brunch at home

Mimosa Brunch Board

Are you a mimosa fan like I am? If so, you’ll love this super easy and colorful spread for your next brunch at home for your girl gang of boozy friends and family.

We’re all familiar with the Charcuterie & Cheese Boards trends but thought we could level up to a Mimosa Brunch Board because obviously a genius idea.

Being the event planner at heart, I love to plan for the food part of a get together. This spread would be perfect to let your guests create their own mimosa combinations and in general a beautiful centerpiece. Perfect for a Galentine’s Day / Valentine’s Day Brunch, Birthday Brunch, Bridal Shower Brunch or any brunch party or celebration at home.

Here’s how to make the spread… Cheers!

Mimosa Brunch Board Ingredients:

  • Strawberries

  • Raspberries

  • Blueberries

  • 1 Grapefruit

  • 1-2 Lemons

  • 1-2 Limes

  • Mini Muffins or Mini Quiches

  • 3-5 Mini Prosecco Bottles (or more depending on your group size)

  • Juices: Orange Juice, Cranberry Juice, or any type of juice

  • Large Cheese Board

    • Pictured here - I got this round wooden serving platter from Target a few years ago. I don’t see it available any more but here’s a similar options on Amazon.

  • 3 Ramekins

    • Here’s the one’s I have from Amazon.

  • 2-3 Carafes

  • Flute Glassware

    • Here’s some cute flute options - here and here.

  • Toothpicks

  • Flowers

Loaded French Toast Brunch Burger with Fries - Fries Before Guys Burger

Hope you came hungry, because this brunch burger is not for the faint of hearts or stomachs.

This loaded brunch burger idea came just around one of my favorite holidays - Valentine’s Day. So officially, unofficially I’m also naming this burger the “Fries Before Guys” Brunch Burger.

Stacked mine with a fried egg, bacon, cheese, lettuce, and tomato. The beauty of it is it’s sandwiched between two french toast slices, adding that sweet and savory element to the dish. Come hungry, eat it with friends or roommate while binging Netflix or make for a extra special date night at home, perfect for that brunch loving couple type.

Ingredients:

For the French Toast buns:

  • Brioche Bread

  • 2 Eggs

  • 4 Tbsp - Milk

  • 2 Tbsp Vanilla

  • 1 Tbsp Cinnamon

For the Burgers + Condiments:

  • Burger patties or ground beef to form patties

  • Cheese Slices (Optional Condiment)

  • Lettuce ( Optional Condiment)

  • Tomato (Optional Condiment)

  • Fried Egg (Optional Condiment)

  • Bacon (Optional Condiment)

  • Avocado (Optional Condiment)

  • Bag of Frozen Fries Fries/Tater Tots/Sweet Potato Fries - Your favorite potato.

Instructions:

Make the French Toast Buns:

  • Slice the brioche buns into four slices

  • In a bowl, mix the eggs, milk, vanilla, cinnamon

  • Heat a pan with some butter (or can use oil, or non-stick spray)

  • Dunk the bread slices in the egg mixture and place in the pan, about 2 at a time to not crowd the pan.

  • Cook until both sides are golden brown and little crispy (about 5 minutes each side), set aside

Make the burgers:

Season your meat with salt & pepper. On either the a grill or pan, cook your burger to your preferred temperature. Set aside.

Assemble:

Once the burgers are done. Time to assemble on the french toast buns. You can add as many condiments as you want to your burger. I went ALL out!

For the fries (in the photo) I did make these homemade. Honestly, it was a ton of work and I’d definitely recommend saving the hassle and time by just getting a frozen bag of your favorite potato and heating those up in the oven to go with the burger. Enjoy!

Red Pepper and Spinach Egg Muffin Quiche Bites

Being a big egg fan and not a big chef in the mornings… ( I love my sleep.) I make these quiche egg bites almost every week as my breakfast meal prep. It makes mornings so much easier to reheat in the microwave for a minute, make my coffee and be on my way.

These mini quiches pack a lot of veggies in and can easily switch up or add ingredients, this particular batch I added bacon and cheese. It proves to be a no fuss recipe as I use pre-made pie crust, sauté some vegetables, and bake.

Hope you enjoy these bite sized egg bites!


Red Pepper and Spinach Egg Muffin Quiche Bites

Prep Time: 30 minutes

Cook Time: 30 minutes

Serves: 12


Ingredients:

Base:

  • 1 Pre-made pie crust (I use Pillsbury pie crust)

Fillings:

  • 1 red pepper

  • 1 6oz bag of spinach

  • half an onion (diced)

  • 2 cloves garlic

    • Optional or Additional Filling Options:

    • Cheese: shredded cheese, feta

    • Bacon

    • Mushrooms

Egg Mixture:

  • 6 eggs

  • 1/4 cup of milk

  • Salt & Pepper

Hardware:

  • Muffin Tin

  • Mason jar

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Chop up and dice the garlic, onions, and red pepper.

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Drizzle some oil in your pan and sauté the garlic, onions, and red pepper until slightly browned and softened (about 10 minutes).

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Add in the spinach until wilted. Set the veggie mixture aside.

Get out your muffin tin and spray with some non-stick spray.

Roll out your pie crust on a clean surface. I use a mason jar to cut out circles in the dough. If you have a round cooke cutter that would work as well. When I use my mason jar it gives me 8 round dough circles before I have to re-roll out the dough for the remaining 4 circles.

Place the round dough into the muffin tin. Next, I put these in the oven for about 7 minutes to cook the dough a bit for a sturdier base for when I add the filling.

Meanwhile, start making the egg mixture.

Combine 6 eggs in a bowl. Add the milk and some salt and pepper and whisk up.

Add the egg mixture and fill each muffin tin to the top.

Bake for 30 minutes. Let cool and enjoy for brunch, breakfast, or meal prep for the week.

That’s it! But here’s some additional notes….

Reheating: Place on a plate and heat up in a microwave for 1 minute.

In this recipe I used bacon. I prefer to bake my bacon at 350 degrees and let it bake until I start to smell the bacon and until it gets really crispy. You can then chop up some bits and add the the veggie mixture you create. I also added Trader Joe’s Unexpected Cheese and it’s just so good in this recipe… options ;)

Candy Corn Waffle Recipe🍁 🎃

Hope you’re ready for that fall content, because here is comes! I originally found this recipe in a magazine, who still reads those?! And modified it slightly based on ingredients I actually had in the house.

Really easy and fun breakfast to make for the fall spirit, hope you enjoy!

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Ingredients:

  • 2 Cups Flour

  • 2 Tablespoons Sugar

  • 4 Teaspoons Baking Soda

  • 1 Teaspoon Salt

  • 2 Eggs

  • 1 1/2 Cups Milk

  • 1 Stick of Melted Butter

  • Orange & Yellow Food Coloring to Tint the Batter

  • Waffle Maker


Directions:

  • Whisk flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in a large bowl or stand mixer.

  • Whisk in eggs, milk, butter with the dry ingredients on low/medium speed or by hand.

  • Tint half the batter with orange and half yellow food coloring.

  • Preheat waffle maker to the lowest setting and spray with some non-stick spray.

  • Spoon some orange batter into the middle of the waffle maker and some yellow batter around it.

  • Cook until just crisp.

  • Separate into triangles.

  • Dip the tips in melted white chocolate.


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