Breakfast Sausage Casserole

Want a hearty hot breakfast this weekend without needing to do a lot of work in the morning? I assembled this casserole the night before and kept it in the fridge overnight. Next morning, I popped it in the oven, went for a run, and came back to a hot breakfast. This one's another good dish for using up stale bread.

In the comments on the original recipe, someone had recommended letting it soak overnight if you liked a bread pudding texture, or reducing the soaking time to about 2 hours if you preferred a sturdier texture. My boyfriend doesn't like the texture of bread pudding but I still wanted the convenience of an overnight soak, so I let the bread get really hard and stale and reduced the amount of milk and that seemed to work well. While you can use ready-made sausage, I've been using this Homemade Breakfast Sausage recipe.

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Lime-Thyme Potato Wedges (thanks aingealnacistin!)

aingealnacistin posted this recipe for Lime-Thyme Potato Wedges. Like her, I thought it sounded strange but I tend to like potato dishes so I gave this one a try. They smelled so good while I was making them. The air was filled with the herb-tinged limey scent that intensified while they were in the oven. As soon as they came out of the oven, we dug in but they were too hot to taste much of anything. As they cooled, they tasted better but never quite got up to really awesome. I might've messed up by not adding alll of the grated cheese, but it never tasted particularly limey to me. And maybe my batch needed to be cooked a little longer. Not sure. I'll have to give it another try some day since it really did smell awesome. I'll try doubling the seasonings.

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