Christmas Gift Ideas
Stuck for Christmas gift ideas?
Let’s Brunch has the perfect gift for your special brunch lover, or anyone else. Check out our 2009 Brunch gift buying guide for ideas.
Most gifts listed below are available for purchase online, simply follow the links and your Christmas shopping will be a breeze!
Don’t forget to check out earthgreetings.com.au to order some eco-friendly cards and wrapping paper, and you will be ready to settle down with a well deserved bubbly!
Eggs
Love eggs? OO.com.au has an interesting selection of egg poaching equipment, including an elaborate 7 piece stainless steel egg poacher set. None of which have been tested or condoned by Let’s Brunch, but hey, they may make for an interesting Christmas morning. Don’t forget to check out www.tjoos.com.au for any vouchers before purchasing from OO.com.au.
Omelette Maker
Looking for something affordable and multi-functional? How about a $19.95 omelette maker from crazysales.com.au? An omelette is a great way to use up left over Christmas ham, and a completely acceptable meal as dinner or lunch as well as brunch so excellent value for money and multi-purpose!
Looking for something even cheaper?
You cant go past an egg timer for a classic cheesy Christmas gift, but the Burton’s Egg Timer is a nifty twist on the old school egg timer. The Egg-Perfect egg timer is shaped like an egg, and sits in the boiling water with your eggs, and changes colour according to the “done-ness” factor. According to thegoodstore.com.au, this is the first egg timer to be produced in a factory that also produces ET The Extra-Terrestrial night lights with a red glowing tummy!
The egg-perfect egg timer retails for $10 at thegoodstore.com.au
Waffle Maker
Christmas day waffles are a childhood favourite of mine, and anyone young or young at heart would appreciate the gift of a Belgium Waffle maker. The elaborate Sunbeam Belgian waffle maker even allows you to flip the plate 180 degrees for perfect waffles! Check out Bigpond Online Shopping to purchase
Brunch Cookbook
What better way to encourage your special someone to make you brunch in bed, than with a brunch cookbook! Thenile.com.au has an excellent selection of brunch cookbooks available for online purchase, including:
Lazy Brunch by Simon Rimmer and Tim Lovejoy
Russell Hobbs Toaster
If you are looking to really impress someone special this Christmas, you cant go past a limited edition Russell Hobbs Glass and Swarovski limited edition toaster. There were only 1000 of these beauties produced, containing 228 small and 9 large Swarovski crystals. Each comes with its own certificate of authenticity and identification number. Toasters are available to purchase at Harrods.com for a cool £149 (AUD 267), although you may struggle to ship it over this way in time for Christmas
Have we missed something?
Let us know your favourite brunch gift, tacky, cheesy, useful or otherwise by commenting below.
Brunch at 35,000 Feet
Last Saturday morning I flew from Sydney back to catch up with my friend George who was over from London for a short visit to our old home town of Christchurch, New Zealand. I was flying on Emirates as the last leg of the Dubai > Bangkok > Sydney > Christchurch route.
It was a nice change for me to fly a full service airline as lately I’ve been flying budget airlines all over the country so along with the solid amounts of leg room, when I checked out the menu I was happy to see that they were serving brunch on the flight as I was worried there might not be a chance to have brunch during the weekend.
The Menu
Brunch was a multiple dish affair consisting of fresh fruit selection, a choice between a Creamy Chicken Korma or a Swiss Cheese Omelette and an Old English Tea Cake. We also got the standard bread roll and butter as well as the classic cheese and crackers combo with a small Emirates brand chocolate. Emirates provided us with a metal fork and spoon, but the knife was made of plastic which is interesting as I think you could do more damage with the fork to be honest.
The fruit selection was close to being past it’s used by date. It consisted of watermelon, rock melon and pineapple. The pineapple was turning brown and the rock melon was a bit hard a tasteless. The watermelon on the other hand was quite tasty so I downed that and left the rest alone.
The choice in mains was interesting, I’m not against eating a curry for breakfast but in this instance I had to give the Chicken korma a miss and go with the Swiss Cheese Omelette which was topped with a tangy capsicum sauce and accompanied by sauteed button mushrooms and roasted potatoes. The mushrooms and potatoes didn’t survive the reheating process very well and there was the traditional pool of water at the bottom of the dish, but the omelette itself was pretty good and the tangy capsicum sauce was extremely tasty.
The dessert of an Old English tea cake was interesting, the cake itself wasn’t anything special and was a bit dry, but they dryness of the cake was combated with a creamy vanilla sauce. Couple this with the cheese & crackers, mini chocolate and a couple of cups of passable filter coffee this made for a good end to proceedings.
Tip: If you’re really hungry, according to my little brother if you ask the cabin crew for a second breakfast they will bring you another one.
The Movie
You know that the human race has made some progress when you can have brunch in -50 degrees celcius at 900 km/h 35,000 feet up. Just when you thought that was awesome, every Economy Seat on Emirates has a 10.6 inch LCD monitor hooked up to their ICE (Information, Communication & Entertainment) system which gives you around 900 options of movies, television shows and radio stations to watch or listen to. I chose to watch Terminator Salvation, the latest movie in the Terminator Quadrilogy, it wasn’t flash but hey it was early in the morning.
So there we go, if you have had a good airline brunch let us know what airlines you rate for a high altitude brunch experience or on the flipside of that, any that you would recommend people avoid.
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