Archive for the 'breakfast' Category
A Bad-Good Day
July 19th, 2010by Caroline
When my friend Ursula moved to Portugal for a year and said she had room for us all to come stay, I started looking into airfares. When she started posting pictures of Portuguese pastry on her website, I booked the tickets. She wrote me about her favorite pastry shop in Lisbon, and said we [...]
Farm Morning
May 18th, 2010by Caroline
Henry James famously wrote that “summer afternoon” were the two most beautiful words in the English language, but to me, the words “farm breakfast” are equally sweet and evocative. They make me remember childhood Saturday mornings spent rereading Farmer Boy’s descriptions of maple sugar pancake stacks, or my mom’s stories of summer mornings [...]
Weekend Waffles
January 18th, 2010by Lisa
birthday flowers, whipped cream, maple syrup, blueberries…
Generally speaking, I’m not in charge of breakfast, and I prefer pancakes to waffles. This is not so true of my husband, who loves waffles, and who counted a waffle maker among the very few kitchen machines in his bachelor home. He made waffles pretty regularly (from [...]
Homemade English Muffins
January 4th, 2010by Lisa
I don’t bake nearly as frequently nor with as much passion as Caroline or finesse as my husband, but I do go on baking sprees, and this holiday vacation was no exception. Inspired by discovering my family’s love of English Muffins, and a few great blog posts, I decided to bake my own.
For one [...]
Breakfast Alone
December 8th, 2009By Lisa
In the rush to write all about how I haven’t been cooking, I forgot one very important meal: Breakfast.
It’s not unheard of that the kids, these days, will serve themselves breakfast alone. They do a good job of selecting cereal, bagels, milk, juice, fruit–whatever they can find that strikes their fancy. Sometimes, they actually [...]
Picadillo, Let me count the ways…
November 16th, 2009by Lisa
Over labor day weekend, I flew to Los Angeles to visit my friend, Melissa Clark, the novelist (not the food writer). You can read her book about a girl impregnated by a lazy sperm or catch up with her on her blog. Melissa is one of those friends you thank the world for every [...]
Apple Cake, Thanks to Mickey
November 8th, 2009by Caroline
It was late Sunday afternoon, and Tony was cooking dinner while the boys and I sat on the couch, reading. Ben was buried in his new book, The Mad Scientists’ Club and Eli and I were reading In the Night Kitchen. When I turn to the last page, I always stop reading and [...]
It’s the Great Pumpkin Pancake, Charlie Brown
October 30th, 2009by Caroline
Today after school we will finally carve all the pumpkins that have been sitting on our front stoop this month. I’ll save the seeds, to toast and eat during a post-dinner showing of It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, and then I’ll need a quick dinner that doesn’t add much to the general pumpkiny [...]
Pumpkin Time
October 22nd, 2009by Caroline
It happens every year, the clamor for pumpkin treats: pie, cupcakes, pancakes, muffins. Eli, particularly, adores all things pumpkin and thinks it’s quite reasonable to expect a pumpkin pie for dessert an hour after we return from the pumpkin patch. Well, maybe so, but not with the new pumpkins, certainly. In fact, you all [...]
Morale-Boosting Banana Coconut Muffins
October 16th, 2009by Caroline
There comes a time in every child’s illness when the child is still too sick to attend school (he’s got to be fever-free for 24 hours) but is too well to lie docilely on the couch watching videos while his mother catches up on her New Yorkers. And that is the time, in this [...]