Breakfast Stuff

What the ever-loving heck happened to November?! Well, I hope you had a good one. I guess I’ve had a busy one. Thanksgiving is over and hopefully yours was filled with being surrounded by the delicious food and companionship that you most desire, whatever form…

There were a few snowflakes swirling around in the air over the weekend and there was a definite frost on the ground yesterday. I’m a big fan of seasonal baking/cooking and all this means that I am using apples and pumpkins and cranberries every chance…

I could say I invented these Cinna-Plum Muffins but that would be a lie. I took a very established recipe for plum cake and put it into muffin shape. I used bit more cinnamon and sugar than called for but other than that, I changed…

I know, I only just announced that I was going to focus on gooey, stuffed, iced, sweet breakfast baking and I’m interrupting this plan already. I get sidetracked easily when I’m poring over cookbooks. But this recipe is too good not to share. It’s simple…

The reality of baking for inn guests is that, if I’d wanted to, I could have pretty much made the same two breakfasts over and over and over. Most guests only stayed for one or two nights. We did have a number of repeat guests…

That time of year is almost here, that delicious, unrelenting, ZUCCHINI time of year. I have vivid memories of having to turn neighbors away at the back door of the inn on certain high yield years. At least one year we had a person-high stack…

I should have seen this magical combination coming in my life. I’ve loved blueberries since I could eat solid food. I have a thing for rhubarb. Blueberry Rhubarb. Blubarb. (On the flip side, if spellcheck turns this into ‘Blurb’ one more time, I might lose my…