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My family makes a couple of versions of this. Sometimes we add caramelized onions, bacon, spinach, rosemary, mixture of swiss & extra sharp cheddar, etc. Our version has a dozen eggs, 2 cups of cheese & takes about 45 minutes to cook. So delicious! The version I will make this year is yet to be determined....

My family usually makes cinnamon toast with espresso/coffee on Christmas morning. The day after Christmas we put the leftovers to work as omletes. Some of the best omletes ever! And it uses up some of the would be turkey/ham sandwich meat.

Strata is becoming our tradition too, and I'm definitely adding a nice sweet bread with icing and nuts this year! At my house, I find it's ALWAYS afternoon by the end of the morning, Christmas or no. (I know what you meant, but that sentence did crack me up.)

My boyfriend's tradition is cinnamon rolls and bacon! I'm not christian so I never did christmas morning growing up. But my grandmother made really yummy pancakes the one christmas morning.

we always do waffles and scrambled eggs on christmas morning with bacon for the bacon inclined. my mother made a few stratas over the years but because i was vegetarian, i didn't partake.

does anyone have a vegetarian strata recipe they'd like to share?

Last year I started making my mom's from-scratch cinnamon rolls for breakfast. I also make scrambled eggs so we're not completely hopped up on sugar, but this strata looks delicious! I will definitely be giving it a try this year as well.

If anyone is looking for a great recipe for cinnamon-rolls, I have it posted on my website:
http://www.seejencook.blogspot.com

Come on, guys. It's Worcestershire. Just the one 'h'.
Anyway, the strata looks great! I won't be trying it on Christmas morning, since I prefer a light breakfast before a huge lunch, but I'll definitely be giving it a go for brunch one weekend.

Thanks for sharing this recipe. I've been looking for a french toast-like strata, but this one seems more ideal for loading up calories on a cold winter's morning before a big backcountry ski. Thanks too, for the cinammon roll inspiration!

We always have homemade cinnamon rolls and scrambled eggs and bacon. My mom makes the cinnamon rolls the night before and puts them in the oven before we open presents. After presents, my dad makes the eggs and bacon. When I was little, Christmas was pretty much the only time of year we had bacon, which made it extra special.

Our Christmas morning tradition was "whatever candy is in the stocking and a cup of tea."

Don't tell my doctor.

We usually have blueberry pancakes with a few of the blueberries we've frozen at their peak.

We have champagne and my grandmother's tamales.

Last year I made some of that no knead bread, which turned out pretty good, probably do it again this year.

Champagne and tamales???? That's brilliant. I want to go to your house.

It's blueberry muffins at our house- made with Ontario blueberries that my Mum buys and freezes in the summer. I don't like berries in my muffins though, so whoever makes them (usually my sister these days, but used to be my Mum) will always make me a couple plain ones.

I know it's weird, but it wouldn't be Christmas without a blueberry-less blueberry muffin!

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my family always had cookies and coffee on christmas morning. my favorite are the "fat sugar cookies" that my mom makes every year.

nobody else calls them "fat sugar cookies." they are otherwise known as buttermilk cookies.

We usually have monkey bread and coffee with a generous amount of Bailey's in it.

Champagne and tamales wins the thread!

It is tradition in our house that on Christmas morning we eat egg battered and fried oysters, cheese grits, biscuits, real Virginia Ham, and scrambled eggs. Upon finishing, we sit as a family and scratch off lottery tickets that have been placed in our respective stockings - and complain when we don't win squat! Since losing my Dad this is about the only part of Christmas I still enjoy.

Alas that I cannot drink AND function in the morning (and that I have a preschooler). The champagne and Bailey's sound wonderful.

@Heather77 & jakelegs - I never realized how different the idea was until I read the comments here. It's just the way it we've always done it. :)

I like the strata, maybe for later in the day or a new years day breakfast, but the tamales are a must on Christmas day. When I was living with my folks, it was tamales for New Years day too.

Nice OP and I love reading the subsequent comments about Christmas morning traditions. Ours is a creme brulee french toast that is prepped the night before. But this is only eaten after nibbling on the sweets from the stockings all the while sipping mimosas and hot coffee.

When we were little we went to my grandparents' early on Christmas and ate orange glazed cinnamon rolls and a fruit cocktail of frozen strawberries, canned peaches, oranges, and bananas. But for the last 10-15 years we've stayed at my parents' house longer in the morning and have eaten a breakfast casserole not too different from your strata. Yum.

On Christmas morning we have pumpkin pie for breakfast and then my dad makes a huge blender full of Silver Fizzes. (What? there's eggs in there!)

Fried oysters for breakfast! Why have I never thought of it? Silver Fizz tickles my fancy. I am inspired.

I always make a strata for Christmas as well its usually one with chicken apple sausage and spinach, but last year I tried this one and it was excellent!

http://www.williams-sonoma.com/recipe/strata-with-cipollini-onions-and-arugula.html

Has anyone tried this (or something similar) with a sagey breakfast sausage? I have no time to experiment between now and Christmas (year end nonsense at work), but I would like to draw on the knowledge of folks who might have experimented a bit.

Scrambled eggs on toast (lots of butter & cream) with smoked salmon. Or sometimes poached eggs on toast with smoked salmon (my mother-in-law is awesome, the eggs are from her friend's backyard flock).

When Christmas is at our place, croissants and pain au chocolat from the gorgeous local French baker, accompanied by my mother-in-law's jams, and butter from the market, followed by grazing on cherries and peaches from the farmers' market. Christmas in summer is still weird for me, coming from the UK, but I'm growing to like it!

My husband works for a free-range ranch and we have a pound of pork sausage in the freezer. Usually we use it for patties and have breakfast for dinner, but now I know just what I'll be using it for (now that I have his approval - he's a mighty picky eater....) I had thought of doing homemade cinnamon rolls but the kids already get soooo much sugar.

We make potato latkes - I'm Jewish and my husbands family has been nice enough to add this to the Christmas morning tradition. Yum.

I think any kind of sausage would be great with this. The sage would add some nice depth to the existing flavors.

Our Christmas breakfast here in Sydney, Australia: mangoes, croissants, black currant jam, Champagne & orange juice, coffee.

Eaten early & out of doors, before we adjourn to the air con to open presents.

I pretty much do healthy from scratch food all year but Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without some pillsbury cinnamon rolls and fruit salad and lots of coffee. This year I think I'll make a strata to have too.

I don't eat much of anything christmas morning because we have our dinner at noon and it would simply be overkilll

that being said I took note of this delightful dish when it was published a few days ago and my version is currently in the over for DINNER!

I can't eat heavy foods in the morning. I'm a strictly smoothie type of gal...but I LOVE breakfast food. So I've been fantasizing about making this.

I added onion in the sausage layer and I used gluten free black brown rice bread. The rest is close to this one though measurements vary a bit as I'm using a smaller baking dish.

It will eventually appear on my blog. Thanks very much. It's made my day today! I can't wait to taste it. Which means the day will only get better.

oh yum! I'm reporting back having just eaten my strata.

Very delicious, though this is one of those times I wish I wasn't allergic to wheat because there is no doubt that a nice thick slices of Italian bread would do better on the bottom.

It crossed my mind to use potatoes...would be a different creature but good too.

thanks again!

why isn't there a place for a link in our profiles? anyway I'm at Cucina Naturale.

http://naturalwholefoodrecipes.wordpress.com/

Great comments! Loving the tamales and Champagne.

As a kid, I don't remember what we ate for breakfast in all the excitement of opening our gifts...perhaps because my mother was so my busy in the kitchen for our early Christmas dinner.

For the last 10 years or so, hubby and I have Italian pannetone and good strong coffee for Christmas Day breakfast. That's it. It's such a nice tradition for the two of us, that we almost panicked this year... After searching for days and many stores, we couldn't find any pannetone (hey, I live in the burbs of Central Texas) until we hit World Market yesterday. PHEW!

I will be hosting a big Xmas brunch for eight at noon, so we'll be lucky if we have time to scarf down a bite or two of the pannetone this Christmas morning.

Growing up, my mom always made cinnamon-pecan rolls for Christmas breakfast, but I tend to try other things these days: baked French toast and stratas are always a hit and can be made the night before (bonus!).

We made this strata and had it for breakfast this morning -- it came out of the oven almost souffle-like and was delicious! My fiance is vegetarian, so I used browned and crumbled veggie sausage, which worked great. I also added a bit of sage, which didn't hurt one bit.

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