Category: breakfast & brunch
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Kale Salad with Apples, Red Onion, & Sunflower Seeds & Stopping Time
First thing’s first – this salad is for kale lovers and haters alike. It takes five minutes to prepare and can be meal on its own, made into a messy sandwich, added to an omelet, or served on the side of whatever else you’re having. Plus, it’s pretty and healthy and if you need to… Read more
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Best Vegan Coconut Bread or Muffins & Custom Recipes
One friend wanted a coconut bread recipe. Another wanted a dairy-free coconut “dessert thing.” Oldest son, now 14 and able to devour entire continents of food daily, especially post-soccer, pleaded for “a giant coconut thing filled with coconut topped with more coconut.” And my old friend, Cris, came to visit from her goat farm Central… Read more
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Latkes (Crispy Potato Pancakes) & Wish Lists
My kids make wishlists for birthdays and for Chanukah. They write them unaided, and it is always interesting to see what they come up with. Sure, we have some typical stuff, Itunes gift card request or Lego Giant Something that requires a mortgage to purchase, but we also have some strange themes this year. When… Read more
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Sweet or Savory English Porridge – for breakfast, lunch, or dinner…
How I long to sit and have porridge with my best childhood friend, Jules. We tend to talk for so long that entire days slide by when we’re together. At her charming house outside of London, our kids played in the garden, our spouses talked sports and fish n’ chips, and inside, we laughed about… Read more
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Whole Wheat Lemon Poppy Seed Cake with Lemon Glaze
Given his druthers, one of my kids would have all manner of bread and cheese – grilled cheese, quesadillas, pizza – at all meals. And snacks. So it’s odd (to me) that his favorite muffin is lemon poppy seed. Crunchy, tangy, sweet and sour. I made this cake for him because who doesn’t want cake… Read more
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Red Onion, Tomato, Double Cheese Galette with Corn & Garbanzo Crust
This started as many recipes do, with good intentions…until I reached for the wrong flour. Is there an incorrect one? I guess. If you’re making traditional chocolate chip cookies, for example, and you use chickpea flour, maybe the results aren’t what you wanted. But for this gallette, the garbanzo bean flour wound up in my… Read more
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English All-Seasons Trifle & UK Adventures
English All-Seasons Trifle & UK Adventures “Did it hurt getting your ears pierced?” asks Julia, 9. “Yes.” “A lot?” “A bit,” I tell her and wait for the follow up. When can she get her ears pierced (12), would I get anything else pierced (no), why do people get anything pierced (cultural fashion, trends, expression).… Read more
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Italian Rainbow Chopped Salad with Lemon-Tarragon Dressing
Salad is so gay, a new friend said to eight-year-old Jamie. Jamie went on to explain – in front of a group of 5 boys gathered at our house for the first time – that salad can’t be gay. Neither can rhubarb, fyi. He talked about people being gay and how everyone has feelings and… Read more
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Apple & Honey Sponge Cake with Crumb Topping
Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year. For a sweet New Year we eat apples and dip them in honey. This recipe is inspired by that tradition. I made individual sponge-crumb cakes because they are fun for a big dinner and there’s no slicing required, which means less mess and fewer cake bits consumed by the… Read more
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Classic Raspberry Jam
Deep ruby, sweet, and utterly enjoyable with a slice of buttery brown bread or alongside crackers. Read more
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Quick Apricot Jam without Pectin
Small batch, ruby apricot jam in glass Weck jars. Phenomenal alone or pressed into a grilled cheese sandwich. Or slathered on cornbread and topped with fresh whipped cream for dessert. Read more
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Quick, Single-Batch Blueberry Jam
Classically addictive. Wild blueberries, with hints of vanilla & cinnamon. Buy blueberries in season if you can and freeze them – almost all blueberry desserts work just as well with frozen fruit and this jam does, too. Read more
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Seville Orange Marmalade
Seville oranges have a high pectic content which makes these preserves have a good set – AKA it isn’t runny. Now, not everyone likes marmalade – it’s deceptively pretty and a bit bitter. I like to keep a few pots of it around to slather on thick toast or to mix with Greek yogurt and… Read more
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Italian Apple Tart with Salted Caramel Sauce & The Circle
The Youngest: When will I be a baby again? Me: You won’t. You only get to be each age once. Him: Right. Unless you be a circle. Then you just keep coming back. L’chaim! Read more
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Honey Cake & Things You Don’t Want to Fall out of Your Pants
I’m not a shopper. I’m the kind of person who runs into a store as though under time clock pressure, grabs the item in question, tries on twelv pairs, likes one, buys it, and leaves. And yet when it came time to try on jeans, I still found myself pondering… -When did we all decide… Read more