Potato Breakfast Casserole

I always make this for breakfast over the holidays or on special occasions.

Potato Breakfast Casserole
Submitted by Lisa Loffeler

24 oz. pkg. Hash browns
1/2 c. melted butter
1 c. heaping monterey jack cheese
1 c. heaping cubed ham
1 c. heaping cheddar cheese
6 eggs
1 c. evaporated milk
1/2 t. seasoned salt
In 9x13 pan spread potatoes on bottom and up sides. Pour melted butter over potatoes. Bake crust at 425 for 25 minutes. Layer jack cheese, ham, and cheddar. Beat eggs and add milk and salt. Pour over potatoes and egg/cheese layers. Bake for 40 minutes at 350. Delish!

White Christmas Punch

White Christmas Punch
Submitted by: Carol Anderson

6 oz. Can frozen limeade
7 cups water
3 cups sugar
juice of 2 or 3 limes
2 qts. 7 up or sprite
Stir sugar into water stir until sugar is dissolved. Add remaining ingredients
except sprite. Freeze.
To serve: Partially thaw ice. Pour sprite over it. Use a potato masher to break up ice and make into a slush.

Caramel Popcorn

Caramel Popcorn (Streetman family)

Ingredients:
2 Bags Microwave Popcorn Popped (We like Homestyle Pop-Secret)
1 Cube of Butter (1/2 Cup)
1 Can Eagle Condensed Milk
2 1/2 Cups Golden Brown Sugar
1 Cup Light Karo Syrup
1 tsp. Vanilla
Colored M&M’s (Halloween mix or Christmas Mix.... With Peanuts is esp. Yummy)
Instructions:
Pop Popcorn and spread out evenly on a cookie tray that has the little sides. The 2 bags will do about 2 trays.
In a pot melt the butter but do NOT brown.
Stir in the condensed milk, brown sugar, Karo Syrup, & vanilla.
Bring to boil on Medium/Medium High Heat.
Boil 5-7 minutes (NO longer than 7) until the “softball” stage.
Softball Stage: When you can take a small spoonful/ drop of the mixture and drop it into a glass of cold water it will make a little softball that stays that way.
Am I making any sense???? If you over boil it the caramel will get REALLY hard after it cools on the popcorn.
Drizzle mixture over popcorn.
Mix in M&M’s after the popcorn cools slightly to avoid melting/bleeding of colors.

Edible Eyeballs from Familyfun.com

Edible Eyeballs from Familyfun.com http://jas.familyfun.go.com/recipefinder/display?id=50282

Carrots
Cream cheese
Pitted black olives
1. Simply slice carrots into 1-inch-thick chunks, top each with a blob of cream cheese and one half of a pitted black olive, and serve.

Brain cupcakes from Familyfun.com

Brain cupcakes from Familyfun.com http://jas.familyfun.go.com/recipefinder/display?id=50461

RECIPE INGREDIENTS:
12 Cupcakes (Classic Cupcake Recipe)
Buttercream Frosting
Food Coloring

1. Bake a batch of classic cupcakes. 2. Spread a coat of light orange icing (we stirred drops of yellow and pink food coloring, and just a touch of green, into 2 cups of buttercream frosting until we had a hue we liked) on a dozen cupcakes. 3. Use a pastry bag fitted with a number 10 round tip to top them with fat zigzags. It works best to first pipe two zigzags down the middle and then fill in the sides.

Creepy Eyeballs from Familyfun.com

Creepy Eyeballs from http://jas.familyfun.go.com/recipefinder/display?id=40173

RECIPE INGREDIENTS:
1 package white frosting
1 box vanilla wafers
Green or blue "LifeSavers"
Red gel icing
Chocolate chips
1. Spread frosting on vanilla wafers. Put one life saver on each wafer. Place a chocolate chip in the middle of the LifeSaver". With the red gel icing, draw bloodshot lines on the frosting. Then eat!

Spider Pretzels from Familyfun.com

Spider Pretzels from Familyfun.com

These arachnid treats are easy to make and they look positively lifelike crawling across your child's snack plate.
For each:

2 round crackers

2 teaspoons smooth peanut butter

8 small pretzel sticks

2 raisins

With the peanut butter, make a cracker sandwich. Insert eight pretzel "legs" into the filling. With a dab of peanut butter, set two raisin "eyes" on top. Makes 1.

Pizza Mummies From FamilyFun.com

Pizza Mummies from Familyfun.com

RECIPE INGREDIENTS:
English muffins
Pizza sauce
Black olives
Scallions
Red or green pepper
Cheese sticks or slices
1. Heat the oven to 350° F. For each mummy, spread a tablespoon of pizza sauce onto half of an English muffin (toast it first, if you like). 2. Set olive slices in place for eyes and add round slices of green onion or bits of red or green pepper for pupils. 3. Lay strips of cheese (we used a pulled-apart cheese stick) across the muffin for the mummy?s wrappings. 4. Bake for about 10 minutes or until the cheese is melted and the muffin is toasty.

Cheese-finger food from Familyfun.com

RECIPE INGREDIENTS:
Mozzarella string cheese
Green bell pepper
Cream cheese
1. Wearing plastic gloves or sandwich bags over your hands to keep the cheese as smudge-free as possible, use a paring knife (parents only) to cut each string in half and then carve a shallow area for a fingernail just below the rounded end of each half. 2. Mark the joint right below the nail as well as the knuckle joint by carving out tiny horizontal wedges of cheese, as pictured. 3. For the fingernails, slice a green bell pepper into 3/8-inch-wide strips. Set the strips skin side down on your work surface and trim the pulp so that it's about half as thick. Then cut the strips into ragged-topped nail shapes and stick them in place at the ends of the fingers with dabs of cream cheese.

From Familyfun.com

Apple Bites from FamilyFun.com

These toothsome treats are a fun and healthy break from Halloween sweets.
RECIPE INGREDIENTS:
Apples
Slivered almonds
1. Just quarter and core an apple, cut a wedge from the skin side of each quarter, then press slivered almonds in place for teeth. 2. Tip: If you're not going to serve them right away, baste the apples with orange juice to keep them from browning.
Recipe from FamilyFun.com