Breakfast

August 13, 2019 - Cranberry Orange Pecan Muffins

These are hands-down my favorite muffins–the flavor combination is spectacular, though if you don’t want to use pecans, you can leave them out. If you must. Before making these, be sure to check out My Top 10 Muffin Hacks and also see How to Zest the Best Lemon (or orange!). In my Muffin Hacks post,...
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September 23, 2016 - Maple-Bacon Corn Muffins

I’m particularly excited about cornmeal lately after acquiring a new stash of the freshly stone-ground gold from my cousin Mark. He runs the cornmeal grinding exhibit at the Mountain State Art and Craft fair in Ripley every year, and I was there helping out at the sales table last weekend. He grinds the corn fresh...
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January 6, 2016 - Iced Orange Rolls

I had a box and a half of oranges recently, so I’ve been making a lot out of oranges. I made pints and pints of orange marmalade, juiced quite a few oranges, and then started baking with them. These iced orange rolls are easy–and have been a big hit. I gave pans of them as...
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August 25, 2015 - High End Toast

The other day, my friend Jerry sent me a link to an article about the high end toast scene. He knows I’m interested in bread and baking and odd food news. What is the high end toast scene? Well, apparently, toast is quite the fancy item these days in cities like San Francisco where people...
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August 4, 2015 - Homemade Tudor’s Biscuits

I’ve been making biscuits since I was nine years old, and I make good biscuits! Just ask my workshop attendees! They come sneaking back to the table to grab just one more when I start putting breakfast away so we can go milking. The type of biscuits I make come from my Oklahoma grandmother. My...
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May 7, 2015 - Very Blueberry and Lemon Muffins

I made muffins this morning. Very blueberry and very lemon muffins! Something about spring always makes me want lemon. It just adds a special tart freshness, especially in muffins–blueberry muffins! My very favorite way to make blueberry muffins includes real (not from the bottle!) lemon juice, fresh-grated lemon zest, and extra blueberries. Because what’s the...
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February 13, 2015 - Get Your Homemade Honey Buns Here!

Honey buns, from that store thing. That’s two different brands of store-bought honey buns. Honey buns are sort of like flat sweet rolls with an iced honey drizzle. You could bake them (try 350-degrees, until nicely browned) but they’re truly more of a fried pastry in texture, like a yeast doughnut. I started analyzing this...
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February 3, 2015 - Decadent Cheesecake Breakfast Puffs

I’ve been making these simple little breakfast puffs for years. Breakfast puffs are basically very rich muffins. Then I got the idea, why not make cheesecake breakfast puffs? Because what isn’t better with cream cheese? I really wasn’t sure this would work out when I started, but it did. They turned out delicious. And incredibly...
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January 22, 2015 - Whole Grain Waffles

When I was growing up, waffles were something we got out of a box in the freezer. My mom made a lot of pancakes, but never waffles. She didn’t have a waffle maker. I never had one either until fairly recently. Morgan loves pancakes, and it’s one of her most requested breakfasts, so I decided...
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January 13, 2015 - Country Bean Cakes

A pot o’ beans. I was talking food with my hired men one day recently and one of them mentioned their mother making bean cakes. Because I’m quirky like that about obscure back country recipes, I was completely struck by “bean cakes” and had to grill him to the ground about what exactly this bean...
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January 13, 2014 - Berry Granola Crunch Bars

Originally, I saw these bars on a local TV cooking show. I make a loose granola pretty often to put on cereal or yogurt, but sometimes a pick-up-and-go bar is even easier, so I decided to give them a try. Of course, I had to change them up to suit myself–and so can you! I...
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June 7, 2013 - Peanut Butter Cookie Muffins

I’ve been back to baking more lately with Weston home and a male mouth to feed in the house. Morgan and I don’t do too good at going through baking efforts–every time I make cookies, most of them go to school with her. We love peanut butter cookies here, and these muffins taste like peanut...
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October 26, 2012 - Apple Butter Muffins

This is the time of year when everybody has apple butter. I’ve been experimenting with some apple butter muffins (which I’ll be serving at next Saturday’s workshop breakfast), and here are my results. I’m pretty sure these are the best apple butter muffins ever, but maybe you should test it to be sure! Let me...
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October 31, 2011 - Frittering

When I was a kid, I had a thing for corn fritters. I was excited any time my mother was going to make corn fritters with dinner, and due to my unnatural fritter enthusiasm, making the corn fritters eventually became my job. So let that teach you a lesson! I’m just kidding. Corn fritters are...
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July 14, 2011 - Morning Cocoa Rolls

I made up this cocoa sweet rolls recipe the other day when I was working on recipe ideas that will be used at the CITR Retreat in breadbaking classes. (If you’re coming to the retreat, you will be either making these or eating these or BOTH!) Attendees in the bread classes will be making several...
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May 4, 2011 - Cooking with Grits

I had, hands down, the best grits I’ve ever tasted recently in South Carolina at a restaurant called Charleston Crab House. Fried oysters at Charleston Crab House–with awesome grits on the side. This photo doesn’t do these grits justice. These are the grits of the gods. And so, before leaving the restaurant, I tackled the...
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March 28, 2011 - Mulling Spice Muffins

It’s cold, and it’s not supposed to be cold. IT’S SPRING. What is that about??? If it’s going to feel like Christmas, we might as well have a treat. I have a recipe for mulling spice cookies (anyone interested in that?), but I wasn’t in a cookie mood. I was in a muffin mood, so...
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March 10, 2011 - Making Your Own Cereal Mixes

I’ve been on a homemade granola kick lately, and because one thing leads to another, one day when I didn’t have enough yogurt, I just poured milk over it. Hello, I have invented cereal! Okay, not really, I think someone else invented it, but I’m not sure who. They were a genius because cereal is...
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November 4, 2010 - Hot Cocoa Bread

This is a bread I made up for Morgan because she loves hot cocoa so much. As soon as the first cold day hits, she is pulling out the hot cocoa and piling on the marshmallows. She is a hot cocoa lover, and has been since she was a little girl and it snowed one...
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August 4, 2010 - Sweet-Milk Doughnuts

I love old cookbooks because they are almost always a challenge. Over-run with teenage girls enjoying their last few weeks of summertime to play and eat and eat and EAT, I whipped out my great-grandmother’s 1927 Butterick Book of Recipes and Household Hints to make some quick doughnuts. Because the girls couldn’t wait for doughnuts...
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July 15, 2010 - Making Lemon Curd

Lemon curd is an old-time treat that was traditionally served with biscuits or toast. It also finds its way into tarts (and other small pastries), pies, and even cakes. Lemon meringue pie is basically lemon curd in a pie shell. Lemon curd is a very simple concoction of sugar, lemon juice, eggs (sometimes just the...
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June 18, 2010 - Chocolate Croissants

Make chocolate croissants! This is an quick, easy, and fun breakfast treat whether you go homemade all the way or take a short cut. I first came across the idea in a forum post here and immediately started thinking about homemade croissants instead of canned crescent rolls. To go homemade all the way, make up...
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May 20, 2010 - Have Your Tea and Eat Your Muffin, Too

After hearing all sorts of talk about tea bread lately, I’ve been having a hankering to try it myself. The concept of tea bread is simple–replace the water in any recipe with tea. If I was a normal person, I would just make a loaf of Grandmother Bread with tea instead of water, but I...
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April 4, 2010 - Maple Sticky Buns

Need a maple sticky bun? Of course you do. And, of course, you begin with Grandmother Bread. These maple sticky buns use the one-loaf standard recipe with oil and egg added. You can let these buns rise and bake them right away, or let them rise overnight in the fridge for a make-ahead easy breakfast!...
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March 13, 2010 - Strawberries & Cream Coffee Cake

This past weekend, I came into 16 pounds of fresh, delectable strawberries. (From Florida. We’re still a couple months off strawberry season here.) I made a list of things to can right away. Strawberry syrup! Strawberry-lemon marmalade! A spring conserve with strawberries, pineapple, raisins, and nuts! Oh, the fun! What was left over, I put...
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October 28, 2009 - Homemade Yogurt in a Crock Pot (and Yogurt Cheese)

To make yogurt, you need milk and yogurt starter, which you can buy from a cheesemaking supply house, or you can simply use store-bought plain yogurt as a starter. I’ve looked into several different recipes for making yogurt at home, but I’m in love with this yogurt in a crock pot method. (The optional dry...
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October 15, 2009 - For the Love of Cheesy Sausage Corn Muffins

Easy comfort food! Cheesy Sausage Muffins are one of my favorite things. They go great with a pot of beans or a bowl of baked potato soup not to mention breakfast. Or a snack. Or for no good reason at all. Just for the love. See how I make my cornbread and find my homemade...
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October 5, 2009 - Winter Squash Muffins

I have bunches of squash these days and I’ve had a hankering since the other day to make these squash muffins. I ended up making a few changes, starting with switching it to a Quick Mix recipe, among other things. You can use any winter squash in this recipe. I used butternut here. To prepare...
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