Welcome!  This is my first attempt at blogging, and I hope it doesn't end up with a lot of my other projects - on a shelf waiting for "some other day when the kids are older."

I'm going to start posting pictures and attempts at these recipes.  Right now I'm housebound, so I'm just going to post a recipe that I haven't tried yet, and hopefully I'll get to update it later with pictures and play-by-play.

A disclaimer - these are recipes of unknown origin, other than the fact that they were in my grandmother's recipe box.  Some are handwritten, which takes me back since she always had beautiful handwriting.  Others are clipped from magazines and newspapers, scotch taped onto the card, usually with notes from her on what she changed.  Others are written in other people's handwriting, perhaps from a recipe swap?  So if you recognize a family favorite "top secret" recipe, don't go all source-crazy on me.  I'm working with the source I have!

Our first recipe (by virtue of being the one on top of the stack I grabbed) is

A Little Bit of Everything Breakfast (and Dinner Also)
4-6 servings


5 tablespoons of butter or margarine
2 cups thinly sliced peeled potatoes (about 1 1/2 potatoes)
1 green pepper, seeded and chopped
1 small onion, chopped
salt
5 strips cooked bacon, crumbled OR 1 cup chopped cooked ham
1 2oz can of mushrooms, sliced and drained
4-5 eggs
3/4 cup shredded cheddar cheese
pepper


Melt butter in large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat.  Add potatoes, green pepper, onion and salt and saute until potatoes are tender and golden, about 10 minutes.  Stir in bacon or ham and mushrooms.  Break eggs into skillet and scramble into mixture.  When eggs begin to firm, sprinkle cheese over top.  Cover and continue cooking until cheese melts.  Season with salt and freshly ground pepper.  Serve immediately.

Now, I've made something very similar to it.  My friends and I made it up in college. We were really hungry after an all night study session (ok, if you believe that I have a bridge to sell you!)  and raided the fridge for whatever we could find.  We ended up with bacon, sausage, eggs, hash browns, onion, a jalepeno, a green pepper, and some leftover cheese from tacos.  We christened it:


BREAKFAST SLOP


Yeah, I know, not the most fancy name.  We followed the same kind of procedure.  You take whatever meat you have in the fridge, and brown it with some onion and peppers.   Then dump the frozen hash browns in, cook them until they are almost done.  Scramble the eggs, and throw them on top.  Let that cook until the eggs are done.  Top with a gratuitous layer of cheese (we later found slices of  cheese worked better for even coverage) and serve.