Brioche Swirls
Whole grain brioche dough baked two ways: a simple cinnamon swirl and a slightly more elaborate streusel-topped apple swirl. A nice change of pace from muffins for breakfast!
Category Archives: Breakfast
Anything Goes
A few baking recipes that use minimal all-purpose flour for those occasions when you find yourself running low: Pumpkin granola for breakfast, lamb chili with masa dumplings for dinner, and Asian pear crisp for dessert.
When the Frost is on the Punkin
The October 2010 Daring Bakers challenge was making doughnuts! Since I've made several types of doughnuts in the past, I selected the new-to-me pumpkin cake doughnut recipe, a perfect snack for a very rainy afternoon.
Doing Without
Creamy wild rice and mushroom soup is paired up with a very unusual scone recipe calling for ricotta cheese in place of butter.
Six Words
Peanut butter provides a twist to the otherwise familiar chocolate chip banana muffins, with great effect.
Get Out Your Shaking Stick
A beautiful bevy of breakfast muffins, from beet-chocolate chip to nibby raspberry to sourdough apple, with a few egg-free, veganizable offerings thrown in for good measure.
Taking the Cure
Home-cured salmon isn't nearly as scary or complicated as I thought it would be! We loved this gravlax with scrambled eggs, in corn soup with okra croutons, and straight off the board.
Bagel Kisses
Expanding my sourdough repertoire to bagels, made with all-purpose flour fortified with vital wheat gluten.
Now That’s a Mouthful
Loukoumathes are tasty little Greek doughnuts drenched in honey and cinnamon, and much easier to make than one might think.
English Muffins for Oscar
Homemade English muffins that are every bit as good as store-bought, if not better!
Almond Maple Granola
An old favorite granola recipe: just sweet enough, with great crunch and infinitely adaptable. This version features almonds, coconut, and vanilla.
Filling in the Gaps
This is a summary post overviewing the meals and baked goods I made over the holidays, concluding with the highlight of my father making ebelskivers.
Huffing and Puffing
The September 2009 Daring Bakers challenge featured homemade puff pastry baked up into little cups called vols-au-vent. I filled mine with scrambled eggs, sauteed spinach and mornay sauce, in a breakfast-for-dinner riff.
The Diner Stack
Two pancake recipes: A basic one that uses the stand mixer, and a multigrain pancake that includes oats, wheat germ and buckwheat.
Easter Eats
Food fit for an Easter celebration: Hot cross muffins studded with dried fruit and drizzled with a blood orange glaze; and simply roast leg of lamb with potato-asparagus pancakes.
Zippy Muffins
Z-P (zucchini-prune) muffins are a big hit with my son, and his parents too! Tender shreds of zucchini add moisture to a spicy whole wheat muffin, while walnuts and prunes provide depth and textural interest.
Here Endeth the Quest
This Belgian waffle recipe is my gold standard: it makes light, crisp, sweet waffles despite a dying waffle iron.
Can We Keep It, Honey?
Fresh salmon is roasted whole, then transformed into a host of leftovers: Fillets served with green onion sauce and lemon-scallion rice, salmon frittata with corn and peppers, and dilly salmon-potato hash with shiitake mushrooms.
What a Flake
The June 2008 Daring Bakers challenge featured the Danish braid, a gorgeous pastry of homemade laminated dough. I filled my braid with apples, and set about making a host of smaller pastries with a variety…
They Go Together Like Quiche and Cookies
Big chocolate chip cookies pick up the slack (and extra yolk) from making a crustless spinach-sausage quiche. While the latter was tasty, the crunchiness of the cooled cookies disappointed us.