UNITED STATES—I remember as a kid that my mom would craft a feast for me and my siblings for the big holiday. I sort of miss those days because we took advantage of what my mom used to do, and we didn’t indulge as much as we should have. She used to do bagels, Danish, donuts, bacon, sausage, eggs, waffles, muffins, orange juice, apple juice, we literally had the works. I am one who sleeps in on Xmas.
It literally is the one day of the year that I actually don’t have to work, and as a result, I sleep in as long as possible. Anyone who knows me is well aware that if I sleep past 8:30 a.m. or 9 a.m. if I have an off day, there might be something wrong. I may not get up till 11 a.m. if I get the opportunity and I love it to be honest.
However, this has made me consider something I hadn’t thought about doing for breakfast: making omelets for the family. How about an actual omelet station with the works. You can just have plain eggs, you can have it with cheese, bacon, sausage, red onions, spinach, broccoli, asparagus, green peppers, red peppers, the opportunities are quite endless to say the least. Also it would be fun to give that impression that you are cooking the food to order like at an actual restaurant.
I can do without the waffles because I’m more of a pancake person, but I did literally just purchase my first ever waffle maker this year and I’m eager to see how it works and if I can start to become engrained in wanting to eat waffles over pancakes we shall see. Then you have grits, which I absolutely adore and love. I could eat them every single day if I had the opportunity to do so. You can have shrimp and grits or even some pork sausage if you please. Grits are just tasty and quite versatile to say the least.
If you add in some fresh butter and cheese it is like literal heaven. I’m not one that wants something overly heavy for Christmas breakfast and that is probably because I know Christmas dinner will be another feast. Likely ham or prime rib roast which is what many in my family tend to cater to. I had it one time on Christmas Day and it was like heaven. I couldn’t recall something tastier, juicer and just perfectly cooked with the right side dishes to accompany it. However, I’m not the only American who thinks Prime Rib is a perfect dinner dish because it was nearly impossible to find anywhere I went the past 2-3 weeks. So an alternative had to come into play.
You want something in your belly for the morning, but you don’t want to be stuffed to the point that you don’t eat when you’re visiting the homes of family and friends and you know someone is going to have finger food or a feast of food for you to pick from. I think breakfast is quite underrated around Christmas time because there is all that excitement about gifts, opening presents and thinking about dinner, so breakfast takes a backseat when it should be the front seat.
The one problem is that if you plan a feast for breakfast, you are probably going to have a lot of leftovers and breakfast is one of those meals that doesn’t taste good when you reheat them or they’re not fresh. So you can do a plethora of options, just limit the quantity of what you buy of each item so nothing has to be tossed or thrown away.
If you have kids of course, the more the merrier, because kids are picky eaters and they might like something one day, but the next day they want something else. Not to mention people probably get up quite early on the big holiday, which means you have plenty of time to snack and eat throughout the day with breakfast being the start, then brunch and later dinner. So why not indulge just a little bit, Christmas only comes one time a year.
