This week at the Jackson House is "Breakfast For Dinner Week," which we do every once in a while and then while it is going on always wonder why we don't do it MORE. Dinners are quicker and easier to make, they feel very comfort-food-ish, and are pretty light and healthy. And as someone who is out of the house by 6:15 am every day and eats a hard-boiled egg on the fly, it addresses my breakfast food deprivation issues.
The only challenge with Breakfast For Dinner Week is coming up with menus that don't involve having eggs five nights in a row. Egg entries are always easy: this week we are having scrambled eggs with pesto and fresh ricotta, French omelets, French toast (aka bread soaked in egg). Huevos rancheros are always a popular entry, as is pasta carbonara, which is stretching the Breakfast For Dinner concept a little far, but who's counting? In the winter I work in my favorite cinnamon oatmeal with apples and raisins, but in the dog days of summer not even the cooperative Southern husband would be happy to see a steaming bowl of oatmeal for dinner.
Which is why we had such a happy dinner last night with this little gem: nice big yogurt granola parfaits. I filled up our biggest Waterford crystal glasses with layers of vanilla yogurt, homemade granola and fresh berries, and topped it off with a little bit of shredded coconut. I had a tin of butterscotch shortbread biscuits from my last trip to London and we had those on the side, and felt like we had the perfect mixture of breakfast and dessert for dinner.
The "recipe" for this is pretty self-explanatory, and you can and should mix it up in whatever way you want. The only thing I would say is, make sure you have really great granola to use. We have an absolutely fabulous recipe for granola that my talented Southern husband makes on a regular basis. I was all set to include that recipe with this post, but when I mentioned that he looked completely shocked that I would play so fast and loose with his favorite secret recipe. So for now this post is the above description of the yogurt granola parfait. But if anyone just can't bear to live without our secret recipe, email me and I will see what I can do. :-)
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