How to Plan an Easy Brunch Menu
Hosting a brunch is the perfect opportunity to have an enjoyable weekend meal with family, friends and neighbors. While some hosts may feel the need to spend hours and hours in the kitchen preparing a delicious brunch menu, this is not necessary to having a successful event. In fact, planning an easy brunch menu that requires little to no cooking and only minimal preparation work can help you avoid much of the stress that comes with entertaining and allow you to focus on what really matters at a brunch event: the pleasant company. Does this Spark an idea?
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Decide what kind of drinks your guests will enjoy. Some common brunch choices include orange juice, coffee, hot chocolate, hot black tea, lemonade and soft drinks. You might also consider iced coffee, hot green tea and flutes of champagne and orange juice. Plan on keeping the hot drinks hot the day of the brunch by storing them in thermoses or samovars.
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Choose the best items for an easy main course buffet. Use items that require little cooking and preparation work like toasted bagels with cream cheese, store bought or homemade muffins or banana bread, drop biscuits with fruit preserves, oatmeal with raisins and nuts, crunchy granola with yogurt, toast with butter and English muffins with fruit preserves. Another option is to order ahead for donuts, danishes, cinnamon rolls, pecan sticky buns or other pastries, or even a quiche or two from a nearby bakery, and pick them up the morning of the brunch. You can also set up a sandwich station on a side table and plan on letting everyone make their own sandwich. Just provide different kinds of sliced bread, cheeses, meats, sliced vegetables and condiments.
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Decide on some complementary side dishes. Examples include fruit salad with yogurt dip, fried bacon strips, fried sausages, fried Canadian bacon, green salad with dressing, grilled asparagus, grilled mushrooms, tomato and mozzarella salad with basil, and steamed broccoli.
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Settle on a dessert you think your guests would like and that you can make or buy ahead, such as chocolate-covered strawberries, angel food cake with whipped sweetened cream, baked apples, blackberry cobbler or a simple bundt cake.
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Tips & Warnings
If you're on a budget, store-bought pastries will do just fine. Otherwise, baked goods from a local bakery add a nice touch.
Buy disposable cups, plates, napkins and cutlery for easy clean-up.
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