Menu for New Year's Brunch

Champagne Punch:

Equal parts lemonade, champagne, and club soda

Mulled cider:

Cider with fresh nutmeg and cinnamon

Eggnog:

Open carton. Pour in whiskey if desired.

Coffee
Tea
Peppermint hot cocoa

Food:

Best pancakes ever, cooked on an electric griddle set to 350.

Perfect scrambled eggs:

One dozen eggs
1/2 cup heavy cream
Salt
Pepper
Grated swiss cheese (optional)

Whisk together ingredients. Cook over low heat in a nonstick pan, or better, a double boiler. This takes half an hour, but you don't really have to do anything.

Humanely raised bacon: place bacon on a plate atop paper towels. (You can layer the bacon with two paper towels in between each row). Microwave on high for approximately 5-6 minutes, depending on your microwave, and how crispy you like your bacon. Cooks perfectly, and the grease is in the paper towels for easy disposal.

Humanely raised chicken sausage: I don't really have to tell you how to cook sausage, do I?

Grapefruit
Canteloupe
Clementines

Serve with football, a Wii, and a bunch of people who drank too much last night.

Hope those of y'all who won't be there are working off your hangovers in some similarly productive way.

Comments

Foolish Megan! When Ron Paul is President the CONSTITUTION will cook your brunch and LIBERTY will tend bar!

Posted by Graeme | January 1, 2008 10:56 AM

...and, the grass will stop growing at 3" tall and stay green all of the time; and, pigs will fly; and, we'll all just get along.

Oh, and citizens will voluntarily send money to the federal government to fund the operation of the government.

Oh, and April 15th will become a new national holiday.

Posted by Ed Reid | January 1, 2008 1:45 PM

Is the bacon killed humanely? Lethal injection? Allowed to die of old age?

Poser.

Posted by Vegan Vacardle | January 1, 2008 2:03 PM

Is "lemonade" American lemonade (sugar, lemon, water) or European lemonade (Sprite)?

Also, it is my opinion that the most important component of brunch--a Bloody Mary--is a necessity especially for New Year's Brunch.

Posted by SamChevre | January 1, 2008 2:43 PM

A Happy and prosperous New Year to you, Megan. The big hit with the kids for New Year's brunch was always French Toast made with super-thick slices of sweet Hawaiian Bread and cinnamon in the egg batter. Wow!

Posted by a Duoist | January 1, 2008 4:07 PM

There is no possible way cooking bacon in a microwave could ever be considered "humane".

Cast iron skillet on medium heat. Approximately the same amount of fat that would have absorbed into the paper towels stays in the pan.

(The rest is, um, the entire reason to eat bacon in the first place)

Posted by Joel Bernstein | January 2, 2008 7:39 AM

Humanely raised bacon: place bacon on a plate atop paper towels. (You can layer the bacon with two paper towels in between each row). Microwave on high for approximately 5-6 minutes, depending on your microwave, and how crispy you like your bacon. Cooks perfectly, and the grease is in the paper towels for easy disposal.

Disposal?!?!?!

People who throw away bacon fat are crazy enough to think you can make a roux with butter.

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I made a flourless chocolate cake once, using whipped egg whites. I'll admit, it was the best cake I ever ate, but it wasn't worth the effort of doing it twice.

Posted by Njorl | January 2, 2008 1:39 PM

You should fry your bacon in a frying pan and use the grease (a little at a time, obviously) to fry your pancakes in the same pan. Otherwise, you'll never make it into heaven or the fun parts of hell.

Posted by ostap | January 2, 2008 2:05 PM

Ours was very similar. Bacon, scrambled eggs, pancakes, OJ, and coffee, and out PCs and Laptops playing various multiplayer games. And ended it with a Matinee of Army of Darkness.

Posted by Nick M. | January 2, 2008 2:12 PM

Fascinating. What's next, a blog post about the best way to wipe one's bottom?

Posted by tinisoli | January 2, 2008 3:08 PM

No-brainer: front to back, particularly if you are female.

Posted by Bob | January 2, 2008 5:01 PM

My brunch was Pillsbury cinnamon rolls and a glass of milk. But then we played multiplayer Civ IV all afternoon/evening, so it still was a good day. Especially since I know my days of sloth and video games are soon coming to an end. I hear babies aren't Civ compatible.

Posted by Christina | January 3, 2008 2:33 PM