From the category archives:

Breakfasts

Purple Prairie Barley Muffins

by Laura 4 February 2011

This beautiful violaceous heirloom grain caught my eye at the co-op yesterday, so I picked up a bag and decided to grind it into flour and turn it into a batch of muffins. I think I was channeling my Honey Girl, because I improvised a baking recipe. I took the lovely lavender flour and added [...]

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Bostock

by Laura 2 February 2011

When my Honey Girl was home for her long winter break, we went to Rustica, our favorite bakery in Minneapolis. If you’re ever in Minnesota, it’s a must-stop, the kind of place that makes you wake up, shake a bit, and utter your equivalent of Jenkies. This is a bakery with some serious magic; the [...]

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Sugar-dipped Coconut Doughnuts

by Laura 26 January 2011

Our Honey Girl loves doughnuts. So on one of her last days home, we made these doughnuts together. These meet at the intersection of carnival food and slice of cake. They are tender on the inside and moist from the flaked coconut, and their exteriors are just a touch crunchy like a good old-fashioned doughnut [...]

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Butter Crumb Coffee Cake

by Laura 29 December 2010

A few years ago, my Honey Girl and I had a conversation about the sad state of coffee cake. Coffee cake, we mused, is one of those things that we order and bake with high hopes, but it always seems to be a disappointment. It is either too sweet or too plain and often dry. [...]

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Irish Oatmeal with Cream, Kerrygold Butter, Celtic Salt, Warm Celtic Crossing Liqueur-soaked Golden Raisins, and Toasted Walnuts

by Laura 7 December 2010

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We had house guests this weekend and I was trying to think of something to cook for them for breakfast Saturday morning. Sandwiched between rich, heavy meals, I wanted something healthy-ish that would be delicious. I settled on oatmeal, and laid out these accoutrements. It was a comforting bowl on a wintry morning: creamy oats, [...]

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Almond Danish Kugelhopf

by Laura 4 December 2010

Making puff pastry is no picnic. The butter has to be the same temperature as the dough. You have to be pretty stellar with a rolling pin. And, at least for me until I’m more practiced, it’s not always a pretty picture. This recipe uses a fake-out puff pastry, which you make by leaving bean-sized [...]

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A Virtuous Smoothie

by Laura 26 November 2010

I have a master’s degree in nutrition, though you wouldn’t guess it from the content of this site. I suppose I assume that most people don’t get too excited about recipes for seaweed salads and kale. But after a day of button-popping indulgence, perhaps this virtuous berry banana smoothie will be appealing. I make one [...]

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