My family has a giant cinnamon bun tradition on Christmas morning, if that's the kind of holiday you mean. I'm also partial to "banana split waffles" on vacation. They actually don't have ice cream. But they do have a lot of whipped cream and chocolate sauce.
I don't know. I'm Canadian, and it does get cold in winter. I stop wanting ice cream. The idea of eating ice cream with hot chocolate sounds painful. The contrast in temperatures would hurt, I think.
I like going to T&T in Edmonton. Where are you thinking of going? It's really big and clean. What Norlinda says seems true to me.
I used to hate stir fry on rice. Now I love rice and stir fry and make it for myself all the time. So easy and tasty.
An 8 inch chef's knife. Works for almost everything, except slicing cheese, ripe tomatoes and bread.
I like to make roasted bell peppers, marinate them in olive oil, garlic, salt and pepper then serve them with slices of feta and baguette. Then put the cheese on the bread and a pepper on top. It's really tasty.
We grew parsley in the yard. I just ate bits of it, plain.
I really liked marshmallows. I nuked them with rice crispies for a snack. . . and lots of other marshmallow creations. I still like s'mores though.
At my parents' house there is usually some room temperature butter... just on a plate. It gets used quickly. I don't use much on my own, so it's in the fridge.
I pretty much never dine out alone. But, one morning last semester I took myself out for breakfast. I had cheddar and apple crepes in an organic market cafe. It was delicious.
That's what I've read too, that more ice cream is sold (in the US) in winter by far than in summer. Funny...
My mother made several beautifully decorated fruit, nut stollens every year for Christmas breakfast. We would have that nuked or toasted prior to opening gifts. Afterward, we'd have a more traditional eggs and bacon or sausage breakfast. If one of her children couldn't be with the rest of us for the holidays, she'd make their's earlier and mail. If she was staying with me, I'd know that she'd be in the kitchen most of Christmas Eve, making a mess. Secretly, we all thought they weren't quite worth the effort, and were on the dry side. Mom is gone now, and I wish I knew how to make her beautiful, delicious stollen. Even more, I wish she were here to mess up my kitchen.
nothing special for Thanksgiving but Christmas morning is croisant bread pudding. totally decadent and bad for me but yummy!
Thanks for sharing comments on your holiday breakfast fixings :) I prepare our traditional Christmas brunch after gifts are opened---menu varies from year to year as the grandkids grow & tastes change. Hot chocolate is always a must, tho'
I like to start out with steaming hot mugs of spiced apple cider (make it in a big coffee urn) and hot cocoa with homemade marshmallows and homemade cinnamon rolls while we are opening gifts (BIG family event-around 25+ people). Then for the actual sit-down breakfast we have eggs, bacon, sausage, biscuits and grits-the whole Southern deal.
We don't eat until around 7 or 8 in the evening on Christmas day so I like to make a hearty breakfast. We eat earlier on Thanksgiving and New Years, so it's usually just homemade cinnamon rolls/yeast rolls and hot cider/cocoa for breakfast.
For Thanksgiving, usually some sort of homemade muffin with scrambled eggs, though one year I made mini quiches the day before instead of scrambled eggs. Always, I make hot spiced apple cider.
For Christmas, I've started making my own panettone, along with scrambled eggs and hot spiced apple cider.
I try to start the day virtuously, with my usual homemade fruit & yogurt shake with a few TBSP protein powder, telling myself it'll hold me til the Big Dinner Thing, but knowing deep in my heart that I am deluding myself.
When my relatives get together for holiday eating- and may I mention they're Polish - you can't get away with just a shake til dinner. These are people for whom the word "punczki" - (a jelly-filled donut) - is a personal term of endearment, which they utter while pinching your cheek with great affection.
On thanksgiving I don't eat breakfast because I know I am going to nosh all day on the food I am cooking for the main event.
But on Christmas, I eat normally. It's the breakfasts after Thanksgiving and Christmas that are my special breakfasts. I always have a big hunk of Pumpkin Pie or leftovers!
Angel biscuits, spicy sausage and hot chocolate for christmas breakfast.
Christmas morning has always been grapefruit halves with honey, scrambled eggs, toasted english muffins with butter and jam, panettone, bacon, and Kippers, or Scottish smoked herring steamed in a plastic bag, orange juice, tea and coffee. .This hasn't changed once for as long as I can remember and it's alway made in the morning, before any presents could be opened.
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