third one and me. Just make sure it looks really pretty and attractive and I feel like this is a great way to incorporate things that you buy already made. I just add that special touch to them. I also wanted to include condiments and hot sauce and things like that. like that, but I didn't want the bottles to ruin my display so I found this little container at home that's nice, it holds the perfect amount of condiments and I made sure to include some little baby spoons that you can use to serve everything so yeah.

I just think this makes it so fun to set the table now. I brought some small bowls for the yogurt station so people can help themselves if they want yogurt and this will keep my place very simple. I just wanted to have my cutlery cold with my white plate and white napkins and that's it because the table is already going to have all the food I didn't want it to feel overwhelming I also wanted it to feel very casual but special at the same time first you I have to serve some of coffee and I like to serve at least one drink and I think it's really fun to make your own punch so I make some apple cider, pomegranate juice and pineapple juice and again, this is one of those things that you can do.

Play around a little bit and if you like more pineapple juice, definitely add a pineapple or apple, whatever and then to sweeten it, you can adapt it, you know, it's maple syrup and I love serving it like that with a couple of Chico on the side , what is it. It's basically fizzy like seltzer and this will make it nice and fizzy but it also gives you the option if you don't like fizzy drinks and then you can serve it with the garnish on the side or you can garnish the actual drink with some fresh cranberries some grapefruit slices whatever fruit you have to make it look like a sangria, but it's alcohol-free and once everyone's seated and ready and the casserole is ready, you can go ahead and take it all out and everyone can enjoy it. nice and hot I'm so yeah this casserole is really good it's almost like a savory French toast or my husband says it tastes like a fancy McGriddle um so yeah definitely try it with either maple syrup.

I like it salty. I like to eat it with a little hot sauce and parmesan cheese sprinkled on top, try it both ways and let me know what you think. I hope you enjoyed today's video. Please give it a thumbs up if you did and I also have other casserole videos like last year. I made a French toast casserole with cream cheese and candied bacon on top, it's out of this world so if you guys want to check it out the link will be below and yeah I'll give you a great rest. of your Christmas season and I will see you in my next video, goodbye