Cheesy Potato Casserole Recipe + Fun #AllThingsEaster Giveaway!

Easter is just around the corner and that means many of us are busy getting the last minute items needed for Easter baskets, finding time to stuff candy in the Easter eggs, figuring out the perfect Easter outfit, and last but not least coming up with a delicious Easter dinner for the family.

Colleen of Souffle Bombay and Heather of Real: The Kitchen and Beyond decided to gather 26 bloggers to share some of their Easter Entertaining Ideas with you! From Jelly Bean Trees to a Giant Deviled Egg, we’ve got you covered!  To make this Easter even more memorable for a few lucky readers, we have some fabulous giveaways that any grown up would love to get in their Easter Basket from John Boos, The Spice House, Wilton Armetale, Divine Chocolates & The Tree Hut!! Follow along via #AllThingsEaster on social media this week and visit our Pinterest Board “All Things Easter” for more ideas.  Now if only we had a magic formula to make all those dishes disappear, Happy Easter!

Today I’m sharing with you a favorite dish at our house – Cheesy Potato Casserole. This potato dish would be the perfect side for your Easter meal. What I love about this recipe is that it is so easy to mix up as it uses frozen hash brown potatoes. Really it only takes a few minutes to mix together so I often serve it for a side at weeknight dinners yet it is elegant enough for any holiday meal. When your guests taste this potato recipe they will think you spent a lot of time on this dish and will have no idea how simple it was to prepare thanks to frozen potatoes. What they don’t know won’t hurt them right? Another thing that I love about this recipe is that it can be mixed up now and put in the freezer until you are ready to bake it. Save yourself some last minute holiday stress and mix this Cheesy Potato Casserole now and put it in the freezer so it is ready for your Easter meal.

Cheesy Potato Casserole

Ingredients:

• 1 – 30 oz. package of frozen shredded Hash brown potatoes
• 1/4 cup chopped onion
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1/2 teaspoon mustard
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1/4 lb. yellow processed cheese

Directions:

In a medium size saucepan heat butter until melted. Add onions, mustard, salt, pepper, milk and cheese. Continue heating until the cheese it totally melted. Add the frozen potatoes and mix well. If you are planning to serve these potatoes at a later date, put them in the freezer at this point*. Or if you are ready to bake them now, place in a greased 9 x 13″ glass baking dish and bake at 350° for 1 hour. May be topped with crispy onions or crushed corn flakes before serving.
*When using the frozen potato mixture, be sure to allow to thaw completely in the refrigerator before baking.

Check out the other #AllThingsEaster recipes, ideas and more.

Ideas for Leftover Easter Eggs

• Giant Deviled Egg | Souffle Bombay

Easter Breakfast Recipe Ideas

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• Lemon Blueberry French Toast Bake with Lemon Mint Cream | O’Boy! Organic
• Dutch Baby | The Naughty Mommy

Easter Dinner Recipe Ideas

• Scallion & Brown Butter Mashed Potatoes | Musings of a Housewife
• Baked Cheesy Broccoli & Rice Casserole | We’re Parents!?
• Cheesy Potato Casserole | Coupon Cutting Mom

Easter Dessert Recipe Ideas

• Peanut Butter Eggs | Real: The Kitchen & Beyond
• Toasted Angel Food Cake Parfait | What the Heck’s a Bonbon?
• Easter Lemon Cookies {Allergy Friendly} | Chockababy
• Individual Lemon Meringues | Pandora’s Deals
• Peeps in the Pond Trifle | Opera Singer in the Kitchen
• Rice Krispie Pops/Chocolate Covered Pretzels | A Grande Life

Easter Cocktail Recipe Ideas

• Raspberry Beer Float | Teaspoon of Spice
• The Peter Cottontail Cocktail | Can’t Google Everything
• Bunnytail-tini | Mommy Snapped

Easter Decorating Ideas

• Easter Printable | Diapered Daze and Knights
• Easter Centerpiece | The Vintage Mom
• Jellybean Tree Centerpiece | Look What Mom Found

Easter Gift Ideas

• Allergy Friendly Non-Toxic Easter Basket | Mom-Blog    
• Naturally Dyed Wooden Easter Eggs | Inspired Family
• Sugar Free Easter Basket Ideas | philly fun 4 kids

Easter Fun

• 5 Easter Activities for Kids | Mama Teaches
• Taking Great Easter Photos | Life with Kaishon

Frugal Easter Basket Ideas & Menu

• Easter Egg Pass | A Life in Balance

And last but not least is the giveaway! We would like to give a huge thank you to the companies that made this giveaway possible. Thank you to John Boos for the beautiful maple cutting board, The Spice House for their spice and baking gift sets, Divine Chocolate for their luxuriously rich Fair Trade Chocolate gift basket, Wilton Armetale for the elegant egg plate, and Tree Hut for the body scrub and lotion.

On the Rafflecopter form below, simply complete as many entries as you would like. This giveaway is open to US residents ages 18+ and ends at 12 midnight ET on April 24, 2014.

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