Breakfast

Over the weekend I found a lone can of pumpkin in the back of my pantry.  Since it still feels like fall around here, I decided to make me and my boss pumpkin buttermilk pancakes. I really, really loved how these came out.  While my boss loves all things sweet for breakfast, me?  Not so much.  These had just the right amount of sweetness since...

Poor Tony.  On mornings when I am running short on time, the kitchen looks like a mini tornado went through it.  I have no idea how I didn’t hear my alarm – I know I switched it from a CD to wake me up to the radio, but it was the same time.  All I know is that I had to pick up pies for...

It was so nice having a three day weekend last weekend.  I feel just that extra day makes all the difference.  I’ve been trying to make granola clusters forever.  While Nicole’s granola is still delicious, it didn’t clump together as much as I wanted.  While I don’t mind “loose” granola for parfaits, sometimes I just like to snack on it, and it makes it difficult...

So we’ve made it to Friday – woot!  I actually have Monday off and next Friday off for Good Friday, so next week will be a nice 3 day work week – gotta love when that happens! Doesn’t everyone wake up an hour before having to leave work and decide to make muffins?  Yep, that was me.  7:00 a.m.  I usually have an iced coffee...

Thanks for all your comments yesterday after I “came clean” about my over eating over the weekend.  It’s nice to know that I am not alone, but it also helped me be more conscious of my eating yesterday. Helen pointed out that just because I didn’t get on the scale, doesn’t mean that I didn’t overeat.  So on my “do over” post on February 11...

Over the weekend I stumbled across a recipe for a zucchini tart that had a crust with Greek yogurt in it.  I was immediately intrigued!  This does take a bit of planning because like most crusts, you need to refrigerate it for at least an hour. I ended up making the dough on Sunday, and yesterday morning I put the quiche together.  I was planning...

I am making breakfast for one of my bossed three days a week.  While she does pretty good with healthy lunches and dinners, breakfast just stumps her.  Other than yogurt and some fruit. she can’t wrap her brain around eating “real” food, i.e. non-diet food for breakfast. Enter the breakfast wonton.  I love wonton  wrappers.  My store normally sells them for .99 cents.  I use...

Friday night we still had temperatures in the 50’s before we went to bed.  It felt more like April than January.  But winter finally reared its ugly head, and we were blanketed in ice. We don’t have a garage, so it took me about 20 minutes to defrost the car before I could drive anywhere! Saturday morning Tony me another one of his delicious breakfasts. ...

Guess what time I woke up both Saturday AND Sunday?  8:00 a.m.!!  This is unheard of for me.  Weekends it’s not unusual for me to get up and around any earlier than 10:30! But, I liked it.  The house was quiet.  Tony was sleeping.  The dog woke up with me and after going outside for a while, slept at my feet while I did some...

My boss is an admitted granola whore.  She knows it and I know it.  A couple weeks ago I made a granola recipe that we both felt could garner the title “crack granola” because we both couldn’t stop eating it.  Then I promptly lost my recipe. So I keep trying new granola recipes.  This recipe caught my eye because its unlike any other granola I’ve...