International Waffle Day is March 25th and if you need some inspiration to whet your iron, look no further than 150 Waffle Maker Recipes by Haugen and MacKenzie. Waffle it up for breakfast, lunch, dinner, birthdays, March Madness appetizers. This particularly delicious seafood concoction was a delicious porch treat—with this on my tongue, it was […]
Category: Breakfast
Breakfast Night with Krusteaz and Cooking Light
The house smells of cinnamon and maple. Breakfast may as well be a candle scent. Nothing smells more like home. This last month was Breakfast Night month, and Krusteaz inspired me to make breakfast for dinner time and time again. Waffles have always been a go-to meal for me since I have a sourdough starter […]
Nourished on a Sunday
Perhaps Nourished spoke to me because I too recently discovered the healing power of food. Lia Huber has written this charming memoir with spiritual notes—a lovely Sunday morning sort of read—in which she describes the journey to the epiphany that food has soul. There are recipes, but for me, the real grit of her book […]
French Toast for Dinner
Many more hours this week were spent festooning our house for the coming Beauty and the Beast Halloween party than preparing proper meals in the kitchen. I lament that nachos and French toast and hospital cafeteria food have been stand ins for dinner over the last week. Let them eat breakfast for dinner, says this […]
Blueberry Cornmeal Cake Jazz Mornings with CC’s Coffee
We keep on Groovin—last night was Earth Wind and Fire on the mainstage with Sweet Crude and Lake Street Dive my second favorites. Enjoying Jazz Fest with Dad on his 65th birthday, Tower of Power, Stevie Wonder—the spice of life to be sure. We are having lots of coffee these AMs and I am grateful […]
Sour Cream Drop Biscuits and Avocado Yellowtail Crudo
Oh this world and the people in it! Jazz Fest is here and a multitude of rapscallions have migrated to New Orleans to take in the pleasures of music, food and dance at the fairgrounds. KP’s dad arrived, now sporting around town on a Honda Harley scooter, and he has been dubbed “Jazz Fest Santa”—photo […]
Gouda Friday Savory Pancakes
A delicious Good Friday morning. Squash blossoms yawning open with the sunrise. Hot coffee and fat buttermilk gouda pancakes with a side of crackling bacon. The nest thick three chickens deep; a solo clarinet issuing “Just a Closer Walk with Thee” from a radio hitched to the coop (I believe the ladies are urged along […]
Tater Tot Waffles with Proscuitto, Mustard and Poached Eggs
Went to a bounce dance class with some girlfriends recently, in the name of exercise. In the mirror, if I’m being charitable to myself, I looked like a marionette in the hands of an unskilled, perhaps drunk, puppeteer. Even when it isn’t pretty, adrenaline and a good bath in your own endorphins is the best […]
Spiced Ricotta Pancakes with Just Spices
All is right with the world (in my little New Orleanian Mardi Gras bubble; note also that in the la la land of residency I really don’t have much time to belabor the weight of daily news). We have been trotting out to some of the early season parades, last night was Cleopatra, and we […]
Everything Bagel Breakfast Casserole for the Year of Books
To a new year. There will be books. Looking back on 2016, I will say that it was a failure somewhat from a resolution standpoint, but perhaps rightly so. It was to be the year of Chocolate, and I received some support from several chocolatiers to realize my goal of making one chocolate dish per […]