Christmas breakfast
It is the holiday's most forgotten meal...anybody have any menu suggestions/family traditions for Christmas breakfast that they'd like to talk about for The Sun?
Susan
Nov 16, 2005 06:35PM
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When I was maybe 7 or 8 I surprised my parents by cooking breakfast. I woke up early early and worked in the kitchen without waking them for hours. They were so surprised at my will power, because I did not even look at my presents.
Not a great story, but I like to think about it :-) Loved the column about winter clothes!
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With four children it was all the will power we could muster up to not peek into the living room to see what Santa had brought, and to make it down the steps without peer down into our stockings hanging along the bannister....but all was overlooked by the excitement of making it to the kitchen table to find the thank you note that Santa left every year for the milk, cookies, and carrots for his reindeer. (Amazingly, or not, I didn't make the connection between the note and my father's very distinctive, script handwriting until I was probably 10). Then Mom would make us hot cocoa, usually accompanied by my grandma's homemade slovak nutroll, and we'd sit as a family for breakfast, even if for only 10 or 15 minutes and with dire anticipation (which was the fun of it) until we all at once sprang to the Christmas tree in the living room. It's ironic, and so pleasurable to think that today, 30 years later, all four of us children, and my parents live within a half hour's radius, and still get together every Christmas morning at one of our homes (though a little later these days) for breakfast and then to share in gift giving. Thanks for the chance to reflect. ; )
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My parents had a huge Christmas Eve party every year, that started after the midnight services. We always served brandy or rum-laden egg nog, which nobody really drank. At about 4am, when the only guests left were high school friends home from college and other friends without young kids, we would cut thick slices of bread and soak them in the egg nog and make the most marvelous french toast while still waiting for Santa to bring himself down the chimney.
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For all of my 25 years, my mom has baked cinnamon rolls on Christmas Eve that we dive into on Christmas morning just after opening our stockings, along with the juciest jumbo Harry and David's pears (sent to the family annually by my aunt and uncle), and more recently with thick-cut hickory smoked bacon that my brother and his family pick up from a farm on their drive up to my parents' house. After this replenishment, we're ready to attack the presents waiting under the tree!
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We always have eggnog, with the requisite fresh grated nutmeg on top, just a scrape for me, while my son's and husband's glasses look like they emptied a pencil sharpener on them.
I make sweet rolls that can rise overnight, and we hve to break into the sausage from Broadbent's in Kentucky (avail online) because who can resist? It's so good,my husband chews on a bit of the smoky cloth bag it comes in. Trichinosis be damned!
And of course, coffee, just to face cleaning up all the wrapping paper
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This is our little family's traditional Christmas morning breakfast:
Baby Quiches
Sausage Rolls
Jos Candy Cane
Orange Roll Christmas Tree
Bagels and Cream Cheese
I like to do as many things as possible ahead of time so that I don't have to spend the morning in the kitchen, but I want it to be as homemade and delicious as possible, too! I make the quiches and sausage rolls and freeze them. My mother in law, Jo makes the Candy Cane, which is a delicious sweet roll that I have the recipe for on my website. That, also, is frozen. The bagels, I buy, of course. Lastly is the Orange Roll Christmas tree. This is something that I came up with years ago, to the delight of my then young daughter, Jessica. Now that she is all grown up, it is still a much expected tradition, even if no one eats much of it! I simply buy the Pillsbury Orange flavored refrigerated rolls, put them on a parchment-lined baking sheet in the shape of a Christmas tree and bake!
Link: http://recipecircus.com/recipes/Kimbe...
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My mom still makes popovers. The best!
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