Thanksgiving - Sweet Potato Casserole

I'm lucky to have wonderful friends here in Dubai that we're able to celebrate holidays with. We have several circles that we hang out with and were able to spend Thanksgiving with two of them. I was asked to bring a side dish to both and thought it would be a good idea to try making my mom's sweet potato casserole, even though I'm not a huge fan of sweet potatoes. She sent me her recipe and said I could halve it or just split it into two dishes, one for each Thanksgiving dinner. I decided not to do this (and thankfully I didn't!) because it was all eaten up at the first dinner. Made the full recipe for the second dinner and all of it was gone again! I was proud to report this back to mom. :)

Sweet Potato Casserole

• 3 cups mashed yams (sweet potatoes) – 1 really large can or two of the 1#-12oz cans. If using 3 large sweet potatoes instead of cans, bake for about 40 minutes until soft.
• 2 eggs
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 3/4 cup evaporated skim milk
• 1/2 stick margarine
• 1 cup mini marshmallows
• Dash of vanilla

Topping

• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup flour
• Pecans or walnuts
• 1/2 cup butter

Mix together casserole ingredients. Try to keep the sweet potatoes a bit chunky.

Mix together the topping until crumbly and sprinkle on top of casserole.

Bake at 325 for about an hour.

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I will admit that I didn't have very much of this.. a bite at most. It was alright, but sweet potatoes aren't my thing. I did however have someone say they hate their own mother's sweet potatoes but loved this. Other people described it as "custard-like" "sweet and creamy" and "completely heaven." So for those of you who are sweet potato lovers, give this one a shot.

Mom's Breakfast Casserole

I rarely eat heavy breakfast foods, though I really, really love them. One of my favorites is something my mom throws together every now and then, her breakfast casserole. It's quite easy to make and I'm sure it's not original, but it's yummy just the same. :)

Mom's Breakfast Casserole

• 2 potatoes, diced
• 1 tube of breakfast sausage (used some other sausage since we can't find American breakfast sausage here)
• handful of shredded cheese
• 8-10 eggs depending on the size of your casserole dish
• onions, diced, optional

Preheat oven to 350°.

Cook sausage on stovetop until browned.

Spray casserole dish with nonstick cooking spray. Cover bottom of dish with potatoes. Layer the breakfast sausage on top. Sprinkle cheese over entire dish.

Whisk eggs in a separate bowl. Pour slowly filling in all the space between potatoes and sausage.

Bake for 35-45 minutes, until a knife comes out liquid-free.

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