Olympus Honey Bread

Here is our ancient Greek sweet pizza, which we made from the sweet ingredients we didn’t feel we could include on our dinner pizza on the first stop in pizza history.

Sharon’s Egg Bake

A dear lady in my Bible study brought this classic egg dish to a recent brunch, and it was so delicious that I asked her for the recipe.  She graciously shared it with me–it’s a winner for brunches and potlucks.

Cardamom cream cheese peach braid

There are times when I make things that require precision and measurements, a certain faithfulness to a recipe. Then there are the times when I walk into the kitchen, poke through the fridge and the pantry, and a sort of happy accident occurs. This bread was a happy accident.
One night last week, I needed to [...]

Eggs Hussarde

My father-in-law is an excellent cook, and it is something of a family tradition that he gets up early on Christmas morning and makes something wonderful for the family breakfast (which is often a separate affair from Christmas dinner!) My favorite of his Christmas morning offerings has always been Eggs Hussarde. We are [...]

Swedish Rice Custard (Rice Pudding)

I was at a church potluck last week for the last-meeting-before-Christmas of our women’s Bible study. A sign-up sheet had been passed around in each small group, with opportunities to bring things like “egg dish”, or “some kind of bread”. There was a line for “non-egg hot dish”. I assumed that these [...]

Christmas Baking!

The month before Christmas is the best time of the year for baking, in our opinion. There are so many baked goods that are part of this time of year! The fragrance of cinnamon and bread and cookies wafting through the house is an important part of what makes it FEEL like Christmas! There are [...]

Can we count pumpkin pie as a vegetable?

Why yes, I think we can. And we all know that vegetables are good for us.
This morning, I caught my smallest son redhanded in the kitchen, eating pumpkin pie for breakfast. He immediately assured me that this is Thanksgiving WEEK…thus making a pumpkin pie breakfast perfectly appropriate.
Barb

Amazing Raisin Pineapple Zucchini Bran Muffins

I was just playing around in the kitchen this morning and ended up making dozens and dozens of muffins–a happy accident. I actually merged and tweaked a couple of recipes and ended up with these muffins. They’re so moist and rich they don’t need butter or anything. They were delicious, hot out of the oven. [...]

Fast breakfast or dinner: Strata

“Strata” is the Italian word for layers. And this dinner, which I made the other night in the face of a Severe Imagination Shortage, employs layers, sort of.  It was easy as pie, and took me, I think, about 30 minutes from start to finish.  Here’s what I did:

Chilaquiles: a new adventure in Mexican food!

To explain why I tried this dish tonight, I have to back up about 3 weeks and tell you about a night when our friend Nicole showed up at our back door, (which she frequently does) bearing a leftover box from dinner. In the box was something called chilaquiles (say “chee-lah-KEE-lace”). Kirk and I greedily [...]