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<p>Dang. How many people does this serve? I just ran it through MyPlate, for kicks 'n giggles. That’s 5130 calories. Dang.</p>
<p>Gotta tip my hat. That has just about every high calorie food group in it. The only thing missing is some peanut butter.</p>
<p>Did you subtract for the removed crust? Bwahahahahaha …</p>
<p>No. Slapping forehead. I didn’t allow for that. On the other hand, I only toted up 3 TBS of butter for 6 slices of bread.</p>
<p>This is a creme brulee french toast recipe that I have made. It’s sinfully delicious - Interesteddad would have to downsize to a 1/2" piece of it!
[Creme</a> Brulee French Toast Recipe : : Food Network](<a href=“http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/cooking-live/creme-brulee-french-toast-recipe/index.html]Creme”>http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/cooking-live/creme-brulee-french-toast-recipe/index.html)</p>
<p>If my caserole only fed 10, that’s 513 calories per person, so it’s well within your breakfast constraints. It definitely feeds more than 10. Like I said, a little goes a long way.</p>
<p>idad…no guilt here…I’ll meet you in the health & wellness thread after the holidays :D</p>
<p>Christmas breakfast = egg casserole, christmas cookies, some Pillsbury Grands cinnamon buns (easy is good), and a big fruit salad.</p>
<p>To drink? Coffee, O.J., perhaps one (or two) of H’s famous bloody mary’s. Also, a neighbor who is of Swedish descent always brings us a thermos with some homemade “glug”. YUM.</p>
<p>Y’all are making me hungry.:)</p>
<p>Idad, what happens to the recipe if you use 2% milk instead of half and half? I have a recipe that calls for “milk,” but doesn’t specify fat content.</p>
<p>Yum, these all sound so good!</p>
<p>I have done one of the egg overnight casseroles many years. This year I’m going to make an easy recipe I just had last week for “homemade cheese danish” - it is baked in a 9 by 13 pan and is totally yummy! Some sausage links along with it.</p>
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<p>The killer is the cheddar cheese. The 2 cups of half n’ half is only 640 calories. The cheese is 1760 calories, even more than the pound of pork sausage (1440 calories).</p>
<p>idad, We’re gonna have to ban you if you insist on tallying calories. Everyone knows that Christmas food is calorie free!</p>
<p>Oh, I’ll get my share of calories in this weekend. That’s why I’m thinking I don’t want to blow the whole deal with breakfast!</p>
<p>I wonder how many calories are in a 12 ounce filet mignon? I’ve already sacrificed my homemade Julia Child bernaise sauce for the filet and grilled asparagus…</p>
<p>these are the choices of main course for xmas dinner
I don’t really like meat- but I want some parsnip-potatoes!</p>
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<p>I also wanna know what is for dessert.</p>
<p>After x-country skiing all day- I expect I can eat a couple thousand calories.
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<p>This is a fun thread - we’ve been done with Chanukah for a while but invited the family over on Xmas for brunch/lunch since no one has anything to do anyway (and the suburban Chinese restaurants are closed). I’m still trying to figure out if we were insulted when my invite to “visit and eat and not watch football” got the response “Sitting around and eating is not what our side of the family tries to do these days”. Three of five of them are on Weight Watchers.</p>
<p>Anyway, we’re offering home made waffles with choice of toppings, baked Brie, chicken liver pate (or chopped, haven’t decided which yet), chicken on rosemary skewers, something vegetable (I’ll let my husband find something at Whole Foods) and meringue cookies with fruit and liqueur choices to top. I also got Cranberry Juice Lite and diet Sierra Mist to make a punch. So something for us slothful gluttons, and something for the others -hopefully no one will go away hungry. And if anyone tracks down my stash of Mallomars and tries to eat them, they’re getting kicked out.</p>
<p>Personally, I would be delighted to just have the Creme Brulee French Toast!</p>
<p>Strata w/atichokes and ham and mimosas and Julekaga for Christmas morning.</p>
<p>On Christmas morning, H actually makes eggnog with real raw eggs. Some day you will read that the entire Pie family died of food poisoning on Christmas.</p>
<p>I think it is so interesting that so many of us have such a similar meal, us included.
We have patty sausage, eggs, sliced Swiss cheese, buttered and broiled English muffins, a variety of fruit and nut breads some times cold fried chicken (if I have time) fruit and jams and non alcoholic mimosas. We call it a hobbit meal!</p>
<p>Wow, I feel like a slacker. We have coffee cake (the recipe off the back of the Bisquick box) and turkey bacon.</p>
<p>French toast casserole (french bread/baguette, sliced thick, dipped in standard french toast eggs/milk/vanilla/cinnamon mixture, arranged in buttered 9x12 pan, frozen until Christmas morning)</p>
<p>–OR–</p>
<p>Monkey bread (a few tubes of pillsbury biscuits, cut them into quarters, roll in cinnamon and sugar, drop into tube pan, cover with a mixture of butter and brown sugar (that’s melted together so it’s like caramel) and pecans, baked until it’s puffy and sinful)</p>
<p>–AND–</p>
<p>Eggs over hard
At least a pound of pepper bacon
Well done hashbrowns (usually from that green bag an above poster mentioned!)</p>
<p>Drinks of choice? Chocolate milk, OJ, grape juice, water</p>
<p>Feeds mom, dad, 2 college girls, 2 high school boys. Prepped by mom and girls the night before, made late morning by mom and me</p>
<p>No one has mentioned tamales. I am hoping that H remembered to ask our cleaning lady if we can buy some from her mother. If not, I’ll be off to the store tomorrow to find some.</p>
<p>What the top chefs are cooking:</p>
<p>[What</a> chefs are cooking for Christmas | Nation’s Restaurant News](<a href=“http://www.nrn.com/article/what-chefs-are-cooking-home-christmas?ad=food-and-beverage&utm_source=MagnetMail&utm_medium=email&utm_term=beth.tiggelaar@strasburger.com&utm_content=NRN-News-NRNam-12-22-10&utm_campaign=What%20chefs%20are%20cooking%20at%20home%20for%20Christmas]What”>http://www.nrn.com/article/what-chefs-are-cooking-home-christmas?ad=food-and-beverage&utm_source=MagnetMail&utm_medium=email&utm_term=beth.tiggelaar@strasburger.com&utm_content=NRN-News-NRNam-12-22-10&utm_campaign=What%20chefs%20are%20cooking%20at%20home%20for%20Christmas)</p>
<p>What a great phrase to be able to type: “my wife, who is a pastry chef…”</p>
<p>We do the overnight egg casserole with sausage, cheese, mushrooms and the flavor is oregano. Also the Bisquick coffee cake and mimosas. Yes, the overnight casserole is popular since it is a life saver. It’s ready to go and cooks while everyone is opening presents.</p>