Breakfast

These mini pumpkin chocolate chip muffins make a great breakfast and are perfect for meal prep. Once I posted these on Instagram, the question I got most was “I don’t have mini loaf pans – can I make it into a bigger loaf?”  I have no idea – I actually don’t think it would be enough to fill a regular loaf pan.  These mini loaf...

Potato and Sausage Frittata This potato and sausage frittata is a great meal prep recipe AND a great way to use up veggies at the end of the week. Do you make a frittata in the oven or on the stovetop? You can do either method, but I prefer the oven method.  It’s kind of like “set it and forget it.”  I used baby spinach...

Who doesn’t love a jumbo muffin?  These Jumbo Banana Ginger Muffins are great for meal prep for the week. The star of these muffins is the Safe + Fair Gingerbread Cooking granola.  Right now they are on sale – the combo of the Gingerbread Cookie and Chocolate Candy Cane are bundled for only $11.00 for both.  Use my discount Biz20 at Safe + Fair and...

Chia Cottage Cheese Pancakes These chia cottage cheese pancakes are so light and fluffy.  Best part is that you probably already have the ingredients on hand! My mantra last year was to waste less.  I’ve decided to start out my new year using up ingredients that I have on hand.  A quick look of my pantry and fridge, I found chia seeds, oats and cottage...

These hazelnut and dried cherry biscotti will be a hit at your next brunch, or great for gift giving! One of the first baking recipes on my blog was from October 2008 was a pistachio and dried cranberry biscotti.  I remember walking through my yard looking for a garnish (why?!) and landed on a branch from my pine tree, because doesn’t that go perfectly with...

Waking up this Sunday morning I had a taste for both pancakes and muffins.  So I decided to make banana pumpkin pancake muffins! How do you get muffin tops? The secret to getting a muffin top is baking the muffins at 425 for the first five minutes.  I used to bake the muffins at 425 the whole time, but I found that the muffins weren’t...

While I am usually team savory for breakfast, I would have to say my favorite breakfast food is pancakes.  Here is the Top 10 Pancake Recipes on my blog. In no particular order: Cottage Cheese Blueberry Pancakes Pinky swear that you won’t be able to taste the cottage cheese.  It adds protein to these pancakes which make them super filling.  You can find the recipe...

These delicata squash pancakes with bacon will be your new favorite pancake.  Fluffy, slightly sweet and delicious! How do you make pancakes fluffy? Letting your pancake batter sit is the magic to fluffy pancakes.  My suggestion is a minimum of 30 minutes – believe me it will make all the difference in how fluffy your pancakes are. How do you cook delicata squash in the...

Sneaking vegetables into your diet is easy with this pumpkin pancake recipe! Recently I met with a nutritionist.  First, she wanted me to track my grams of sugar each day, which was around 20 grams per day (a little higher if I ate more fruit).  Secondly she suggested that I eat more vegetables.  I know I am not alone in this problem, so I’ve been...

These banana oat pancakes could not be easier to make.  The blender does all the work! How do you make fluffy oat pancakes? My friend Erica is the QUEEN of banana pancakes.  She uses one banana, one egg and a pinch of salt.  My first question to her was “where is the baking powder?”  That is the secret to fluffy pancakes with our without flour. ...