Give them hash browns. Add eggs for the normal people and gluten-free.
No sugar, no gluten, no pancakes, no nuts (other than your guests themselves) and vegan and everyone is covered. Make your regular breakfast for those who want it, otherwise, just pare down on the hash browns.
If you have it, add some onions, shallots or garlic scape and tell em to enjoy..
JUST hash browns for the vegan? That seems so sparse. I was thinking a sweet potato pie for everyone using corn meal instead of flour. There isn't a lot of sugar and I could omit the sugar topping from part of the pie when I bake it. Sausage on the side. The next day (yes, more than one day) I could try a tofu scramble for the vegan and everyone else gets eggs.
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Give the vegan a bigger plate of them, I assume you have some fruit, cereal and bread around for them to supplement on. If you have some hummus, give them some, or fry a bit of tofu. But you aren't responsible to worry about their balanced diet or dietary needs, your job is to make breakfast. It's their job to decide if they have enough and what they want on the side. So stop worrying about everyone's needs. Make a really big plate of them. (You could also fry up some beans or lentils or even grill a tomato. Lots of choice, but basically a really big main of hash browns will do as a centrepiece for everyone. And it works for everyone's diet.) And leaves you sane for the next day.
And if you have leftover, you can put the hash browns on the bottom of a pie shell and make fritatta or quiche the next day with the leftovers as the pie dough. Still gluten free, no nuts, no sugar. And worry about making something else vegan the next day. Heck, you can take the sweet potato and make sweet potato hash the next day with cubes of tofu added for the vegan.
Quiche on a hash brown pie shell.... Done it and everyone loves it. Heck, you can add meat to the quiche if you want (just use something like smoked turkey). What ever is around, three eggs, some cream, black pepper and some grated cheese and voila... quiche! (Add spice as needed).
And if you want to make it fritatta style, put the hash browns into the quiche mix, instead of using it as a shell.
(And contact me in email if you want a few vegan breakfast recipe ideas)
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OK, wait a minute...THREE eggs makes a quiche? We usually have to make 2 1/2 quiches (so 2 big and a small) and that uses 15 eggs. We must be doing something wrong!
I like the idea of using up the leftover hash browns as a quiche base.
We do have cereal and fruit. No bread unless we make toast.
Seriously, I'm not worried. I just threw it out there to show what sorts of nuttiness (or, non-nuttiness for the one guest) that we get in a single day and why it can be hard to make a good breakfast for 18 people when 12 of them have given us a list of things they can't/won't eat.
Part of the problem is that the spouse of the problem child generally doesn't want the same thing to eat. They think it's strange food so they want something different. So we have to portray it as 'what we usually serve to everyone' that just so happens to fit all these restrictions.
In the long run what we need to do is stop eating overly prepared foods from genentically altered crops and animals fed a diet of antibiotics. It's killing us.
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My general vegetable quiche is 3 eggs, cheese and cream.
Okay, so here is my secret. Cook a pie crust (or use the hash browns as a pie crust.) Cut tomato slices and lay them on a tea towel (or paper towel, if your prefer) and add a bit of salt, to sweat them a bit (they hold better in cooking this way.) Cut them in half and put them around the edge of the pie plate. Roast some zucchini (or fry if you prefer, but it's faster to just roast in the oven and adds less fat.) And put them around the edge of the pie plate in the same way. What's left in zucchini can be cut up and added as part of the quiche. Any vegetables that you can roast can get added in the same way. You can even use outsides of peas as long as you strip out the string and dice them really small. We add garlic scape and basil. We then make a large bowl of the quiche mixture, the eggs, cream and cheese and ladle it into the centre, sprinkle with some cheese and bake. We cut in 6 or 4 depending on the crowd. You can add bacon or not. We generally make two or three and offer a choice. Last week we had one that was mushroom, one that was carmelized onions and one that had bacon in it. Sold out, as usual. And they love the hash brown crust. (I just put the mushrooms or the onions in the middle and ladle the quiche mixture over them.
The tomatoes and zucchini I can often vary from pie to pie. For example, yellow tomatoes, red tomatoes, green zucchini, yellow zucchini. Heck, sometimes it's half and half. So each pie has a different look to it. If you are going to use 9" pie crust, remember to fully bake them ahead of time if you want the crust to be super flaky and not soaked by the quiche.
Remember, this is a basic quiche recipe. One you get used to the consistancy you can add or remove eggs, put in more veggies, etc. Leeks go with feta cheese wonderfully, for example. The cut up veggies fill it, so you aren't putting in all that cheese. We get a basket from a farmer week after week with no control over what organic veggies he's going to give me. (I think you call them CSA in the US). So we can prepare the veggies and make different quiches from them. About half an hour in the oven and it's fresh and wonderful and other than a guest from France who refused, because she only eats quiche at lunch, everyone has been happy with it.
The nice thing about something like the hash is that it's easy to adapt, use it as a main for the vegan with some tofu, add eggs and sausage for others if you please. You could also make latkes, serve with applesauce, sugar, cinnamon-sugar or even sour creme. You can very them by adding onion, shallots or scape. Put a little lemon zest in them for a new taste. Heck, you can make them ahead of time and warm them in the oven in a pinch. (Just remember that you need to fry them in quite a bit of oil, don't be stingy on the oil for frying a latke.) Latkes are hash browns evil cousin, you make the potatoes a little more cut up, add some flour (or you can use corn starch if you want them to be GF) some egg, a bit of pepper and you have something new. Spice it up with some siricha. Make sour cream with siricha... an evil twin of regular sour cream
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