Breakfast Recipes
Texas Omelette Recipe
A while back, we did a plain old, rolled cheese omelette video that proved to be very helpful to a lot of youngsters (and oldsters!). So the other night, when it was a lazy dinner night and I was making this breakfast for dinner anyway, I figgered I’d go ahead and share this “Texas” omelette…
Read MoreMango Lassi
My first taste of a mango lassi came when I was living in Boston, circa 1998. Though I grew up in the kitchen, what my family was most interested in were the classics; things like chili, enchiladas, and tuna casserole. Indian food, not so much. I had a boyfriend at the time, though, who had…
Read MoreGrandma’s Gingerbread Recipe
Gingerbread Muffins Recipe video (Scroll down for recipe) Grandma used to pick me and little brother up from school every day for years — all through elementary school. (Actually, Grandma also used to drop us off at school lots of mornings, too. She drove one of those cars that’s really long and solid with lots…
Read MoreHow To Poach An Egg!
How to Poach an Egg Video – scroll down for step-by-step instructions Check out my channel on YouTube for more Learn to Cook Videos Knowing how to poach an egg is one of the basic cooking skills that you probably should have if you like poached eggs. With a couple of tiny tricks, they’re really…
Read MoreEgg White Omelet
To be honest, I never got the whole egg white omelet thing. Partly because I’ve never been one to worry very much about calories or fat or cholesterol (a fact which may turn out to haunt me later but nevertheless I thank my parents for not cursing me with a bunch of body image issue…
Read MoreApple Gingerbread Pancakes
I modified this from my grandma’s gingerbread muffin recipe. The most awesome part is that they taste exactly like gingerbread muffins, but they cook a whole lot faster. And, to me, while muffins are awesome and rad, they don’t really say “breakfast”; they say more like, “tea time” or “stoner munchie time”, know what I…
Read MoreCranberry Bread
This is my great-grandmother’s cranberry bread recipe. She was quite the cook, indeed. I’d had these Meyer lemons sitting in my fruit bowl for a couple of weeks, a gift from a friend’s yard. In years past, I’d have already turned them into limoncello or salted and preserved lemons, but this year — specifically the…
Read MoreBlueberry Muffins with Streusel Topping
I have no hesitation when I say that blueberry muffins are the best muffins in all of Muffin-Land. I mean, they’re perfect. Sweet enough to be a dessert, but still (kinda) healthy enough to be an okay breakfast, especially if you make them with whole wheat flour and serve with an omelet or some fruit…
Read MoreApricot-Ginger Coffee Cake
Real quick, here’s a delicious apricot-ginger coffee cake I made up last night to take to a girlfriend brunch-and-clothing-swap. I’m taking this plus like 4 bags of clothes and shoes to pawn off on someone else. Man, I love clothing swaps. It feels really good to get rid of stuff. It also feels good to…
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