Mushroom and Three Cheese Strata

This is from Epicurious, although I can’t find it there now.

Ingredients

• 1/4 C butter
• 1 lb various mushrooms (some shiitake), stemmed and sliced
• 8 C white bread, coarsely shredded
• 2.25 C whole milk
• 1.5 C half-and-half
• 5 eggs
• 3/4 C chopped chives or green onion tops
• 2 T chopped fresh thyme
• 3 garlic cloves
• 1.5 t salt
• 3/4 t pepper
• 9 oz soft goat cheese
• 1.5 C parmesean cheese
• 1 C fontina

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350.
2. Saute mushrooms until tender, about 8 minutes. Salt/pepper to taste.
3. Combine bread and milk; let stand until absorbed, about 15m
4. Whisk half-and-half, eggs, chives, thyme, garlic, salt, and pepper. Stir in goat cheese.
5. Layer half each of bread, mushrooms, parmesean, fontina, and half-and-half into buttered baking dish; repeat with remaining half
6. (can cover and refrigerate if necessary)
7. Bake about 1 hour