easy quiche with a hash brown crust
I've gotta tell you about this easy quiche that, now that I think about it, reminds me a lot of a Spanish Tortilla. And is equally as good eaten cold from the refrigerator the next day. You'll ...
corn pancakes with mango salsa
Way back in my youth About 6 years ago, back when I had dreams of opening a restaurant, I became fixated on finding and testing pancake recipes. It was my Pancake Phase. I came out of it with some ...
hot chocolate
One cold, February night last year, a rare snowstorm was closing in on us. I was worried about the power going out, and hurried to fill a quart jar with homemade hot chocolate to keep nearby. We ...
chocolate granola
It's almost Valentine's Day, which means we need a series on chocolate. It's a Monday, in the dead of winter. So...we need a series on chocolate. It's a day that ends in -day. Need ...
oatmeal waffles
The fact that I spend most of my work "day" working on my own means that sometimes I have way too much time to think. About things like, could a highly trained monkey actually do my job? How long ...
crispy waffles
Waffles! They totally deserve the exclamation point. Pancakes have their place, but waffles? Waffles have built-in maple syrup and whipped cream/butter receptacles! No contest. It's 5:30 on a ...
buttermilk biscuits
Biscuits, honey, apple butter from a South Carolina orchard, and my sister's delicious strawberry jam. It was a nice welcome back into the world of the living after a 24-hour regimen of plain ...
new york bagels
Happy Sunday! Have a bagel! Why in the world should you ever make your own bagels? Well, have you ever plucked, sliced, smeared, and devoured a warm, crackly-crusted bagel from a fresh batch...one ...
cinnamon sugar doughnut muffins
It's rare that a recipe will make its way to this site right away. Usually I just dig into the photo archives to see what catches my eye. (Nope, I did not make fig bars followed by gluten-free ...
fresh fig bars
Figs will always bring to mind a late summer evening spent at an enchanting victorian house tucked just in the woods behind a sprawling pasture. Years ago, it was lovingly hacked to pieces and ...
vegan morning glory muffins
I made this particular recipe for a particular bakery owner who shall not be named. He wanted to market them as "Vegan Schmegan" muffins, but ran the business into the ground and fled town before ...
banana bread
I kicked off my blog with a post in which I swore off banana bread forever. A string of failed recipes had left me jaded. Well. I should have listened to Zack. He told me I should try ...
jalapeno-cheddar frittata with homefries
One of the very few benefits of working the night shift is the ability to pad around the kitchen in your underwear pajamas while the rest of the working world is slogging bleary-eyed through their ...
homemade almond milk
One of my favorite ways of harnessing almonds' nutritive superpowers is grinding them into almond milk. The store-bought stuff is fine, yes, but this homemade version is pure, smooth, rich and ...
cream cheese cinnamon rolls
Ahhh. Hello, Cinnamon Rolls. I remember the morning I made you as if it were yesterday. The year was 2010. The month was April. The time was a hair before the buttcrack of dawn on a dark, ...
not banana bread
Almost a year ago to the day, I was on a quest for the perfect banana bread. Ideas for a blog were floating about my brain, and a bunch of bananas were rotting on the counter. My mission became ...