Shopping List
- Really great coffee (or tea)
- The newspaper
- Really good, fresh orange juice
- 1 bunch fresh mint
- 1 lb. fresh strawberries
- Plain yogurt (preferably Greek)
- Mom’s favorite bread
- Really good jam or jelly
- The best granola you can find
- Fresh flowers (these can come from the garden, if you’ve got one!)
Pantry Items
- Maple syrup
- Vanilla extract
- Unsalted butter
Suggestions
- Wine: Champagne for the Mimosas!
- Serving suggestion: Use a nice tray, decorate it with fresh flowers and love notes, and make Mom stay in bed.
- To keep her there, make the coffee and take her a cup, with the newspaper.
Game Plan:
- When you wake up
- Plug in the toaster.
- Get out Pantry Items
- Get out Tools
- Assemble the ingredients
- Prep
- Open the syrup.
- Pluck a couple of sprigs from the mint.
- Put ½ cup yogurt into the bowl, and whisk in a few drops vanilla extract. Taste and add more if you want to.
- Put the strawberries in a strainer. Rinse and drain them.
- Get out 2-4 slices of bread.
- Put the jam in a pretty little bowl. Put it on the tray, with a little spoon.
- Start Cooking
- Take the stems off all the strawberries except for 2 small ones.
- Slice the berries, and put as many as you think your mom will eat in a pretty bowl. (You and others in the family can eat the rest.)
- Put the yogurt into the wine glass.
- Drizzle 1 to 2 tbsps. syrup over the yogurt.
- Put 1/4 cup granola on top.
- Put the 2 strawberries with their stems on top.
- Put the Parfait in the refrigerator while you make everything else.
- Put the bread in the toaster.
- While the bread is toasting, put the vase on the tray, along with a plate, silverware, and the pretty napkin.
- When the toast is ready, butter it (generously because your mom probably loves butter).
- Cut the toast in half and put it on the plate.
- Fill a champagne glass halfway with orange juice.
- Slowly add enough champagne to fill the glass.
- Put a mint sprig into the glass and put it on the tray.
- Put the Parfait on the tray.
- Put a mint sprig in the strawberries and put them on the tray.
- Okey dokey, breakfast is ready. Get someone to help you carry everything to mom. Don’t forget the hot coffee!!!
Wow that was fast, let Mom eat!
