Category: breakfast & brunch
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Dear Brunch & Bagels
Dear Brunch, A while back, you were just a late breakfast. Then maybe a quiche or a simple salad in addition. Waffles if one really went wild. Now, there are wasabi-encrusted salmon fritters with chinchilla berries, buckwheat-semolina-semi-freddo cherry froth on an escarole blini. My daughter, age 7, asked why I wasn’t serving squid i its… Read more
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Grandma Ruth’s Double Streusel Coffee Cake & Einstein’s Theories
Oh, Mr. Einstein with your wondrous hair and brain. You theorized that it would be possible to overlap past and present and I am hoping you can make that possible so that I can dine with the great grandparents I know only from stories of root cellars and Yiddish accents and English maids and also… Read more
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Upside Down Vanilla French Toast & True Love
Bread and eggs are every bit as crucial as blue, red, and yellow. They are the launchpad for many dishes. Plus, baguettes and eggs make decent stand-ins for bats and baseballs. You might know this if you have an almost 12-year-old. I was completely unprepared to fall in love when I met my husband. I… Read more
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Garlicky Green Tart with Sunflower Crust & Being Straightforward
4-yr-old: Do you have any gum? Me: No. Ask Daddy. [4-yo goes upstairs, comes back down]: Daddy’s in the shower. he says i can have gum when he gets out. Me: Okay. [4-yr-old considers something]: Can I sleep with gum? Me: that wouldn’t be a good idea. It could get stuck in your hair or… Read more
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Anytime Granola Spoons
Thanks to all for a successful Emma’s Pantry launch last night! Anytime Granola is available for purchase in various sizes…spoons not included! Read more
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Nut-free Jam Tart & Emma’s Pantry Launch
Tonight is Prosecco & Preserves, the launch party for Emma’s Pantry. And to celebrate, I’m eating Nut Free Jam Tart and exploiting my collection of antique canning jars. Stop by or order yours today (the jams and granola…the jars are mine). Anytime Granola is addictive and healthy AND nut-free! Read more
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Garlic Salmon Hash with Peppers, Potatoes, and Arugula
I am a big believer in breakfast for dinner. A few weeks ago I made a whole week of breakfast-dinners to delight the kids (and go easy on my time and money). Last night, to wind down the vacation week, I took out my trusty skillet to make a healthy, bright hash. I had Jamie… Read more
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Things that Go Crunch in the Night…snacks
I like snacks as much as the next person – as long as the next person isn’t my nine-year-old, Daniel, because he’d win hands down in any snacking competition. “What can I have?” he mutters as he studies the pantry contents. I am an unfair mom which, in this instance, is loosely defined as a… Read more
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Cereal Muffins Part 2
Due to the interest, and despite the fact that Passover just started (and during Passover religious Jews don’t eat any leavened bread or bread products), I have received a lot of emails asking for LEFTOVER CEREAL MUFFINS. This is the recipe for a large crowd (aka my family) – they also freeze very well. Feel… Read more
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What’s for breakfast?
Thick-cut challah bread with triple berry jam. Apples baked with brown sugar and cinnamon topped with Cinnamon-Pear sauce. Upside down French Toast with Strawberry-Vanilla Jam for dipping. Buckwheat waffles with organic, local homemade blueberry syrup (rhubarb for the friend who takes umbrage with berries). Feel free to stop by. Read more
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Marbled Berry Cake for Passover and Honey Cake, too
Confession: I’m not a huge cake-lover. My husband grew up on sheet cakes and still gravitates towards their slightly plastic frosting. If I eat cake, it’s more apt to be a coffee cake (my brothers and I used to fight over the crumb topping) or one that somehow beats a great cookie. I love the… Read more
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Cooking with Leftovers
Waste Not, Want Lots –Or, How I Emptied the Fridge for My Spring Vacation Bizarre child that I was, I loved clipping coupons. I’d grab the shiny inserts from the Sunday papers, cut them with my mother’s special scissors, and arrange them in neat stacks on the counter where my parents would promptly ignore them… Read more
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Blueberry Jam, Whole Wheat Spaetzle with Caramelized Onions, Spinach, and Leeks
To celebrate the launch of EMMA’S PANTRY, my line of organic jams, syrups, pickles, relishes, and granolas, I’ve been letting the kids try each new flavor as I make it. They have their stand-by favorites. Jamie’s a fan of the Apricot Butter, Daniel can eat a jar of Strawberry-Vanilla all by himself (yes, he has),… Read more