Christmas Day Italian Brunch

December 24th, 2012 · 6 Comments · Breakfast, Brunch, Christmas, City Cooking, Cocktail, Holiday, Italian, Lunch, New York City, North Fork, The baking corner, Tips, Travels, Vegetarian, Wine, Winter Recipes

Serves 8 to 10 people
Food gifts are great for the hoildays because they will always “fit”; their size and color work for everyone. Christmas gifts like panettone, baskets of fruit and some Christmas dinner ham or Proscuito can be the base for a wonderful brunch for you and your house guests. When you put dinner away tonight, think about what you can use for a brunch. French toast made with Panettone, a fruit salad made with fruit from your gift basket, scrambled eggs, your meat of choice, a morning cocktail like Bellini or Bloody Mary and plenty of coffee. So tonight take inventory as you clean up after Christmas dinner and plan tomorrow’s menu.

Menu

Fresh Fruit salad

Panettone French toast with real maple syrup

Meat selection of Italian sausage patties or Baked spiral ham

Fresh herb-Parmesan Scrambled eggs

Bellinis, coffee and tea

Fresh Fruit Salad

Cut or section the following fruit and toss in decorative bowl.

Pineapple

Mandarins or Clementines

Grapes

Cantaloupe

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6 responses so far ↓

1 Katie // Apr 15, 2009 at 6:42 am

this fruit salad looks soooo yummy in my tummy. i could eat it alllllll day. so thank you for this beautiful picture. i am sooooooooo hungry right now because of that beautiful picture. pleaseeeeee post some more.
2 Charlene Gentry // Sep 10, 2009 at 6:56 pm

i tryed your fruit salad and it was wonderful,refreshing
3 Gabrielle // Dec 2, 2009 at 4:29 pm

I love all your fresh food!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
4 shorty // Jan 11, 2010 at 3:55 pm

Those fruits are my favorites!
5 %:*chikita*:% // Feb 17, 2010 at 9:40 am

tthose fruits are so good….love it
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