How to Find Food Ideas for a New Year’s Day Brunch

Brunch is popular on New Year's Day, since no one who spent the night celebrating will want to get up early for breakfast. Selecting the right brunch foods can be tricky, but if you offer up a good selection you can cover everyone’s tastes. Here are some ideas.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Internet access
• Recipe books

1. Scan your recipe books. New Year's brunch foods include eggs, breakfast meats, quiche, waffles, pancakes, muffins, cinnamon buns and other treats.
2. Go online if you don’t have good recipe books. Search for “brunch foods” and “brunch recipes.” The Resources section below lists a few recipe Web sites to get you started.
3. Search for drink ideas, too. Include nonalcoholic drinks as well as the traditional New Year’s Day champagne. Smoothies made with fresh fruit and yogurt are delightful and are so easy to make you can take orders from your guests and make custom smoothies right on the spot.
4. Prepare dishes one or even two days in advance. A casserole or quiche of sausage, eggs and cheese can be made the day before and reheated on the morning of your brunch. Pancake batter and bread dough can also be prepared in advance.

Tips & Warnings

• Prepare a variety of dishes—eggs, meat, vegetables and fruits. And don't forget dessert treats.