If you make one thing this weekend

This overnight French toast with maple apples was designed to feed a crowd, and to feed it easily and efficiently. But I am one of a two-person household (three if you count the dog as a person, which I do), and I will still be making this full recipe. That way, I have breakfast ready, yes, but also dessert (with ice cream or sour cream, mmm), my afternoon snack and the next day’s breakfast. But I’ll be swapping the cinnamon for cardamom because I don’t love cinnamon. That’s another bonus of making something just for yourself — you get to make it exactly the way you like.

There’s plenty more make-ahead cleverness where that came from — click here for 25 breakfast and brunch recipes you can assemble the day before. Herb, feta and egg pitas, anyone?

25 Make-Ahead Breakfasts for Relaxed Holiday Mornings →

Most-clicked recipes

The spirit of Cookie Week lives on — Eric Kim’s mint chocolate chip cookies were a chart-topper this week. And no wonder: With their refreshing mint extract and pretty pale-green color, they perfectly mimic a scoop of mint chip on a cone.

More of our most-clicked recipes this week: classic potato latkes, crispy halloumi with tomatoes and white beans and Golden Diner pancakes.

New and noteworthy

I know this sounds like a setup from Stefon of “Saturday Night Live” renown, but the hottest club in Daly City, Calif., is the Noche Buena (“good night” in Spanish) holiday party at Seafood City. “The heart of Noche Buena centers on family, tradition and gift-giving — and an abundant feast,” Naz Deravian writes of the Christmas Eve celebrations in Catholic Filipino communities. “The D.J. parties at Seafood City, called Late Night Madness, reflect the spirit of the holiday through music, food and dancing in community.” This pancit Malabon (seafood rice noodles) from Prescilla and Catherine Tolentino, the mother-and-daughter owners of Gemmae Bake Shop in Long Beach, Calif., is celebratory, abundant, colorful and festive — the dinner you need for a very good night.

You said it

View this recipe: Kia Damon’s sausage rice casserole

Thanks for reading!