Mother's Day Breakfast

From Life Take 1
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This upcoming weekend is Mother’s Day. No offense to my children and sweet husband but I simply cannot eat another one of their concoctions that they call “breakfast in bed.” Waffles that are burnt on the outside and frozen on the inside, toast that resembles charcoal, runny omelets, and then there was the year of the fruit smoothie. I still have no clue exactly what was in it but I heard something about peanut butter, jelly, marshmallows, and bbq sauce. That was in addition to the fruit, milk, and ice cream. I love you all but no thanks!!!

This year I am determined to start a new tradition. Edible Breakfast in Bed!!! My options are limited as if I cook it myself … I will hurt everyone’s feelings. Going out to eat is not an option because of church and if we waited until afterwards, the kids would perish from starvation. So…. I came up with a few ideas.

1. Ask them what they want to make me for Mother’s Day. Make it the day before. They are all expert microwave users. So … the pancakes may be rubbery. That is much better than being sick all day and trying to pretend I am not.
2. Suggest a quick breakfast of cereal bars, donuts, or muffins. Store bought! Then we can have a big brunch after church. This is just a little something to tie us over.
3. Pre-cook ingredients and let them combine them for a breakfast feast.
4. Give up and eat whatever they came up with. The Grin and Bear it again method.
5. Find something that they can’t mess up when cooking.

So…. Those are the options. Now what??? First … finish this article! : -) Second – email to hubby. Think he will get the point?

Pre-cooking
Fresh Fruit and Dip: Purchase a variety fresh fruit cut up and store in the fridge. Perhaps have some cool whip, caramel, or fudge sauce for dipping. My boys love anything they can dip stuff into. Dip would bring this to the top of their lists of things to make.

Breakfast Burritos: Pre-cook some bacon, scrambled eggs, breakfast sausage (and cut into bite size pieces), fried potatoes (or hash browns). Purchase tortillas and salsa. Grade some cheese. They can simply warm in the microwave, pile into a tortilla, roll it up and serve!

Traditional Breakfast: Pre-cook bacon, scrambled eggs, breakfast sausage, and hash browns. They can simply warm in the microwave. Add some toast (I think they can manage this now!) or a muffin (store bought) and fresh fruit (see above).

Easy Recipes
Ziploc Baggie Omelets: Using a quart-size Ziploc freezer bag. Crack 2 large eggs (or extra large but ONLY 2!) into each bag. Shake to mix. Add in a variety of ingredients – whatever mom will like. Ham, cheese, onion, green pepper, tomato, hash browns, salsa, bacon, mushrooms, etc… (mom – you might want to prep some of these things the day before). Shake to mix again. Squeeze all the air out of the bag before zipping. Place bag into rolling, boiling water for EXACTLY! 13 minutes!! EXACTLY! If you are making 1 for each person – writing names on the bag with a permanent marker is a good plan. 6-8 bags can be cooked at 1 time. Add a little something on the side and wala! Breakfast!

French Toast Souffle: You will need 8 slices of fresh bread cubed. 2 packages of cream cheese, cubed. A dozen eggs. 2 cups of milk. 1/3 cup of maple syrup. A 9x13 baking pan. Place half of the bread cubes in the bottom of the pan. Cover bread with cream cheese squares and top with the remaining bread cubes. In another bowl, beat eggs. Add maple syrup and milk. Pour over the bread cubes. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight. (mom … since it’s the night before you can help!) In the morning heat the over to 375¢ªF. Bake for 45 minutes or until set. Serve with maple syrup on the side. Garnish with fresh fruit.

Here are some links for other ideas to try:
Breakfast Pizza: http://mountain-breeze.com/kitchen/breakfast/40.html

Breakfast Casserole in Crockpot: http://crockpot.cdkitchen.com/recipes/recs/41/Breakfast_Casserole55552.shtml

Crockpot Breakfast Cobbler: http://busycooks.about.com/od/dessertrecipe1/r/crockcobbler.htm

Sausage and Cheddar Quiche: (This is one for the more daring and experience cooks in your house) http://southernfood.about.com/od/christmasfood/r/blxm122.htm

Okay … now to be fair to my hubby. He can cook. Just not breakfast!! I am praying you all have a wonderful day filled with many blessings and memories. Each of you deserve the very best this day as you work so hard and tirelessly all year long.