Breakfast

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. ...

PoppySeed Pancakes with Lemon Curd Last night in our cooking class we made poppy seed pancakes with lemon curd.  It changed Hannah’s life.  Love how Weight Watchers friendly these recipes are! She LOVES lemon curd and had no idea that you could make it in the microwave in two minutes.  Pretty sure she’ll be making this every week.   My friend Vic is the person I...

My Grammy used to make the best zucchini bread.  I ask my Aunt Martha for the recipe. Guess what?  The original recipe calls for two cups of sugar AND 3/4 cup vegetable oil.  No wonder it was so good! How do you lighten up zucchini bread? Two things lightened up this zucchini bread recipe.  First, I reduced the oil to 1/4 cup and secondly, I...

These banana bacon pancakes are next level.  They are slightly sweet and have a hint of saltiness from the bacon.  So good! Buttermilk pancakes are the best, but what happens if you don’t have any on hand? How do you make buttermilk if you don’t have any? You simply have to add a tablespoon of any type of vinegar to one cup of any type...

These buttermilk blueberry muffins taste like coffee cake and I am not mad about that! Per usual, by the end of the week my fridge is looking a bit bare.  My Mom brought me blueberries last week. Buttermilk was also in my fridge and shockingly not expired – whoop! Shout out to Twig & Lace for the cute coffee stir – she has TONS of...

You guys are going to love these Starbucks Copycat Sous Vide Bites! When my late husband was going in and out of the hospital, eating on the go was crucial. So many followers at the time sent me Starbuck’s gift cards to pick up coffee and/or food and at one point I think I had over $400 to spend.   The protein box was one of...

I woke up today with a taste for coffee cake.  And these blueberry coffee cake muffins taste just like it! The blueberries I bought last week were on the sour side.  By adding them to these sweet muffins, it was the perfect sweet/tart combo. Can you use anything other than regular sugar? Lately I’ve been steering away from artificial sweeteners.  If you’ve been following me...