Family Vacation Breakfast/Brunch Ideas

[goat]

Headed to FLA with my family for the next week. Every is staying together at the beach and we plan on doing breakfast and prob lunch at the house and dinners out every night. So looking for a couple good recipes for something for 10 people including a few little ones. Fritatas, Casseroles, etc....something that doesnt need to many supplementary ingrediants...ie...spices etc that are pointless to buy for a week vacation. Ideas?

 

[scottsins]

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you can vary this up however you want. i recommend chorizo. drain liquid fat off of sausage first. you may also need to make two of these.

 

[simihorn]

scott:

altho that recipe looks good, it takes at least 100 minutes to prepare, with someone hanging out in the kitchen the entire time.

We just did 9 days in Fla. Buy eggs, sausage, tortillas, cheese and salsa. Try different types of sausage or use bacon for something different.

Breakfast tacos for 10 will be cooked, eaten and the mess cleared before the potatoes are even done. If you like potatoes in your breakfast tacos, buy some frozen tater tots and start with those. Also, chances are you won't have a good comal or extra pans to cook the tortillas on the stove top (and with 20 tortillas to cook, one at a time can take a while). If you have an oven, lay them on a cookie cheet at 425 or 450, or just nuke 'em. Not as good, but they'll be edible and get the cook out of the kitchen quickly.

 

[DallasCowpoke]

OATMEAL BREAKFAST BREAD PUDDING

PREPARTION
6cups bread cubes -- day-old
3/4cupoatmeal
4largeeggs -- beaten
2 1/2 cups1% milk
1/2cupsugar
1 tablespoon vanilla
1tablespoon nutmeg
1/2cupcurrants -- dried

DIRECTIONS:
Fill 9"by 14"cooking bowl 1/2 to 2/3 full with cubed day-old bread. Add oatmeal. Separately beat eggs and mix with milk, sugar, vanilla, and nutmeg. Add dried currants. Bake until pudding has risen high and medium brown (usually 1 hour plus). It will rise like a souffle, and fall as it cools. Makes approximately 8 servings. Served warm smothered in milk.

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[mayberryrfd]

1 loaf French bread (13 to 16 ounces..it works best with harder breads or ones that are considered "day old")8 large eggs
1 1/2 cups half-and-half
3/4 cup milk
2 tablespoons granulated sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
Dash salt
Praline Topping, recipe follows after these directions for the first part.
Maple syrup if desired.

Slice French bread into 20 slices, 1-inch each. Arrange slices in a generously buttered 9 by 13-inch flat baking dish in 2 rows, overlapping the slices. In a large bowl, combine the eggs, half-and-half, milk, sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt and beat with a rotary beater or whisk until blended but not too bubbly. Pour mixture over the bread slices, making sure all are covered evenly with the milk-egg mixture. Spoon some of the mixture in between the slices. Cover with foil and refrigerate overnight.
The next day, preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Spread Praline Topping evenly over the bread and bake for 40 minutes, until puffed and lightly golden. Serve with maple syrup if you want. I find that the praline topping is enough.


Praline Topping:
1/2 pound (2 sticks) butter
1 cup packed light brown sugar
1 cup chopped pecans
2 tablespoons light corn syrup
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
Combine all ingredients in a medium bowl and blend well.

If you need to feed ten people. this might do it unless they are really hungry. In which case, I'd make two of them. As for the spices, you can get away with just using cinnamon. I don't like the taste of nutmeg so I always omit it.
The great thing about this is you do the prep the night before...

It is very rich-almost like desert. If you don't like your breakfast that sweet..this is not for you. It's like a twist on a cinnabon

 

[scottsins]

also, search online for a recipe for the following:

carrot cake french toast.

you could bake the cake ahead of time, and just batter with egg and fry.