We have pancakes most every weekend when the kids are around. In fact, it’s my kids who are the experts in whipping up stacks of pancakes. They usually get the process underway before I’m awake. This is a good thing, because you never know if the coffee will wake me up enough to cook. They…
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Fresh Blueberry Almond Coffee Cake
Fresh Blueberry Almond Coffee Cake is a favorite One of my favorite cookbooks is from the Grant Corner Inn in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I never visited the inn, but a very kind restauranteur named Doris gave me a copy of their cookbook. The little comb-bound book is very tattered and worn, and I have…
Oatmeal Pancakes with Pears and Vanilla Cream
For the most part, I try to keep recipes simple, as complicated recipes never make it to my table. But my son has been coming home on the weekends, and he is so full of creative energy in the kitchen, that I thought I would share one of his recipes. One of his favorite place…
Sour Cream Biscuits with Candied Pecans
Biscuits are not been my favorite, although my husband really loves them. He will whip up a batch at the drop of a hat and freeze them for later toasting. We have a bad habit of toasting inappropriate breads in the toaster. Things that get stuck, like biscuits. Or hot dog buns. Inevitably, we have…
Home Cured Pork Belly for Amazing Bacon
MMM…Bacon… There are few things in life as splendid as bacon. If your diet allows pork, eating bacon is one of the most primal, aboriginal pleasures a human can enjoy, right up there with sneezing, sex, and laying on the beach, listening to the waves crash. If you don’t eat pork, I apologize for this…