Category: Breakfast

Serendipitous Cherry Smoothie

pouring

Last week, fate left a paper bag filled with cherries on our counter.  Well, actually it was a friend who came for dinner.  We’d intended to eat the cherries for dessert, but ended up being too full to even consider it, so they sat on the counter, unloved, for several days.  By the time I… more

French toast stuffed with love… and cream cheese

Stuffed French Toast

I went home to visit my mother this past weekend, partly because of a journalism awards dinner in Milwaukee and partly because it was Mother’s Day and I know my mom would love to see me. Unfortunately, the boyfriend had to get back to Madison to work by Sunday afternoon, so I only had a… more

Little Love Muffins

large love muffins

I realized recently that my breakfast opus of a few months ago made the inexcusable mistake of omitting one of the greatest all-time breakfast foods: muffins! These muffins strike the perfect balance between the zippy, chewy tartness of the apricots combined with the deep richness of dark muscovado sugar, while the toasted wheat germ makes you feel good about yourself, but not too good. more

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