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Farm Kitchen:  Christmas Morning Breakfast  |
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country lawyer
True Blue Farmgirl
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 Posted - Dec 22 2008 : 06:29:03 AM
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Do you have a tradition of serving something "special" on Chrismtas morning? Tell us about it!
Mine started several years ago when I saw a post here on the MJ Forum with a recipe for "Dutch Baby Pancakes." I did a search and can't find it anymore, so I don't know WHO to thank for that marvelous recipe and the start of our Christmas morning tradition. But, it is a delicious and special way to start a special day!
I also always serve eggnog and peppermint coffee.
What is your Christmas Breakfast/Brunch tradition? |
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ThePixiesPlayhouse
True Blue Farmgirl
127 Posts
Terri
Biggs
CA
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Posted - Dec 22 2008 : 07:37:25 AM
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I would love to know this, as well!!!! I am on the hunt for a good, fairly easy recipe,.......so I don't spend my morning in the kitchen.
We try to do a little something special......In the past I usually make homemade cinnamon rolls, which I may do again this year. |
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rhondacate
True Blue Farmgirl
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Rhonda
Janesville
CA
USA
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Posted - Dec 22 2008 : 08:24:06 AM
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This year is the first year we are having Christmas at my house and I wanted to do something easy. But I also wanted my family to be able to enjoy the bounty of our homegrown food...and we have no veggies growing right now. :)
So, I'm making a French Toast Casserole with homemade bread and homegrown eggs. And homegrown sausage on the side.
~Rhonda
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FebruaryViolet
True Blue Farmgirl
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Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Dec 22 2008 : 08:24:46 AM
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| I don't cook on Christmas morning, but our tradition is to to go to my mother in law's (who is a phenomenal cook) and we have gruyerre strata with sliced cherry tomatoes, real rasher bacon, potatoes, 2 types of bundt breakfast cake and coffee. I always look very forward to it--as does my stomach :) My husband wishes she would try something else than the strata, but we've only been together 8 years so maybe I'm just not tired of it yet :) |
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ruralfarmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
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Rene'
Prosser
WA
USA
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Posted - Dec 22 2008 : 08:44:12 AM
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Yes, Ours started with my Grandma Teal. But we have cinnomon rolls for Breakfast on Christmas Morning. Home made. My grandma makes the best ones ever, and while mine are certainly a poor imitation of hers, we continue the idea... I love the smell of them baking in the morning, it has a natural way of waking everyone one so we can get on with the day.
Rene~Prosser Farmgirl #185
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corporatefarmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
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Tamara
Pikeville
TN
USA
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Posted - Dec 22 2008 : 09:05:15 AM
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We do a French Toast Casserole with fresh sausage, bacon and eggs.
To make the casserole I start on Christmas Eve - I take thick slices of french bread and place in a buttered 9x13 baking pan. I then mix 5 eggs, 1 cup of milk, 2 Tablespoons Brown Sugar, 1 teaspoon of Vanilla Flavoring, 1 Tablespoon of Cinnamon - mix well and pour over top of the french bread. Place 1 teaspoon of butter on each piece of toast. Cover and put in the fridge overnight. Take out on Christmas morning and put in a pre heated 400 degree over. Bake until edges are nice and brown and the liquid has set. Cut and serve with Maple syrup and butter. YUM
Tamara
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SewCarol
Farmgirl in Training
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Carol
Vancouver
WA
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Posted - Dec 22 2008 : 10:40:34 AM
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We make a breakfast casserole that can be made the night before.
Breakfast Casserole
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. (If made the night before you'll want to put the casserole dish in a cold oven and then let the dish heat up as the oven does)
6 to 8 slices bread
2 pkgs sausage links (about 10-12 links a pkg.)
1 medium onion diced
2 cans mushrooms
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 cup milk
5 eggs
dash of tabasco
1/4 tsp. pepper.
1 to 2 cups grated cheddar cheese.
You'll need a layer of bread. . . using 6 to 8 slices. (I usually use the regular sandwich presliced bread but experimenting with other kinds might have interesting results.) I place the bread in a greased 9"x 13" pan.
Next, I cook up 2 packages of sausage links, when links are done. I place them on top of bread and use skillet to saute the onions. When onions are done, I stir the drained mushrooms in to warm slightly. Then spread onion and mushroom mix evenly over the bread and sausage.
In a med. bowl, I slightly beat the 5 eggs. I add milk, can of mushroom soup, tabasco and pepper and whip to blend. Pour this on top of casserole.
Top with layer of cheese.
Bake 35 to 40 minutes uncovered or cover with plastic wrap, refrigerate and bake uncovered the next morning.
There are a lot of versions of this basic breakfast casserole. You can use ham instead of sausage, change the cheeses,etc. It's easy to fix ahead of time and have baking in the oven while opening presents on Christmas morn.
Enjoy
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Sitnalta
True Blue Farmgirl
4208 Posts
Jessica
NJ
USA
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Posted - Dec 22 2008 : 10:54:56 AM
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It's monkey bread for us! :) Coffee and juice or whatever. We don't so much do breakfast Christmas morning, but we sure do snack all day until dinner. Monkey bread is a MUST ever since we found out about it. :)
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Jessie
Farmgirl Sister #235
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work You don't give up.
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Mumof3
True Blue Farmgirl
3890 Posts
Karin
Ellenwood
GA
USA
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Posted - Dec 22 2008 : 11:20:27 AM
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Our tradition is one that my grandmother started with my mom and her sisters. All five of those sisters carried it on with their families and we, my mother's five children, all make the same thing - fried dough, with lots of butter and maple syrup or molasses to dip it in. Mmmmm. I make bacon to serve along side and a nice big fruit salad (to offset the copious amounts of fat consumed). It is a tradition 80 years in the making and one I hope will continue for 80 + more!
Karin
Farmgirl Sister
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Amie C.
True Blue Farmgirl
2099 Posts
Finger Lakes Region
NY
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Posted - Dec 22 2008 : 12:20:56 PM
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| Nothing fancy, just pancakes with real maple syrup and scrambled eggs. |
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La Patite Ferme
True Blue Farmgirl
623 Posts
Jenn
CA
USA
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Posted - Dec 22 2008 : 8:07:52 PM
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| When I was growing up my dad always made Christmas breakfast - eggs, bacon sausage, biscuts and gravy. Now DD and I have apple pancakes with homemade sausage and grapefruit. |
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peachy
True Blue Farmgirl
593 Posts
Melissa
Fennville
MI
USA
593 Posts |
Posted - Dec 22 2008 : 11:59:44 PM
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Our family tradition is "company french toast" along with eggs, sausage, bacon...but here's the recipe - enjoy!
1/2 c. butter
1 c. brown sugar
1 tsp. cinnamon
12 slices bread
5 eggs - beaten
1 1/2 c. milk
1/3 c. bacon
Melt buter in a 13x9 pan. Stir in bacon, sugar & cinnamon. Place bread in double layers over sugar mixture. Beat eggs and milk and pour over bread. cover and let sit in refrig. overnight. AM - uncover and bake in prehated oven 350 degrees - 45 minutes.
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Sitnalta
True Blue Farmgirl
4208 Posts
Jessica
NJ
USA
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Posted - Dec 23 2008 : 06:13:17 AM
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Leila,
I am LOVING the fact that you have even heard of my yummy monkey bread! :O) A sweet lady at our church made it for a youth group get together back when I was in my teens, and it has been on our table ever since. ;)
All these ideas sound so delicious!!
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Jessie
Farmgirl Sister #235
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work You don't give up.
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
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kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
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Posted - Dec 23 2008 : 06:27:49 AM
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I was going to make the monkey bread this year. But I am being lazy and using storebought biscuits! It doesn't really matter if I were to make the dough with whole wheat or not b/c of all the gooey goo that goes on it.
Anyway, if anyone has a recipe for Stolen or Stalen, not sure how it's spelled, but it's the German sweet bread stuff. My friend's mother was wanting some.
Merry Christmas, Kris
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. Maori proverb |
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Beverley
True Blue Farmgirl
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Beverley
atlanta
Michigan
USA
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Posted - Dec 23 2008 : 11:57:47 AM
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I started with my kids making biscuits and gravy and they are coming back home this year for christmas and they asked for it so I guess the tradition has stuck. it is so easy cause I make the biscuits and gravy and let them simmer while we are opening gifts and then as you feel like it you grab yourself some. oh yea orange juice too. they still enjoy it I guess. I don't remember having one particular thing for breakfast when I myself was growing up so I started this one myself and it stuck. hehehehe
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ddmashayekhi
True Blue Farmgirl
4740 Posts
Dawn
Naperville
Illinois
USA
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Posted - Dec 23 2008 : 1:22:58 PM
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I make a special breakfast for us to eat in the dining room every Christmas morning. This year we'll have fresh squeezed orange juice, maple baked bacon, fried eggs and homemade danish pastries with our coffee. I can't wait!
Dawn in IL |
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KJD
True Blue Farmgirl
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Posted - Dec 26 2008 : 8:29:17 PM
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| OK - it's the day AFTER Christmas, but I just got online and saw this topic - we have Christmas Eve dinner at my mom's (around the corner) and Christmas Brunch at our house. We have varied a little over the many years, but usually, we have breakfast tacos, hash browns (home fries), sausage and mimosas to drink. I vary the "sweet" - sometimes a coffee cake, sometimes muffins - this year, strawberries with Romanoff sauce. Yesterday, the sauce was great, but obviously the strawberries were out of season... |
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QueenofQuiteAlot
True Blue Farmgirl
865 Posts
Dalyn
Milk 'n Honey Ranch
Central, WA
USA
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Annab
True Blue Farmgirl
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Anna
Seagrove
NC
USA
2900 Posts |
Posted - Dec 27 2008 : 03:38:28 AM
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My mom makes an egg and sausage caserole. I'm deathly allergic to eggs like this, so I get a box of Froot Loops every Christmas. That started when we were kids and wern't allowed to have many sugared cereals in the house. Christmas was the exception when we found out about the eggs allergy and I ended up spending one Christmas in agony all day.
Now it's tradition and an inside family joke |
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Celticheart
True Blue Farmgirl
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Marcia
WA
USA
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Posted - Dec 27 2008 : 12:06:47 PM
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Oh no! I saw this post too late for this Christmas. The Dutch Baby recipe may have come from me. I make that quite often. My family loves them, especially with vanilla yogurt and strawberries. Just like crepes....only easier.
Usually for Christmas morning brunch we do Sour Cream Twists, a breakfast casserole of some kind and mimosas.
FYI....I cater quite a bit and brunch is my favorite thing to do. I have lots of brunch recipes and ideas. Just let me know.
Marcia
"Nature always has the last laugh." Mrs. Greenthumbs
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Hanalu
True Blue Farmgirl
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Hana
Redwood City
California
USA
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Posted - Dec 28 2008 : 8:48:05 PM
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I tried the pull apart brown sugar bunt cake thing (can't remember the proper name) in the December issue...it came out pretty good! I also served scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage and fruit. I had a mimosa too! (I had banana bread as a backup in case the bunt thing didn't turn out)
Hana
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
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Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - Dec 28 2008 : 9:21:55 PM
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Just saw this topic....
I make homemade cinnamon rolls every morning and everyone is invited over....we had 31 this year..so I made about 60 rolls! It is fun though..everyone comes in their jammies and stays an hour or so..when they leave I have to get busy and get the turkey in the oven and all that for dinner. We only had 18 for dinner. I think the breakfast is my favorite part of the day besides of course the kids joy first thing!
I can't wait to try a couple of the recipes and ideas you gals posted..yum!!!
Jenny in Utah
Proud Farmgirl sister #24
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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country lawyer
True Blue Farmgirl
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Posted - Dec 29 2008 : 06:31:43 AM
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Everybody, Your breakfast ideas and recipes you shared sound great!
Anna, the Fruit Loops story is hilarious.
Aunt Jenny, 31 for Christmas breakfast?!
Marcia, THANK YOU! We adore the recipe for Dutch Baby Pancakes! Now, tell us about the Sour Cream Twists!
Hana, glad to know the recipe was good. I'll give it a try!
And Dawn, I do like the idea of eating in the dining room. Kicks it up a notch.
Breakfast tacos? Okay, KJD, tell us more about what that is.
Dalyn, I hope somebody made the rolls for you this year!
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country lawyer
True Blue Farmgirl
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Posted - Dec 29 2008 : 06:33:04 AM
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Well, check me out! Just saw that I have 900 posts!!!
Oops, guess I just changed that to 901!! |
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Nancy Gartenman
True Blue Farmgirl
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Nancy
West Seneca
New York
USA
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Posted - Dec 29 2008 : 06:45:30 AM
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Those posts are mounting up fast. Our Christmas morning tradition is going to my daughters, who makes up a yummy egg dis, and sweet rolls. I like this tradition because I didn't cook it.
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jpbluesky
True Blue Farmgirl
6066 Posts
Jeannie
Florida
USA
6066 Posts |
Posted - Dec 29 2008 : 11:14:41 AM
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Our Chrismtas morning meal is really a brunch......at about 11:30. I make breakfast casserole the night before and put it in the oven in the morning. I serve it with fresh blueberries, and juice. Then we have Starbucks Christmas blend coffee, egg nog, coffee with egg nog in it (very good) and then we eat all the candy in the stockings before brunch......hm.....what is not right about this picture? Oh, well, it is Christmas.
I started posting photos of our family x-mas on my blog....check them out....will add more in the next few days.
Farmgirl Sister # 31
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Edited by - jpbluesky on Dec 29 2008 11:16:58 AM |
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