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Breakfast/Brunch

Heart-Shaped Baked Chocolate Doughnuts (+Seattle’s Best Coffee Giveaway!)

January 27, 2011

This has to be the best bad idea I’ve had in a while: buying a doughnut pan. I resisted and resisted for as long as I could, knowing that once I had one of these things in my house I’d have no choice but to bake doughnuts as often as I wanted (could I handle [...]

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Holiday Q&A with Lucinda Scala Quinn + Panettone French Toast

December 21, 2010

Holiday entertaining tips and traditions were the topics of a lovely conversation I had last week with Lucinda Scala Quinn, Executive Director of Food & Entertaining at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, cookbook author and host of Hallmark Channel’s Mad Hungry with Lucinda Scala Quinn. Whether you’re attending a holiday party this week and need ideas [...]

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Multigrain Pancakes

November 10, 2010

A few weeks ago, after dropping off our little kids at preschool, a group of friends and I convened at a long reserved table at a quaint local breakfast spot. The occasion: a baby shower for our friend Chelsea, who is expecting her fourth and fifth! People often ask me whether we’re looking to grow [...]

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Maple Cinnamon Granola

November 8, 2010

I don’t consider myself to be a picky eater in the least…except when it comes to breakfast. And particularly when it comes to breakfast cereals. The bottom line: I just can’t handle soggy cereal. That means anything with flakes or puffs is automatically out. The presence of the words “crunch” or “clusters” in the name [...]

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Quiche Lorraine…and Recipes With Vague Directions

October 27, 2010

Do you know what it means to “Scald cream”? Would you know what to do if a recipe said to “Sauté onions – set aside”, with no advice on type of pan, amount of oil, degree of heat or markers to know when it’s done? If you read, “lightly beat eggs then add to [scalded] [...]

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Pumpkin Chocolate Chunk Muffins

October 4, 2010

One night about three years ago my husband and I were out to dinner with some good friends of ours, Tony and Karin. It randomly came up in conversation, over pasta and chianti, that Tony really loved foods containing pumpkin. I had never heard of such a thing. Of course I loved pumpkin pie at [...]

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Chocolate Chunk Zucchini Bread

August 23, 2010

Given that I’m allotted about 45 seconds from the time we make it downstairs until my lovable little folks start clamoring to be served breakfast you’d think I’d formulate some kind of breakfast plan to make things easier. Instead, I look a bit like Taz from Looney Tunes, spinning around the kitchen, transferring items from [...]

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Crispy French Toast

August 2, 2010

My mother-in-law was visiting a few weeks ago and she mentioned to me that she’d tried a baked chicken recipe from the side of a box of corn flake crumbs. They sell corn flake crumbs?? I guess it shouldn’t have surprised me. It’s no different from graham cracker crumbs and I’ve been buying those for [...]

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Chocolate Chunk Banana Bread

April 30, 2010

I’ve never been to a real family reunion, with the matching t-shirts and everything, but I kind of feel like I’m part of an ongoing one through Facebook these days. Cousins, aunts and uncles I haven’t seen in 10, 20 years or more are popping up on my “friends” list almost every day. I actually [...]

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Easter Brunch Ideas

March 31, 2010

As many of us are preparing our Easter brunch menus for this weekend, I thought I’d bring out the recipes for some of my favorite brunch dishes I’ve made on Cooking On the Side. ~ ~ ~ Sour Cream Pecan Coffee Cake If I didn’t already know that this Sour Cream Pecan Coffee Cake recipe [...]