Category: Breakfast

There are times when I’m a fancy cook.  When I take time in the kitchen, slicing potatoes paper thin for Pommes Anna, slowly rendering the fat from the skin of a duck breast until it …

When it comes to mothers, mine is (almost) always right.  But when it comes to these paleo pancakes, I can pull out a little mom wisdom myself. When I was a little girl, I, being …

    When you are a working parent, each weekday can feel like a battle, and each working day, a war.  Mornings are especially chaotic – the opening shots are fired at 5:45 am, when …

I live in the suburbiest of suburbia.  Green lawns, swimming pools, sprinklers.  People walk in my neighborhood – all the time – but they’re walking their dogs or taking a walk, rather than walking to …

I decided to celebrate with cake. I heard mention of a German dessert called "Rhabarberkuchen" somewhere on the interwebs, and immediately it summoned an image of a soft, yeasty cake topped by soft, tart rhubarb. …

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/amusebouches/8050960680/" title="Pumpkin Pie French Toast Closeup by The Domestic Front, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8175/8050960680_fa79164b25.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="Pumpkin Pie French Toast Closeup"/></a> This french toast, then, is my brave attempt to bring a little autumn to my …

...This summer I discovered Bircher Muesli. It's not oatmeal, and it's not Mueslix -- that breakfast cereal from the 80's which was not that dissimilar from eating sawdust. I'd describe it more as …