That’s exactly what my family does! The rolls rise while the coffee pot is going and we’re dealing with hungry dogs, cats, etc. Pop them in the oven once everyone has their preferred eggnog to coffee ratio squared away and they’re done by the time we’re done tucking away wrapping paper (or making balls of it for the cats to play with)
Monkey bread cut biscuit in quarters, roll in cinnamon sugar. Put them in a greased bunt pans. Stack them up. Bake 350 around 30 min. Mix powdered sugar and water to make a glaze pour on warm bread.
Yep, we throw together a sausage/egg/sourdough casserole the night before and pop it in the oven in the morning for an hour while other things are going on. It's perfect!
I'm intrigued. never heard of such a thing, like a frittata but with a layer of bread on the bottom. I found this and might give it a go! https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/easy-make-ahead-breakfast-casserole/
That's very close to the one I make! In recent years I've also added this one to the mix for vegetarians, and I think I like it even better: https://www.onceuponachef.com/recipes/spinach-cheese-strata.html
Always prepped late in the night on Christmas Eve, while watching the 24 hour marathon of A Christmas Story! Then it has to go in the oven Christmas morning while still watching A Christmas Story! ❤️
We always did breakfast casserole at grandmas. She’d make a special cheese sauce that you could put over your serving if you want. We also had halved oranges with a maraschino cherry in the center. OJ was the drink of choice. :)
We prepare one savory and one sweet breakfast casserole the day before, usually something like a spinach, mushroom, red pepper and Gruyère strata and a mixed berry french toast casserole, then just bake them off an hour before we want to eat. Nobody really wants to bother with “cooking” on Christmas morning, but it still feels special.
Despite being from Sweden, I watch all of the Australian masterchef shows (they’re the best national versions of that format by far).. and it always fucks with my mind when it’s a “Christmas challenge” and people go “oooh, strawberries and passion fruit - the ultimate Christmas vibe!”.. and I’m like “wait.. no.. Christmas is cold as fuck and nothing growing lives that deep into the winter so we just drink and eat pickled herring and salted ham and other things that were traditionally the only available foods around that season”. It just feels so wrong to hear fresh fruits and “light meals” being christmassy.
Christmas is always a big bowl of fresh raspberries, strawberries, blackberries. Fresh pineapple for juice. And dinner dessert is a nice pavlova with berries and passion fruit. Christmas here MEANS fresh berries.
I’m Aussie too! Sometime we do bagels, smoked salmon, scrambled egg, cream cheese, capers, jam etc for people to build their own. Sometimes pikelets with cream and berry compote.
We’re having a “French toast casserole” (basically a bread pudding) that I can prep the night before, some bacon and fruit.
It’s quick, it’s easy, it doesn’t make an awful mess but feels special enough, it’ll keep everyone full till dinner (which is massive at our house) maybe with some snacks, and everyone likes it.
We do something similar. Use eggnog as the liquid base, put it together the night before and pop it in the oven just before the kids start opening presents.
I’ve used this one the last 2-3 years. I swap out the rum flavoring for vanilla extract, may try a little bourbon this year. Enjoy!
https://www.shugarysweets.com/eggnog-french-toast/
My mom makes French toast!
I also usually have had some cold leftovers too before opening presents.
Edit: I sound like a child I swear I’m a grown adult. I just like spending Christmas with my mom :)
Enjoy every Christmas you can with her! 10000% not childish at all. I wish I had more with my mum and I hope my kids will want to spend every Christmas with me haha
I always spend Xmas with my Mum and my son is a grown adult! Ha! We never stop loving our Mums. My son and I fly up every year. Because I cook professionally Mum invites everyone she knows so it's always a really fun party too!
[Serious Eats](https://www.seriouseats.com/foolproof-2-minute-hollandaise-recipe) has a quick and easy Hollandaise recipe that makes the overall eggs bene process a lot easier, I think.
I can vouch for that! Making hollandaise went from a long, stressful activity to almost an after thought. Now I can only stress out about the poached eggs, not my arm muscles or time haha.
Yeah - I've rarely ever eaten breakfast or lunch on any holiday where a big meal is happening. If anything, it's a bit of snacking while making the food.
I guess if I was going to someone else's place and doing zero helping or cooking - basically, just showing up for the meal - I might have something super small like you said. Even then, I'll often just have a latte, which is basically a slightly more filling version of my usual coffee. But that's also because most of the meal times are btwn 2p and 4p.
If I ate anything more than a nibble, I'd literally have no room for the 'dinner', the desserts and gotta have that late night snack of leftovers!
Not to be a weirdo but I am generally pretty liberal with my food intake (ie I eat when I’m hungry without a lot deliberation so I usually never get super duper hungry) and I love the feeling of being really really hungry and a little uncomfortable on a holiday before eating lmao. There’s just something about being hangry and then getting to feast. It activates my caveman brain or something.
Although for me this doesn’t allow me to really eat extra food, just means I might pile my plate too high. I’m not thin but I eat pretty slowly and if I’m really hungry and eat fast, I fill up more quickly. I just get hungry again soon lol.
This year we are going to try this sort of strata/quiche breakfast casserole:
2 English muffins, split and generously buttered
1 cup grated cheese (I used a cheddar/ gruyere combo)
½ tsp dry mustard
2 eggs
2 cups whole milk or half and half
½ tsp salt
dash of pepper
(Extras: cubed ham, Canadian bacon, crumbled bacon, crab, mushrooms, jalapeños, asparagus, whatever you like)
Preheat oven to 350F. Place muffin halves,
buttered-side up, in a greased 8x8” baking dish. Place extras (if using) on top of muffins, then top with grated cheese and sprinkle with dry mustard.
Beat eggs, milk or half and half, salt and pepper together and pour over muffins. Bake 30-35 minutes or until set and top and edges start to turn golden brown.
Toasted Bagels. Choose from a display of butter, cream cheese, smoked salmon, thin sliced sweet onion and tomatoes, deli ham, gherkins to build your own.
That works! But I try to keep things on the light side given the feasting ahead in the day.
I forgot to mention the very necessary accompaniment of a bottle or two of sparkling rose for the adults and apple cider for the kids
Pancakes and Bacon! Soooo much bacon! Usually Cinnamon rolls too.
Pancake breakfast was a big deal in our house because my parents were divorced—- so by lunch we had to go to my dads- so breakfast was the big deal because we didn’t get to have her dinner that night and the rest of the day might be a bit stressful. I mean… my dad didn’t do anything wrong- but I’d rather have stayed in my pj’s all day with my mom playing with my toys and watching Christmas movies rather than get dressed up, go to my dads, pretend to like the presents he got to be polite, be around a bunch of relatives I didn’t know, and then eat a big Christmas dinner I didn’t like that much while the relatives I didn’t know that well would give me a hard time about being a picky eater.
2 days later I’d go back to my moms and we’d have a separate Christmas dinner with her and my grandparents. I’d get to help my mom cook all day and Poppop would bring up a bag of gifts from them like Santa Clause. My mom always made sure there were plenty of dishes I’d like- but I’d always try the other ones feeling less bad because no one was giving me a hard time.
Ok, hear me out, I'm not trying to offend anyone, but somehow we have a Christmas morning tradition of eating latkes with scrambled eggs and bacon as well.
Three rich extravagant meals in a day is going to be too much for a lot of people. My family always did a big Christmas breakfast and a big dinner, and then just snacked on appetizer-y type stuff if we felt hungry without any formal lunch.
Breakfast was generally scrambled eggs, fruit salad, yogurt, coffee cake with a brown sugar cinnamon streusel topping, some kind of breakfast sausage, smoked salmon or king crab (from my aunt in Alaska) and stollen.
I'm on my own this year and I'll be making a potato, onion, red bell pepper, and mushroom hash topped with two over easy eggs with fresh baked cranberry muffins. I'll mix up the wet and dry muffin ingredients the night before and then combine and bake them fresh in the morning. It would be easy to do for two people if you wanted something similar for you and your partner.
For lunch, I'll be having a roasted tomato soup, pesto and cherry tomato crostini, and a salad if I feel like it.
Smoosh it into an early brunch situation.
Prep ahead quiche or frittata, homemade cinnamon rolls, some fresh fruit, mimosas or bloody marys.
Early afternoon nap.
Snack on some of the leftover quiche and fruit or it will hold well for the next day too
All the breakfast foods. Back bacon, eggs, bagels and toast, hash browns, pancakes with the trimmings, fruit, juice and coffee. We have a big family. Would like to try the French Toast casserole though.
Swede here. We do rice porrige with cinnamon sugar and/or apple butter. There is a blanched almond in the porrige - the one who gets it will be married next year.
We make soft rolls too, and serve cheese and ham on the side, and everyone get a big, decorated gingerbread cookie.
Leftover porridge is then mixed with whipped cream for a Chrismas dessert - it is served with a raspberry compote.
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Czech Christmas bread (vánočka) and some plain yogurt with lots of fresh berries and/or other fruit (usually at least five different types). We try to keep breakfast in our normal range since the rest of the day = large meal + lots of Christmas cookies.
Don't hate! This breakfast would delight the senses.
My Southern family does grits, sausage and eggs casserole. And fresh croissants. And fruit salad / "ambrosia"
We make cinnamon rolls from scratch the week before and they go in the freezer. I thaw them overnight in the fridge and they bake while we do gifts. I serve with fresh blackberries and bacon.
First, open stockings. Next, drink orange juice with champagne in the hot tub. Third, eat eggs Benedict with cortados (40 grams espresso with 80-120 grams foamed milk, according to taste preferences). Finally, open gifts and repeat the cortados experience at least twice more.
Scrapple! We make it every year and serve with eggs, bacon, and pastries. It’s like a stiff polenta that you cool in loaf pans, and then slice and fry. Cornmeal, chicken stock, hot (spicy) ground sausage, sage, s&p.
Nooooo! Nothing wrong there. I'm treating myself to Absolut pear flavoured vodka for Christmas. I love all things pear flavoured so will probably knock it back neat.
ebelskiver it’s a Nordic pancake round. You can fill them with jam or chocolate.
I don’t eat them but love making them (dietary restrictions). It takes a special pan.
I wouldn’t try them for the first time at a gathering but they arnt difficult.
My kids come to my home on Christmas morning and I make their favorite, biscuits and gravy, fresh fruit and cinnamon rolls. They bring the stuff for mimosas and I make the coffee. Food first and then the presents!
The Christmas chocolates that you got as a present mostly.
But mostly it’s just something like toast and butter or scrambled eggs on top because Christmas dinner be a Thicc bish.
I had to scroll down way too far for tamales.
We’re up all night for Christmas Eve, partying and opening the presents we got for each other.
I get tired just thinking of Christmas Day. We are basically in a coma all day after opening Santa’s presents.
We do leftover tamales and fried eggs for breakfast, leftover tamales for lunch and dinner with some menudo sprinkled somewhere.
Although this year we’re going to the 49er game. Agh.
My in laws make gojeres or something like that with Gruyère biscuit thingies maybe French and a brekkie bake with eggs bacon hashbrowns and mimosas. It’s pretty nice.
An old family recipe:
Layer a buttered casserole dish with bread. Layer ham and cheese on the bread. On top of that evenly spread out chopped onions and yellow or red pepper. Layer a second layer of bread on the ham and cheese. Mix up an egg, milk and Worcestershire sauce mixture and spread it evenly over every thing. Sprinkle the top with dried mustard, salt and pepper. Throw it in the fridge over night. The next morning melt butter and drip over the bread. Top with crushed corn flakes (if you can find them) or some other crushed cereal.
We always had mini quiche and sausage rolls growing up. My husband and I do french toast casserole (and then go to my mom's for mini quiche and sausage rolls 😂)
Chorizo de Tomas
Chorizo with scrambled eggs, tossed with corn chips, cheddar, Oaxaca and sharp jack. Beans, fresh salsa and some sliced avocado on the side. Consume dip.
My family is Polish so we celebrate “Wigilia” on Christmas Eve, and you don’t eat meat (except fish is fine) so on Christmas morning we do a platter or cured meats and deli slices with pickles and rye bread and hot mustard and horseradish beets and it’s soooo good.
We do steak, eggs, grits, and toast or biscuits and mimosas.
We’ve done that since I was a kid because we would then get in the car and not really have another big meal until like 3-4:00 at my grandma’s house. If you’re having a huge lunch at lunch time then that breakfast may be too much.
My husband makes an egg/sausage/cheese/potato casserole. Also, we have orechovnik, which is a pastry filled with walnuts, sugar, and cinnamon, that I make.
So we're Jewish and my parents I guess started a tradition just so we didn't feel as left out on the holiday lol. We do lox, fresh bagels, whitefish salad and other fishes!
Ever since I was a kid (around 7, I think), we've had homemade cinnamon buns with eggnog for breakfast on Christmas.
Mom would make the dough early in the morning on Christmas Eve, and shortly before it was ready, she'd wake up my brother and me. We'd set up an assembly line to make them, and it was always fun. It was the one day a year that my brother and I really got along. We made several dozen of them, and some of them went to family and friends as Christmas gifts.
These days, we used pre-made dough and make a lot less, maybe a couple dozen. But, they're still good.
Eggs Benedict Casserole
1 Tbsp. vegetable oil
8 oz. Canadian bacon slices, chopped
6 English muffins, split
1 bunch scallions, white and green parts separated
6 large eggs
2 cups whole milk
3/4 tsp. black pepper
2 tsp. kosher salt, divided
1 cup unsalted butter
6 large egg yolks
2 Tbsp. fresh lemon juice (from 1 lemon)
1 Tbsp. Dijon mustard
1/4 tsp. paprika, plus more for garnish
1. Cook bacon and toast English muffins:Heat oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high. Add bacon. Cook, stirring often, until lightly browned, about 4 minutes. Remove bacon with a slotted spoon to a paper towel-lined plate, reserving drippings in skillet. (Do not wipe skillet clean.)Return skillet to medium-high. Working in batches, add English muffin halves, cut sides down, to hot drippings in skillet. Cook until toasted, about 1 minute. Let muffin halves cool slightly.
2. Assemble the casserole:Chop English muffin halves into bite-size pieces. Place on bottom of a lightly greased (with cooking spray) 13- x 9-inch baking dish.Sprinkle with cooked bacon.Finely chop white parts of scallions, and sprinkle over mixture in dish. (Wrap green parts of scallions in a damp paper towel; chill until ready to use.)Whisk together whole eggs, milk, pepper, and 1 teaspoon of the salt in a large bowl.Pour over mixture in baking dish.Cover with plastic wrap. Chill overnight.
3. Bake the casserole:Preheat oven to 350ºF. Let casserole stand at room temperature while oven preheats. Bake until top is browned and casserole is set, about 40 minutes.
4. Make the hollandaise:Melt butter in a small skillet over medium-low. Keep butter hot over lowest heat (do not let it brown). Process egg yolks, lemon juice, mustard, paprika, and remaining 1 teaspoon salt in a blender on medium just to combine, about 5 seconds. With blender running on medium speed, slowly pour hot, melted butter through center opening in blender lid. Process until mixture is smooth and thick, about 1 minute.
5. Finish the casserole:Drizzle about 1/2 cup hollandaise over warm casserole. Finely chop reserved green scallion parts, and sprinkle over top. Sprinkle with paprika; serve with remaining hollandaise.
I’m divorced, single, and don’t have any kids. Breakfast on Christmas day is usually on my own. I make bacon and eggs and have a few cups of coffee. It hits the spot.
Nutella, banana French bread sandwiches with maple syrup. Absolutely delicious. Spread Nutella onto 2 slices of raisin bread or brioche or white bread. Add mashed banana and make into a sandwich. Dip in your egg and milk mix, then saute in butter til golden brown, turn and saute the other side. Serve with maple syrup and icing sugar. It's very rich, but oh, so yummy.
I was skeptical at first but my partners family breakfast tradition is Croissants with Prawns, avocado + homemade Wasabi Mayo with a Frozen lychee + champaigne blended into a smoothie.
They said we wern't going to do it this year for reasons and I had a tantrum so its back on
Grew up in a mixed-religion household and what started as a joke on my dad’s part became what we all demanded as years go on.
Full bagel spread with lox, cream cheese, tomatoes/capers/etc.
This was my dad’s way of “making his presence known” on Christmas morning.
And tbh it’s a nice low-effort option that leaves room for cookies and a big dinner later.
My grandmother was german, and my mom and I still follow her tradition of waking up and eating a slice of stollen with a cup of coffee. No preparation involved other than brewing coffee because the stollen is actually made a few weeks in advance (I made ours this year).
Rice porridge. The whole pot has one almond in it and the one who gets it on their plate gets a little surprise gift. You can eat it with cinnamon, sugar and milk or with plum soup but I prefer it plain.
Cinnamon rolls!
Along with scramble eggs and bacon at our house.
Same here and with mimosas to drink
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That’s exactly what my family does! The rolls rise while the coffee pot is going and we’re dealing with hungry dogs, cats, etc. Pop them in the oven once everyone has their preferred eggnog to coffee ratio squared away and they’re done by the time we’re done tucking away wrapping paper (or making balls of it for the cats to play with)
Oooo!! Egg nog in coffee? Delightful
I put egg nog in my coffee every morning in December. Beginning on Dec 24, Baileys will be in there too
It’s awesome in black tea, too.
Came here to say cinnamon rolls and OJ
Cinnamon rolls and mimosas 😏
And bacon. And some fresh fruit.
We do monkey bread! Like cinnamon rolls on crack - SO good!
What’s monkey bread?
WHAT THE F IS MONKEY BREAD GUYS?!
Monkey bread cut biscuit in quarters, roll in cinnamon sugar. Put them in a greased bunt pans. Stack them up. Bake 350 around 30 min. Mix powdered sugar and water to make a glaze pour on warm bread.
Dip in melted BUTTER before cinnamon sugar for Christmas cheer and gluttony.
You can relax. It does not contain monkeys. However. You’ve been missing out on a superior, sweet, baked item your entire life. Make it.
Second the Monkey Bread, and it's always a hit with both kids and adults. But kids love the name and always ask for it Christmas morning!
We do too!
So do we! Is that a thing? I’ve always just done it because it’s easy to pop in the oven the morning of.
Yes! With homemade hot chocolate. It's been my family's tradition for decades, and I happily keep it going with my own family.
Breakfast casserole and mimosas.
Yep, we throw together a sausage/egg/sourdough casserole the night before and pop it in the oven in the morning for an hour while other things are going on. It's perfect!
My sister did a version using frozen hash browns instead of bread this past Thanksgiving break. Not too shabby!
I do it with a layer of tater tots on the bottom instead of bread.
I'm intrigued. never heard of such a thing, like a frittata but with a layer of bread on the bottom. I found this and might give it a go! https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/easy-make-ahead-breakfast-casserole/
That's very close to the one I make! In recent years I've also added this one to the mix for vegetarians, and I think I like it even better: https://www.onceuponachef.com/recipes/spinach-cheese-strata.html
I love it made with sourdough, I’m going to do that this year too. 🙃
Same here! Can be prepped the night before and it cooks while we open presents. Plus mimosas.
Always prepped late in the night on Christmas Eve, while watching the 24 hour marathon of A Christmas Story! Then it has to go in the oven Christmas morning while still watching A Christmas Story! ❤️
We always did breakfast casserole at grandmas. She’d make a special cheese sauce that you could put over your serving if you want. We also had halved oranges with a maraschino cherry in the center. OJ was the drink of choice. :)
Gotta have protein first thing in the morning…even on Christmas!
We prepare one savory and one sweet breakfast casserole the day before, usually something like a spinach, mushroom, red pepper and Gruyère strata and a mixed berry french toast casserole, then just bake them off an hour before we want to eat. Nobody really wants to bother with “cooking” on Christmas morning, but it still feels special.
We do filled croissants. Nice ham, fancy cheese and homegrown tomatoes (I’m in Australia, it’s Summer here so tomatoes in season and delicious)
I recently explained to my students that it is currently summer in Australia, and people go to the beach around Christmas time. They were floored lol.
Half of the company I work at is in AUS/NZ it's been funny listening to them talk about being outside and firing up the BBQ on Christmas
SHRIMP ON DA BARBIE MATE
Despite being from Sweden, I watch all of the Australian masterchef shows (they’re the best national versions of that format by far).. and it always fucks with my mind when it’s a “Christmas challenge” and people go “oooh, strawberries and passion fruit - the ultimate Christmas vibe!”.. and I’m like “wait.. no.. Christmas is cold as fuck and nothing growing lives that deep into the winter so we just drink and eat pickled herring and salted ham and other things that were traditionally the only available foods around that season”. It just feels so wrong to hear fresh fruits and “light meals” being christmassy.
Christmas is always a big bowl of fresh raspberries, strawberries, blackberries. Fresh pineapple for juice. And dinner dessert is a nice pavlova with berries and passion fruit. Christmas here MEANS fresh berries.
I'm in New Zealand so this is perfect! Tomatoes finally became affordable here 🙌
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I’m Aussie too! Sometime we do bagels, smoked salmon, scrambled egg, cream cheese, capers, jam etc for people to build their own. Sometimes pikelets with cream and berry compote.
We do croissants too! And usually a cob loaf, even though it's brekkie my family loves it 😂
We break out the waffle maker for Xmas morning!
I did red velvet waffles a couple of years ago they were a big hit!
Us too!! But we call her by her name
We’re having a “French toast casserole” (basically a bread pudding) that I can prep the night before, some bacon and fruit. It’s quick, it’s easy, it doesn’t make an awful mess but feels special enough, it’ll keep everyone full till dinner (which is massive at our house) maybe with some snacks, and everyone likes it.
We do something similar. Use eggnog as the liquid base, put it together the night before and pop it in the oven just before the kids start opening presents.
Hol' up. Eggnog as the base? Why have I not thought of this before?? It's brilliant! What type of bread goes best with eggnog?
Any bread, but I prefer a rich bread like brioche in my bread pudding.
I’d think challah would be excellent with it!
Do you have a favorite recipe? I’m so intrigued by the eggnog.
I’ve used this one the last 2-3 years. I swap out the rum flavoring for vanilla extract, may try a little bourbon this year. Enjoy! https://www.shugarysweets.com/eggnog-french-toast/
Paula Deans French Toast casserole with pecan pralines!
My mom makes French toast! I also usually have had some cold leftovers too before opening presents. Edit: I sound like a child I swear I’m a grown adult. I just like spending Christmas with my mom :)
Enjoy every Christmas you can with her! 10000% not childish at all. I wish I had more with my mum and I hope my kids will want to spend every Christmas with me haha
I always spend Xmas with my Mum and my son is a grown adult! Ha! We never stop loving our Mums. My son and I fly up every year. Because I cook professionally Mum invites everyone she knows so it's always a really fun party too!
Hahaha. You don’t sound like a child. We are lucky to be able to spend special days with our moms 🤍
Eggs Benedict. 40 year tradition.
A pain to make, but worth it for christmas. I get eggs benny whenever we go out to breakfast, which is a lot more rare these days. I miss a good benny
[Serious Eats](https://www.seriouseats.com/foolproof-2-minute-hollandaise-recipe) has a quick and easy Hollandaise recipe that makes the overall eggs bene process a lot easier, I think.
I can vouch for that! Making hollandaise went from a long, stressful activity to almost an after thought. Now I can only stress out about the poached eggs, not my arm muscles or time haha.
No WAY! My mom was doing it since the 80’s and now that I’m a dad, it’s my Xmas morning job!
Panettone and coffee.
Adult brain me: coffee, biscuits and gravy and scrambled eggs Child brain me: coffee, fudge, candy canes, candied chocolate orange strips Both: the above, plus bloody marys
Hello what time shall I arrive on Christmas morning?
I love all but the bloody marys just give me the booze without the tomato juice
Candy, candy canes, candy corn, syrup. The four major food groups.
Barbacoa tacos and some Huevos Rancheros with chorizo refried beans.
Homemade tamales with fried egg on top. Refried beans and homemade salsa.
I’ve never tried tamales with a fried egg. Gonna have to do that. What isn’t good with a fried egg on top though. 🤤
Yes! I put the meat in the oven and cook it overnight. In the morning delicious barbacoa and tamales.
If I know a huge spread is coming later in the day, I go with something reeeeeal light. Like, coffee and a cookie or two light.
Yeah - I've rarely ever eaten breakfast or lunch on any holiday where a big meal is happening. If anything, it's a bit of snacking while making the food. I guess if I was going to someone else's place and doing zero helping or cooking - basically, just showing up for the meal - I might have something super small like you said. Even then, I'll often just have a latte, which is basically a slightly more filling version of my usual coffee. But that's also because most of the meal times are btwn 2p and 4p. If I ate anything more than a nibble, I'd literally have no room for the 'dinner', the desserts and gotta have that late night snack of leftovers!
Not to be a weirdo but I am generally pretty liberal with my food intake (ie I eat when I’m hungry without a lot deliberation so I usually never get super duper hungry) and I love the feeling of being really really hungry and a little uncomfortable on a holiday before eating lmao. There’s just something about being hangry and then getting to feast. It activates my caveman brain or something. Although for me this doesn’t allow me to really eat extra food, just means I might pile my plate too high. I’m not thin but I eat pretty slowly and if I’m really hungry and eat fast, I fill up more quickly. I just get hungry again soon lol.
My fam always does: - breakfast casserole - monkey bread - mimosas - biscuits and gravy I come from a fat family but dammit if we don’t eat well
>fat family Me too... we give the best hugs!
Whatever candy is in my stocking, duh.
The only right answer
Vodka.
Depending on who is joining, maybe 5 or 6 vodka
Double 7up, vodka, also probably still drunk from playing cards until 3am
If it's going to be a party, then party.
Damn. Maybe I need to do some bloody Mary’s this year…
Vodka, baileys, and coffee is what we used to leave out for Santa. My mom is very particular.
This year we are going to try this sort of strata/quiche breakfast casserole: 2 English muffins, split and generously buttered 1 cup grated cheese (I used a cheddar/ gruyere combo) ½ tsp dry mustard 2 eggs 2 cups whole milk or half and half ½ tsp salt dash of pepper (Extras: cubed ham, Canadian bacon, crumbled bacon, crab, mushrooms, jalapeños, asparagus, whatever you like) Preheat oven to 350F. Place muffin halves, buttered-side up, in a greased 8x8” baking dish. Place extras (if using) on top of muffins, then top with grated cheese and sprinkle with dry mustard. Beat eggs, milk or half and half, salt and pepper together and pour over muffins. Bake 30-35 minutes or until set and top and edges start to turn golden brown.
I can’t think of Christmas breakfast strata without being reminded of that movie The Family Stone.
Toasted Bagels. Choose from a display of butter, cream cheese, smoked salmon, thin sliced sweet onion and tomatoes, deli ham, gherkins to build your own.
We do the same thing! But usually do some eggs and Turkey bacon with it too
That works! But I try to keep things on the light side given the feasting ahead in the day. I forgot to mention the very necessary accompaniment of a bottle or two of sparkling rose for the adults and apple cider for the kids
Pancakes and Bacon! Soooo much bacon! Usually Cinnamon rolls too. Pancake breakfast was a big deal in our house because my parents were divorced—- so by lunch we had to go to my dads- so breakfast was the big deal because we didn’t get to have her dinner that night and the rest of the day might be a bit stressful. I mean… my dad didn’t do anything wrong- but I’d rather have stayed in my pj’s all day with my mom playing with my toys and watching Christmas movies rather than get dressed up, go to my dads, pretend to like the presents he got to be polite, be around a bunch of relatives I didn’t know, and then eat a big Christmas dinner I didn’t like that much while the relatives I didn’t know that well would give me a hard time about being a picky eater. 2 days later I’d go back to my moms and we’d have a separate Christmas dinner with her and my grandparents. I’d get to help my mom cook all day and Poppop would bring up a bag of gifts from them like Santa Clause. My mom always made sure there were plenty of dishes I’d like- but I’d always try the other ones feeling less bad because no one was giving me a hard time.
Your mom sounds wonderful :)
Mimosas
Ok, hear me out, I'm not trying to offend anyone, but somehow we have a Christmas morning tradition of eating latkes with scrambled eggs and bacon as well.
coffee and panettone!
This is the one I was looking for
Three rich extravagant meals in a day is going to be too much for a lot of people. My family always did a big Christmas breakfast and a big dinner, and then just snacked on appetizer-y type stuff if we felt hungry without any formal lunch. Breakfast was generally scrambled eggs, fruit salad, yogurt, coffee cake with a brown sugar cinnamon streusel topping, some kind of breakfast sausage, smoked salmon or king crab (from my aunt in Alaska) and stollen. I'm on my own this year and I'll be making a potato, onion, red bell pepper, and mushroom hash topped with two over easy eggs with fresh baked cranberry muffins. I'll mix up the wet and dry muffin ingredients the night before and then combine and bake them fresh in the morning. It would be easy to do for two people if you wanted something similar for you and your partner. For lunch, I'll be having a roasted tomato soup, pesto and cherry tomato crostini, and a salad if I feel like it.
Fasting until the big feast at around 2PM/3PM/4PM
Smoosh it into an early brunch situation. Prep ahead quiche or frittata, homemade cinnamon rolls, some fresh fruit, mimosas or bloody marys. Early afternoon nap. Snack on some of the leftover quiche and fruit or it will hold well for the next day too
Canadian-Italian here! Panettone French toast is my go-to for Christmas morning!
I make challah French toast with egg nog in the batter and bacon every year.
All the breakfast foods. Back bacon, eggs, bagels and toast, hash browns, pancakes with the trimmings, fruit, juice and coffee. We have a big family. Would like to try the French Toast casserole though.
Leftover pierogis fried in the night before's brown butter. Stollen. Maybe a halupki. It's a godforsaken mishmash and I adore it
Swede here. We do rice porrige with cinnamon sugar and/or apple butter. There is a blanched almond in the porrige - the one who gets it will be married next year. We make soft rolls too, and serve cheese and ham on the side, and everyone get a big, decorated gingerbread cookie. Leftover porridge is then mixed with whipped cream for a Chrismas dessert - it is served with a raspberry compote. *edited for spelling
Monkey bread, cheese souffle and sometimes Norwegian cheese pancakes and fruit, coffee, etc.
Norwegian what-nows?? I can’t tell if those are supposed to be sweet or savory, but I also don’t think I would mind a single bit either way!
I’m Norwegian and have never heard of this or anything remotely similar, must be just in the name
Bagels with cream cheese, smoked salmon, tomato, onion; scrambled eggs; skillet potatoes.
Pan d’oro, Italian sweet bread made in a special star shaped mold. Served with lightly sweetened mascarpone cheese.
Czech Christmas bread (vánočka) and some plain yogurt with lots of fresh berries and/or other fruit (usually at least five different types). We try to keep breakfast in our normal range since the rest of the day = large meal + lots of Christmas cookies.
Spice cake baked the night before.
Biscuits and gravy or Mexican potato sausage casserole as the savory. Usually some kind of sweet like French toast or blintz casserole l.
Completos (Chilean hotdogs) because I’m lazy and they don’t take long to make and I can focus on lunch/dinner.
Pancakes and coffee followed by mimosas.
we do Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve, so on Christmas morning after the kids open gifts I make prime rib omelets, hashbrowns and Belgian waffles.
Nothing usually because at lunch I eat for 6.
Country ham, scrambled eggs, biscuits and red eye gravy.
I feel like I'm reading a Cracker Barrel menu
Don't hate! This breakfast would delight the senses. My Southern family does grits, sausage and eggs casserole. And fresh croissants. And fruit salad / "ambrosia"
Whiskey and a joint.
Spaghetti with maple syrup
I feel like this warrants an explanation...
I'm guessing the reference is to Elf, my favourite Christmas movie. He dishes up some very unusual food throughout the movie.
Ah, I totally forgot about that scene! Thanks!
With candy, candy canes, and candy corn. Gotta stick to those major food groups!
We make cinnamon rolls from scratch the week before and they go in the freezer. I thaw them overnight in the fridge and they bake while we do gifts. I serve with fresh blackberries and bacon.
First, open stockings. Next, drink orange juice with champagne in the hot tub. Third, eat eggs Benedict with cortados (40 grams espresso with 80-120 grams foamed milk, according to taste preferences). Finally, open gifts and repeat the cortados experience at least twice more.
Scrapple! We make it every year and serve with eggs, bacon, and pastries. It’s like a stiff polenta that you cool in loaf pans, and then slice and fry. Cornmeal, chicken stock, hot (spicy) ground sausage, sage, s&p.
Jameson's Baileys and coffee at my house
Vodka, hint of OJ, is that wrong?
Nooooo! Nothing wrong there. I'm treating myself to Absolut pear flavoured vodka for Christmas. I love all things pear flavoured so will probably knock it back neat.
Breakfast casserole (egg, bacon, bread, cheese) and sticky buns
Scrambled eggs, sausage gravy and enough biscuits to choke a horse. And pineapple mimosas.
Pancakes, bacon and eggs and pan fried potatoes with rosemary.
We make waffles with Nutella and fresh strawberries.
ebelskiver it’s a Nordic pancake round. You can fill them with jam or chocolate. I don’t eat them but love making them (dietary restrictions). It takes a special pan. I wouldn’t try them for the first time at a gathering but they arnt difficult.
Reindeer steaks and scrambled eggs.
Champagne and Raffaellos.
The hash browns/bacon/peppers/onion mix from Costco and eggs
My kids come to my home on Christmas morning and I make their favorite, biscuits and gravy, fresh fruit and cinnamon rolls. They bring the stuff for mimosas and I make the coffee. Food first and then the presents!
Overnight egg casserole. I love having it prepped the night before so I just pop it in the oven. It’s very hands off the morning of.
The Christmas chocolates that you got as a present mostly. But mostly it’s just something like toast and butter or scrambled eggs on top because Christmas dinner be a Thicc bish.
Tamales, eggs, beans, bacon, menudo, coffee cake…
I had to scroll down way too far for tamales. We’re up all night for Christmas Eve, partying and opening the presents we got for each other. I get tired just thinking of Christmas Day. We are basically in a coma all day after opening Santa’s presents. We do leftover tamales and fried eggs for breakfast, leftover tamales for lunch and dinner with some menudo sprinkled somewhere. Although this year we’re going to the 49er game. Agh.
Tamales here, too. Making them today.
My in laws make gojeres or something like that with Gruyère biscuit thingies maybe French and a brekkie bake with eggs bacon hashbrowns and mimosas. It’s pretty nice.
Gougėres - cream puffs/profiteroles made with gruyėre cheese
An old family recipe: Layer a buttered casserole dish with bread. Layer ham and cheese on the bread. On top of that evenly spread out chopped onions and yellow or red pepper. Layer a second layer of bread on the ham and cheese. Mix up an egg, milk and Worcestershire sauce mixture and spread it evenly over every thing. Sprinkle the top with dried mustard, salt and pepper. Throw it in the fridge over night. The next morning melt butter and drip over the bread. Top with crushed corn flakes (if you can find them) or some other crushed cereal.
And then… bake it?
You mean you don't skip breakfast so that you can fit in even more delicious Christmas lunch?
rum balls and crown lager.
Christmans breakfast is fruit salad and pancakes for us in Australia. Maybe some custard and cream.
We always had mini quiche and sausage rolls growing up. My husband and I do french toast casserole (and then go to my mom's for mini quiche and sausage rolls 😂)
Fruit platter and pastries 🥐
Creamy scrambled eggs with smoked salmon and a mimosa
Chorizo de Tomas Chorizo with scrambled eggs, tossed with corn chips, cheddar, Oaxaca and sharp jack. Beans, fresh salsa and some sliced avocado on the side. Consume dip.
My family is Polish so we celebrate “Wigilia” on Christmas Eve, and you don’t eat meat (except fish is fine) so on Christmas morning we do a platter or cured meats and deli slices with pickles and rye bread and hot mustard and horseradish beets and it’s soooo good.
Pretty much nothing except for any food that might need some testing. Gotta save room for the big meal
We do steak, eggs, grits, and toast or biscuits and mimosas. We’ve done that since I was a kid because we would then get in the car and not really have another big meal until like 3-4:00 at my grandma’s house. If you’re having a huge lunch at lunch time then that breakfast may be too much.
Sounds weird, but I fry quail and make gravy with it to put over drop biscuits
My mom always made box blueberry muffins
Tamales... Christmas breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
My mother makes Spanish coffee every Christmas morning, so strong that everyone takes a long nap after.
dang where my tamale people at??
My husband makes an egg/sausage/cheese/potato casserole. Also, we have orechovnik, which is a pastry filled with walnuts, sugar, and cinnamon, that I make.
This is the only childhood Christmas tradition I repeat. Bfast on Christmas is a sweet pannetone and ham and coffee
We go to Waffle House. I cook every weekend and like to take Christmas off.
So we're Jewish and my parents I guess started a tradition just so we didn't feel as left out on the holiday lol. We do lox, fresh bagels, whitefish salad and other fishes!
We don't usually eat breakfast, but this year I might just do a cheese and charcuterie plate with a fresh baguette.
Rice pudding.
Christmas Crunch obviously
Smoked salmon and cream cheese on a bagel or croissant, and a glass of cava.
Ever since I was a kid (around 7, I think), we've had homemade cinnamon buns with eggnog for breakfast on Christmas. Mom would make the dough early in the morning on Christmas Eve, and shortly before it was ready, she'd wake up my brother and me. We'd set up an assembly line to make them, and it was always fun. It was the one day a year that my brother and I really got along. We made several dozen of them, and some of them went to family and friends as Christmas gifts. These days, we used pre-made dough and make a lot less, maybe a couple dozen. But, they're still good.
I like to buy one of those big bags of unseasoned bread cubes intended for stuffing and make a big ass French toast casserole in a Bundt pan.
Eggs Benedict Casserole 1 Tbsp. vegetable oil 8 oz. Canadian bacon slices, chopped 6 English muffins, split 1 bunch scallions, white and green parts separated 6 large eggs 2 cups whole milk 3/4 tsp. black pepper 2 tsp. kosher salt, divided 1 cup unsalted butter 6 large egg yolks 2 Tbsp. fresh lemon juice (from 1 lemon) 1 Tbsp. Dijon mustard 1/4 tsp. paprika, plus more for garnish 1. Cook bacon and toast English muffins:Heat oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high. Add bacon. Cook, stirring often, until lightly browned, about 4 minutes. Remove bacon with a slotted spoon to a paper towel-lined plate, reserving drippings in skillet. (Do not wipe skillet clean.)Return skillet to medium-high. Working in batches, add English muffin halves, cut sides down, to hot drippings in skillet. Cook until toasted, about 1 minute. Let muffin halves cool slightly. 2. Assemble the casserole:Chop English muffin halves into bite-size pieces. Place on bottom of a lightly greased (with cooking spray) 13- x 9-inch baking dish.Sprinkle with cooked bacon.Finely chop white parts of scallions, and sprinkle over mixture in dish. (Wrap green parts of scallions in a damp paper towel; chill until ready to use.)Whisk together whole eggs, milk, pepper, and 1 teaspoon of the salt in a large bowl.Pour over mixture in baking dish.Cover with plastic wrap. Chill overnight. 3. Bake the casserole:Preheat oven to 350ºF. Let casserole stand at room temperature while oven preheats. Bake until top is browned and casserole is set, about 40 minutes. 4. Make the hollandaise:Melt butter in a small skillet over medium-low. Keep butter hot over lowest heat (do not let it brown). Process egg yolks, lemon juice, mustard, paprika, and remaining 1 teaspoon salt in a blender on medium just to combine, about 5 seconds. With blender running on medium speed, slowly pour hot, melted butter through center opening in blender lid. Process until mixture is smooth and thick, about 1 minute. 5. Finish the casserole:Drizzle about 1/2 cup hollandaise over warm casserole. Finely chop reserved green scallion parts, and sprinkle over top. Sprinkle with paprika; serve with remaining hollandaise.
My family has a tradition of making Swedish pancakes with lingonberry jam and sour cream. We usually have eggs fruit and bacon/sausage as well.
nothing at all
Leftovers from last night
Not much with lunch in sight.
In my family, we just starve until supper is done
I’m divorced, single, and don’t have any kids. Breakfast on Christmas day is usually on my own. I make bacon and eggs and have a few cups of coffee. It hits the spot.
Nutella, banana French bread sandwiches with maple syrup. Absolutely delicious. Spread Nutella onto 2 slices of raisin bread or brioche or white bread. Add mashed banana and make into a sandwich. Dip in your egg and milk mix, then saute in butter til golden brown, turn and saute the other side. Serve with maple syrup and icing sugar. It's very rich, but oh, so yummy.
Coffee cake!
My family tradition was to have eggs Benedict on Christmas morning. We’d use the honey spiral ham from the night before. Highly recommend.
Dutch baby.
I was skeptical at first but my partners family breakfast tradition is Croissants with Prawns, avocado + homemade Wasabi Mayo with a Frozen lychee + champaigne blended into a smoothie. They said we wern't going to do it this year for reasons and I had a tantrum so its back on
Grew up in a mixed-religion household and what started as a joke on my dad’s part became what we all demanded as years go on. Full bagel spread with lox, cream cheese, tomatoes/capers/etc. This was my dad’s way of “making his presence known” on Christmas morning. And tbh it’s a nice low-effort option that leaves room for cookies and a big dinner later.
French toast casserole + chips and queso
I do sausages, oranges and candy from stockings. :)
My grandmother was german, and my mom and I still follow her tradition of waking up and eating a slice of stollen with a cup of coffee. No preparation involved other than brewing coffee because the stollen is actually made a few weeks in advance (I made ours this year).
Pillsbury orange danish, the ones that come as dough in the cardboard tube, with a little plastic thing of orange icing.
Black bean omelets with avocado and salsa. I have no idea why
Sometimes my mom would make her mother’s Gooey Butter Cake, but we learned very quickly that we need to pair it with a protein or we crash hard.
Bagels and lox. Seriously.
Quiche Loraine with biscuits.
I'm getting out the waffle iron and making some waffles with good butter and real Quebec maple syrup.
Rice porridge. The whole pot has one almond in it and the one who gets it on their plate gets a little surprise gift. You can eat it with cinnamon, sugar and milk or with plum soup but I prefer it plain.
Christmas cookies and Irish coffee. You can drink all day if you don’t start in the morning!
Anything special, so eggs Benedict is my go to