Breakfast & Brunch

Cinnamon Roll Twist

Something quick and easy you can try the next time you make cinnamon rolls. This is fun to make, and you can serve it like a coffee cake. I failed to get finished photos of this, but you get the idea. 🙂 Drizzle with Cream Cheese Icing and serve warm! Cinnamon Roll Twist Use your […]

Whole Wheat Blueberry Muffins

Take this base recipe for whole wheat blueberry muffins and change the add-ins any way you’d like. Substitute different berries for the cherries, or even leave out the fruit and make cinnamon streusel muffins! When you make muffin batter, your goal is to mix the batter as little as possible; this will make high, tender

Whole Grain Orange Sweet Rolls

These Whole Grain Orange Sweet Rolls are a delicious treat! You can even try this recipe with lemon instead of orange, and perhaps a cream cheese filling. Either way, you will love them! Whole Grain Orange Sweet Rolls In a small saucepan, melt 2/3 cup butter over medium heat. Then add: 2/3 cup pure maple

Caramelized Banana Bread

I Found this recipe and decided to give it a try, with a few changes. It looked like such a good idea, and it tastes even better. I love the smell of the bananas cooking in the butter and sugar! This recipe makes one 9″ x 5″ loaf, so double the recipe for two loaves.

March Tea Time

Raspberry Cream Tarts You’ll need one recipe of our favorite butter pastry dough. In a bowl combine:       2 1/2 cups unbleached white flour (or 2 cups soft wheat pastry flour and 1/2 cup unbleached white flour)      2 tbsp. sugar      1/2 tsp. sea salt      1 cup chilled unsalted

Apple Streusel Cake

The beautiful tulips my husband brought me today… makes me happy to think about the Spring season coming! Saturdays will always seem like a good day to make a coffee cake to me, and this morning I had been thinking about how good a moist, streusel-topped apple cake sounded.  I had used the rest of

The New Year and Making Yogurt…

Happy New Year to everyone! We have had a very busy Christmas season, but we have enjoyed all of it!  So many things to finish to wrap up the old year, and then even more things to do for the new year ahead.  We always seem to have more ideas than we have time in

Vanilla Bean Frappuccinos

A dear friend and I have been talking about Starbucks, and generally how we can’t afford it. It is really true. Even if you can afford $4.00 for a cup of bean water and foamy milk, going too often is a rotten waste of money! This is of course coming from a Starbucks guru (we

Granola

Granola is one of those recipes that’s been practically beaten to death, but it’s also one of the staples our family makes the most of. It kills me when I walk through the store looking at the assembly of prices of pre-made, frozen and boxed foods; most of them things that could be easily made

Breakfast Shortbread

This is a yummy whole wheat shortbread. We use soft white wheat, not hard. Enjoy! Makes a 9″x13″ pan Chop 11 Tbsp. butter into a mixer. Add: 2 Tbsp. of baking powder 1 tsp. sea salt 3/4 c. sugar 1 cup of half-n-half beaten with 2 eggs Jog just to mix up and add: 5