English Muffin Bread is a no-fail recipe Yeast bread sometimes has a difficult reputation. The perception is that it's difficult and fussy and easy to mess up. And yes - some yeast breads can be a bit harder to master. But not English Muffin Bread. This bread is so easy that anyone can make it. I do make that statement lightly. Not everyone grew up cooking and baking and not everyone made their own bread for years. If that is you, please don't fear - you have met your perfect, easy ... Read More about English Muffin Bread
Breakfast
Potato Pull-apart Cinnamon Bread
Potato Pull-apart Cinnamon Bread is also known as "Monkey Bread" This is such a fun recipe - and so very delicious! Potato Pull-apart Cinnamon Bread is pretty easy to make. It's one of those fun recipes that kids love to get their hands into, and so long as you don't mind a little bit of a mess, everyone can have a blast making this! There are good reasons to use potatoes in making yeast bread. The starch in the potatoes gives you a nice light rise with a rich flavor. As a ... Read More about Potato Pull-apart Cinnamon Bread
Butter Pecan Waffles
Butter Pecan Waffles are a perfect weekend breakfast! With family holiday get-togethers coming up, you may be thinking about upping your breakfast game. I have the perfect recipe for your next family breakfast - Butter Pecan Waffles! Perfect waffles might seem daunting. To get that really light, fluffy texture, you need to separate the eggs and beat the whites separately. For a long time, I avoided recipes that called for this step, because it meant extra bowls and beaters. It was more ... Read More about Butter Pecan Waffles
Sweet Corn Pancakes
Take Advantage of Late-season Corn It's late summer here in Upstate NY, and the end-of-season sweet corn is just coming into its own. Typically, the best corn of the year is the last to ripen, and that is what we have right now. It's amazing no matter how you prepare it. We love Fresh Corn Fritters which are a more savory dish than these Sweet Corn Pancakes. My husband is particularly fond of pancakes with corn in them, maybe because sweet corn was a big crop when he was growing up on his ... Read More about Sweet Corn Pancakes
Veggie Frittata
An easy weeknight meal! When you have a lot of chickens, a meal made from eggs is a no-brainer. Though there are times when our customers run us right out of eggs, usually we have a dozen or two in the fridge. And the rest of the ingredients are things most people probably always have on hand. And if you don't? Or maybe your family doesn't like the veggies in the recipe? That is not a problem - you can switch just about everything in here around to suit your taste, and what you have on ... Read More about Veggie Frittata
Homemade Greek Yogurt
I love yogurt, especially Greek yogurt. Thick, creamy, rich - yum. And, it's really good for your tummy. This is particularly true if you make your own yogurt - just start with the most natural kind you can find to get your yogurt making started. Once you have a good batch done, you have all the starter you need for future batches, because you use some from the previous batch to get the next one going*. I started my current batch with yogurt I bought from the Farmer's Market, from a small, ... Read More about Homemade Greek Yogurt
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Raspberry Preserves {no pectin recipe}
It has been a mighty busy summer around here. A good busy though. In addition to having a bigger garden and selling at the Farmer's Market, we found a new church that we are trying, I got into essential oils [okay, that should probably say I became instantly obsessed with essential oils!] and now, any day, we expect to be called suddenly to drive 3 hours south to watch our granddaughter while her little brother gets born! I am trying to get everything from the garden put up for winter in ... Read More about Raspberry Preserves {no pectin recipe}
Soft Cornmeal Muffins
It has been quite a winter around here, and I would be lying if I said it has been an easy one to get through. Not because of the weather - we live where we expect the winters to be fierce and getting a bad one is no reason for sniveling. I will tell you that as I am writing this on March 13th, there are still several feet of snow everywhere around us, and not a single bare patch anywhere in the yard. Even the chickens refuse to range, preferring to sit in the doorway and peer out on the ... Read More about Soft Cornmeal Muffins
Banana Streusel Coffee Cake
I actually made this a few weeks ago, after yet another family visit that left behind the remains of a bunch of bananas. Neither of us is at all fond of eating fresh bananas, particularly ones that are getting past their prime. On the other hand, such bananas are just reaching the perfect stage for baking, and we are both big fans of baked stuff with bananas. And if your grandkids happen to leave behind some nearly-overripe bananas and you don't feel like baking with them right away, did you ... Read More about Banana Streusel Coffee Cake
Greens & Nectarines Protein Smoothie
Breakfast has always been kind of a problem for me. As is the case with all good Moms, mine wanted us to all have a nutritious breakfast before going off to school. Sometimes that meant eggs, which I liked, but often it meant oatmeal which I didn't like at all. To my way of thinking, Mom giving us oatmeal was a terrible injustice, since she wouldn't touch it herself. My aversion to breakfast, which persists to this day, was not Mom's fault though. It just comes too early for me - I really only ... Read More about Greens & Nectarines Protein Smoothie
Twice Baked Oven Home Fries
In my little hometown, back when we were in the last couple years of high school, and when we were all back home on college breaks, they still rolled up the streets by 7 or 8:00PM. If we got the munchies after dark, the only option was to run the 5 or so miles up the highway to "The Truckstop", which never closed. It was about the sort of place you might expect, with an interesting assortment of traffic coming off the highway, and a roughly equal number of locals. The truckers and other ... Read More about Twice Baked Oven Home Fries
Dutch Baby
I grew up in a small town where all the pancakes were regular, boring flat ones. They have never been my favorite thing - kind of heavy and carby for breakfast. But, a few years after high school, I found myself in Boulder Colorado for awhile, which is where I was introduced to another whole world of pancake amazement. There is a diner in Boulder called Dot's, where we went for breakfast one morning. While I was perusing the omelet selections, the waitress sailed by with an amazing puffy, ... Read More about Dutch Baby