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It's just what it says - small balls of bread dough fried - then you shake them with sugar and cinnamon. My grandmother used to put raisins in the middle; sometimes anchovies. I skip that part.

Sounds de-lish Janet....Ca Girl, have you ever had a doughut hole? It's similar to that. Not terrible at all!

Rocky Mountain Brunch (prepare the day before): 2 lbs breakfast sausage, fried; 8 slices bread, cubed; 3/4 lb cheddar cheese, shredded; 4 eggs, slightly beaten; 2 1/4 cups milk; 1 can cream of mushroom soup. After fixing sausage, let it drain and cut into small pieces. Place the bread in the bottom of a large 4 qt lasagna pan which has been buttered. Add the sausage. Combine the cheese, beaten eggs, milk and soup. Pour the mixture over the sausage. Allow the dish to sit overnight in the refrigerator. Next morning bake the dish in a 325 degree oven for 1 1/2 hrs. Yum! Ali~

I've made this French Toast "casserole" two years in a row. You actually assemble it the night before and then it bakes for about 45 minutes so you can start it before everyone gets up or gets too hungry. This link has a praline topping but I skip the pralines and just use cinnamon, brown sugar, nutmeg and butter.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes ... 74,00.html

It is best to have this before all the New Years resolutions are made.

jayseadee wrote:oooh, I love Creme Brulee anything!

Our Christmas morning breakfast has been Fried Dough and Egg Nog for as long as I can remember. Pretty simple!

You MUST be from the midwest originally. Maybe not, but my gramma made the BEST fried dough. We didn't even dip it in sugar, just slathered it with butter. SO delicious! Yummy! Tasty!

Jo Ann - VA wrote:X - what is your recipe for the Creme Brulee french toast?

Out here in California we have a chain called Whole Foods. Not sure where else they might be.

If you have one near you ask if they have Creme Brulee French Toast. Nice, really nice!!!!

Here is some stuff from my Christmas breakfast....chive and brie strata:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28539958@N00/2138044607/" title="strata by liamsaunt, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2324/213 ... b43728.jpg" width="500" height="441" alt="strata"></a>

cinnamon rolls with raisins and walnuts:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28539958@N00/2138823040/" title="cinnamon rolls by liamsaunt, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2271/213 ... 6e4c8a.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="cinnamon rolls"></a>

There was a bunch of other stuff too, but I did not get pictures of it all.

LMG...i made the same French Toast Casserole for Christmas Breakfast and it was a really big hit.

Really...it was delicious!!

If you have some left over....heat it up and put some ice cream on top. It doubles as a dessert.

HI,

I thought I'd resurrect this thread in case others are looking for some new ideas.

I'm going to try the Baked French Toast for Christmas Eve Brunch.

We have a 6 year old. My only goal for Christmas morning is to get coffee made. I think last year, I put the pot downstairs on the beer fridge and made it while the whirlwind happened.

I asked the Mrs recently and I think we agreed to just see what happens. Maybe, if I'm lucky, I can fire up a pan and make some good sausage. If I can cram some on to an English Muffin before I have to assemble a Playmobil armada, I'll be happy.

Christmas day blows. We'll have to pull the kid away from her crap and go up the road to my parents' house where I will be forced to cook dinner for everyone. Noooooooo...can't come to our house. Everyone (except us) is too ashamed of it.

I'll stop ranting now and allow you all to go back to the topic of breakfast.

I make prime rib and lobster for christmas eve use the left overs to make eggs benedict with the prime rib indtead of the canadon bacon and a lobster hollondase sauce.

mbw1024 wrote:

RickG wrote:Country ham biscuits! I make them ahead, freeze them and plan on 8 per person.

Cheers, RickG

can you splain yourself?????

Where you from? You make biscuits. You cook a country ham and slice it thin. You take cool biscuits, split them and put a pat a butter and a slice of country ham. Freeze them wrapped in foil until you need them.

No country ham in NJ? That Pork Roll gonna kill you.

http://www.calhounhams.com/

So good you'll slap yo' Mama.

Cheers, RickG

can I come over?