Recipe & Christmas Fun Facts & more pics!

Holiday Breakfast Casserole Recipe:
Ingredients:
Butter for greasing pan
1 (12-ounce) package frozen hash-brown potatoes
1/4 cup (1/2 stick) melted butter
1 cup diced ham
4 ounces Cheddar cheese, shredded
4 ounces Swiss or Jack cheese, shredded
1 (4-ounce) can diced green chilies
2 eggs
1/2 cup milk
1/4 teaspoon saltSalsa to taste
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Grease 10-inch pie pan with butter. To save time, hash browns can be baked evening before. Ham, cheeses and chilies can be placed on top and refrigerated overnight.1. In prepared pie pan, spread hash browns. Brush with melted butter and bake 25 minutes.2. Layer ham, cheeses and chilies on hash browns.3. Combine eggs, milk and salt. Pour over ham, cheese and chilies.4. Bake at 350 degrees 30-35 minutes.5. Place salsa on top before serving.

FUN CHRISTMAS TRIVIA

• There are 364 gifts in 'The Twelve Days of Christmas'
• 'The twelve days of Christmas' was started a long time ago in England because Catholics were not allowed to teach their children about their religion, so each of the verses was really a hidden way to teach about Jesus.
• Artificial Christmas trees have outsold real ones every year since 1991.
• Sugar Plums still exist, though not called that anymore. They are chocolate candies with fruit preserves, cream or other sweet filling in middle.
• The tradition of Christmas lights dates back to when Christians were persecuted for saying Mass. A simple candle in the window meant that Mass would be celebrated there that night.
• In ancient Scandinavia, mistletoe was associated with peace and friendship. That may account for the custom of "kissing beneaththe mistletoe".
• In the Ukraine what does it mean if you find a spider web in the house on Christmas morning? Good Luck! There once lived a woman so poor, says a Ukrainian folk tale, that she could not afford Christmas decorations for her family. One Christmas morning, she awoke to find that spiders had trimmed her children's tree with their webs. When the morning sun shone on them, the webs turned to silver and gold. An artificial spider andweb are often included in the decorations on Ukrainian Christmas trees.
• Santa Claus was born in 280AD as Nicholas, he wore a red and white Bishop's robe.
• The first electric Christmas tree lights were telephone switchboard lights.
• In 1836, Alabama is the first state in the USA to declare Christmas a legal holiday.