This month: Summer Brunch Vegetables

Summer Brunch Vegetables: In this issue of the Breakfast and Brunch Express, find a selection of vegetable recipes suitable for serving as part of a summer brunch menu or as a picnic food.

Hello Everyone!

I hope your days have been well. It is warm and humid now in Wisconsin and with the amount of rain we have had this summer, the mosquitoes are so big that they now have landing gear! The garden has grown well because of the rain and that is why I wanted to share some summer garden vegetable recipes that can be served as part of a savory brunch. 

Vegetables are not usually thought of as something to be served for brunch, but there are many ways you can incorporate vegetables into a brunch menu, including cold salads, breakfast burritos, and stuffed green peppers. 

Many times, when serving a brunch, too many of the items are sweet and there is not enough balance in the flavors.  Adding a cold salad like this cucumber salad or marinated tomatoes adds a bit of contrast and balance to the menu. Here are a few more brunch menu ideas to try.

Many of these cold salads can be used for a summer picnic food or as a side dish for dinner as well. They keep a long time and can be prepared in advance.

I hope you have a chance to enjoy what summer has to offer in the way of fresh vegetables and find a recipe or two to incorporate into your next brunch menu.

Happy Eating!

Many thanks!  

You have given me some wonderful ideas and I will work on gearing the next bunch of newsletters towards some of those ideas. Thank you again!

New Recipes added to my website this past month:

Vegetable Recipes for Brunch:

Stuffed Green Peppers: Stuffed green peppers are baked peppers that are stuffed with ground beef, rice, and stewed tomatoes. They are topped with a buttered breadcrumb topping. Serve this green pepper recipe as part of your weekend brunch menu or evening dinner.

Copper Penny Salad:A carrot salad recipe made with fresh cooked carrot, onion and green peppers and coated with a tangy tomato sauce flavored with mustard, vinegar and Worcestershire. Serve for brunch or dinner.

Breakfast Burritos: A healthy breakfast burrito recipe made with ham, mushrooms, sliced red and green peppers, onion, and shredded cheese and served in a low-fat flavored tortilla shell. Serve this burrito for a quick breakfast recipe or as part of a brunch menu.

Marinated Tomatoes: A brunch tomato recipe made with fresh ripe tomatoes and marinated in a sauce of olive oil and basil. Serve these elegant and tasty tomatoes as a side dish for your brunch menu.



Cucumber Salad Recipe:  A frozen cucumber salad recipe made from sliced fresh cucumbers, onions, and marinated in a sugar and vinegar dressing. These freezer cucumber slices are just like the kind you remember your mom or grandmother making. They taste exactly like you remember them.

Find more recipes for summer brunch vegetables.

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Old-Fashioned Vegetable Recipe Cookbooks

If you have finally run out of ideas for what to make with your garden produce, these cookbooks will fill in the gaps. They make a nice wedding, hostess, or housewarming gift.
Vegetable Garden Recipes Cookbook This cookbook contains 73 old vegetable garden recipes for fresh vegetables ranging from asparagus, rhubarb, and spinach to beans, broccoli, carrots, and egg plant and many more. Find delicious time tested recipes for those fresh vegetables straight from your garden or the nearest farmers market.



Mushroom Recipes Cookbook:  This cookbook contains 75 old-fashioned mushroom recipes including recipes for fried and baked mushrooms, appetizers, and soups. There are also plenty of main dishes, sandwiches, and side dishes using mushrooms in many different forms.



Zucchini Recipes Cookbook:  The old-fashioned zucchini and squash recipes in this cookbook offer a nice variety of easy to make delicious recipes that lend some creativity to cooking with vegetables. Zucchini and squash are versatile vegetables that can be cooked as a main dish, made into soups, breads, or even used in cakes and desserts. Any of these recipes could be used for a brunch menu or a main meal.

Tomato Recipes Cookbook: This cookbook contains 75 old-fashioned tomato recipes including a special section dedicated to recipes for green tomatoes. Enjoy this fruit in a wide variety of ways including soups, butters, chutneys, and jams. There are also recipes for homemade tomato sauces, green tomato pie, and stuffed tomatoes.



 Herb Recipes cookbook: The old-fashioned herb recipes in this cookbook give you some great ideas for using fresh or dried herbs. Try recipes for vegetable dishes, cheese and egg dishes, meat, fish, and fowl, herb breads, soups, salads and salad dressings, beverages, desserts using herbs, and recipes for herb vinegars. There are 76 aromatic herb recipes in this book that will help you to cook healthier and still enjoy flavorful food.


Grandma's Recipe Cookbook:  Grandma's Old-Fashioned Recipes cookbook includes recipes for soups, salads, main dishes, side dishes and desserts just like your grandmother used to make. This cookbook also includes historical notes of cooking in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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A Helpful Hint:

If you need pieces of marshmallows, rub a little butter on a pair of scissors and cut the marshmallows into the desired shapes or sizes.

Quote for the Day:

I am a lonely cook book a sittin' on the shelf.  Although I'm full of goodies, I'm no good there by myself.  I need someone to pick me up and look inside my cover, and if you do I promise you  a new world you will discover.

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