Archive for the 'breakfast' Category
Buttermilk Weekend Waffles
May 20th, 2011by Caroline I was lucky to become a mom surrounded by a group of neighborhood friends who were also new moms, and before Ben turned one our frequent casual playdates and regular Monday playgroup generated a babysitting co-op that saved my family, at least, from paying for babysitting until Eli was a baby. These days, [...]
Triple Citrus Cream Cheese & Poppy Seed Coffeecake
January 21st, 2011by Caroline Before my mom went back to work full-time, when I was in elementary school, she cooked dinner every night and baked bread every Saturday. She made birthday cakes for all four of us kids and thousands (I’m not exaggerating) cookies at Christmas. But the one thing I don’t recall her making on any [...]
Snack Pancakes
December 8th, 2010by Caroline Using up leftovers is a rarely an issue in my house, and yet sometimes a recipe looks so good that — even if it’s billed as a way to use up leftovers — I try it out. That’s how I discovered our new favorite winter holiday cookie (the cranberry thumbprint), for which I [...]
Lemony Pancakes
November 19th, 2010by Caroline On the one hand, we don’t really need to offer another pancake recipe; we’ve posted two (one for pumpkin pancakes, one for a classic griddle cake). But on the other hand, I’m always interested in trying new things, and I’m wanting to put lemons in everything since re-reading Laurie Colwin last week, and [...]
Breakfast in Bed
September 13th, 2010by Caroline This is not about the kids bringing me breakfast in bed — that’s a story for another day — but about the kids getting their own breakfast, independently, while I remain in bed. It hasn’t always been easy to stay put while the boys crash around downstairs, but you can’t learn to eat, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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, [...]