Category Archives: Breakfast

French Toast with Sour Cream and Jam

French Toast with Sour Cream and Jam

In addition to being the season of renewal, spring is also the season of the festive brunch. Dispute this, I dare you. In what other season are you a participant in such a quantity of brunches? None. Spring is beyond compare in the brunch-engagement category. And you may even find yourself hosting a brunch oneContinue Reading

Centered on Eggs

Centered on Eggs

In celebration of our chickens successfully overcoming their egg-laying drought, I will be focused on eggs and egg recipes for at least a day or two. Or until I can actually feel my cholesterol rising, whichever comes first. Now that the threat of death, or perhaps just the threat of hypnosis, has borne of itsContinue Reading

Breakfast for Dinner

Breakfast for Dinner

When I was a kid, one of my favorite dinners was actually a theme dinner, Breakfast for Dinner. You remember it. I know you had them, too. Some nights it was apple pancakes, other nights scrambled eggs. I don’t remember any French Toast making the Breakfast for Dinner menu, which strikes me as quite aContinue Reading

Cracking the Baking Code

Cracking the Baking Code

I’m taking a little break from sharing the holiday meal of lamb shanks, goat cheese risotto, and caramelized onions with you – meaning the recipe for caramelized onions is being shoved to the proverbial back burner – to share with you a new recipe for banana nut muffins. I must warn you, I’ve developed aContinue Reading

Turkey. It’s not what’s for breakfast.

Turkey. It’s not what’s for breakfast.

Psssst. Hey there. You. Yes, you. Now, I know you’ve got a pecan pie to make, stuffing in the oven, a bird to brine, and marshmallows that need tossing over sweet potatoes, but what are you going to do with those house guests for breakfast on Friday? Serve them turkey tetrazzini? I think not. Here’sContinue Reading