I’ll admit it. Sometimes I eat brownies for breakfast. If they happen to be out, and I’m skidding through the kitchen on the whirlwind path to get dressed and upright on the moped and into the hospital, I’ll grab a brownie and chase it with a pot of coffee. I’m getting help. Actually, I’ve invented […]
Category: Breakfast
Pumpkin Oatmeal Hepatic French Toast
The Pumpkin Oatmeal Wheat bread I made on Friday is bomb biggity as French Toast. Pumpkin Oatmeal French Toast Whisk together 2 eggs, 2/3 cup milk, and 1 ½ tsp vanilla in a shallow bowl. Sprinkle a little bit of pumpkin spice on the top of the egg mixture. Dip a slice of your Pumpkin […]
Muesli Porridge
My brother and mother will love this. It does require a trip to the bulk section of an organic foods store because who has rolled wheat and whole barley and cracked rye lying around? But let me say that it is worth it! I have mocked the Muesli brand cereal for a name that sounds […]
St. John’s College Santa Fe, New Mexico
When I need to think, I run. When I cannot run more than two miles because the altitude here in Sante Fe is stingy with oxygen, I hike to think. I graduate from the SPU MFA Program in Creative Writing in a week, and I’m having a hard time thinking of my life without it. […]
Appalachian Cinnamon Rolls
Rain is christening the cedar fence we built yesterday as we pack our car to spend a few days at the Oregon coast! For breakfast this morning I made up a batch of the cinnamon roll recipe I found in that Appalachian cookbook unearthed from the back of my in-laws’ kitchen cupboard. I think the […]
Mother Bunn’s Yum Yum Sourdough Waffles
Here is a silly random I found amid more serious bread recipes in The Village Baker. No explanation about who Mother Bunn is, Yum Yum is a colloquialism not otherwise found in the book. It almost looks like a prank—a bogus recipe one of the copy editors was bet twenty dollars by his buddy to […]
Miners’ Sourdough Pancakes
I set out to answer one question, why these pancakes are called Miners’ Sourdough. Next thing you know, I’m buried in May Kellogg Sullivan’s book The Trail of a Sourdough: Life in Alaska (1910), the memoir of a woman who self-identifies as a Sourdough, which she defines as “a miner who has spent one winter in […]
Brioche a Tete
I made Brioche before following the Baking Illustrated recipe, which uses only half the yeast and is, in bulk, half the amount of this one. This recipe could feed a small village for breakfast. Lots of butter, lots of lift. Also different is the traditional shaping of various brioches (about which The Village Baker goes […]
Pain Au Lait Raisin-Cinnamon Snails
Just a variation on yesterday’s snails–but healthier. Off to the Flying Pig Marathon Cincinnati! Pain Au Lait Raisin-Cinnamon Snails Adapted from The Village Baker Dough 1 package dry yeast (one cup of sourdough starter) ¾ cup water 3 ½ cups all-purpose flour 1 ½ tsp salt 2 tbsp milk powder 4 tbsp sugar 3 eggs […]
Crepes
Today spring is finally singing in Minnesota. KP and I planted some trees in Southtown (Slatterly Park) with some neighbors—here is KP looking heroic next to some kind of pear tree we planted (Izzy, in the window, enjoyed sleeping in the car and eating treats to the sounds of Earth, Wind and Fire while we […]