As we head into the winter season, thoughts turn to holiday gifts and tokens for hosts and hostesses. Thanks to my avid canning habit, I always have an assortment of jams, chutneys, and pickles to give to those in the near vicinity, but nearly every year, December catches me by surprise and I find myself running out of time to compile and pack up boxes for my further flung loved ones.
That’s where Eat Boutique comes in. They create thoughtful collections of small batch preserves, mixes, candies, syrups, and other fancy treats that make wonderful gifts when you can’t find the time to send out your own homemade goodies.
Because Maggie and her team at Eat Boutique are awesome, they’ve given me one of their Breakfast Gift Boxes to giveaway here (it’s an extra special weekend giveaway!). This box contains Kenyon’s Apple and Spice Pancake Mix, Nutting Farm Maple Syrup, Early Bird Sweet and Salty Granola, Sqirl Cashmere Nectarine Jam, and Greenpoint Honey. It costs $55 (the price includes shipping) and would be a tasty treat for someone who deserves a particularly sweet morning during the holidays.
Here’s how to enter:
- Leave a comment on this post and share your favorite holiday breakfast.
- Comments will close at 12 noon east coast time on Monday, November 19, 2012. Winner will be chosen at random and will be posted to the blog over the weekend.
- Giveaway open to US residents only.
- One comment per person, please. Entries must be left via the comment form on the blog at the bottom of this post. I do not accept submissions via email.
One more thing! If you’ve not yet gotten yourself a copy of my book, they’re giving one away over on the Eat Boutique blog (if you’re not reading their blog regularly, you should really start. They feature lots of gorgeously photographed recipes and tutorials). Finally, for you Boston-area folks, I’m going to be signing copies of my book (along with a handful of other cookbook authors) at the Eat Boutique Holiday Market on December 9. I hope to see some of you there!
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My favorite holiday breakfast is vanilla and cream french toast, lots of crispy bacon, and a cup of hot tea.
We always make a breakfast casserole that my late Grandmother made each year. This year we’ll have that with some homemade scones and homemade cranberry butter. YUM!
Cookies! Cookies count as a holiday breakfast, right?
Steel-cut oatmeal w/cranberries & brown sugar, broiled grapefruit, freshly baked cinnamon rolls and slices of stollen, washed down with big mugs of coffee stirred with peppermint sticks/candy canes!
I love creme brûlée French toast with bacon!
My mom makes blintz souffle for the holidays! I’m going home this week and will definitely be enjoying some!
My favorite holiday breakfast is a kringle from this small shop near my parents’ house.
I love the breakfast casserole my mom makes.
This wasn’t something we made, but the tradition when we were growing up for my family was kringle for Christmas breakfast every year.
We have french toast and bacon every Christmas morning on the good china, no less!
My favorite holiday breakfast? Homemade cinnamon rolls, fresh-squeezed orange juice, and family to eat it with.
Choice of fully loaded Omelet or Scrambled Eggs with a sprinkle of pancake syrup on top.
Breakfast casserole and extra bacon on the side and cinnamon rolls! We overeat and then do heavy snacks an appetizers for our “Christmas Dinner”. It’s the best!
Egg nog french toast and eggs and bacon.
Ham, creamy scrambled eggs, biscuits, stollen, and Christmas cookies
Homemade cinnamon rolls and lots of frosting!
Post-Christmas leftovers! (ham & egg scramble with spinach and potatoes)
Actually, my favorite *post*-holiday breakfast is a smoothie! I usually need something to balance everything out.
Something sweet paired with a perfect cup of earl grey. yumms.
Chocolate bread. It’s from a local bakery and Christmas is not the same without it. It has chocolate swirled throughout and is frosted on top. Served toasted with OJ and coffee. P.S. That gift basket looks amazing!
Leftover pie is definitely the very best holiday breakfast!
For some Christmases when I was a kid my mom would make a cherry filled kringle shaped like a candy cane. I keep meaning to try to make it myself.
My favorite holiday breakfast is a dutch baby!
Every Christmas morning we make a Creme Brulee French Toast. Every one loves it and looks forward to the tradition.
Sweet potato hashbrowns are amazing! Pair them with venison sausage and dried cranberries for a very festive holiday feeling breakfast!
My favorite holiday breakfast is carrot cake pancakes with cream cheese icing!
My mother used to make a couple quiches for breakfast on holidays. It was the 70s. Everyone was eating quiche when they weren’t eating fondue!
Cinnamon rolls. Mmmm… Think I need to make some of those for Christmas morning.
When there’s company coming over, I love making a breakfast casserole with lots of cheese and sausage.
Christmas morning chocolate chip sour cream coffee cake. Delicious.
I remember having to eat breakfast before we could open presents. At Grandmother S’s house, it was usually oatmeal (the slow cooking kind), toast, juice, etc. Waiting was soooo hard!
Depends on the holiday? A gut busting holiday like Thanksgiving, we go light. Crack-of-dawn Christmas? Coffee and something easy to munch til my kids finish their presents. But we have a nice Sunday morning pancakes tradition that I’d like to change to waffles some day, once I get a waffle iron in the house!
My favorite holiday breakfast is a little strange. I was obsessed with the Boxcar Children’s cookbook and so every brunch I made as a kid HAD to have homemade eggnog…which always curdled because I was 10 and adamant that I would make the whole brunch myself.
the original German “Stollen” (a type of fruit cake)
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My mom’s sweet roll bread! We eat it with mandarin oranges while we open presents.
How much fun is this? My FAVORITE holiday breakfast is Christmas. Every Christmas we have Caramel Pecan Rolls – fresh, made from scratch (usually) and hot out of the oven. The more pecans, the merrier! Although, we do make a small pan for the kids who say they hate pecans. We keep telling them to just pick them off and give them to us, but…..kids are kids. Have a GREAT Thanksgiving!
Breakfast frenchtoast casserole! Oh so good! And smells so good cooking. No matter how many cookies you eat throughout Christmas, you’ll still want this scrumptious dish!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Favorite holiday breakfast? Belgium waffles of course! With lots of whipped cream, raspberries, and lemon curd on top! Yum!
french toast made with panetone
Homemade pancakes and bacon with the best ingredients I can get!
Homemade caramel rolls and hot coffee.
My husband’s waffles or pancakes – delish!
French Toast casserole! Prepared the night before and refrigerated, it smells delicious baking on Christmas morning!
Baked eggs in cream – a family tradition every Christmas (and Easter) morning.
The thing about the holiday breakfast is that it’s not the food – it’s the family! If we’re at my mom’s house, my stepdad goes out of his way to prepare perfect eggs with perfectly timed toast and perfectly warmed bacon and perfect pancakes – none of which anyone eats exactly when they should! At my house, there’s always some kind of baked good, along with bacon and eggs and potatoes should we feel so inclined.
The very best thing, though, is not the food, it’s the coffee that I drink while I sit with my mom or my kids and just enjoy each other’s company. SO looking forward to Thanksgiving!!
french toast and bacon…. with lots of syrup….. now i am hungry……
I can’t imagine a holiday breakfast without baked french toast with my brother’s homemade maple (or boxelder) syrup and bacon.
I love a mug of hot homemade wassail. Delicious!
For as long as I can remember, my family has had sour cream coffee cake for breakfast on Christmas morning (and getting to drink chocolate-raspberry coffee with the adults is a rite of passage for any teenagers in the house!). I’ve started a new tradition on New Year’s Day: steel cut oats topped with little sautéed cinnamon apple croutons, made from the last of the season’s gold rush apples.
favorite holiday breakfast? Pumpkin cinnamon rolls