Category Archives: Brunches

Pre-Halloween Brunch

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Pie pumpkins in the steamer

Come to School Woods for a special, pre-Halloween brunch, featuring autumnal and pumpkin foods.

Sunday October 30th, 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Menu:

  • Autumn vegetable hash and eggs – a melange of sweet potatoes, parsnips, onions, carrots, peppers, and potatoes, browned and baked with eggs on top
  • Assorted breads, with jam and butter for toasting, including golden (from squash) challah, and bacon pull-apart bread
  • Green salad with apple cider reduction dressing, and goat cheese croutons
  • Apple, pear & cranberry compote
  • Pumpkin sticky pudding – an American-ized version of this favorite British pudding (dessert), served with whipped cream
  • Coffee, tea, and juice

Please sign up on this form – you’ll receive a confirmation email within 24 hours, with all the details. The deadline for online signups is Friday, October 28th. Please call or email your host, Deb Shapiro, 608-712-6368 if you miss the deadline, or if you have any questions.

Thanks and see you at the table!

Brunch is back at School Woods

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Join us at School Woods for a series of brunches celebrating the fruits of the Harvest!

Fall fruit, Door County cherry french toast, potato-poblano gratin

Menus will vary, but will always include fresh local ingredients from Madison area farmers’ markets. Brunch favorites like eggs, potatoes, home-baked treats – muffins, scones, sweet rolls – and fruit, juices and lots of coffee will all make an appearance!

Served buffet style, 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; guests are welcome to linger until 1:00 or later to finish eating and enjoy the company!

Link to the sign up sheet – (also found under the “Members-only” tab above) – more instructions below

Dates & Menus:

Sunday October 2

Potato-zucchini pancakes, served with raspberry sauce & sour cream
Eggs cooked to order – fried or scrambled
Overnight sticky buns (yeasted dough rolled around a cinnamon filling, topped with honey and nuts)
Breakfast sausages and vegetarian sausages
Fall fruit platter
Coffee, juice and iced tea

Please sign up by 5:00 p.m. Friday September 30.

Sunday October 30

A special day-before-Halloween brunch with lots of pumpkin foods!
See the menu, and more info

If you’d like to come to a brunch, please follow this link to the sign up sheet. You should receive a confirmation email with more details within 24 hours. Please sign up by 5:00 p.m. on the Friday before any brunch you’d like to attend. Please email your host, Deb, at ds83473@gmail.com, or call 608-712-6368 to check availability if you miss the deadline, or have any questions. Thanks!

After the farmers’ market brunches 2011

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2011 season
After the Farmers’ Market Sunday Brunches

Offered on post-farmers’ market Sundays, brunch fare will always include eggs, potatoes, and freshly baked breads & pastries, supplemented by the best of the market, seasoned with the cook’s whims.

Dates: May 22 | June 5 & 12 (June 12 cancelled due to high school graduation) – Click the dates for menus

Served buffet style, 11:00 a.m. until 12:30; guests are welcome to linger until 1:00 or later to finish eating and enjoy the company.

If you’d like to come for brunch, please use the sign up sheet below OR email your host (ds83473@gmail.com) for more information.

You will receive a confirmation email within 24 hours. Please sign up by 5:00 p.m. the Friday before the brunch(es) you’d like to attend. Please call 608-712-6368 to check availability if you miss the deadline. Thanks!

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May Brunch Menus

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Menus for the May brunches will be posted here

May 22

  • Blueberry pancakes with butter & syrup
  • Bacon & sausage & vegetarian sausage
  • Roasted asparagus salad: asparagus, hard boiled egg, toasty breadcrumbs
  • Fruit platter with yogurt

Served buffet style from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on May 15 (guests are welcome to linger until 1:00 or later)

Return to main brunch page to sign up

June Brunch Menus

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Menus for the June brunches will be posted here

June 5

Multigrain bread for toast

  • Eggs cooked to order – scrambled, over easy, sunnyside up – your choice
  • Hash brown potatoes
  • Bread & butter & jam for toast
  • Do it yourself yogurt parfaits – fruit, yogurt, granola and rhubarb sauce to layer as you like.

Served buffet style from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on June 5 (guests are welcome to linger until 1:00 or later)

Return to main brunch page to sign up

Early Spring Brunch, Sunday March 27th

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Pussy Willows, Chicago, March 19

Join us at School Woods for an early spring brunch on Sunday, March 27th, from 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

The menu will include:

  • Spinach frittata – fluffy baked eggs and spinach, topped with cheese
  • Fried potatoes, a variety of types and colors of potatoes
  • Leafy green salad
  • Cranberry Apple Sauce
  • Cakes!
    • Pumpkin bundt cake with a chocolate swirl, and
    • Blueberry crumb cake

If you’d like to come for brunch, please use the sign up sheet below OR email your host (ds83473@gmail.com) for more information. If you use the form, you should receive a confirmation email within 24 hours. Thanks!

New Year's Day Brunch

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From Dinner with Julie, A Week in Their Kitchen 4: Eggs in Pipérade

New Year’s Brunch, a School Woods tradition. Saturday January 1, 2011. Two seatings, at 11:00 and 12:30.

To make a reservation, please fill out the form below (following the menu) by Thursday December 30th at 5:00 p.m. You will receive a confirmation email within 24 hours, with complete details. If you miss the Dec. 30th deadline, or don’t get a confirmation, please call 608-712-6368. Feel free to email your host (ds83473@gmail.com) for more information, or if you have any questions.

Menu for New Year’s Brunch

  • Eggs baked on piperade – a mildly spicey tomato and red bell pepper sauce
  • Basket of breads for toast and eating on the side: crusty white and sweet pumpkin with dried cranberries – served with with butter and jam and honey
  • Rosemary roasted potatoes
  • Hoppin’ John, a stew of black-eyed peas, rice and greens with ham, and a  vegetarian version
  • Yogurt and fruit parfait – layers of yogurt, fruit, and granola
  • Coffee, tea, juice

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October 31 – Halloween Lunch

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Instead of brunch, we’ll be having a Halloween Lunch on Sunday October 31st. Vampire blood tomato soup, bat-wing & Muenster cheese sandwiches, fungus tart, eyeball cupcakes, spider cookies, Witches” Brew, and other Halloween treats! It’ll be a kid-friendly meal (for kids of all ages!), and you can come in costume.

Noon to 1:30 on Halloween -

Members should send email for more information, and to be added to the guestlist: Sign in to Google Groups and follow the Send email to the owner link. Deadline to email is October 29th; please call 608-712-6368 after that.

Menu for September 19 Brunch

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Tomato tart, and another type of savory pie or quiche
American fries deluxe – with lots of add-ins, like cheese, onion, vegetables, beans
Blueberry muffins
Applesauce
Coffee, Tea, Juice

Tomato-Basil-Zucchini Quiche

Served buffet style, 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.