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national pancake day– horray!

On February 28, 2012 By

My love of pan­cakes is deep and eter­nal. I’ll take them over waf­fles, any day. I’ll take them over crepes… most days.

So it brings me much joy to cel­e­brate a hol­i­day ded­i­cated to them, if by “cel­e­brate” we mean “for­get about and eat an Eng­lish muf­fin for break­fast”. Alas, there will be many pan­cakes in […]

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cookies for breakfast!

On February 17, 2012 By

Blog reader Sher recently mes­saged me with a bak­ing chal­lenge of sorts. She was look­ing for a healthy, hearty break­fast cookie that she could feel good about giv­ing her kids, but that they would actu­ally, you know, eat.

Chal­lenge accepted, my friend. This was espe­cially timely because I’ve been in a bit of a […]

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savoring the muffin (top)

On February 3, 2012 By

My muf­fin top is all that,
Whole grain, low-fat
You know you want a piece of that,
But I just want to dance

Ah, 30 Rock. You win some and you lose some, but dammit when you win, you win big. (Although my all-time favorite is Were­wolf Bar Mitz­vah.)

One of […]

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biscuit love

On December 9, 2011 By

I love mak­ing muffins and cook­ies and cakes. And brown­ies. And bread. Who am I kid­ding, if it goes in the oven, I’m in love!

But every once in awhile, an odd sort of inspi­ra­tion strikes. This week was an exam­ple of it and I think I’ve invented my new favorite breakfast treat.

Typ­i­cally, I’m much more […]

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a jolly good breakfast

On March 24, 2011 By

Eng­lish muffins are some­thing I have taken a lik­ing to more recently than the more pop­u­lar Amer­i­can break­fast sta­ple, the bagel. Yet they are lovely on their own account, ten­der with a hint of yeast, and I find them much more fun to dress up.

Even bet­ter, they are far eas­ier to make at home than […]

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sunny grapefruit curd

On March 21, 2011 By

Inter­ested in par­tic­i­pat­ing in a bake sale to ben­e­fit Japan? Check out this thread to see if there’s one near you or to start one yourself!

Hor­ray! Yes­ter­day was the first day of spring. Here in Ore­gon the cherry blos­som trees have been bloom­ing for a cou­ple of weeks and all of their other […]

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me lucky oats

On March 16, 2011 By

I will admit that some­times I judge things by their cover. Some­times you can’t help it though!

For years I longed to buy a can of McCann’s Irish Oats in the metal tin. It looked so retro and cool! And it’s from Ire­land! OMG!!!!1! (Don’t you love how illog­i­cal the consumer’s brain is?) But […]

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Today is Ash Wednes­day, mark­ing the first day of Lent. It is also the day after Mardi Gras. Whether ask­ing for for­give­ness from above or ask­ing for for­give­ness from your liver, break­ing your fast with a deli­cious green smoothie is the way to go.

Stay with me here.

I know, I know. Sure, you’ve read […]

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