The Picky Apple won’t eat bananas by themselves, but he WILL eat banana muffins. Although we have our tried and true Banana Crunch Muffin recipe, I wanted to find another banana bread or muffin recipe for a little banana variety. We’ve had lots of extra ripe bananas around here lately as they are one of [...]
Filed under: bananas, breakfast, muffins on July 15th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I finally made it to the store and attempted to make the Pecan Honey Sticky Buns again. This time, the dough came together nicely. The smell of these sticky buns baking was absolutely AMAZING! No candle, potpourri or other fragrance can replicate that scent, though I do love to burn bakery scents when I’m not [...]
Filed under: Tuesdays With Dorie, Uncategorized, breakfast on May 29th, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I’ve been on a real granola kick lately. Granola for breakfast, snacks, and dessert. I love to eat it with yogurt and fresh fruit, like cereal with milk poured over it, or straight out of the bag, and up until recently, I was relying on the store bought kind. I have seen so many recipes [...]
Filed under: breakfast on April 20th, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I’ve been reading about Meyer Lemons for months now but never could find any at my local grocery store. Every single Tuesday, I would scour the produce section with high hopes of spotting these special lemons, and every single Tuesday, I would pout a little as I moved on with the rest of my shopping, [...]
Filed under: breakfast, muffins on March 31st, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It wasn’t until early this year that I first heard of Dorie Greenspan. Her cookbook, Baking From My Home to Yours, seems to be very popular with many of the food bloggers out there, and around the same time I started my blog, a Dorie “baking club” was created. Tuesdays With Dorie is a group [...]
Filed under: breakfast, muffins on March 18th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Chocolate and cinnamon, two of my favorite ingredients! I don’t think I’ve ever made any baked goods combining those two ingredients, and boy, was it time. Apparently I have been missing out. Why haven’t I done this before? Chocolate and cinnamon go great together, and I will be seeking out more [...]
Filed under: breakfast, cake, chocolate, dessert on February 27th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Whenever The Picky Apple gets doughnuts (or donuts, however you spell it), I always request an apple fritter. Plain glazed donuts are great (and obviously the favorite choice of The Picky Apple, because they’re the plainest donut of all), chocolate glazed donuts are even better, but my favorite donut is the apple fritter. Crunchy, sweet, [...]
Filed under: apple, breakfast, donuts on February 11th, 2008 | 16 Comments »
This week I bought blueberries on sale. The Picky Apple likes blueberry muffins (which surprises me a little), so I thought I’d make muffins for him to take to work. Unless I bake him something tasty (like Banana Crunch Muffins) for breakfast, he typically skips it. I’ve tried a few different blueberry muffin recipes from [...]
Filed under: blueberries, breakfast, cake, dessert, substitutions on February 7th, 2008 | 5 Comments »
One thing The Picky Apple DOES like is scrambled eggs. He also loves bacon. So every once in a while we have breakfast for dinner, with scrambled eggs, bacon, and hash browns. Many times this is in the form of breakfast tacos. This week I decided to take that to the next level and make [...]
Filed under: breakfast, eggs, potato on February 7th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The smell of banana bread baking is one of my favorite kitchen smells. But my banana bread was always so….boring, especially since Nathan normally doesn’t like nuts or “chunk” type add ins. Me, I’m all for them. In the world of ice cream, for example, I gravitate towards Ben & Jerry’s chunkerrific ice creams, while [...]
Filed under: bananas, breakfast, muffins on January 30th, 2008 | 4 Comments »