Breakfast for dinner is a great way to mix up your meals. Inexpensive to make and most can be whipped up in a flash. These are the recipes that are perfect for when you’re in a pinch.
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Getting kids to eat a delicious and nutritious breakfast before they head out the door is a great way to start off any day. My kids have fallen in love with this simple and fun way to prepare poached eggs in a potato and cheddar basket alongside fruit birds — an irresistibly fun breakfast! They love using their forks to split the poached eggs in half and watch the yolk run all over the crunchy and flavourful potato-cheddar nests.
This is a fantastically simple idea that is so tasty and quick to put together. The flavours of roasted green onion and sun-dried tomato pack a big punch in this dish, bringing in a bit of summer yumminess on these cold winter days. This can be put together as a "Wow!" dish for breakfast or brunch, or you can serve it as a casual dinner with a side salad. The trick is in the roasting of the onions—slow enough to get them to a sticky roasted sweetness that is over-the-top delicious.
Mother's Day breakfast can mean cold toast, burned pancakes, and a mess in the kitchen. This easy, delightfully dairy free recipe combines chewy coconut with sweet mango, all drizzled with a tart-sweet lime syrup. These pancakes are tiny; only about 3 inches across, so if you have hungry bellies you made need to double or triple the recipe. Small is good for kids though; take the leftovers and sandwich them with Philadelphia chocolate cream cheese with a decadent lunchbox treat!
I am, most definitely, an early morning person and yet for some reason I cannot bestir myself to actually cook in the morning. This is especially true on weekends; after the weekday rush I prefer a leisurely morning of coffee drinking and relaxing to a morning of brunch-making and dish washing. As we all know, however, weekends are made for brunches. What's a girl to do?
Enter this recipe. This dish is quickly and easily prepared the night before, and the morning of requires no more effort than putting a pan in the oven, and then drinking coffee leisurely while it bakes.
My kids love muffins. Blueberry, oatmeal or bacon and eggs it doesn't matter, they love them all.
That's right—I said bacon and eggs because if it comes from a muffin tin and fits in their hands it's a muffin and they love it. Seriously, if I could find a way to make a roast beef dinner in the shape of a muffin they would eat it.
These breakfast muffins are packed with all the things you wish your kids would eat before you rush them out the door for school, extracurriculars, or a rushed trip for whatever you forgot to do yesterday. Best of all, they are dense enough that if you throw them in a tupperware container they won't crumble too badly in your backseat.
I also expect these would freeze very well and re-heat quickly in the mornings, but to be honest, we wouldn't know because they never last that long in our house.
We love this egg-cellent egg recipe.
Out of all the recipes I’ve ever made, this one is the most asked for and like most of the recipes that are my childhood favourites, this one came from my grandmother’s kitchen. I am sure it was first featured in one of the many magazines she still receives, but over the last few decades we have sampled and perfected and created this version. While I have served this for brunches (it’s great as a make-ahead and re-heat option) this has become one of my family’s favourite dinners. Serve with salad, cooked green beans or even just a side of ketchup and everyone in my house is happy. I often make two (after I FINALLY get the kids to bed): one to re-heat the next night for dinner and one to freeze in individual portions for quick and easy lunches (both for the kids and for me!).
Sometimes, you just want a meal with grown up flavors. The kids may be happy with pancakes or scrambled eggs with cheese, but you want more. Make this omelet for you instead! Don’t worry about any complicated flipping, you finish it off in the oven. With a tossed salad and some crunchy toast, it makes a wonderful light dinner, lunch, or decadent breakfast. Who knows, when the kids see how good this is they may want you to make it for them, too!
Light and fluffy but rich, these pancakes taste similar to a blintz. We love them topped with fresh berries and whipped cream, but you can also slather them with a berry syrup as in the photo or for more lemony goodness spoon lemon curd on them. The ricotta in the batter makes them extra-special and perfect for breakfast...or breakfast for dinner.
Here is one of my go-to recipes to prepare on a Sunday, arming me with meals on-the-go all week. Two of these delicious muffin tin frittatas plus a piece of fruit, and I'm good to get through my day and my daily Belly Bootcamp class! The kids will have one with a side of yogurt and fruit (and a side of ketchup, if we're being honest—whatever gets the protein down).
Check out the basic recipe at the end if you'd like to change the ingredients to your family's tastes. Ham + cheddar? Tomato + green onion? Broccoli + feta? Yum-o.
Don't have enough time to make eggs? Watch Erica Ehm and her egg-flipping husband have some fun while showing two fast and very easy ways to whip up a healthy egg meal in no time.
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