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For brunch, a breakfast casserole just seems more special than simple bacon and eggs. This recipe is called a BLT but there isn't any lettuce involved. It's really more a BET -- bacon, eggs and tomatoes cooked up with bread and milk to make baked layers (strata) of custardy goodness.

Hooray for the red, white, and... blueberries? Blogger manda2177 at "I Am Mommy" creates a long stack in an homage to Old Glory by layering regular and red-velvet pancakes, scattering them with the berries, and pouring on the blueberry syrup. Red velvet basically means adding cocoa powder, buttermilk, beetroot (ok, you can use red food coloring, but doesn't beetroot sound better than Red Dye Number 6?). If you want to build your own breakfast flag (or, come to think of it, a breakfast barber's pole), try Manda's recipe.

And if you've got a knock-our-socks off idea for a July 4th breakfast, bring it on, in the Comments section.

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"I want French toast with honey!" says my three-year-old, grumpily, each morning. "No, I want French toast with honey and syrup!"

Something about French toast - its buttery, egg-dipped carb-tastic-ness - is just the ultimate breakfast comfort food. It's good when you're a baby, it's good when you're recovering from a hangover (grease protein carbs = first rate hangover cure).

In my opinion, it's the most comforting of all breakfast foods, replete with every good thing we want on a cold January morning, and easy, to boot. You can have hot, golden-brown, supremely comforting French toast on your table in 12 minutes flat. Start your timer.