I am talking, of course, about a strata - a type of savory bread pudding. And the solution is a one-dish meal that you prepare the night before and bake off in the morning so it is fresh and hot when your guests arrive. Forget about spending time with your friends and family! Isn’t there a way to have everyone over for a special holiday breakfast or brunch without all the stress? And for some of those holidays, you might be out of the house for part of the morning - making preparing a meal that much more difficult.Īnother problem with feeding a crowd at breakfast is that so many of our favorite breakfast foods - think omelets and pancakes - require long periods of standing over a hot stove.
#VEGETABLE STRATA CRACK#
The last thing anyone wants to do on a holiday morning is wake up at the crack of dawn and start cooking. Despite how often we are called upon to feed a crowd first thing in the morning, it remains a challenge. If the Monday blues has got you down, day dream about this little number till you make it to the end of the week.Entertaining at breakfast or brunch is a regular part of many holidays - from New Year’s Day to Easter to Mother’s Day and right back through Christmas. Other cheeses that work well: provolone, mozz, and Monterey jack. I love using smoked gouda in this recipe but that can get really expensive really quickly! I found that my grocery store sells smoked jack cheese (which costs ½ of what the gouda does) and tastes almost exactly the same in this casserole. This savory french toast bake is easily customizable to your liking!Īlso to be noted, gluten-free bread will work just fine for this breakfast casserole so my GF friends, rejoice! In such cases, crumbled cooked sausage or mini pepperoni sprinkled throughout the casserole will surely please such eaters. I get that there might be a meat-lover or two in your life that may not agree with my meatless breakfast casserole ways. And in the morning, just a quick 35 minutes of oven lovin’. Ideally you want to prepare this the night before so the flavors really soak in. Gone are the days when you need to toast your bread, scramble eggs perfectly, or whatever else your brunches usually consist of. It’s a hearty, filling meal that requires you to beat a few eggs with some milk, and drizzle it all over day old bread. What I love the most about this breakfast bake is that it’s all cooked in one dish. Side note: my basil plant is still alive (barely) but it is! ? I was completely out of fresh basil when I made this casserole so I popped in a palmful of dried basil and guys, along with the cheese and the bread, all the flavors reminded me of a good margarita pizza. The sun-dried tomatoes lend so much bright tomato flavor to this and the basil helps give it that pop of freshness. Plus, it’s completely a happy coincidence that this breakfast casserole tastes like pizza. For summer, I love sun-dried tomatoes and basil together. For me, it contains a lot more of the flavors I enjoy in the fall or winter. And though I love that version, I have to admit it, it is a little time consuming. The first time I made a savory french toast casserole, I loaded it up with caramelized onions, feta, and sautéed spinach and guys, between the two of us, we licked the entire casserole dish clean. And ahem, did I mention it’s super easy to put together, requires hardly any work, and is the ideal make-ahead breakfast casserole? Sun-dried tomatoes, aromatic basil, bread, eggs, milk, parmesan, and cheese all in one breakfast casserole that i’m pretty convinced tastes like the pizza of your dreams but comes together in a sophisticated, brunch appropriate package.Ĭall this a breakfast strata, a savory french toast casserole, or a breakfast bake, it’s the perfect brunch item to share with friends and family this summer. Then have this tomato + basil breakfast strata on Monday again for lunch or dinner with a side salad and realize that this breakfast casserole is more of a breakfast pizza that would taste good with or without meat and is simply the kind of meal that keeps on giving. I want to say this breakfast bake is so good you may want to cancel on your brunch guests and hunker down with the entire dish yourself. Yes, i’m bringing you a breakfast casserole on MONDAY so that you can dream about it all week long and then prep it on Friday and binge eat it over the weekend. The leftovers make for a delicious weeknight dinner when paired with a simple salad!įirst thing first. Just toss it all together the night before and bake it for your sunday brunch or weekend get togethers. Sun-dried tomatoes and basil are the cornerstones of this breakfast casserole.
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