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Growing up, my mom's Christmas Eve revolved around kneading, brushing on butter, cinnamon, sugar, and rolling dough for our traditional Christmas morning cinnamon rolls. We'd have to wait until after breakfast to open our presents (our stockings were a pre-breakfast ritual, natch) but it was worth it. The scent of cinnamon, cloves and caramelizing brown sugar would fill the house as we unwrapped tiny bars of fancy soap and pretty pencil erasers. I'd shove a Hershey's kiss into my mouth as I longed for the hot, buttery circles of dough.
Now, any family celebration of the mundane or spectacular variety centers around bacon, biscuits and good coffee (this year's pick is Thundermuck from Columbia River Roasters). In the morning, I'll be mixing flour and baking powder and cutting in butter while my husband keeps letting our oldest son sneak slices of bacon as they come off the pan. What do you make for Christmas breakfast? Do you make it the night before, or is it a family cooking ritual? Or do you just skip breakfast and go straight to the chocolate (which I've done many a Christmas morning)?
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12-24-2005 @5:14PM MB Martini said... Eggs Benedict and fresh squeezed orange juice (store bought OJ, but still fresh and good). My husband makes a mean Hollandaise sauce while I carefully poach the eggs. There really is nothing like hot fresh EB's those things usually served on the brunch buffet really can't be considered in the same league with those made at home.
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12-24-2005 @5:20PM bardhorse said... Christmas breakfast was always a tradition in my family. I still make the same menu to this day. We have buttery coffee cake, scrambled eggs with cheese and onion, bacon, and rich hot chocolate with lots of whipped cream.
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12-24-2005 @6:57PM Huffy said... Ahhhh, breakfast! Always a favorite subject of mine, and of course Christmas breakfast is even more special. For years now, we've enjoyed fresh-brewed coffee, perfectly plain scrambled eggs, lots of bacon, and Marian Cunningham's "Last Word in Nutmeg Muffins". I prepare the muffin's dry ingredients the night before; in the morning, it's quick work to combine the wet and dry, after which I pop 'em in the oven. The aroma of fresh nutmeg wafting through the house is incredible
Merry Christmas, Everyone!
Huffy
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12-25-2005 @8:19PM emily said... We always have breakfast casserole and sausage balls (because some of us - me - don't like eggs). Some mornings we have had cinnamon toast. Breakfast is always at my parents' house, and even though my sister and I are 24 and 26, we still get "Santa Claus" presents and stockings on Christmas morning. We are the only "kids" and I guess it is a tradition we can't leave.
Merry Christmas! :)
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