A Christmas Brunch Full of Tasty Ideas!

Well, hello and Merry Christmas to you. I hope this is a great day at your house. You know what? It’s that time of year, that God’s love is expressed in so many ways. And I hope that you have remembered to put a gift under the tree for the Lord. If you know what I mean, take care of your charities or whatever. This is gonna be a little different than other Christmases on At Home, ’cause we’re gonna do Christmas breakfast. Oh, we got such good, delicious, wonderful recipes, and things that are not gonna take you away from your family so that you can enjoy the day with them. And I hope that you’ll include some of those in your Christmas breakfast, if you have out of town guests, this is great. If it’s just for the four of you, sometimes we tend to forget about those that are just by themselves, that are alone, or maybe, don’t have a whole big family to celebrate with. How about calling the neighbor next door, if you live alone and say, “Come on over and have breakfast with me?” I tell you, this is a time of year when peace and goodwill should be at the centermost part of our thoughts and our doings. And I’m glad that you joined us. Give everyone in your home a big hug for me and say “Merry Christmas from Arlene William,” because family, this is a wonderful time. And I’m glad that you came by today. We’re gonna get started in just a minute. And before we do, here’s a special greeting from us to you. Well, the first thing we’re gonna make today for our Christmas breakfast, I’d like to have some music here. I’d really like, that just does. There we go, I love it. We’re gonna take some flour, and we’re gonna add some baking powder. These are orange spice muffins, and that’s just nice to have something fresh like that on the a Christmas morning. And there’s some cinnamon, some ground cloves, there’s, let’s say ground nutmeg, there’s salt, all kind of goodies, going in here. Just like that. Then I’m just gonna take the fork and mix that up, ’cause you want that to incorporate. I hope that you’re having a wonderful morning with your kids, hope that the day is just great. And don’t forget to stop and thank the Lord, ’cause that’s the most important person, ’cause after all it is his birthday. And you know what? I never get tired of hearing Merry Christmas because it honors the king, Jesus Christ, our savior and our Lord. A lot of times people are trying to get rid of that and call it everything else except Christmas. But really, if it’s Christ’s birthday, how could you call it anything else? I mean if it’s my birthday I don’t say let’s call it Mike’s. Right Mike? No, absolutely not. So anyway, let’s keep holding that forth. Now we got a little bit of sour cream, and some melted butter. We’re gonna add that together. And we have one egg, get all that out of there, and a tablespoon of orange juice concentrate, like right outta the frozen can, just one table spoon of that. And three, whoa, like I said, these Beers hope a new mixer is under the tree for me, Michael. It better be. I probably pushed the eject and didn’t realize I did. Anyway, here we go. We’re gonna get started now. And we’re just gonna blend this really well. And ’cause then we’re gonna add these orange spice muffins are so fresh and so delicious tasting that it’s just nice to have something fresh like this on Christmas morning. Now we’re gonna add some brown sugar. It says to go ahead and stir this. And this is the zest of one large orange. We just wanna, I’m gonna get rid of these because they’re not cooperating with me and I’m gonna just mix it up anyway. One end out just goes plan B. So we have the brown sugar and we have that mixture. Wonderful mixture. It’s gonna make it moist, that sour cream in there. And that’s that fresh zest of the orange. That makes it delicious. Now we’re gonna add our powder ingredients, the dry ingredients. And we’re gonna mix this well. You wanna have 12 muffin cups sprayed with non-stick butter flavor or the original just regular flavor. You don’t wanna use the garlic flavor. Absolutely not, and wouldn’t be good with your orange zest and who wants to mess up a Christmas like that. But anyway, we just mix this together and we’re gonna put that in our prepared muffin tins, and then we’re gonna sprinkle. We just have a little bit of sugar and a little bit of cinnamon. We’re gonna sprinkle that over the top of the muffins. Mix this up here. Get it going. Nothing like Christmas morning when there’s kids in the house, sometimes it’s hard to get them settled down to have breakfast, but I like to do breakfast after everybody’s opened everything and kind of settling down there, playing with the toys or whatever. Now’s the time to do that not when they’re trying, you’re trying to give ’em breakfast and all they want is to get to the tree. Not a good idea. So let’s just mix this around. I’m gonna ask one of the girls to come in. Tammy, could you gimme a hand here and we’ll just put the muffins. There we go. Could just spoon those in for me. I would appreciate it. Tammy’s help ’em today, appreciate Tam. And we wanna sprinkle that on top of them before you put them in the oven. They bake for at 400 degrees for about 12, I’m sorry, for 20 to 25 minutes, but it makes 12. Now this one you do the night before. So that Christmas morning is not such a hectic time. And this is called blueberry French toast cobbler. Blueberries are appropriate all time, any time of the year, but this uses the frozen blueberry, which is great. This is a pound and a half. When you go to the store, it’s usually one pound package. So remember to get two. And you just frozen, you put the blueberries in the dish. And then you take sugar and cinnamon and some corn starch. And we’re just gonna whisk that around. The corn starch is gonna act as a thickener to make the juice from the blueberries like syrupy. And then all we do with this is sprinkle this over the blueberries, try to do it evenly so all the blueberries get some of that sugar and some The cinnamon and the other seasoning there, that is definitely gonna make a nice syrup. Now in this bowl we have our eggs and we’re gonna whisk those, beat them up pretty good. Now we’re gonna add just a half cup of milk. If you’ve made French toast, you know what this is all about. And we’re gonna add some vanilla And a half a teaspoon of baking powder. Now you might wanna check the can ’cause sometimes they’re outdated and that’s really bad ’cause it will not do what it’s supposed to do. It does have a date on the bottom of the can so check that out before you think oh, well I have a can of that. Well, it might be outdated So we’re just gonna beat this up. How we doing over there, we doing good? Alrighty, that’s good. Almost ready, good. And these kind of can bake about the same, about 400 degrees at about the same temperature. So that’s nice, but what we’re gonna do with this, we’re taking our French bread that we’ve sliced And we’re just dipping slice after slice like you do in a regular French toast. I like the French bread and it’s kind of nice if you can leave it dry out a day, ’cause it just, it makes it better than being mushy. Mushy bread just doesn’t taste as good. So I take to slices and dip them, like so. Line them up. And you wanna be sure that these berries are totally and completely covered. You just make sure that each piece of bread gets soaked. And if there’s some pieces, you can take them little pieces and fill in the holes and what you’re gonna do then after you do this, if you have any of this left, what you’ll do is pour over the top of the bread cubes, the bread slices. And because that’s gonna make that’ll mix well with this blueberry, oh boy, is that gonna be good. You cover this with a piece of plastic wrap and then you put it in the refrigerator overnight, then Christmas morning, what’s nice. You can just get up and pop this in the oven and you don’t have to be messing with it. And again, you tear the pieces to fit the holes or whatever. You just have to be sure that you cover it all. I love Christmas, love Christmas. And it’s so fun to just be making special things. And I think it’s nice just to try something different occasionally for your family, especially on a Christmas morning. How about inviting the neighbor over that may be spending the day by herself and maybe you have to go out through the rest of the day and you’re not gonna be around, but maybe she would be. How about having her over for Christmas for breakfast? That would be great. Pouring this like so all over whatever’s left. Now, cover it with plastic wrap. Let me show you after this, we did this one yesterday. This is what it looks like. We’re gonna pop this one in the oven. It is soaked up everything you can see even down in there. It’s just absolutely soaked up all the juice. And it’s going in the oven for about 25 to 30 minutes when it gets nicely brown. We’re gonna take a break. When we come back more ideas for your Christmas breakfast. We’ll be right back. On the next one that we’re doing, we’ve got two going in the oven already. And this is called eggs and bacon rings. I think this is a great idea and your kids are gonna love it. You take a pound or eight slices of bacon, depending on how many you’re cooking for. And you cook until it’s almost done, but it’s pliable. It can be maneuvered. You don’t wanna crisp and hard cause it’ll break apart. And then you spray your, your tins and then you just line the tin with that slice of bacon. Now, we have them done. Now we’re gonna take our eggs and we have eight eggs. And we’re gonna add some pepper and some salt. Now at this point you can add anything you want to however you like your scrambled eggs and we’re just gonna beat them up Like that. Wanna get them going pretty good. Now I’m just gonna add some shredded cheese right to the eggs. Don’t wanna overwhelm them, but you wanna give them a taste. Just like so. Now, get me a big spoon here. If I can find one. I’ll just use this, this’ll work. I’m gonna take my table spoon and I’m gonna start to put the egg in the center. This may take a while. Bear with me here this may take a little while. You know what? Could one of the girls come in and get me the, the big mixing bowl that has the spout, that would be better. And all you’re gonna do is fill these up and then we’re gonna bake them in the oven. We’ll put a little bit more on top of the cheese and we have some fresh parsley and then it will go into the oven 350 degrees. They only take eight to 10 minutes to bake. And what you’ll do with that when they come out, you’re gonna have a toasted English muffin and this will pop right out and sit on an English muffin. And there is like your bread, your bacon and your eggs. Interesting, easy to do and fun. Did we find it? I think the mixing bowls right up there Tam, it’s that big one. Yeah, up in there, right there on the left at the bottom, there you go. That’s it. And you know what? How about if you just go ahead and pour that, let me pour that in there for you and then you can pour in. Thank you so much. Just fill in as many as will like about almost, not quite that much, that’s good, very good. While she’s doing that, I wanna talk you through. Making some potato pancakes. Now this is fun because this doesn’t take a lot of trouble. It’s not a lot of work. It’s very easy to do. You get your potatoes. Roasted potatoes are probably the best for this and you’re gonna grate them, grate them really fine on that box grater that you have that you say, oh, what’s this thing for, besides making coleslaw, that would be this one. And you’re gonna grate them down. Then you’re gonna add a grated. This is grated onion. If you like a lot onion, use a lot, gonna use about half of that amount. And then. Thanks Tam. And then we have some flour. You mix this through. But turn that skillet on for me please on high, thank you. We can pop those in the, just pop those in the oven. That’ll be great, thank you. Flour, we have a couple of eggs. We’re gonna beat those up just to break the yolk. There we go. And we have a little bit of baking powder. That’s what’s gonna give these a little lift. Here we are. And of course, when you have potato, you always have to have some salt because potato just absorb the salt that quick. I mean a lot of salt, but don’t overdo it. Let people do it at the table even more. We’re gonna move over here to where our skillet is. It’s getting nice and hot and I think I’ll move to this burner so it’s a little closer. Now I just wanna mix this up. The flower in there makes it thicker so that these will all hold together. Of course, as I’ve tell you all the time, the egg is the binding agent that will keep the pieces of potato together. Now this, these look like they’re not white potatoes, but they are. They’ve been soaking in cold water. So that turning a little bit of brown like that. That’s not to worry about. Don’t even worry about that. Doesn’t affect the flavor at all. I wanna make sure that that egg gets over all of the potato because we don’t want them falling apart. Now I’ve also baked a ham and you can do your own favorite Christmas ham, whatever one it is. Just make that. And we were gonna slice some of that. I’m gonna make these about that big. Slice some of that have that on the table, along with everything else. It’s a wonderful time to have your family around you friends. It’s just a great thing. We’re frying these off and you’re gonna drain them on a paper towel. Keep making them pop them in a 200 degree oven. If you have the luxury of a second oven, keeping them warm until you’re ready to serve. That would be great. We’re gonna serve these with apple sauce, sour cream. Sounds good. We go, I trust when you have your Christmas dinner later today, you’ve not forgotten the birthday cake for baby Jesus. You know, we do that every year. Kind of miss that today. Not to have that because we’ve done that year after year, but I trust you’ll remember it. Now these are gonna brown up really quickly and they’re doing beautifully, just beautifully. We’re gonna keep working at this. When we come back, we’re gonna be at the dining room for Christmas breakfast. We’ll be right back in just a minute. Well, I hope you were with us today as we were doing our Christmas breakfast program. And I hope that you’ll get some ideas to make something special for your family during the holidays. If it’s not on Christmas day, how about one day through the week between Christmas and new year’s, we celebrate the most wonderful birthday of anyone that ever lived on this earth. The birthday of Jesus Christ, our Lord and our savior. Remember Jesus is the savior. He is the whole reason that we have this celebration. We think about gift giving a whole lot at this time of the year. But the greatest gift that a person can give is themselves to the Lord Jesus Christ. That’s the greatest gift you could ever give anybody is yourself to the Lord. He knows how to treat a gift right. He takes care of it, nourishes it, he corrects what he needs corrected like something going on in your life. The Lord is always ever present to be there for you. So I hope that you’ll think about some of these things during this time and don’t get, caught up in what you didn’t get, what you did get, whatever. Just be thankful that we live in the most wonderful country in the world and that we serve Jesus Christ and we celebrate his life. Well, let’s take a trip around the table. We’re starting here. Look, there’s our blueberry French toast cobbler. The berries are on the bottom. When we serve that, we’ll just flip that right over. And all those berries are up on top. Next to it are potato pancakes, In the center, remember that’s served with sour cream or either homemade apple sauce or apple sauce from a jar that you kind of doctored up a little bit with some cinnamon. That’s wonderful, your kids are gonna like those. Next to it, what we’ve done there, that’s our egg and bacon rings. You know what’s really neat. We toasted an English muffin and they come right out of, if you spray those tins, they come right out and we just made a little thin cheese sauce and just sprinkled that over the top. So that the bottom of that English muffin would be nice and moist. That’s a whole breakfast in itself right there. Your kids would love to help you. You could even crack a whole egg in each of those. If you didn’t want to make the mixed eggs, they mixed up scrambled eggs. And next to it, I just baked our favorite ham that we have every year. And you have the recipe for that. We’ve done that a lot of times, we just added that this morning because that’s nice to have during the holidays, ’cause that’s such a versatile thing. You can chop that up and put it on vegetable trays if you’re having a party. You can have a sandwich if you’ve been out all day and you’ve been busy and you just need a quick supper, you can have it for breakfast. You can have it for lunch. It’s just nice to have a ham in the house during the holidays or a roast beef if you prefer. And then we have, these are our orange spice muffins. And there you have that crunchy topping because you just used a little bit of sugar and a little bit of cinnamon and these are nice. And I like when they crunch, but they’re nice and tender on the inside you can see, oh boy, that was a little bit of some jam or jelly. That’s another wonderful addition to our Christmas breakfast dinner today. we hope that you have enjoyed it. We’ve certainly enjoyed being here At Home and family, it’s just nice when the family comes together and I’m always glad when you come by, it wouldn’t be the holidays. If you all didn’t stop in and just say, Hey Arlene, how are you doing? We appreciate so much all of your endeavors to watch our program and you send ’em for subscription. You send for recipes. That’s what family does, family sticks together. And I’m thankful that you’ve always been here throughout. We’re going into our 15th year of At Home and you’ve been here every Christmas with us. And we appreciate that. There’s nothing like family. Spend some quality time with your family during the holidays, Paul and I would like to extend to you just our very best wishes for a wonderful holiday season, Merry Christmas and a happy new year to you, to your family, to your loved ones. And to all that enjoy watching At Home, as we enjoy doing it for you. So be sure to join us the next time because it just wouldn’t be the same without you here At Home, Merry Christmas.

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