Category: Breakfast and Brunch

Saute onions, garlic, bell peppers, celery, in butter until limp.  Add soup, tomato sauce, crawfish, and parsley and cook slowly for 10 minutes.  Then turn off heat.  Add bread crumbs, salt, pepper, egg and milk and mix well.  Put into pie shells.  Bake at 350 for 35 to 40 minutes.  Makes 16 to 18 pies.…

In a mixing bowl beat 4 eggs.  Mix in milk to a runny consistency.  Add cinnamon to taste.  Completely submerge texas toast in mixture and soak through.  Cook to golden brown in skillet.  Butter bread. (Note: I often scramble the remaining eggs) Serves 2 (about 4 slices) (Lee Anne)

Slice French bread into 20 slices, 1-inch thick each. (Use any extra bread for garlic toast or bread crumbs). Arrange slices in a generously buttered 9 by 13-inch flat baking dish in 2 rows, overlapping the slices. In a large bowl, combine the eggs, half-and-half, milk, sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt and beat with…

Beat eggs, add other ingredients, and pour into greased 13x9x2” pyrex casserole dish.  Bake at 350 for one hour (check to make sure center is set).  Note:  Don’t pour melted butter in bubbling hot, or it will cook the eggs. Serves 12 Note:  Recipe may be halved. (Lee)

Salt and pepper round steak.  In a heavy Dutch oven, cook bacon.  Remove.  Brown round steak in drippings.  Remove meat.  Add flour to drippings, stirring constantly.  Add vegetables, (except tomatoes),  and cook until wilted.  Add tomatoes (just enough to add a pink color – mixture should retain its brown color).  Add seasonings and red wine. …

In a skillet, cook the sausage until browned.  Drain well.  In a large mixing bowl, combine the cheese, chicken soup, sour cream, French onion dip, chopped onion, bell peppers, salt and pepper.  Fold in hash brown potatoes.  Spread ½ of the hash brown mixture over bottom of a 9 x 13-inch greased baking dish.  Spread…

Cook grits according to package directions.  As soon as the grits are done, take and dump them in a warm crock pot with other ingredients and let sit for about 3-5 minutes.  Then stir. You can cook the sausage the night before and refrigerate it.  Then it takes only about 10 minutes to prepare. (Peggi)

Cook grits according to directions.  Cook until done, but not dry (about 5 minutes).  Mix all other ingredients, except paprika) together with grits.  Pour into well-greased 3-qt. casserole.  Refrigerate overnight.  Sprinkle paprika on top.  Bake, uncovered, 1 hour at 300 or until firm.  Serves 18. (Tinka)

Sift: Pour 1/3 cup Wesson oil into a one-cup measuring cup, then fill the rest of the cup with milk.  Do not stir but dump all at once into flour mixture.  Stir until it makes a dough.  Knead dough on board until it feels light.  Roll out and cut into biscuits.  Bake at 400 for…

Beat sugar and eggs together; add flour, milk, baking powder, butter and vanilla, mixing thoroughly.   Place in hot greased muffin pans.  Bake at 375 degrees until done. (Tinka)