Archive for the 'breakfast' Category
St. Lucia Buns
December 13th, 2011by Lisa I’ll bet you didn’t know that today is St. Lucy’s Day. And that it is also my daughter’s half-birthday. And that her still-beloved American Girl doll, Kirsten, hails from Sweden, where St. Lucy is pretty much the only saint honored. If you’ve read my book, you also might know that we nearly named [...]
English Muffin Loaf
December 7th, 2011by Caroline What’s not to love about a community cookbook, a crowd-sourced collection of family recipes from a school, church, or the local Junior League? I have a small collection of them, some from our preschool and churches my Dad has served, and some I’ve picked up at tag sales because the cover or layout [...]
A New Granola
November 14th, 2011by Caroline One of my longest cooking (and eating) rituals is granola; I’ve been making an adaptation of Nigella Lawson’s granola recipe from Feast for over 5 years now, and eating it every morning with some Trader Joe’s O’s and a sprinkling of dried cranberries. But when I spotted a tasty-looking recipe in the New [...]
The Breakfast Score
October 13th, 2011By Lisa If it didn’t make the kids happy, you’d call it a rut because they’ve been eating the same thing for breakfast nearly 5 days a week since August. It’s true, that on weekends we mix it up with pancakes, and there’s french toast, or oatmeal, or granola thrown in on occasion, but for [...]
Pancake Book Giveaway!
September 21st, 2011by Caroline You know we are big fans of pancakes around here. We make them with pumpkin and lemon and leftover quinoa and corn; we eat them when we’re out and when we’re at home; we follow recipes from picture books and children’s books but for the most part, aside from the occasional airplane or [...]
Fresh Corn Pancakes
August 24th, 2011by Caroline When my husband and I decided to get married, I told him I could imagine making a life in his native San Francisco as long as we spent one week every summer somewhere I wouldn’t need to wear a scarf. That means, happily, an August week in Northwest Connecticut, visiting my parents, and [...]
42 Meals: A Vacation Odyssey, Breakfast
August 4th, 2011by Lisa The force was with them even though they hadn’t eaten breakfast Our kids, like many, take breakfast seriously. They eat shortly after waking up and are used to a fair amount of variety: porridge, eggs many ways, waffles, pancakes, cereal, sweet rice, granola….lots of whole, fresh fruit. Since we were staying in hotels [...]
The Breakfast of Champions
July 13th, 2011By Lisa We are big time into the Women’s World Cup right now, which is turning out to be one of the greatest sporting events of the year for us. Amazing female athletes, an amazing US team, little commercialism, or ego, or marketing, and heart-stoppingly dramatic games. The games have been a tremendous source of [...]
Kids Breakfast, Tahoe 2012
July 10th, 2011by Lisa There will never be a better meal.
Pancakes, Pancakes
June 13th, 2011by Caroline Do I really need to give you another pancake recipe? We’ve already given you Lisa’s classic griddlecake recipe, and I’ve contributed recipes for quinoa, pumpkin and lemon pancakes. But I am going to give you one more, because this recipe is so easy you can make it in your sleep, which, frankly, is [...]