(Budget) Food for Christmas Morning?

[manhattanman]

Last year there was a thread with recipes that people serve on Christmas morning - things like breakfast casserole or baked french toast. I'm wondering if anyone has something new to try this year??

Maggie

Eggs bennedict. cheap ( eggs, butter, English muffin,ham lemon juice and cayenne) easy to scale and oh so good. Easier than pancakes and bacon.

If you don't want to make real hollendaise, blender hollendaise is easy and better than the packaged version.

 

[BABY_EINSTEIN'S_MOM]

Who wants food on Christmas morning when you have all that wonderful candy in your stocking? Candy for breakfast that's what we always did as kids.

THIS!!! Lol.. but by dinner time we started to feel sickly from all that chocolate and needed some Christmas ham etc!

 

[KristiKat]

My mother still fixes a big Christmas breakfast and my sisters and I take our families over there now. We love it. We have a breakfast casserole, sausage balls, cinnamon rolls, and even cookies. I think everyone's favorite is the sausage balls.
Oh yeah, we always got a stocking that had candy in it as well as little toys. I thought that was the norm.

 

[anelson81993]

Growing up, we always had homemade cinnamon and pecan rolls on Christmas morning. We also usually got candy in our stockings that we enjoyed over Christmas Day.
In the last couple years, my mom has done a breakfast casserole (usually an egg quiche) in addition to her cinnamon rolls and pecan rolls, but we don't really get candy in our stockings anymore, either (since the youngest is almost 16, it appears that we no longer need candy ). I should also mention that we do Christmas morning pretty early, usually before the Disney Christmas Day Parade, and we don't do a traditional Christmas dinner (we usually have soups or pulled pork as our late lunch/early dinner), so a big Christmas morning breakfast really works well for us.

 

[emma'smom]

We do a Butter Braid Bread (defrosted--one of those fundraiser ones) and I make a sausage braid bread from scratch. I serve it with fruit salad, sparkling orange juice & coffee/tea. I make the filling for my sausage bread the night before---so I just braid it up and pop it in the oven in the morning. We usually eat right after the kids check out what Santa brought.

We don't open presents until after dinner X-mas night......it makes the whole day last longer and gives the kids time to enjoy their "Santa toys" before they open more. We break 1/2 thru present opening for dessert.

We have waffles & fruit on Christmas Morning. My husbands family does a full half ham with macaroni salad etc on Christmas Morning, and they do it and clean up fully BEFORE they open presents.

 

[tasha99]

Christmas morning is always:

high quality bagels (in other words, not grocery store bagels, and some of them must be onion)
cream cheese
English cucumbers
lox

Assorted fruit and nuts for people to make their own fruit salad

Not really budget, but it's tradition

 

[iheartdisney]

I don't know what I'm going to do this year... Santa usually leaves everyone a pack of Hostess donuts in their stocking. (and a banana to balance it out)

 

[theworldneedscolor]

We usually have an easy egg casserole (budget). Our other option that we like is a bread, like coffee cake, from our local bakery. It's not cheap, but it requires no cooking, which is nice when we are trying to make a million other things for Christmas dinner at my Uncle's house.

 

[nunzia]

We always have candy loaded stockings! Always have a big crowd at my hourse Christmas morning. To be honest, I am not looking forward to the hullaboo this year..my Mom passed away in August and too many Christmas memories are making this year tough. I'll probably do a green chile casserole that I prepare the day before and bake morning of, mabe a coffee cake or something and a DIL will bring sausage balls. My nurse daughter will be working graveyard the night before, my cop son will be working day of so just stop by if possible..We'll have 15 at the house for the morning. Think I'll also try a hot chocolate bar my DIL saw on Pinterest. Then on the 26th another son is arriving with his three kids and wife and the 28th DD is getting married. Holy cow..the week will be a zoo

 

[eliza61]

I make Harvest rolls. they are like gigantic cinammon rolls. The best thing about them is that they can be made with a kitchenaide or a bread machine.

http://whatscookingamerica.net/Bread/CinnamonRollsFantastic.htm

 

[katied718]

We also do the egg casserole-eggs, frozen hashbrowns (that have onions & green peppers in them already, sausage, cheese, etc. Last year I put it in the slow cooker on Christmas Eve & it was ready on Christmas morning @ it smelled so yummy! And if u get a slow cooker bag, there is no clean up mess-just the pan from the cinnamon rolls.

 

[maggiew]

Lots of people last year and a few people this year mentioned sausage balls. So I looked up a recipe.

Sausage Balls
Paula Deen

Ingredients
1 (1-pound) package ground sausage
3 cups baking mix (recommended: Bisquick)
4 cups grated sharp Cheddar
1/8 tablespoon pepper

Directions
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Spray a baking sheet with vegetable oil cooking spray. Combine all ingredients in a large glass bowl. Mix well with your fingers. The mixture will be very crumbly. Form into 1 inch balls, squeezing the mixture so it holds together, then rolling it between the palms of your hands to form balls. Place the balls on the baking sheet. Bake for 18 to 20 minutes or until golden brown. To prevent sticking, move the balls with a spatula halfway through cooking.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/sausage-balls-recipe/index.html

Maggie

 

[irishsharon]

We always have candy loaded stockings! Always have a big crowd at my hourse Christmas morning. To be honest, I am not looking forward to the hullaboo this year..my Mom passed away in August and too many Christmas memories are making this year tough. I'll probably do a green chile casserole that I prepare the day before and bake morning of, mabe a coffee cake or something and a DIL will bring sausage balls. My nurse daughter will be working graveyard the night before, my cop son will be working day of so just stop by if possible..We'll have 15 at the house for the morning. Think I'll also try a hot chocolate bar my DIL saw on Pinterest. Then on the 26th another son is arriving with his three kids and wife and the 28th DD is getting married. Holy cow..the week will be a zoo

Sorry about your mom My mom has been watching over me from heaven for 30 years

 

[v.t.]

No candy in the stockings!!!!! Santa has some explaining to do. But my kids also get the much coveted pop-tarts and flavored apple sauce. (only Santa and the Easter bunny buy those) I make an egg casserole the night before and go ahead and cook it. In the morning, I add a little cheese on top and warm it in the oven. Much quicker that way. We also have a fruit salad and juice, in fancy glasses, MUST use the fancy glasses.

 

[kiki02]

BTW ,,,, So happy you spelled out Christmas. Just saying.

 

[girli565]

We go to my cousins house to open gifts xmas morning and we all bring things. I usually take bagels and cream cheese from our fave jewish deli that is open on xmas morning. and one year I made waffle batter and everyone made their own waffles on my waring pro machine! All I had to do was make the batter the night before.

 

[NorCalGal]

Santa doesn't leave candy in our stockings!! I feel ripped off.

Maggie

I have never heard of candy in a stocking, either! Wow! It was always little toys, hair stuff, etc. Hmmmm...I am feeling like my childhood was wronged

OMG! I think you both got ripped off!
We ALWAYS got the same thing - I got tangerines, that colorful ribbon candy, nuts (in the shell so we could have fun cracking them), and jacks. My brother got the same but with green army men instead of jacks. Of course, this was in the late 60's....

 

[Nina1]

Italian breakfast casserole (eggs, prosciutto, veggies, cheese) that bakes while we open presents, potatoes, fruit, cookies and panettone (Italian cake). Coffee, juice and mimosas for those who want them. Yum.

 

[ZoeBell]

I have the best Cinnamon Bun recipe. I've been making it for years and hand them out to friends as well.

2 loaves bread dough
1/2c sugar
1tsp cinnamon
1 and 1/2 brown sugar
1 stick butter
1/2c heavy whipping cream

Mix sugar and cinnamon and set aside. Roll out dough. Sprinkle sugar and cinnamon mix evenly onto dough. Roll dough and cut into 8 pieces. Set aside

Combine and heat butter,br sugar and heavy cream until melted. Pour into 8in round cake/pie pan. Place buns on top of mixture. Set aside for at least 45 minutes or overnight.

Bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes. Let cool. Tip over and let buns fall onto cookie sheet. Sprinkle with pecans of desired.

These can be made ahead of time and frozen. Just take out the night before to defrost.

 

[DisneyMomma81]

I have the best Cinnamon Bun recipe. I've been making it for years and hand them out to friends as well.

2 loaves bread dough
1/2c sugar
1tsp cinnamon
1 and 1/2 brown sugar
1 stick butter
1/2c heavy whipping cream

Mix sugar and cinnamon and set aside. Roll out dough. Sprinkle sugar and cinnamon mix evenly onto dough. Roll dough and cut into 8 pieces. Set aside

Combine and heat butter,br sugar and heavy cream until melted. Pour into 8in round cake/pie pan. Place buns on top of mixture. Set aside for at least 45 minutes or overnight.

Bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes. Let cool. Tip over and let buns fall onto cookie sheet. Sprinkle with pecans of desired.

These can be made ahead of time and frozen. Just take out the night before to defrost.

The 2 loaves bread dough ~ something like this? Hmm sounds easy and yummy!