Let's Do Brunch! EASY Make-Ahead Recipes for Father's Day or Any Day!

[Music] hello everyone I am so happy to see you again today I want to share with you some recipes for a Sunday brunch here's the menu I'm serving a Cheesy and delicious tater tot breakfast casserole homemade maple granola with Organic dried fruit and yogurt a colorful fruit salad brightened with lime zest and lime juice and store bought Quant with whipped honey butter for beverages I'm offering homemade cold brewed coffee plus orange juice and prco this particular brunch is extremely easy on the cook all of the dishes can be prepared well ahead of time so this tater tot breakfast casserole is almost too easy to make first thing I need to do is lightly grease my baking dish which is roughly 9 in by 13 in then we need a 32 oz or 97 G bag of frozen tater tots and these go directly into the baking dish and then in a large bowl I need to beet 12 large eggs if you have a garden you can certainly save your eggshells and either compost them or just spread them in the garden whisk the spiral whisk is great for beating eggs then I want to whisk in a pinch of salt some grinds of black pepper a large handful or about one cup of extra sharp cheddar cheese and the same amount of montere Jack cheese I also want a/2 cup or 118 Ms of whole milk and just mix and then pour the egg mixture directly over the tater tots I'm going to cover this and refrigerate it overnight and then tomorrow before we bake it off for brunch I will Top it with some already cooked strips of bacon and I will give you the baking directions tomorrow I'm going to clean up my work station and then I need to grab some ingredients at Tiara Farm I think we will also stop by the local flower store what if the world had more of your smile what if the wind could spread your love what if your [Music] sweetness I love Tiara Farm it has the best organic Fair Trade coffee tea dried fruit and nuts the store is only 4 minutes from my home but you can shop there too Tiara ships nationally within the United States I can put a free shipping code in the description below if you are interested [Music] for the cold brewed coffee I'm selecting beans from Ethiopia coarsely ground coffee beans provide more surface area for the cold brew process [Music] change of plan instead of visiting the flower shop I drove to S mascot Garden Market in Kinderhook New York here I found two gorgeous pink Martha Washington pelargoniums I think these will look well on our brunch [Music] table well we are home again and let me tell you it is really hot outside the air is thick with humidity so here's the coffee that you and I bought at Tira Farm it's Ethiopian it's a light roast which means it's going to have a lot of caffeine and I'm going to use this for cold brew coffee cold brew coffee is really my favorite coffee it has very low acidity it just has a really smooth taste so what I have here is about 9 cups of cold water I'm making a double recipe and then I need two cups of the coarsely ground [Music] coffee take this a quick stir just to moisten all of the coffee then I will cover this and let it sit either on the counter or in the refrigerator for 8 to 12 hours during that time the coffee will develop this very rich chocolatey Aroma going to cover this with a plate and now onto the granola which I'm going to serve parfait style in other words I will layer the granola with yogurt in a bowl and for the granola I need 4 cups or about 360 G of the rolled oats [Music] I love that these bags are compostable then I need about 1 cup of sunflower seeds you do not have to be exact here one cup or thereabouts of sliced almonds [Music] one cup or their abouts of shredded unsweetened [Music] coconut then I want to add some hazelnuts I think hazelnuts are wonderful in Granola and again about one cup 1 and 1/2 tpoon of [Music] cinnamon 3/4 cup or about 177 Ms of either avocado oil or coconut oil I'm using avocado oil today and 1/3 cup or about 79 MLS of pure maple syrup I'm just going to eyeball [Music] this and stir many of you have asked about the wooden utensils that I use these are called spurtles and I can link them in the description below if you are interested they are not expensive I actually put mine in the dishwasher they're great for stirring and for mixing I use them in place of spatulas now I will add some dried fruit to this but not until after the granola has baked I need my baking sheet which I have lined with parchment you don't have to pour this out [Music] and then this goes into a preheated 350° F or 180° C oven until the granola crisps and Browns that's going to take about 30 minutes and after 15 minutes or so I will retrieve the granola and give it a toss [Music] this looks just perfect it's a nice golden color it's very fragrant beautiful I'm going to let this cool for about 20 minutes and then I will transfer this mixture to a bowl and let it cool completely overnight well we did a lot of recipes today in just a short time we made the tater tot casserole we made the cold brewed coffee we made the granola now tomorrow I'm going to make a fruit salad create the parfait with the granola and yogurt and I think I'm going to add some Quant and some honey butter some whipped honey butter to our brunch so I will see you tomorrow sweet dreams [Music] friends good morning it's a new day and mercifully we had a break in the weather it was so hot and sticky yesterday last night we had a torrential downpour and that was it the weather cooled off so we can have our brunch party Outdoors today and the first thing I need to do is strain this cold brewed coffee that you and I made together yesterday so I have a strainer over a bowl and I have a flower sack towel I'm going to put inside the strainer and I just Ladle The Brew right on top and we can set these aside then I'm going to transfer this to a clear glass pitcher of course this coffee is very concentrated meaning it's very strong so no problem if you want to dilute The Brew with ice cubes which is probably what I will do I will serve iced coffee for this brunch so next we need to make a fruit salad which I'm going to dress with lime juice and lemon zest I think a fruit salad is always welcome at a brunch party for this salad I'm going to use strawberries because they are in season and some green seedless grapes and some blueberries and this pineapple over here and the great thing about hosting a Sunday brunch is you really don't have to hurry things you can start as I did preparing for it a day or two ahead of time and then you can be fresh and relaxed when your guests arrive [Music] so I have one pound of strawberries here and then I need probably a good cup or so of these seedless green grapes which unfortunately I will have to cut in half [Music] on to the pineapple now I have not cut one of these things in many years so we will see how it goes see if I remember how to do it off with the top I think you can stick this in potting soil and grow a whole new pineapple plant trim off the end and then right down the middle then there is a tough core right here and we want to slice on either side of the core this is really too hard to cut for a fruit salad but I do know a lot of people who like to chew on the core got this through the middle and then at this point I cut the pineapple lengthwise into thirds taking care not to cut all the way through the Rind then I make crosswise Cuts lastly I run my knife between the Rind and the flesh to release the pineapple cubes there we are we have cubed pineapple Apple now I was going to add some kiwi to this but I already have a green color from the seedless grapes so I think we will skip the Kiwi today so this container is the perfect size for serving but it is definitely too small for tossing so I'm going to throw these into a larger bowl and then we can go about making our lime dressing lime [Music] zest I think the zest of one lime will be enough now we need the juice now a viewer told told me that if I were to cut off this little knob from a lemon or lime and then place it in my lime or lemon juicer I would achieve a lot more juice let's see if that's true I think it is true so thank you for that tip and if you wanted to forgo lemon or lime juice Al together you could simply serve this fruit salad as I sometimes do simply mixed with champagne or prco let's give this a toss spals are great for mixing fruit salad this is very colorful I can't imagine any one being able to resist this fruit salad one little taste sweet fruit with that Zippy lime juice [Music] Perfection all I have to do now is cover the salad and pop it into the refrigerator [Music] since my breakfast casserole did not contain any bread in fact there's no bread in any of these recipes I thought it would be fun to serve Quant I let the superm market help me out here but to make these uniquely wonderful I'm going to whip up some honey butter and I'm going to whip this mixture in my stand mixer and I wanted to mention that I recently bought well let me show you some new attachments actually they are replacement attachments the paddle attachment that comes with the kitchen a is metal and it's coated with something but that something was all peeling off so I bought an all stainless steel paddle and I did the same with the Whisk attachment stainless steel is the way to go I don't know how much butter I wish to make maybe I will do half of this block right here start whipping this might as well do the whole package here and then I add honey [Music] yum so I have arranged these qua on a platter and then I have a little bowl in the [Music] center just for looks I'm going to add a little drizzle of Honey to the top of the [Music] butter and our brunch is pretty much complete all I have to do now is preheat the oven to 350° F or 180° C and then pop the breakfast casserole in I just remembered I still need to arrange the granola parfait but that will take a matter of seconds so let's take a break and head outside to arrange the table [Music] [Music] now that the table is mostly set we can pop this tater tot breakfast casserole into the oven it will need 40 to 45 minutes to [Music] bake then we can build the granola parfait I did Taste of this granola last night it was really hard not to eat all of it okay super delicious homemade granola is the best granola so I'm going to start with a layer of the yogurt that you and I bought together yesterday this is just plain yogurt trying to stay tidy here a layer of the granola oh I forgot I wanted to add some dried berries to this just for color and also for additional flavor and fiber so this is the organic very Berry mix what's in here everything is organic we have raisins dried blueberries dried cranberries dried Goji berries mulberries and blueberries [Music] healthy and appetizing what more can we ask for of course we need something with which to spoon this parfit into these little bowls these are the Blue Willow bowls that I bought online so I will add the bowls and four spoons to the table and of course we need prco and orange juice so I have tucked my prco into this Silver N which you and I Polished in a previous video the prco is already chilled I just want to keep it cold now I have ice cubes in my little ice bucket here they will be for the cold brewed coffee again it's warm outside I'm not going to serve hot coffee with the iced coffee I'm going to serve half and half but not directly from this carton going to pour it into a little pitcher and then to keep the half and half cold going to surround it with ice cubes and for those who want to combine champagne and orange juice for mimosas I have the orange juice which I will pour into a picture and I think we are good to go I just need to wait for the casserole to finish baking the casserole is ready perfect timing because my guests are here [Music] this puffed up beautifully and it smells terrific all I have to do now is garnish it with some already cooked bacon so I'm going to cut this bacon into oh 1 in pieces or so and of course you do not have to add bacon to this [Music] casserole let's head outside [Music] I have to try some of this tater tot breakfast casserole oh this is really wonderful and again you could really play around with this recipe you could add cooked sausage or cooked Kil basa to it I think it's terrific just as it is and by the way my guests do not want to be on camera and that's fine and of course I want to try a bit of cant with the honey butter so delicious and so simple to do it is starting to rain so we are going to move the whole kit and Kaboodle indoors but I hope you feel inspired to host your own brunch party as you've just seen all of these dishes were really easy to make and they were no trouble to make thank you so much for watching and if you enjoyed this video I'd appreciate a thumbs up and I can put a couple of my other videos at the end of this one that you can watch between now and my next upload again thank you so much for watching and I will see you next time [Music]