"ChristmasBreakfast" news and stories

• Shake up your holiday breakfast routine with one of these Mexican-inspired egg dishes.
• Portland continues to be in the midst of a major winter storm and Leslie Cole thinks it's the perfect time to channel your inner pioneer by making butter.
• Brush up on your egg skills prior to Christmas morning, so that you'll be able to turn out breakfast like a champ.
• Bake up spiced quick breads in cans for a quirky and charming touch.
• Winemakers lend a hand to one another as well as to an assortment of charities.
• For the gluten-free folks, a party shouldn't mean a potential minefield of snacks. Bring your own to ensure snacking safety.
• Honeybells are a more elegant (and more expensive) variety of the mineola.
• "Fast" food that won't make you regret dinner an hour later.
• Use instant dried polenta in place of standard pizza dough for a chewy crust.
• Roasting beef or a turkey on Christmas? Here are roasting charts that will guide you through the process.

Even though cookies are de rigueur for the season, not everyone is a cookie baker and I, for one, am not about to hold that against them. Particularly if, instead of cookies, the non-cookie baker is serving up some delicious, flakey, buttery croissants on Christmas morning, like Melissa of Banlieue Blog. She worries a bit that her family will be disappointed by the lack of prettily decorated cookies, but after one bite of delectable pastry, I will bet that they'll be willing to overlook just about anything. Is it too late to invite you to my house for breakfast, Melissa?

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