A breakfast casserole for lunch…

I recently attended a potluck lunch at the library and decided to actually cook my breakfast casserole.  I have only prepared this dish for my sister and our dad, so I wasn’t sure what outsiders would think.  Especially since I altered the original recipe to suit my particular taste. 

For example, I changed the 2 cups of cubed ham to 1 pound (package) of bacon.  Instead of 4 cups of shredded mild cheddar cheese, I use only 2 cups of shredded mozzarella.  Sometimes, but not always, I substitute the 1 cup of milk with 1 cup of buttermilk.  I must also add the original recipe called for a bag of hash browns to be layered frozen in the pan, but I use frozen diced potatoes and cook them first. 

Thankfully, the lucky potluck attendees enjoyed my breakfast casserole!  There was even leftovers for my sister and I to enjoy.  We both agree that a morning after microwaved leftover tastes even better than fresh from the oven. 

The best news is no one developed food poisoning or died from my casserole.  Well, at least not as far as I know.  On that note, here is my recipe.

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Freakboy’s Breakfast of Champions Casserole 

Ingredients…
1/2 cup of melted butter or margarine 
30 ounce bag of frozen seasoned diced potatoes 
12 eggs 
1 cup milk or buttermilk 
2 cups of shredded mozzarella cheese  
1 pound of bacon 
Dash of pepper 

Directions…
Cut bacon into chunks and fry in a pan.  (add a dash of pepper to the sizzling bacon as it cooks)  
Then set bacon aside on a plate.

Using the bacon grease, fry potatoes until lightly brown. 

Layer potatoes in a greased 9” by 13” pan.

Pour melted butter over potatoes. 

Mix eggs, milk, cheese
and bacon together in a large bowl.  Pour
over top of the potatoes.

Bake at 350° F for 1 hour or until the top is nice and brown.  (It may take less than an hour because of the cooked potatoes)
Remove from
oven and let sit for 10 minutes.  
Serve.
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My breakfast casserole is wildly unhealthy and not vegetarian or vegan friendly.  Just like any recipe, use mine as a starting point and then alter it to your personal taste!  

Thank you for reading or listening to my half-blind words.

Freak Out, 
JLH 

P.S.  If you just can’t wait for a 2-in-1 print edition of STURGEONS, which will hopefully drop in July, you can always read DARKENING and HAUNTING as individual ebooks! 

freakboy on film: EDWARD SCISSORHANDS (The Vincent Price Blogathon Edition)

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Thank you to Gill J. of Realweegiemidget Reviews https://weegiemidget.wordpress.com/ & Barry P. of Cinematic Catharsis http://cinematiccatharsis.blogspot.com/ for including my blog in The Vincent Price Blogathon!) 

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10 cups of teenage awkwardness 

5 cups of teen angst 

4 cups of fairy tale snowflakes

4 tablespoons of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.  

3 tablespoons of Vincent Price 

Fold ingredients together and shape dough into a heart 

Bake until golden brown 

Serve through Tim Burton's offbeat perspective

There you have the 1990 film EDWARD SCISSORHANDS. 

(story by Tim Burton & Caroline Thompson /screenplay by Caroline Thompson / directed by Tim Burton) 

I could blog about how this is my 2nd favorite Johnny Depp role in a Tim Burton film, ED WOOD being my favorite.  I could blog about how Winona Ryder shines as suburban teen Kim, but really only when she's alone with Edward.  I could blog about how perfect Dianne Wiest is as the Avon Lady (Kim's mom) who finds Edward alone in a mansion and brings him to  her suburban home.  I could blog about how shocking it is to see typically geeky Anthony Michael Hall as a jerk jockhead.  I could blog about how sweet, innocent Edward deals with the strangeness of suburbia and how suburbia deals with him, but today is all about Vincent Price! 

The classic actor, and master of the macabre, elevates EDWARD SCISSORHANDS from a good, but sometimes flawed film to something truly special.  He portrays an eccentric inventor in three poignant flashbacks.  Vincent Price is fully in his element within these scenes and it shows in his performance.

In the first flashback, we see The Inventor enjoying the wonder of his elaborate, and totally Tim Burton, cookie-making machine.  The Inventor picks up a cookie heart and holds it up to the chest of a nondescript mechanical creation.  

In the second flashback, The Inventor has begun transforming the mechanical creation into a person.  He reads from a book of social etiquette to Edward and can see the boredom in his burgeoning young man.  He then reads an amusing poem and, to The Inventor's delight, Edward smiles.

In the final flashback, Edward stands waiting as The Inventor retrieves an early Christmas gift.  He holds up a set of hands for his incomplete young man.  Edward is fascinated, gingerly touching the hands with his large scissorhands.  Suddenly, a look of painful realization flashes across the eyes and face of The Inventor.  Edward's scissors slice through the gift of hands as The Inventor collapses, presumably from a heart attack, leaving his creation unfinished and alone.  

Vincent Price, in one of his last roles, is more than enough reason to see EDWARD SCISSORHANDS.  In my opinion, he is the heart of this tragic story because we see Edward's soul through The Inventor's eyes.  It's regrettable Vincent Price was only in a few scenes, but the film and the viewers are rewarded by his unique presence.

Thank you for reading or listening to my half-blind review.

Freak Out, 

JLH 

P.S. A different post from a different Blogathon...

https://freakboyzone.blogspot.com/2019/06/freakboy-on-film-daleks-invasion-earth.html 

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