Brunch Recipes

Brunch is cooking on a table's schedule rather than a clock's. The dish has to survive the gap between coming out of the oven and everyone actually sitting down, which rules out anything that wants eating within a minute of leaving the pan.

That is why the food here is sliceable. Vegan Quiche bakes in a little over two hours and cuts into eight, so it can come out before anyone arrives and still be worth eating when they do. Vegan Breakfast Casserole is quicker at about forty-five minutes and serves six, layered rather than folded, which means no part of it depends on being plated the instant it is done. Vegan Chickpea Omelette is the one that does want serving straight away, so treat it as the thing you make while people are already at the table.

Silken tofu is doing the structural work in the baked dishes. Blended smooth it behaves like a custard base, setting firm enough to hold a clean edge once cooled, which is exactly what lets a quiche sit for twenty minutes and still slice. Firm tofu will not do this, since it never fully loses its curd, and that difference is worth knowing before you open the wrong pack.

Badges on each card mark vegan, gluten-free and dairy-free. Vegan Breakfast Casserole and Vegan Chickpea Omelette are both gluten-free as written, which makes a mixed table easier than it usually is at this time of day.