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Planning Breakfast – Company Breakfast Made Easy

November 9, 2009

(From the  Misc Collection at emealsforyou.com)

Mary N's Baked French Toast

With the holidays rapidly approaching we find ourselves thinking about company coming to town to enjoy a visit and immediately our brains turn to food.  What to feed them?  The dinner meals are usually pretty straight forward;  large extravaganzas with turkeys, hams or roasts taking center stage.  Fill in around these and you are all set.

It’s the other meals that drive us up a wall.  Beyond juice and coffee what to serve for breakfast.  You know that meal first thing in the morning that you usually skip save for a cup of coffee.  Company changes all that.  Bagels and doughnuts only go so far, and besides you what them to think you care about starting the day off right, right?  The answer may lie in make ahead breakfast casseroles.  Do all the work ahead when you have the time.  Company morning get up, turn the coffee pot on and preheat the oven.  Pop in your pre-made casserole and let the aroma drift through the house.  Chances are everyone will show up with a smile on their face and exclaim, “boy, I can’t believe you got up early and made breakfast for us!”

This recipe comes to us via my wife’s aunt Mary.  She brought some cream cheese brownies to a family function recently and this recipe was a bonus recipe from her.  Both recipes are on the emealsforyou.com website. This recipe is somewhere between French Toast and OMG Sticky Buns.  You can’t beat the French toast for the ease of preparing it and it is certain to become a new family favorite.

Mary N’s Baked French Toast Casserole

Slice French bread into 1-inch slices. Butter a 9 X 13 baking dish. Place slices in 2 overlapping rows. Mix the eggs, half-and-half, milk, sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt ion a large bowl until just mixed. Pour over the bread, making sure to get mixture between and all over bread slices. Cover with foil and refrigerate over night.

For the Praline Topping: Combine butter, brown sugar, pecans, light corn syrup, cinnamon and nutmeg in a bowl, mix and allow to sit covered on a countertop over night.

Baking instructions: Spread the praline topping evenly over the casserole. Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees; bake casserole for 40 minutes, until puffed and lightly golden. Serve with maple syrup.

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