What should I serve for a birthday brunch?!
mimosas (champagne & oj), juice, carbonated bevs, & milk for kids
large fruit tray
sausage, biscuit, gravy casserole
ham and hash brown casserole
bacon and egg casserole
cinnamon rolls
birthday cake and ice cream
(and to-go boxes for left-overs)
Answers:
Why not make a Quiche Lorraine instead, mimosas, fruit tray,cinnamon rolls (0ptional), and birthday cake & ice cream. You would be able to cut all those entrees.
Quiche Lorraine
Ingredients
1 recipe pastry for a 9 inch single pie crust
12 slices bacon
1 cup shredded Swiss cheese
1/3 cup minced onion 4 eggs beaten
2 cups light cream
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon white sugar
1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper.
Directions
Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C).
Place bacon in a large skillet, and fry over medium-high heat until crisp. Drain on paper towels, then chop coarsely. Sprinkle bacon, cheese and onion into pastry shell.
In a medium bowl, whisk together eggs, cream, salt, sugar and cayenne pepper. Pour mixture into pastry shell.
Bake 15 minutes in the preheated oven. Reduce heat to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C), and bake an additional 30 minutes, or until a knife inserted 1 inch from edge comes out clean. Allow quiche to sit 10 minutes before cutting into wedges.
It looks wonderful. What time should I get there?
The only thing I noticed is that there's meat in everything. Some people don't eat meat, but you would know if anyone in your family doesn't eat meat.
When I make brunch, I usually have scrambled eggs, French Toast casserole (my sons will not eat eggs if they look like eggs, and they're 29 and 31 years old), sausage balls make from pork sausage, shredded cheddar cheese and Bisquick (I don't like them but the men scarf them down), little smokies and one other thing. Last year I made a blintz casserole that we just loved. I have 12 to 14 people, with 6 of them being young men from 14 to 31, and these boys can eat.
You could forgo the cinn. rolls. You have some high calorie foods here. You have way too much meat for this brunch. And I'd want to toast a english muffin and low calorie yogurt.
My suggestion is offer yogurt/english muffin.
Omit the ham with potatoes OR
Omit the bacon with egg cass. Plain egg/cheess cass.
I saw the fruit, and since watermelon is so good right now, how about some of that? Also, the casseroles all have pork in them. Is that OK with everybody? If there are people watching cholesterol, BP, etc, maybe a lower fat entree choice. for me and my crowd it sounds PERFECT, tho'. have a big ole' time and happy birthday