You Say Potato...I SAY POTATO!!!!!!!

Continuing my streak of non-vegan/non paleo meals, I made a tater tot casserole.  The lovely Brooke Allen was joining me for an afternoon of watching terrible television and she truly loves tater tots as much as I love watching terrible television.  She also just started eating meat again, so I decided to celebrate that by frying up some bacon (you may now pretend to be surprised).

Recipe #27: Tater Tot Breakfast Casserole

Choice of libation: Abbondanza from the Cherry Republic Winery.  We recently took a trip to wine country in Michigan (did you know that was a thing? it is...) and brought back this blend of cherry wine and grape wine.  It's on the sweeter side, but good for summer time, or to pair with something salty.  LIKE BACON AND TATER TOTS. 

Choice of music:  Brooke Allen's company.  I highly recommend it.  OH. And.  I also highly recommend eating this casserole while watching a Lifetime Movie.  

This week's selection was the 2003 Lifetime movie, Hunger Point, starring Barbara Hershey as a terribly-wigged mother of two. Her daughters are played by Mad Men's Christina Hendricks (as Frannie, our narrator with "an intriguing mouth" (an actual line in the movie)) and that girl who had bulimia in Centerstage, (as Shelly, a girl with bulimia, but has "legs like a gazelle" (also a line in the movie)).  Don't watch it sober.

There really isn't much to this recipe -- it's super simple and CAN be healthy. 

I basically just threw in what I'd want for breakfast anyway:

Eggs, milk, salt and pepper

Red bell peppers, onion and parsley

Cheese, duh

Bacon and spinach.

Cover a casserole dish of tater tots with the egg mixture, throw it in the oven

Thank me later.

1/2 large onion, diced

1 red bell pepper, diced

12 large eggs

1/4 c milk

BACON

a lot of grated cheddar cheese

salt & pepper, to taste

parsley

2 lbs frozen tater tots

Preheat the oven to 350

First of all, cook that bacon, so your house begins to smell of it, dice, when crisped and cooled

Saute vegetables with olive oil, 5-7 minutes or until soft

Whisk 12 eggs and milk with 1 cup cheese in a large bowl, seasoning as you'd like

Stir in the veggies and bacon

Dump the frozen tater tots into a casserole dish 

Pour the egg mixture on top

Add all the cheese.  ALL THE CHEESE.

Bake for 35-40 minutes or until the egg has cooked through and cheese is melted.

Top with parsley

Serve warm and while watching a Lifetime movie.