What is Your Christmas breakfast Menu?

[carebee21]

Before we had DS it was just cookies and coffee.

Now it's cinnamon rolls, fruit tray, hardboiled eggs, coffee, hot cocoa and juice.

 

[swilshire]

My family, when I was a kid, always had fried chicken, sawmill gravy and biscuits for a late Christmas breakfast. The chicken has to be marinated overnight in buttermilk. We carry on the tradition here now.

Sheila

 

[charming23]

We used to go to my Aunt and Uncle's for brunch, but in recent years we get together a few days later so we have more time to spend together.

So our new tradition is to have a breakfast casserole of some kind with fresh fruit and mimosas. I think this year I will make either Paula Deen's French Toast Casserole or her Piggy Pudding.

 

[cheap traveler]

Ever since I was a kid, we have just done refrigerated cinnamon rolls, and I still do the same with my kids. This year, they might be with their Dad on x-mas morning, so I will have to expand the menu a bit for lunch. I'll probably add hard-boiled eggs, a fruit tray, and sliced cheese (they would live on cheese if I let them)

 

[hulagirl87]

nothing overly fancy here. Just Mickey waffles and orange juice! oh and sometimes bacon for DH

 

[njsweetP]

I make an egg casserole the night before and take it out of the fridge while we are opening presents, then pop it in the oven along with cinnamon buns (usually Pillsbury), but the Caramel ones sound great! I also just made The Pioneer Woman's Cinnamon Rolls and they were heavenly, but too time consuming for Christmas morning. I also serve fresh fruit, OJ, coffee and hot chocolate. We don't eat again until 5-6pm, so this lasts us all day.

 

[3boymthr]

We make Eggs Benedict with Hashbrowns plus french toast. We do cheat a little and instead of poaching the eggs we fry them over easy.

 

[njmom47]

Strata (aka eggs, cheese, milk, over ripped up bread pieces, I make 1 ham and 1 sausage)...made the night before, baked the morning of.
I also make easy cinnamon rolls using biscuits (brush with melted butter, sprinkle on cinnamon and sugar).

My kids ask me every year to make sure I'm making this!

 

[mommy2emily]

I make a run on My Favorite Muffin Christmas Eve morning and get 2-3 dozen mini muffins and Cinnabons for Christmas morning.

 

[TheRatPack]

Overnight French Toast and Walton Mountain Coffee Cake (butterscotch pudding recipe, sort of like what Maggie mentioned). I pop them in the oven when I get up and then that gives me time to get ready before letting the kids open presents. They open stockings while everything is baking.

 

[trustknoone]

We do oatmeal and use Alton Brown's crockpot recipe (minus the figs). Then top with toasted pecans, REAL maple syrup or brown sugar or whatever you like I suppose. We eat alot of oatmeal here but only do the crockpot for xmas.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/overnight-oatmeal-recipe/index.html

Overnight Oatmeal
Recipe courtesy Alton Brown

Serves: 4 servings

Ingredients

* 1 cup steel cut oats
* 1 cup dried cranberries
* 1 cup dried figs
* 4 cups water
* 1/2 cup half-and-half

Directions

In a slow cooker, combine all ingredients and set to low heat. Cover and let cook for 8 to 9 hours.

Stir and remove to serving bowls. This method works best if started before you go to bed. This way your oatmeal will be finished by morning.

 

[MomofKatie]

I make a really yummy recipe I got from Giada's Everyday Italian show- Pannetone Bread Pudding. Sooo good! And I make 2 different homemade syrups to top it- Cinnamon syrup and Amaretto Cream syrup.

The recipe:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/...pudding-with-amaretto-sauce-recipe/index.html

 

[a1tinkfans]

Okay, guess we have a weird tradition.
We usually have some our evenings leftovers
We have the HUGE italian thing the night before (lasagne, antipasta, fish stuff, fried and cold shrimp, and on and on and on and on) and we always have leftovers...so we wake up by about 9-10am and then start picking a little of this and a little of that, just a small sampling for the dh and I. ....the ds is rather picky...but loves those little potato latke type things, so I throw a few in the oven for him.
BUT
after reading this thread, I am making some Monkey Bread, the ds has liked that in the past...
We don't eat dinner till later in evening since our BIG celebration is Xmas eve, Xmas Day is a bit calmer, we head out for dessert get together with the other half of the family (spouses side) late evening and I must say.....its quite nice .........

 

[mpbest]

Our main meal is breakfast. We have alot of food. Bacon quiche, country ham, eggs, sausage pinwheells, hashbrown casserole, variety of breads (favorite is plum bread), biscuits and gravy. I ususally try something different every year. Last year it was cinnamon rolls, thinking about waffles this year. Then after presents and later in the day we break out the desserts!

 

[Priorityonecb]

We are not breakfast lovers here! We do have a Pillsbury cinnamon rolls and hot cocoa tradition for Christmas morning though!

 

[Dizneydaz]

Ours started many years ago when we got started getting hams from a business associate every year.

Christmas morning we have scrambled eggs with ham and cheese sauce (Velveeta) and, what we call, old fashioned cinammon toast. Meaning we make it in the oven, broil the bread on one side, turn it over and apply cinammon, sugar, and a little splash of milk, then broil. The milk makes the sugar get all nice and crusty. We brown the ham first and serve the cheese sauce on the side for those that don't want it.

When we didn't have little ones we ate breakfast then did our present opening but with 2 younger ones we know do presents first, then breakfast.

I would like to make bread pudding this year, just for a change.

Oh and of course we have Christmas cookies and candy for dessert!

 

[ilovepete]

I usually do Paula Deen's french toast casserole too! It's sooooo yummy - and not to mention EASY!

Do you guys have a link to this? I am looking for something new to make this year. I assume it has at least a stick of butter in it.

 

[Worfiedoodles]

We eat giant cinnamon rolls and sausage balls dripping in maple syrup (ok, some pineapple and melon, too), sip mimosas (grown folks, only!) while we watch Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Parade! All opening stops for the parade, then we get back to the main event! Since my ds isn't really into any of that, he has been known to have unlimited Poptarts -- a very special Christmas-only treat!

Maria

 

[mom2grace]

DUNKIN DONUTS! For real, I used to cook and I couldn't stand the distraction!

 

[alexi120]

We have sausage balls for breakfast every Christmas. They're so easy to make, and even the sausage-hater in the family loves them.

1 lb ground breakfast sausage
1 lb grated cheddar cheese
2 c bisquick
Mix ingredients, roll into bite-size balls, and bake for 30 mins @ 350.

This is probably one of the most exciting parts of my day! We don't have them any other time, so eating them Christmas morning is particularly special.