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Category Archives: Breakfast

Bran Muffins 2.0

I really love making bran muffins. And unless everyone is just being nice to me, my friends and family like them too.
The recipe listed on this site is the recipe that I use, but I wanted to give some enhancements that make the muffins fantabulous.
First, all of the “optional” ingredients, I use when I make...

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Cooking Inspiration for the Day

“When I walk into my kitchen today,
I am not alone.
Whether we know it
or not, none of us is.
We bring fathers
and mothers and kitchen
tables, and every meal
we have ever eaten.
Food is never just food.
It’s also a way of getting at something else:
who we are, who
we have been, and
who we want to be.”
- Molly Wizenberg, from A...

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1-2-3 Sausage balls

I like to call this sort of dish swanky white trash … or, who am I kidding, maybe just plain ‘ol white trash. There’s a very good chance the swanky part is all in my head.
We had an Easter brunch yesterday and they were served along side mimosa’s and vegetarian quiche. Plus, I totally served...

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Make some bran muffins this week!

It’s spring time, so make a new healthy habit and make some bran muffins! Here is the recipe again – You probably have most of the ingredients on hand, just swing by the health food store and pick up some wheat bran.
A cute video of Ben filling muffin tins last week, for inspiration:

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Granola

A few years back, I considered buying a little breakfast cafe. I had a longtime dream of a simple life where I made pancakes and coffee in the morning, and goofed off all afternoon. After much consideration, I didn’t buy that cafe. But, in those months in early 2005, I worked on my granola recipe,...

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Quiche

This recipe comes from a friend’s mom. She’s a great cook. I still use the scribbled post-it I used to write down her quiche recipe years ago. It’s been spilled on and stained over the years, but I can’t get rid of that pitiful looking post-it…

Quiche is my what-the-heck’s-for-dinner workhorse. I can have it assembled...

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Bran Muffins

I have been making bran muffins every week for 20 years. I think I could start peddling them around town and become a bran muffin tycoon. And maybe I will one day. But for now, I’ll just try to convince you to start making your own.
They’re so healthy and good for you. Increasing your daily...

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