Lunch Break

A Great British Bake Off Star Creates a Genius Make-Ahead Breakfast

This trifle from Nadiya Hussain’s new cookbook is energizing and delightful—and easy to whip up for the holidays.

Dessert for breakfast? If there ever was a holiday season to indulge … 

Photographer: Chris Terry

Editor’s Note: As more people are working from home, Bloomberg Pursuits is running a weekly Lunch Break column that highlights a notable recipe from a favorite cookbook and the hack that makes it genius.

On America’s most food-obsessed day of the year, Thanksgiving, there’s one meal that’s woefully overlooked, and that’s breakfast. The meal that starts off the mania is invariably an afterthought, a rushed-through hodgepodge of what might be found in the fridge when all the eggs and butter have been reserved for stuffings and pie. And then there’s Friday, after the big day, and all the holiday days after that, when cooking burnout has descended.