With both Cinco de Mayo and Mother’s Day coming up in the next week, I was racking my brain for a recipe that could do double duty and work for either day. Late one night as I was trying to fall asleep, it came to me: strawberry lime margarita pancakes! I’ve mentioned before that I’m not a big drinker, but apparently I do enjoy boozing up breakfast items and baked goods (examples A, B, and C). ...
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Cherry Pie French Toast Casserole
Throughout the years, my feelings regarding Valentine’s Day have run the gamut. In elementary school, I loved it: I relished getting to have a party during school hours, exchanging cards with classmates, and experiencing the general merriment sugar rush. ...
Cranberry Orange Nut Bread
Now that Thanksgiving is over, who else is ready to never cook again?! Okay, okay, I would miss being in the kitchen if I never set foot in it again, but I could certainly use a few days off right about now. To accommodate various schedules, we had Thanksgiving dinner with two different groups on two separate days this past weekend; with contributing several dishes to each dinner, whipping up ...
Apple Cider French Toast
Figuring out what to do with the surplus of apples from the U-pick orchard is quickly becoming a fall tradition in our household, as I gather is the case in many other households as well. This year, we timed our visits (that’s right, plural) at the right time to pick both Fuji apples (my personal favorite for snacking) and Granny Smith apples (my personal favorite for baking, so that means we ...
Chocolate Zucchini Banana Bread
After doing a quick poll on Facebook the other day about people’s favorite bread (zucchini, banana, or pumpkin) and seeing no clear consensus, I decided to try making a combination of two of the breads in the running. Since it’s still technically August and I try to resist baking with pumpkin until at least mid-September, I went with banana and zucchini. ...
Fresh Apricot & Ginger Scones
Do you have recipes in your family that have been passed around and handed down to the point where no one is really sure where they originated? This is one of those recipes. My dad and my grandma (his mother-in-law) both use a variant of this recipe but I’m not sure where they got it. ...
Mimosa Coffee Cake
This post has been a long time in the making. For one thing, I had intended to make a mimosa-inspired coffeecake for New Year’s Day this past holiday season, but as is the case with many people (or so I suspect), I was overly ambitious in estimating what I’d have time/energy to do and ended up having to ignore half of my holiday to-do list. C’est la vie. Secondly, I’d been meaning to take the ...
Caramel Banana Pecan Muffins
The other day, I spotted a solitary ripe banana languishing on the counter. In my household, ripe bananas mean it’s time to do some baking! Rummaging through the fridge and pantry, I found some leftover homemade caramel sauce and an unopened bag of pecans, and the idea hit me: caramel banana pecan muffins! ...
Lemon Blueberry Cornmeal Pancakes
Can you believe it’s been a whole SIX weeks since I’ve shared a blueberry pancake recipe with you?! I know, it’s a little ridiculous. And by “it,” I mean me. But shortly after I shared the recipe for blueberry banana pancakes, I came up with these lemon blueberry cornmeal pancakes and couldn’t NOT share them with you, because they are all kinds of amaaazzzing. ...
Cherry Cornmeal Buckle
I usually try not to post two dessert/dessert-like recipes in a row, BUT I decided it just wasn’t fair to deprive you of this amazeballs cherry cornmeal buckle ANY longer than absolutely necessary. Plus, cherry season doesn’t last forever, so you gotta snap them up while you can! Carpe diem, right? Well actually, more like carpe fructum (“seize the fruit”), but let’s not get technical. ...