Breakfast Casserole Recipe with Sweet Italian Sausage, Mushrooms, and Cheese

breakfast casseroleI've never been the most frugal of cooks, but now that I'm in the middle of house renovations, I'm more conscious lately about cooking what's in the fridge. Over the weekend I found two sweet Italian sausages, some leftover mushrooms, eggs, and cheese, and came up with this new version of breakfast casserole. As soon as I tasted it, I wondered why it took me so long to think of putting turkey Italian sausage in a breakfast casserole. With fewer eggs than my usual South Beach Diet friendly breakfast casseroles, this was like a baked frittata with eggs just binding the mixture together, letting the flavor of the sweet Italian sausage be the main attraction here.

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