Sleep in and cook up these 3 recipes to brighten up your winter brunch table

Brunch conjures up friends and family gathered around the kitchen table. It signals lazy Saturday and Sunday mornings where we make, and even bake, breakfast foods we never have time for during the hectic workweek.

The origins of the word “brunch,” an obvious play and merging of the words “breakfast” and “lunch,” are hazy. Some say it began as a way to cope with Sunday morning hangovers from a raucous Saturday night of drinking. Others attribute it to the English and the elaborate breakfasts that followed the English hunt. In the American South, it became a meal to enjoy after church.

According to writer Jesse Rhodes in : “The word “brunch” … first appeared in print in an 1895 Hunter’s Weekly article. In “Brunch: A Plea,” British author Guy Beringer suggested an alternative to the heavy, post-church Sunday meals in favor of lighter fare served late in the morning. ‘Brunch is cheerful, sociable and inciting,’ Beringer says. ‘It is talk-compelling. It puts you in a good temper, it makes you satisfied