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Making breakfast or brunch at home for the holidays?

64 Recipes
Blueberry sauce tops the malt-enriched corn pancakes at Doughboys in Los Angeles.
(Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)

Sweet, savory or a mix of the two, we have breakfast and brunch recipes for you.

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One advantage to this stay-at-home holiday season is that you might be lucky enough to get time with members of your household to make meals together, discover new recipes, dig up old family ones and tell stories as you cook. Here are 63 recipe ideas for your cook-a-thon. (And remember, you can “cook” with loved ones who are far away with services such as Google Hangouts, FaceTime, Zoom or Skype.)

Start with a batch of lemon poppy seed or mesquite apple muffins, cardamom sweet rolls, ginger scones, a breakfast bread or a coffee cake. Pop them in the oven first thing and your housemates will quickly join you in the kitchen. If you haven’t yet agreed on who’s making what, start delegating tasks as they straggle in (it’s much easier than cajoling or nagging for helping hands).

While the baked goods are in the oven, reach into the fridge for the ultimate overnight or buckwheat Belgian waffle batter you made the night before (the lightest, fluffiest waffles take some advance planning). If you’d rather not be tied to a plan, crisp everyday waffles are a same-day operation and just as good a canvas for all of the fixings.

If you are more of a pancake person, whole-grain pancakes have better flavor than those made with all-purpose flour. Try these oatmeal, whole wheat or cornmeal pancakes. Not a pancake shop? Perhaps pumpkin-spiced or chocolate almond French toast or homemade pop tarts are more your thing.

You may want — or need — some protein and fiber to slow the sugar coursing through your system. Frittatas can provide both. Wild mushroom, prosciutto and onion or a vegan chickpea frittata with tomatoes and kale can go in the oven once the baked goods come out, as can a casserole of savory bread pudding or featherbed eggs. New Mex Migas and vegan chilaquiles are also satisfying one-pan wonders.

If you prefer to stay stovetop, dress up classic shakshuka with chard or Jerusalem artichokes and fava beans. It can simmer on the stove while you work on some side dishes. Perhaps bacon-basted root vegetable hash or Frank’s home fries. Either would also complement silky scrambled eggs. Hong Kong-style fried eggs go well with rice. Try a basic rice congee, pounded rice with onion and potatoes or Mantou steamed Chinese buns, which are often served as a side dish instead of rice. Perhaps you have some leftovers you would like to repurpose as a filling for crepes or atop a breakfast pizza.

With all of this activity, you’re sure to get thirsty. Trade in your coffee for champurrado (Mexican hot chocolate) or Spanish or Parisian-style hot chocolate. When you sit down to eat, toast your good fortune with bottomless mimosas and bacon Bloody Marys and relish the memories and meal that you have all just created.

Palak Paneer Shakshuka

Time20 minutes
YieldsServes 4 to 6

Almond Dutch Baby With Honeyed Figs

Time30 minutes
YieldsServes 2 to 4

Buffalo Corn With Bacon and Eggs

Time20 minutes
YieldsServes 4

Whole wheat pancakes

Time45 minutes
YieldsServes 4

Hou Bao Daan: Hong Kong-Style Fried Eggs

Time5 minutes
YieldsServes 1

Cinnamon Crunch Buns

Time2 hours 30 minutes
YieldsMakes 12

Chickpea Frittata with Tomatoes and Kale

Time1 hour 45 minutes, plus overnight chilling
YieldsMakes one 9- by 5-inch loaf

kuku sabzi (Persian greens frittata)

Time1 hour 20 minutes
YieldsServes 6 to 10

Sweet Potato Bread

Time1 hour 30 minutes, largely unattended
YieldsMakes 1 9-by-5-inch loaf

Passion Fruit-Poppy Seed Muffins

Time45 minutes
YieldsMakes 12

Vegan Chilaquiles

Time20 minutes
YieldsServes 6 to 8

Egg and Cheese Skillet Pancake

Time30 minutes
YieldsServes 6

Ultimate Overnight Waffles

Time45 minutes
YieldsMakes 1 to 2 dozen.

Shakshouka

Time1 hour
YieldsServes 4 to 6

Mantou Steamed Chinese Buns

Time3 hours
YieldsMakes 12 buns

Bacon-Basted Root Vegetable Hash

Time2 hours 30 minutes
YieldsServes 6 to 8

Prosciutto and onion frittata

Time30 minutes
YieldsServes 6 as appetizer, 4 as main course

Upma

Time35 minutes
YieldsServes 2 to 4

Chard Shakshouka

Time50 minutes
YieldsServes 6

Pumpkin-spiced French toast

Time24 minutes
YieldsServes 4

Savory bread pudding with sausage gravy

Time1 hour 10 minutes
YieldsServes 10 to 12

Maple bacon cinnamon rolls

Time1 hour 40 minutes
YieldsServes 12

New Mex Migas

Time20 minutes
YieldsServes 4 to 6

Cherry tomato frittata

Time20 minutes
YieldsServes 1 to 2

Butter Pecan Banana Muffins

Time30 minutes
YieldsMakes 12 muffins

Artichoke and sun-dried tomato frittata

Time1 hour
YieldsServes 12

Oatmeal pancakes

Time30 minutes
YieldsServes 4 to 6

Homemade pop tarts

Time2 hours
YieldsMakes 8 pop tarts

Cornmeal pancakes

Time30 minutes
YieldsServes 2 to 4

Basic rice congee

Time1 hour
YieldsServes 4 to 6

Emily's chocolate mandel bread

Time1 hour
YieldsMakes about 4 dozen cookies

Apple bacon coffeecake

Time1 hour 40 minutes
YieldsServes 16

Rockenwagner's Ginger scones

Time45 minutes
YieldsServes 10

Shakshuka

Time1 hour
YieldsServes 4

Blueberry Breakfast Bread

Time1 hour 15 minutes
YieldsMakes 2 loaves

Mendocino frittata

Time1 hour 30 minutes
YieldsServes 8

Square One brown-butter pecan coffeecake

Time1 hour 35 minutes
YieldsServes 8

Crespelles with prosciutto and zucchini

Time1 hour 30 minutes
YieldsServes 6

Breakfast Pizza

Time1 hour 10 minutes
YieldsServes 6

Malted cornmeal pancakes with orange-blueberry syrup

Time1 hour
YieldsMakes 18 (4 1/2 -inch)

Wild Mushroom Frittata

Time30 minutes
YieldsServes 6

La Brea Bakery chocolate-walnut scones

Time1 hour 10 minutes
YieldsServes 12

Pecan currant sticky buns

Time45 minutes
YieldsMakes 12 buns

Frank's home fries

Time1 hour
YieldsServes 6

Cardamom sweet rolls

Time50 minutes
YieldsServes 12

Pumpkin pancakes

Time25 minutes
YieldsServes 4

Corn Waffles

Time45 minutes
YieldsMakes 16 waffles.

Party eggs

Time35 minutes
YieldsServes 4 to 6

Crepes

Time30 minutes
YieldsMakes 26 crepes

Sweet Potato Hash With Pancetta and Rosemary

Time25 minutes
YieldsServes 4

Chorizo Migas

Time25 minutes
YieldsServes 4

Chocolate Almond French Toast

Time15 minutes
YieldsServes 2

Featherbed Eggs

Time1 hour 10 minutes
YieldsServes 6

Sour Cherry and Vanilla Cream Scones

Time30 minutes
YieldsMakes 2 to 16 scones

Crisp Everyday Waffles

Time35 minutes
YieldsMakes 6 (7-inch) waffles

Silky Scrambled Eggs

Time5 minutes
YieldsServes 1

Bottomless Mimosas

Time5 minutes
YieldsMakes 6 drinks

Champurrado

Time55 minutes
YieldsMakes 2 quarts

Spanish hot chocolate (chocolate a la taza)

Time20 minutes
YieldsServes 4 to 5

Parisian-style hot chocolate

Time15 minutes
YieldsServes 4

Hot Chocolate (Chocolat Chaud)

Time10 minutes
YieldsServes 4