Christmas breakfast(s)

[didireallysaythat]

Any suggestions for more savoury/less rich breakfasts over the Xmas period? We usually don't bother and just have toast or weetabix as normal but sometimes it's nice to have something different. Can't face anything too sweet or rich as breakfast will be around 9-10 and lunch around 3 so it's not like we need a full fry up...

Yeah pigs in blankets in a nice bun with lovely cuppa sounds perfect

In previous years I have made Christmas morning muffins (flavoured with cinnamon, dried cranberries and marzipan) or had croissants with nice jam for Christmas breakfast.
The one Christmas away from home I had a full English which was at my in-laws' house. This year I'll be likely to do muffins or croissants again

We have croissants which I warm up in the microwave - there's no room in the oven as the turkey is in there.

I then lay out some cream cheese and a salami/continental meat selection and leave everyone to help themselves.

Everyone will manage to do themselves a croissant or 2 with their preferred filling apart from my MIL who will act as if she's never seen a croissant or slice of salami in her life before. This is the reason I start on the Bucks Fizz at breakfast time on Christmas Day.

We usually have salmon and scrambled eggs, but this year it will be a pancake charcuterie style board thingy. Just store bought pancakes and crepes, small bowls of chopped fresh fruit and some other toppings, syrup etc. All laid out on a large board. Looks fancy but easy and the fruit makes it a bit lighter.

"Breakfast in the family home is if we bother having one is normally a bacon sandwich and a cuppa.
But sometimes don’t bother as the night before was a late night prepping vegetables and getting the meat in oven to slow cook overnight no room in kitchen for pots and pans and don’t wanna make dishes when we should be watching kids open pressies and relaxing not cooking and doing dishes.
Bacon sandwich is a treat if you were on drink night before tho and you need something to eat an a cuppa to feel human again lol.. plus we have a late dinner so some of the older kids like to have there bacon sandwiches in the morning.
I know what you mean about sweet stuff all the kids empty their stockings and fill their faces full of sweets and chocolate put their stockings and makes me feel sick looking at how much is in them lol.
Not posh or from money and don’t like salmon and croissants etc but if that’s your thing and you’ve all this extra time in the morning and don’t mind the cooking and dishes then go for it.
Each to their own"

A bacon sandwich is more effort than a croissant and more dishes! They also aren't posh these days and so readily available fresh or frozen!

I’d agree. The effort In bacon sandwiches and scrambled egg and salmon with croissants is pretty much the same. It’s really just the difference between scrambling some eggs or grilling some bacon.

Leftovers
Scrambled eggs on toast

We always have smoked salmon and scrambled egg on toast once back from the horses-so about 9.30am

We usually have bagels with smoked salmon and cream cheese. V ice and hardly any faff. That’s all adults, though. For kids I’d give them what they like but aren’t usually allowed, e.g. a chocolate croissant or Coco Pops.

Scrambled eggs with smoked salmon also good, but more faff than bagels.

Nice!

Last year I made 2 breakfast casserole, a savory and sweet one. Savoury one was an egg casserole which consisted of sausage meat, bread, eggs and cheese and Savoury one was a French toast casserole. Made them both night before, refrigerated and then baked for an hour in the morning. I'm doing the same thing this year

’We usually have bagels with smoked salmon and cream cheese. V ice and hardly any faff. That’s all adults, though. For kids I’d give them what they like but aren’t usually allowed, e.g. a chocolate croissant or Coco Pops.’

Cream cheese bagels are a good idea. Why no chocolate croissant even on Christmas Day as a treat?

I totally read that wrong @GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER and realised you meant they can have them, apologies I thought you meant they weren’t allowed!

I should have said, it's just me, DH, DS1(15) and DS2(11) - thankfully we don't have to deal with family. So it doesn't need to be anything impressive thankfully. If I could haul my backside out of bed earlier I could probably spend 30 mins laying something out, but I'd miss the stockings in bed (assuming I do stockings for DS1+2 this year). As I'm the only drinker, it was never going to involve a bucks fizz alas....

Christmas breakfast for me has always been Smoked Salmon and Scrambled Eggs on Toast, with a glass of Bucks Fizz!

@DiamondBright

I'm thinking panettone french toast this year with maple syrup. I've bought two large panettone (in part for the nice tins) I'm thinking one will be Christmas Day breakfast and the other a bread and butter pudding maybe Christmas Eve night.

I read the earlier panettone suggestion and was thinking of how to pimp that up and then read this. Fab idea and that's going to be our breakfast (unless I find a better suggestion further on in the thread!)

@didireallysaythat

One kid doesn't eat eggs and breakfast is not ally over in 5 mins so I always feel like it's a waste if time over engineering it. Maybe I should just aim for a cup of tea and then cook pigs in blankets for brunch ... 😁

I don’t know how old your kids are but one year with friends I bought little gourmet pies, they were lovely and everyone really enjoyed them, it was a sort of breakfast come early starter and kept us going till the main event,

Warm Ambrosia rice pudding and pancakes.

Smoked salmon or bacon sounds great.

As a less sweet alternative to croissants you could get some nice rye bread or Irish soda bread. They toast nicely and have a stronger flavour than croissants while being less rich and buttery.

We have lunch quite early. So cereal selection pack for the kids, for us nice posh bread toasted with proper butter and some special marmalade. Christmas tree shaped crumpets if I can find them.

Another nice idea but too much faff for me for Xmas day is asparagus wrapped in streaky bacon and grilled, then dipped in soft boiled eggs.

@Bellafrenum

We have lunch quite early. So cereal selection pack for the kids, for us nice posh bread toasted with proper butter and some special marmalade. Christmas tree shaped crumpets if I can find them.

Another nice idea but too much faff for me for Xmas day is asparagus wrapped in streaky bacon and grilled, then dipped in soft boiled eggs.

You’ve just made me think of Devils on Horseback (prunes wrapped in streaky bacon and grilled) which are supposed to be an after-dinner savoury, but I’ve always fancied them, and have never made them.

Always pork pie on Christmas morning. Maybe a slice of gammon and some pickle to keep it company.

Melon, Parma ham and champagne in this house

I used to have grapefruit on christmas morning.