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Christmas breakfast ideas!

  • 06-12-2014 4:38am
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,751 ✭✭✭


    So Id really like to try something a little more fancy than cereal or a fry up on Christmas morning and I'm looking for inspiration (not really early morning, like 1030-11). Dinner will be a good bit later on so it can be filling!

    I spotted the cooking club recipe for black pudding and apple but not sure about puff pastry that early in the morning.

    Something with eggs might work maybe?

    Any ideas wonderful people? Or what do you do yourself?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 179 ✭✭sally365


    Personally breakfast on a Christmas morning seems wrong :) I always hold out for dinner.

    Probably something light like cereal and fruit I'd go for if I felt I was hungry.

    I'd avoid too much carbs like bread or anything oily.

    So Id really like to try something a little more fancy than cereal or a fry up on Christmas morning and I'm looking for inspiration (not really early morning, like 1030-11). Dinner will be a good bit later on so it can be filling!

    I spotted the cooking club recipe for black pudding and apple but not sure about puff pastry that early in the morning.

    Something with eggs might work maybe?

    Any ideas wonderful people? Or what do you do yourself?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,751 ✭✭✭mirrorwall14


    sally365 wrote: »
    Personally breakfast on a Christmas morning seems wrong :) I always hold out for dinner.

    Probably something light like cereal and fruit I'd go for if I felt I was hungry.

    I'd avoid too much carbs like bread or anything oily.

    Ya I don't want a full fry, or fresh bread really! Fruit is a possibility but feels like a cop out if I want to cook!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,750 ✭✭✭john the one


    Pastries :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,092 ✭✭✭OU812


    Selection box: one per person.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭Rosy Posy


    Scrambled eggs with smoked salmon, quark and chives, with black pudding crumbled over the top, served with lemon wedge, lots of pepper and Melba toast! I'm very fancy (not really but it's fun to pretend at Christmas :D)

    Kids love pikelets with maple syrup and fresh berries (we're in NZ so fresh berries feature heavily in Christmas victuals, could use frozen or other fruit- bananas?).


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32 Brissygirl32


    Baked eggs with spinach onions tomato cheese and ham/ bacon!
    Yummy all in one ramekin and simple easy dish i


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,831 ✭✭✭✭The Hill Billy


    Smoked salmon on brown bread, slices of spiced beef, gin & tonic.

    /thread


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,831 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    Hame made pancakes, yum


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,858 ✭✭✭homemadecider


    _Brian wrote: »
    Hame made pancakes, yum

    Glass of real champagne and a slice of cake. Maybe coffee too.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 12,110 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dizzyblonde


    I bake my ham on Christmas eve so it's always ham, fried eggs and toast for brekkie. Cold ham with hot eggs sounds weird but it works :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭BaZmO*


    I bake my ham on Christmas eve so it's always ham, fried eggs and toast for brekkie. Cold ham with hot eggs sounds weird but it works :)

    I boil the ham the night before, so it's always fried ham slices with fried eggs and toast. Tis a tradition at this stage. :)


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,662 Mod ✭✭✭✭Faith


    Smoked salmon on brown bread, slices of spiced beef, gin & tonic.

    /thread

    Hahah I thought I was in the "here's what I had for breakfast" thread and I was thinking that a G&T for breakfast on an ordinary Saturday was a bit excessive! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    I'm going a bit mad this year and making croissants for Christmas morning breakfast with mimosas. Selection box is always good though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,838 ✭✭✭Day Lewin


    We have a family tradition of "nice breakfast" on Christmas morning

    There is always Buck's Fizz, dating back to thirty years ago when my husband got given a small bottle of champagne on a plane, and I had to go out to sing at Mass. The perfect festive starter.
    Squeeze some oranges or use a good brand, mix with chilly bubbly booze. Merry Christmas!

    For food we usually have croissants (the ready-to-bake kind) with boiled eggs,
    OR rashers with pancakes and maple syrup, very American.

    and always Crunchy Nut Cornflakes, my husband's favourite cereal, available too. And good fresh coffee.

    Candle on the table. It's a lovely meal!

    Dinner won't be for hours and hours, so get warmed up now without being too filled-up. Bon Appetit!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,667 ✭✭✭Frynge


    Boxty


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 893 ✭✭✭PLL


    cinnamon swirls #heaven


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 471 ✭✭Aeternum


    Cinnamon French toast, yum :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,292 ✭✭✭Mrs Fox


    Pretty sure I can call this tradition at this stage; since 2008 we've been having sauteed mushroom on toasted brioche topped with poached egg for Christmas breakfast.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 737 ✭✭✭Jezek


    The breakfast can be simple pastries, some fried eggs/bacon etc.
    but you NEED champagne cocktails or maybe Irish Coffees/ Egg Nog


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,140 ✭✭✭ebbsy


    OU812 wrote: »
    Selection box: one per person.

    Only one ? Lightweight.


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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 4,772 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tree


    Lindt chocolates off the christmas tree, rasher sammich, the good coffee I brought with me. Maybe a handful of roses


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,089 ✭✭✭BeepBeep67


    An unusual one maybe, but my wife has introduced an old family tradition into our family.
    A nice few pieces of fillet steak, cut into small thin bite sized strips, as the juice flows add some onions, serve with homemade brown bread and butter and a pot of never ending tea.

    nyom :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    Smoked salmon on thickly buttered soda bread, has to be proper butter, drizzled with fresh lemon juice.:) If you're not a fan of smoked salmon there are some brands of chunkier hotter flavoured cooked salmon in the supermarkets.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,112 ✭✭✭StripedBoxers


    Normally we'd have a fry, or maybe rashers and scallion scrambled eggs in toast, this year though I might do smoked salmon and chive cream cheese on Ryvita crackers, no one else in the house will eat it though so it could just be the usual fry.

    We don't normally do champers, but might this year, we'll see. :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,751 ✭✭✭mirrorwall14


    Oh man I'm starving now :)
    Pregnant so I can't do the alcohol based ones and chocolate will make me throw up in the morning (morning sickness didn't go away despite third trimester!) but there's some amazing ideas here, thanks so much everyone.

    It's lovely to see everyone's traditions!


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Ok. Inspired by this thread we discussed what we would eat on Christmas day for brekkie. :)

    We're going for smoked salmon paté on fresh French bread and some Bucks fizz.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 890 ✭✭✭polydactyl


    BeepBeep67 wrote: »
    An unusual one maybe, but my wife has introduced an old family tradition into our family.
    A nice few pieces of fillet steak, cut into small thin bite sized strips, as the juice flows add some onions, serve with homemade brown bread and butter and a pot of never ending tea.

    nyom :D

    Oh I thought we were the only people who used to do this! I say used to as we don't anymore :)

    Now we do pancakes and bananas foster and sausages on the side with excellent coffee....yumm!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭Tarzana2


    katemarch wrote: »
    Dinner won't be for hours and hours, so get warmed up now without being too filled-up. Bon Appetit!

    I think the Christmas morning breakfast/no breakfast divide comes down to how early you have dinner.

    We have Christmas lunch in our house, around 2pm, so never do the big breakfast thing, just maybe a slice of toast or a few chocolates in the morning, and many, many cups of tea/coffee.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭Tarzana2


    Mrs Fox wrote: »
    Pretty sure I can call this tradition at this stage; since 2008 we've been having sauteed mushroom on toasted brioche topped with poached egg for Christmas breakfast.

    Sounds amazing and not too heavy, perfect for Christmas morning. Two of my fave foodstuffs here; brioche and fried mushrooms. Not keen on poached eggs, I'd go for fried. Nyom.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 206 ✭✭wall


    Bit of cereal as usual, and SALMON RASHERS, yes, salmon rashers, put slices of smoked salmon under the grill for a few mins and it's transformed in to a taste sensation, have with toast, amazing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,238 ✭✭✭javagal


    Last year we did pancakes and bacon. this year freshly baked croissants, rossinis and bacon bagels


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,662 Mod ✭✭✭✭Faith


    We've never been a Christmas breakfast household, but seeing as we're carving new traditions this year, I think we'll do one. As it happens, we just found black pudding in the butchers up the road, so that will definitely feature!


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Faith wrote: »
    We've never been a Christmas breakfast household, but seeing as we're carving new traditions this year, I think we'll do one. As it happens, we just found black pudding in the butchers up the road, so that will definitely feature!

    Faith! Did I just hear you mentioned on christmasfm?! :):):)


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,662 Mod ✭✭✭✭Faith


    Faith! Did I just hear you mentioned on christmasfm?! :):):)

    Yes :D:D

    I found my way to the Christmas forum after hearing them talking about it on Christmas FM. Now I've lost the run of myself!


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Faith wrote: »
    Yes :D:D

    I found my way to the Christmas forum after hearing them talking about it on Christmas FM. Now I've lost the run of myself!

    Whoo whoo!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    Glass of real champagne and a slice of cake. Maybe coffee too.

    Why? Is there fake stuff?:pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    For me it'll be superquinn sausages and toast and tea, then maybe a can of stout


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,479 ✭✭✭catho_monster


    I always make Dan Lepard's pannatone (sp?) the night before, to have ready for breakfast Christmas morning. Such a nice treat and lovely and light so I don't ruin my dinner :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,772 ✭✭✭✭Whispered


    This year I'll be having a soft poached egg and toast with real butter. I'm pregnant at the moment so can't have soft eggs. Baby will be here by Christmas though so the runnier the better. With that we will have some strong black coffee.

    Then for breakfast dessert (which is a real thing on Christmas morning) either chocolate croissant or chocolate brioche and some more coffee with a splash of cream liquor (the 14% kind not the 40%) topped off with whipped cream.

    Then a nap.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,036 ✭✭✭Loire


    Smoked salmon on brown bread, slices of spiced beef, gin & tonic.

    /thread

    Replacing champagne for G&T is what we do every year :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 585 ✭✭✭Crumpets


    Tin of Roses usually


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,449 ✭✭✭✭pwurple


    No Cork peeps in here? Our tradition has always been thinly sliced spiced beef, on toast. The spiced beef has been cooking overnight, so it's all warm and delicious (it's eaten cold with the bird later).

    Thought everyone did that for years, as all our friends/cousins do the same!

    I add a poached egg as well if I'm recovering from a boozy evening.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,832 ✭✭✭heldel00


    ^^^cavan household here but we always have roast beef sammidges on Christmas morn


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,751 ✭✭✭mirrorwall14


    Just talking my mum through this thread and she's dead excited, thanks everyone!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 863 ✭✭✭GastroBoy




    This....

    And a glass of Bucks Fizz. Perfect.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,417 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    GastroBoy wrote: »


    This....

    And a glass of Bucks Fizz. Perfect.

    OMG I was just going to post about this!! So weird! That looks amazing but is absolutely off the charts as regards calories....but it's Christmas :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,449 ✭✭✭✭pwurple


    leahyl wrote: »
    OMG I was just going to post about this!! So weird! That looks amazing but is absolutely off the charts as regards calories....but it's Christmas :D

    Tricky bit would be getting fresh croissants on christmas morning?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,036 ✭✭✭Loire


    pwurple wrote: »
    Tricky bit would be getting fresh croissants on christmas morning?

    Was only looking at this yesterday....

    http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/croissants

    Loire.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,449 ✭✭✭✭pwurple


    Loire wrote: »
    Was only looking at this yesterday....

    http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/croissants

    Loire.


    Yeah, I've made them before, but it's a lot of faffery for christmas morning. There's some other stuff going on ususally. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 863 ✭✭✭GastroBoy


    pwurple wrote: »
    Tricky bit would be getting fresh croissants on christmas morning?

    I've found it works best with croissants that are a day or two past their freshest.


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