Small Vegetable Cheese Strata

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 4 ounces butter
• 5 slices homemade type bread
• 8 ounces sharp cheddar cheese
• 1 small zucchini
• 1 small red bell pepper
• 1 small green bell pepper
• 1 small onion
• 2 cups milk
• 3 large eggs
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon dry mustard
• 1 teaspoon dry basil
• to taste pepper

Recipe

• 1 assembly: butter an 8 x 8 pan.
• 2 generously butter 1 side of bread and cut into 1/2 inch cubes and arrange evenly in pan. (i use pepperidge farm toasting bread, crusts and all.)
• 3 coarsely grate 8 cheese and arrange evenly on bread.
• 4 dice fairly fine 1/3 cup of each: zucchini, red pepper, green pepper, and onion. toss together and arrange evenly on cheese.
• 5 beat eggs with milk and salt and dry mustard powder. pour over vegetables.
• 6 cover and refrigerate overnight.
• 7 preheat oven to 350. sprinkle strata with black pepper and basil.
• 8 put strata in larger pan filled with enough boiling water to reach halfway up strata pan.
• 9 bake ~1 hour or until top of strata is brown and bubbling. (water in large pan should have some bubbles but shouldn't actually boil).