These pumpkin pancakes are perfect for the season. They taste a lot like pumpkin pie which is an endearing quality in any breakfast item. A few walnuts on top add just the right amount of crunch. Give them a whirl on your next lazy morning. Pancakes are second only to waffles in our house, and I don't drag out the waffle iron very often ( and who does, ...
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Bacon Spinach Quiche with Tomatoes
Bacon Spinach Quiche is a delicious all-purpose family meal great for breakfast, lunch or dinner! This post may contain affiliate links I think quiche may be the most underrated food ever. You can freeze it, make it ahead, serve it cold, serve it hot, serve it at room temperature. Quiche is great for breakfast, lunch or dinner and if you make little ones, they make ...
Quick and Easy Breakfast Pizza
Let me fill you in on what’s happening at our house right now. Our kids are growing. A lot. Which in turn means that they are eating. A lot. What this translates to is that, as a family, we are spending money. A lot. We have reached the stage of childhood where it seems that the kids grow inches overnight. I’m certain that they absolutely do and their appetite reflects it. ...
Butternut Squash and Pecan Muffins
This post first appeared in 2009, it has been updated. The thing with any winter squash (for me at least) is that I always buy them with the best intentions, but never seem to get around to actually eating them. For example, I've had a butternut squash sitting in my potato bin since November. It's almost April. The other day, I finally got around to roasting it, ...
Low Carb/Keto Broccoli Cheddar Bacon Quiche
January means three things to me; it’s cold, I have a birthday, and it’s diet season. I always diet in January. It’s the easiest time of year to try to lose a few pounds because everyone else is also trying to get rid of the holiday love handles. This year is a little different because I actually started last month (because I love to torture myself and be surrounded ...
Muffin Tin Eggs Sardou with Quick Hollandaise
The Big Easy is known the world over as a city full of music, culture and booze. But even more than the party-all-day persona, New Orleans is loved for its food. In our distant past, my husband and I made a few vacations down to NOLA to test-drive our new love (and our livers) in the city that never seems to sleep and while we had more than I fair share of Sazeracs and ...
Sausage Cheddar Apple Breakfast Casserole
This breakfast casserole has everything you need all in one dish; toast, sausage, eggs and apples. It's a great weekend brunch dish and perfect for Christmas morning. Put together this casserole the day before and bake it the next morning for an even easier way to start your day. Do not come to my house and expect to be able to watch anything on TV. The seemingly simple ...
Strawberry Basil Muffins with Whipped Strawberry Butter
These Strawberry Basil Muffins with Whipped Strawberry Butter are a delicious morning treat for the start of a new week or a sunny weekend morning. The whipped butter can be kept for several days in the fridge and goes great on just about everything. I do not pretend to be a tidy or organized person, but for the last 6 years I have struggled to understand how the ...
Quick Cinnamon Cake Doughnuts
Quick Cinnamon Cake Doughnuts are super easy to pull off. Taking only 20-30 minutes from start to finish, these Quick Cinnamon Cake Doughnuts are the perfect morning treat! I am here today to shatter the illusion that making doughnuts is hard. I’m not sure where this idea came from, but if you ask the average home cook to make a batch of doughnuts they may ...
Berry Scones with Dark Chocolate Drizzle
Berry Scones with Dark Chocolate Drizzle is a delicious morning treat or even an afternoon snack! Tender dough with fresh fruit and a decadent chocolate drizzle. Yum! A long, long time ago, I was a child. And as a child I wanted to get my parents something really special for Valentine’s Day. Of course this would be the late 80’s so the “allowance” had not yet been ...
Breakfast Muffins
We have been having quite a few adventures over here in the middle of the country. School has started back, my catering side business has been picking up and my husband has taken up the accordion. Yep...the accordion. I'll just tell you right now it's hilarious. So, what's the first song he decided to learn on the weird mutt of an instrument? Moves Like Jagger. "An ...
Fruit Smoothies
Amazingly enough, I have managed to stick to my goal of getting healthy for a whole month now. Not that I haven't cheated. I have. More than I would probably like to admit. That whole 30th birthday week was pretty much a fattening food and quite a bit of wine free-for-all. But two weeks of guilt and lots of exercise and I am finally back on track. That being said I am ...
Apple Oatmeal Muffins
Apple Oatmeal Muffins are a cinch to whip together. One bowl and one muffin pan and you are on your way to a warm muffin for breakfast. So, here was the plan. The plan was for me to take my sweet baby girl to dance class and type out this blog post about Apple Oatmeal Muffins in peace out in the lobby of the building where the class is. Here I am. I have a comfortable ...
The Difference a Year can Bring
Here we are at the end of another year and I have been thinking over the last few days about how far we have come since this time last year. 2011 started with some really tough decisions for us. We made one huge leap of faith at the beginning of the year when we decided to cut our losses and move back to Tennessee. It wasn't a decision we took lightly, but one that we felt like ...
Overnight Monkey Bread
I can't begin to tell you how much I am looking forward to Christmas morning. I think this year is going to be the best year yet! The kids are old enough to really understand, but not quite old enough to be suspicious and the wonder and excitement is there. And oh boy are they excited! The small mountain of gifts already under the tree is like fuel to the fire. They have ...