Menu for New Year's Brunch

Champagne Punch: Equal parts lemonade, champagne, and club soda Mulled cider: Cider with fresh nutmeg and cinnamon Eggnog: Open carton. Pour in whiskey if desired. Coffee Tea Peppermint hot cocoa Food: Best pancakes ever, cooked on an electric griddle set to 350. Perfect scrambled eggs: One dozen eggs 1/2 cup heavy cream Salt Pepper Grated swiss cheese (optional) Whisk together ingredients. Cook over low heat in a nonstick pan, or better, a double boiler. This takes half an hour, but you don't really have to do anything. Humanely raised bacon: place bacon on a plate atop paper towels. (You can layer the bacon with two paper towels in between each row). Microwave on high for approximately 5-6 minutes, depending on your microwave, and how crispy you like your bacon. Cooks perfectly, and the grease is in the paper towels for easy disposal. Humanely raised chicken sausage: I don't really have to tell you how to cook sausage, do I? Grapefruit Canteloupe Clementines Serve with football, a Wii, and a bunch of people who drank too much last night. Hope those of y'all who won't be there are working off your hangovers in some similarly productive way.

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