Category Archives: Breakfast

what we’re eating

Anyone surprised that this is another pinterest recipe? I had been looking for an excuse to make a 5 pound chocolate bundt cake because well, I don’t know that it’s a good idea to have so much chocolate sitting in your house staring at you. But it is a good idea to bring 5 pounds [...]

Pumpkin Muffins

I will tentatively say that it is fall in Austin. Hopefully because I just typed that out loud, it won’t be 100 tomorrow. Ah, just looked at the forecast. It looks like I may have jinxed myself. Sigh. Well, we will pretend that it really is fall somewhere in the world and that makes it [...]

Shakshuka

A couple weeks ago, I hosted a ladies breakfast at my house. Several of the ladies can’t eat gluten, several can’t eat dairy. . . which left me considering my options for breakfast. If a breakfast isn’t cheesy, it’s bready, am I right? Then I remembered that Deb, from Smitten Kitchen (once more saving the [...]

Chocolate Chip Zucchini Bread

Get ready for the zucchini recipes. My garden is in fully swing producing them so I’ll be cooking a lot of them! First up, zucchini bread. I had actually never made zucchini bread before – mainly because I didn’t really grow up eating zucchini. In fact, I don’t think it was until college that I [...]

Homemade Thick, Chewy Granola Bars

It took me long enough to post about these! I made these quite some time ago and really enjoyed them! I love how versatile the recipe is, as you can sub whatever nuts and dried fruits you have on hand or are your favorites. Next time, I am adding dark chocolate chips! This time I [...]

Vanilla Bean Scones

I don’t frequent Starbucks very often. Mainly because it’s expensive and I can make coffee at home. Better coffee. But, it is a very good place to meet people for hanging out and chatting. That being said, I succumbed to their petite vanilla scones awhile back, mainly because: I was hungry, I like scones, they [...]

breakfast apple granola crisp

One thing that is fun about Jason not working a 9-5 job any longer is that I have a whole other meal that I get to make throughout the week, breakfast! I get to expand beyond cereal, waffles and toast and explore other breakfast offerings! That’s where the scones came about, the strata, and now [...]