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Posts tagged “breakfast”

Flickr Find: Glazed Pumpkin Scones

After seeing these scones while browsing Flickr, we went looking for recipes—but, surprisingly, they weren't easy to come by. See two we found, below, with a tip on how to get that spice-flecked gla...

Why Not? Eating Fruit Desserts for Breakfast

There are certain dishes that are even better the next day—sometimes cold, right out of the fridge. We think pies and cobblers are squarely in that corner, and we're not ashamed to say we eat them f...

Summer-to-Fall Breakfast: Oatmeal with Peaches

We're not sure how we feel about the pepper on top of this dish (what do you think?), but we were drawn to this image because it represents the changing of the seasons: Fresh, late summer peaches over...

Flickr Find: Monday Morning Smoothie

We don't make smoothies enough. We occasionally buy them from a smoothie store, then take a sip and realize we could make something even better at home. And after a lazy weekend of eating, this is the...

Easy Weekend Breakfast: Corn and Eggs

There are so many things you can do with summer corn, but if you haven't thought about eating it for breakfast, let us persuade you... ...

Escaping This Weekend? Bring Some Homemade Granola

This summer, most of our trips out of town have been quick, 48-hour jaunts here and there — usually as (very grateful) moochers of friends with beach houses. We try to bring a little gift, plus so...

Weekend Meditation: Mornings, with Breakfast

When I wrote about Sundays last week, I realized afterward that the most important thing to me was in fact Sunday morning. And in particular, my favorite meal: breakfast. There is something very so...

Weekend Meditation: Sundays

Sunday morning means staying in bed as long as possible with the New York Times, a pot of strong Assam tea and warmed-up whole milk precariously balanced on the night table. This is after sleeping in...

Monday Breakfast: How Do You Start Off Your Week?

As we sprinkled cinnamon over our cottage cheese and fruit this morning and reminisced about the weekend, we were struck by how differently we eat on weekdays and weekends. No matter how (or what or ...

My Very Local Breakfast with Rouge et Noir Breakfast Cheese

I had a splendid breakfast this morning made even more enjoyable by the fact that, with the exception of the tea, everything came from near-by farms and businesses. It was a simple meal: just some o...

Weekend Cooking: What's Your Favorite Breakfast Sandwich?

When we're cooking breakfast for two or more, we turn to crowd-pleasing egg dishes like casseroles, stratas and breakfast pizza. But when it's just us, and we're craving something hearty and simple, n...

Inspiration: The Breakfast Manifesto

As we've told you before, we're always looking for breakfast inspiration, and ways to make the most perfunctory meal of the day more interesting. That's why we were thrilled to get New York Magazine'...

Recipe: Egg, Arugula, and Herb Tartine

A tartine is really just a fancy name for an open-faced sandwich. It sounds so much more elegant than sandwich, doesn't it? It seems fitting for this impromptu lunch we had this week. We were pressed ...

Passover Breakfasts

Some people think that breakfast is the easiest meal during Passover, content to have an excuse to eat deliciously rich matzah brei every day. But for those of us used to having a simple dish of toa...

Simple Pleasures: Ricotta with Honey and Fruit

On the morning of Easter Sunday, there won't be any slaving over a hot stove. There'll be no worrying about whether the eggs will poach properly, or how to have half-a-dozen omelets hot at once. Inste...

Inspiration: Simply Breakfast

A few weeks ago, when a friend sent us a link to Jen Causey's photo blog, Simply Breakfast, we didn't totally understand it. As the title suggests, each day she posts a photograph of her breakfast. S...

Recipe: How to Make Hollandaise Sauce

During the week, I'm often too busy to cook breakfast, but as the weekend approaches, I start making mental menus for Saturday and Sunday morning. Freshly brewed coffee, fruit salad, toast with jam, ...

Flickr Find: Coconut Cream Scones

Photo by Flickr member mars! We were taken with this step-by-step photo recipe for scones at Flickr. ...

Doing More With Less: The Bagel and Lox Edition

We've tackled the problem of rising food costs in the past and you've come up with great suggestions like these for how to keep your own kitchen up to restaurant standards without paying restaurant ...

Recipe: "Ham and Cheese" Breakfast Casserole

We ate a lot of breakfast casseroles growing up. Any time there was a crowd to be fed before noon, this baked dish of egg, sausage, cheese, and day-old bread would appear. And yet, as adults, we've ...

Recipe: Easy Ethereal Popovers

At the risk of waxing overly rhapsodic, popovers might just be the ideal winter food. In spite of their reputation as fickle and disaster-prone, these quick breads couldn't be simpler to make - and...

Recipe: The Merritt Parkway Breakfast Sandwich

It is universally true for all cuisines and palates that the combination of carbohydrates and fat produces the most delicious food. The breakfast sandwich, once placed on menus for those who'd self-...

What's For Breakfast? Irish Oatmeal

Coffee, chocolate, baking... OK, but what's for breakfast? We gave our sweet tooth a rest today and had a bowl of Irish oatmeal for breakfast. Irish oatmeal, or steel cut oats are oats that haven't ...

Goes Well With Coffee: Bacon and Eggs

Why does coffee go so well with bacon and eggs? We most often think of coffee as a drink to be paired with something sweet, but then we have a cup with a hearty breakfast, like this recipe from Bon ...

Goes Well With Coffee: Coffee Cake

No - really! Well, we felt there's no harm in stating the obvious. Coffee cake - it goes well with coffee. But we couldn't decide on just one... ...