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It’s here! This week we celebrate my third blog anniversary and my birthday. January 7, 2006 was the day I found the first comment on my little online cooking database—it had been there for a couple weeks—and suddenly I realized I had a cooking blog. It’s also the day I found out I was pregnant [...]
Thanksgiving day breakfast is made to be special, especially if you have family or friends visiting, but it doesn’t have to be difficult or time consuming. In fact, we try to keep breakfast simple on big feast days just because we have so much other cooking business to attend to. Often I make breakfast the [...]
Weekday morning breakfast is usually a quick affair for us with leftovers from the weekend or perhaps cereal with fruit. But today we woke up to ice on the roads and an announcement that schools were closed, so I decided to do something fun and make muffins. The recipe comes from Michael’s mother, a variation [...]
Pan de yuca is a little crescent-shaped bread that I enjoyed while living in Colombia. The bread, which is also common in other Andean countries, has fresh cheese and yuca flour as the main ingredients. The flour comes from the root of the cassava plant and has a texture very much like cornstarch. It is [...]
I haven’t made a sweet bread in months, and this morning I just felt like enjoying some apple cinnamon bread for breakfast. And of course I knew that my boys would love the idea. Apple cinnamon bread? Isn’t that a fall and winter kind of thing? Oh no, we love the apple cinnamon combination any [...]
I have two little early risers, as in they like to get up before the sun. The baby has taken to waking up around 4:30 am and then staying up, and my oldest has always been an early bird. In fact, he starts talking and singing almost as soon as he wakes up. We hear [...]
While thinking about what to do for breakfast today, I remembered the extra pumpkin puree in the refrigerator. There wasn’t enough to make another pie, but there was certainly enough for pumpkin waffles. These are fluffy, full of flavor, and a little bit rich, and they go perfectly with a savory side of bacon or [...]
Pumpkin reigns supreme in our home during the holiday season—pumpkin bread, pumpkin cheesecake, pumpkin pie, pumpkin cake, pumpkin soup, you name it. This pumpkin bread, a favorite from Bon Appétit, is easy to whip up during the busy season. The top crust is slightly crispy and the middle is moist and tender. The first time [...]
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