Family Brunch Recipes for Working Moms
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What are the crowd-pleasing family brunch recipes at your house and among your extended family? Have you found any recipes that are a hit among adults and kids alike, or do you focus on your grown-up favorites and then scramble some eggs for any little ones who aren’t into, say, the Gruyère mushroom quiche? Also, are you more likely to (1) serve one main dish, maybe on the heavier side, (2) go all out and make several dishes, or (3) round up some bagels, cream cheese, and fruit for a relaxed, low-key option? What are your favorite family brunch recipes worthy of recommendation to working moms? Are they classic family recipes that were passed down from a relative, or did you find them in a cookbook or online?
Usually, I keep it simple and serve baked French toast and some fresh fruit. I have a pretty small family, so I don’t feel tons of pressure to “perform”; I prefer baking to stovetop cooking; and I love being able to do most of the work the night before. Unfortunately, that didn’t go too well last Christmas, because I had to bake it much longer than the recipe directed, which meant people were waiting around with nothing to eat. (I hadn’t used the recipe before.) That brings up another question: If you’re having a lot of family over for a holiday or otherspecial occasion, do you only use tried-and-true recipes, or do you take a risk and use a new one?
(Psst: We’ve also discussed easy weeknight dinners, favorite fall recipes, super-slow and super-fast recipes for long workdays, slow cooker recipes for working women, and back-to-school recipes.
Without further ado, here are our favorite family brunch recipes:
Kat’s Favorite Family Brunch Recipes:
- Bacon in the Oven [Kitchn]
- Sausage, Egg & Biscuits Casserole [MyRecipes.com]
On her list to try: Yellow Cake Baked Oatmeal [Chrissy Teigen via Self]
Kate’s Favorite Family Brunch Recipes:
- Baked French Toast [Allrecipes.com] (similar recipe)
- Monkey Bread Minis [Pillsbury]
- Pancakes [just the recipe on the back of Bisquick!]
Rebecca’s Favorite Family Brunch Recipes:
- Cinnamon Rolls [Taste of Home] (similar recipe to her mother’s)
- Jaw-Droppingly Delicious Asparagus Penne [Rachael Ray via Genius Kitchen]
On her list to try: Madame Cristo Grilled Ham and Cheese [Allrecipes.com]
What are YOUR favorite family brunch recipes? For breakfasts and brunches, do you prefer sweet or savory dishes — or both? If you celebrate Easter or Passover, what are your holiday plans this weekend? (And if not, feel free to tell us about your weekend plans anyway!)
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We’re a lazy family. When my husband makes brunch, it’s a can of cinnamon rolls. When I make brunch, it’s blueberry doughnuts, which is just muffin mix spooned into silicone doughnut pans. My husband can’t stand anything mixed into eggs, so scramble and quiches are out.
When we go out, he prefers a Hawaiian breakfast of eggs, rice and 472 different types of breakfast meat. I don’t have the patience to cook eggs to order for the whole family, so I rarely attempt that. I also tend to skip breakfast, so making it fancy isn’t a high priority for me.
In our family Grandma has a monopoly on brunch gatherings. I kind of like it that way.
The only local family we have are my ILs, and we do not do brunch with them because I need to be fully awake and mentally prepared for that circus. When we meet friends for brunch, we typically go out. For our little family of 3, probably every other weekend I do a bigger breakfast which I guess is really brunch (DH loves breakfast) – typically a bread item (pancakes, waffles or biscuits, all southern living recipes from one of my favorite cookbooks, with extras for kiddo to reheat during the week), eggs of some kind for DH, since I don’t like them and kid is allergic (but somehow doesn’t react to waffles or pancakes despite them not being “baked”) (scrambled, egg and cheese “packets”, fried, or occasionally eggs benedict and hollandaise, but DH needs to have had a really rough week for that) and sometimes bacon if I’m in the mood. Couple of times a year I will make sausage gravy to go with biscuits. For Christmas and New Years and snow days, I make overnight cinnamon rolls for breakfast.
DH does not cook other than occasionally he’ll cook eggs if he’s been awake for at least 3 hours (vs. kiddo and I like to eat right away) and he’ll occasionally roast salmon mid-week for dinner on nights when I’m not home. Otherwise if I’m not putting food on the table he eats frozen prepared food, out at restaurants, take out or delivery.
We go out for brunch. We don’t host brunch. We’re more of late afternoon/early evening entertainers.
I love doing family brunch (at lunch time – I’m not ready for company in the actual morning). This is a super easy quiche recipe I’ve used for years: https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/quick-quiche-recipe2-1912783
I also like to take the Trader Joe’s pumpkin muffin mix and add shredded carrots and raisins. I will do plain scrambled eggs or hardboiled eggs for the little kids, and a big fruit salad. Depending on kids to grown-ups ratio we will do a big green salad or oven roasted new potatoes. And always, always sparkling wine with OJ.
When I host brunch I buy quiche and pastry at Whole Foods, do bacon in the oven per Kat’s link to the Kitchn, put out a bunch of fresh berries, and coffee and mimosas. Boom, done. (If there is a vegan coming, add bagels and vegan cream cheese and/or peanut butter.)