Recipe: Breakfast Lasagnas

Cheddar Apple Breakfast Lasagna

1 cup sour cream
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 (9 ounce) packages frozen French toast (or 12 slices homemade)
8 ounces sliced, boiled ham
2 1/2 cups shredded Cheddar, divided
1 (20 ounce) can apple pie filling
1 cup granola with raisins

Grease a 9x13 inch baking pan. In a small bowl blend together the sour cream
and sugar. Chill. Prepare the French toast according to the package
directions and place 6 slices in the bottom of the prepared pan. Top with a
layer of the ham, 2 cups of cheese, and the remaining French toast. Spread
the pie filling over the toast and sprinkle with the granola. Bake in a 350
oven for 25 minutes. Top with the remaining 1/2 cup of cheese and return to
the oven until the cheese melts. Serve with the sour cream mixture.

Serves 6________________________

Spinach & Sausage Lasagna w/Cheese Sauce

Prepare a cheese sauce:
Ingredients:
1 3 cup butter
1 3 cup flour
2 cups milk
salt to taste
1 4 to 1 2 tsp hot pepper sauce or ground cayenne
pepper
1 4 tsp. freshly ground white pepper
1 bay leaf
Nutmeg to taste
1 cup grated cheese - old white cheddar or
mozzarella as preferred

Melt butter on low heat. With a whisk, gradually
add the flour until well
blended. Whisk in the milk until sauce is slightly
thickened. Add salt, hot
pepper sauce, white pepper, bay leaf and nutmeg.
Cover and continue to cook
on low heat for 30 minutes. Whisk the egg, add 2
Tb of milk. Add a couple
of tablespoons of the sauce to the egg mix. This is
so you don t scramble
the egg when it is added to the sauce. Add the egg
mix to the sauce. Add
the mozzarella or cheddar, reserving an ounce on
the side. The sauce should
be thick, but a extra tablespoon of milk may be
added at any time to keep
it from going gluey. Remove the bay leaf.

Extra filling - Ingredients
3 4 pound hot Italian sausage meat - casings
removed if they come as sausages
1 or 2 finely diced hot banana peppers
1 Tb butter

Fry sausage meat and banana peppers till the meat
is cooked and broken into
small pieces. Drain the fat and set aside.

1 package spinach, trimmed of stems
Nutmeg to taste
1 cup thinly sliced fresh mushrooms

Boil spinach briefly. Drain, chop, add nutmeg to
taste and set aside.

Saute mushrooms in a small amount of butter, on
medium heat, until the liquid has evaporated. Stir
into chopped spinach.

lasagna noodles, cooked
grated parmesan

Preheat oven to 350 F. Generously butter Lasagna
pan. Build the lasagna -
noodles, sauce, sausage, noodles, spinach, sauce,
etc. Sprinkle with
remaining cheese and Parmesan. Bake 30 minutes
until bubbly on top.

As a variation, leave the cheese out of the sauce and
add it as a separate
layer in the lasagna: mozzarella makes a nice stringy
layer in the middle.