by Pamela Kay

Created on: November 19, 2011

Plan your feast for Thanksgiving dinner but don’t forget breakfast. Try one of these breakfast ideas for Thanksgiving day to start the day off right and give everyone one more thing for which to be thankful. They’re fast, easy and oh so yummy.  

*Pumpkin Bread

Bake this scrumptious bread the night before and just re-heat in the morning. Goes good will bacon or sausage and scrambled eggs with cheese.

3 cups sugar
1 cup oil
3 eggs
2/3 cups water
3 cups flour
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. nutmeg
2 tsp. baking powder
2 cups pumpkin
1 cup chopped nuts

Preheat oven to 350F and grease two loaf pans. Beat sugar, oil and eggs. Sift all dry ingredients together. Add sifted dry ingredients, alternating with water, beating after each addition. Add the pumpkin and nuts and stir well. Pour into loaf pans and bake for ninety minutes.

Poke holes in the bread with a straw and glaze the bread with this sweet concoction while still hot.

1/2 brown sugar
1/4 cup sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1/4 cup whipping cream

Combine ingredients and bring to a boil, stirring until sugar is melted. Pour over the bread and serve warm. If you make it the night before, warm in a slow oven for about twenty minutes. There will be no leftovers.

*Breakfast Pizza

Everyone loves pizza, even for breakfast. This pizza is quick and easy if you prepare some of the elements the night before. Prepare some sautéed onions, peppers and mushrooms and refrigerate overnight, on paper towels. Fry about eight slices of bacon, cool and drain on paper towels and refrigerate overnight.

In the morning, preheat the oven to 450-degrees and place a 14-oz prepared pizza crust in a pizza pan. Fry about three cups of frozen hash browns until brown and set aside. Scramble about six eggs per crust and layer them, hash browns and sautéed mixture over the top. Crumble the cold bacon and add to the pizza followed by a generous sprinkling of extra-sharp cheddar cheese (at least a cup), and place in the oven for about five minutes.

*Pumpkin Pancakes

Pumpkin pancakes and maple bacon! Oh boy, what a way to start the day. Use two cups of your favorite pancake mix; add one and a half cups water and mix. Next, you add three-fourths cup canned pumpkin and one-teaspoon cinnamon and mix well. Fry your pancakes as you normally do and serve with real butter and maple syrup or a dusting of powdered sugar or cinnamon-sugar. Or top with the sausage links and apples listed below.

*Fried Sausage Links And Apples

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