What's brunch?
You'll love it.
It's not quite breakfast, it's not quite lunch, but it comes with a slice of cantaloupe at the end.
You don't get completely what you would at breakfast, but you get a good meal.
Posted on 08/10/2016 3:36:48 PM PDT by Jamestown1630
One of my favorite meals growing up was Saturday breakfast, which was usually served at more of a brunch hour. Sometimes it would be eggs, bacon or sausage, and hominy fried in the grease from the meat (which I loved, and if anyone has recipes for canned hominy, please post!). Or it might be waffles, or pancakes; and when it snowed, Cinnamon Toast, and tea or hot chocolate.
Many years ago I found a recipe that makes a great, quick brunch casserole at home – if you remember to grate the cheese the night before and store it airtight in the ‘fridge, this is fast and easy to put together (not sure where I found this - maybe in a Grange or Church recipe book):
Eggs Gruyere
½ pound grated Gruyere Cheese
4 T. Butter
1 C. heavy Cream
½ tsp. Salt
Dash of Pepper
1-1/2 tsps. Dry Mustard
12 eggs, slightly beaten
Spread the cheese in a buttered baking dish, and dot with butter. Mix the cream, salt, pepper and mustard, and pour half of it over the cheese. Add the slightly beaten eggs, and top with the remaining cream mixture.
Bake at 325 degrees for 35 minutes or until firm-ish and slightly golden. __________________________________________________
My favorite dish to eat out for brunch, is an Eggs Benedict that’s made with a crab cake and slice of tomato, instead of the Canadian bacon – we get this at our local Silver Diner (not always on the menu, but they'll make it for you). I’ve never made Hollandaise sauce from scratch at home, but recently found what looks like an easy, quick remedy for a broken Hollandaise, on Chef John’s ‘Food Wishes’ site:
http://foodwishes.blogspot.com/2015/05/how-to-fix-broken-hollandaise-sauce.html _________________________________________________
Of course, you have to have bread. Some years ago I found a recipe for ‘Summer Solstice Bread’ which I’ve used many times – a quick bread for which I’ve always used the dried basil, and it turns out very well; but if you have some fresh in your garden, I'm sure if would be much better.
I must have gotten my old jotted-down recipe originally from Better Homes and Gardens, because they have it on their website:
http://www.bhg.com/recipe/breads/summer-solstice-bread/#page=0
(I’m sure Liz will be along eventually, with the perfect Saturday morning ‘hair-of-the-dog’ ;-)
-JT
That looks great.
Actually, I was thinking of posting the Whole-Wheat popover recipe that I found recently, instead of the Solstice bread; but I thought it would be too much ‘more egg’. And I want to experiment with it - it’s actually a half-WW recipe, and I’m thinking it might ‘Pop’ better with WW pastry flour, than with regular.
Watch this space ;-)
-JT
Thanks!
LOL!
(In my experience, brunch is a lot more than ‘breakfast’ ;-)
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That bread sounds wonderful. I’m going to have to try it. And I love eggs and I love guyere...
I am mad at Sam’s Club. They quit carrying the Stravecchio (literally ‘very old’) Parmesan, aged for 36 months.
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Now that sounds pretty neat. I bought a silicone set months, thinking I would only use the mats. But I love the little bread loaf and I even love the Bundt pan. I always had problems with cake sticking in the traditional Bundt pan.
Your bloody Mary recipe, please?
My father was a boxer (won the Golden Gloves, as a young man!); and once when I was very ill, he did what he knew how to do: gave me what was apparently an old ‘boxer’s drink’ - a drink of tomato juice, full of raw eggs, Worcestershire, and God knows what else. It was repulsive, but I loved him too much to say so ;-
But a real Bloody Mary has been intriguing, though I’ve never had or made one.
Please include the celery stick ;-)
-JT
I’ve never shopped at a ‘Sam’s Club’ - but have you tried a Costco?
-JT
No real recipe, just a damn good sat brunch!
Well, here’s a Bloody Mary recipe that looks very good (I chose a SPICY one - though I think I’d prefer the celery stick, over the ‘pickled asparagus spear’:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/moms-spicy-bloody-mary-recipe.html
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Looks good. Definitely celery. Olive? Ok.
Green Bean? Asparagus?
Hey I love them both but in a drink?
Lots of cracked black pepper..
sometimes I throw a couple slices of serrano pepper in there and a twist of lime.
I have serranos in the garden. I chopped one up Sunday and cooked it with the sausage, eggs and hash browns.
Yeah, the greenbean-asparagus stuff is weird; and I wouldn’t want the olive. But the basic recipe looks good.
And I would go with Cayenne, instead of the Black Pepper. I think it’s healthier and more endorphin-producing - but that’s just me :-)
-JT
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