The heat of the summer has caught up with us. While we often think we can most definitely live without an air conditioner, these last two weeks have challenged that philosophy one hundred percent. As I sit here typing my son is in a cold bath playing with his toys and my dog is sat […]
Breakfast
French Toast with Banana Whipped Cream
We buy a lot of bananas in our house. They are generally used for smoothies or cut up and put into cereal. Every so often I find an overripe one (that had been forgotten as a lunchtime snack) nestled into the smallest compartment of a child’s backpack. Overripe, smushy, brown…you know the ones. Forgotten […]
Breakfast Pizza
When I set down the bowl of cereal in front of our six year old son I believe his exact words were “this is boring.” And, while he was not wrong, it was a school day. Can’t breakfast be quick and easy? Doesn’t he know I forgot to make the lunches the night before… and […]
Sausage & Cheddar Muffins from Food & Wine
For Christmas we received Market Math, the cookbook from Food & Wine which is based on the column of the same name from their magazine. In the column, they take one ingredient and use it four ways. It is genius and allows you to buy that bigger package of something and know it won’t go […]
Pumpkin, Port & Gingerbread
I know I’ve mentioned that back in college I belonged to a cookbook club. One of those scams you could easily join by pulling out a card from a food magazine (probably Gourmet because if we really go back that far there were only two…) and pick ten cookbooks for free….so long as you paid […]
Peach Breakfast Cake
Years ago a nearby town held a Peach Festival every year. It was the highlight of the summer for a lot of people and featured a lot of fun activities, parades, shows and a pie contest. Although it no longer exists, seeing peaches in the summer will always remind me of the fun times we […]
Sunken Buttermilk Cream Cheese Muffins with Rhubarb
We’re not going to lie. These did not turn out like we had planned. We pictured beautiful fluffy muffins with creamy centers. Instead we got a sunken middles and an oozy centers. Keeping the glass half full…we went with it and ended up with a really delicious soft muffins with a stuffed centers. We had […]
Homemade Granola Bars & Bites
We eat a lot of granola in our house. A lot. While our kids are not picky as to which kind they get, we have begun to be much more mindful about what is in the bars we have been purchasing. Particularly, the amount of sugar. Deciding to make our own came from wanting to […]