Pie - Yes, That's Pie - For Breakfast

Daylight is arriving later each day, so rather than parading out to the garden in the morning, it is time for leisurely breakfasts.

Special breakfasts call out “family time is important.” As the holidays approach, design some special daybreak meals.

My favorite early morning meal is a pie or tart. It makes the house smell good enough to want to get-up and see what’s cooking! Or it can be assembled the night before and popped in the oven when everyone is on their second cup of coffee.

Breakfast pie is not as intimidating as it sounds. The crust can be as simple as laying some flour tortillas in a pie dish and arranging the filling on them.

The next level of complexity could be a half recipe of yeast based pizza dough that needs to rise for 40 minutes — or you could splurge and make a regular butter-based pie crust.

Oh what the heck — purchase a pie crust from the freezer section of your favorite grocery store.

It may not be as good as what you can create, but the family breakfast is about companionship and love.

My favorite crust is made with potatoes that I can still dig from the garden the night before.