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Posts tagged “breakfast”

What Should I Make for a Thanksgiving Brunch?
Good Questions

Q: My Mom and I want to prepare a Thanksgiving brunch for family that will be around in the morning for the holiday, but not at the traditional dinnertime. Does anyone have any tasty recipe ideas f...

Porridge for Breakfast: 5 Hot Cereals To Fill You Up

Mush, gruel, hot cereal — none of the names for this genre of breakfast dishes is very appealing. But that's OK; we all know the truth. Warm, creamy polenta, or nutty, pearly oats — they'r...

Old-Fashioned Breakfast: Biscuits with Milk and Sugar

Here's a really old-fashioned breakfast we have been savoring this week: slightly dry biscuits, warmed up, doused in milk with a sprinkle of sugar. It's warm, comforting, nursery-style food for cold m...

Creamy and Fluffy: How to Make the Best Scrambled Eggs

We honestly think we could eat scrambled eggs for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and be very happy. Ok, maybe not every day, but definitely more frequently than is probably good for us! But when you ea...

Fall Breakfasts: A Return to Steel-Cut Oats!

All summer long, we've been eating loads of fresh fruit with yogurt for breakfast. But now that mornings are starting to get chilly, we're feeling the need for change. This past weekend, we finished o...

Recipe: Baked Apple Streusel Pancake Bars

Have you ever mixed up a batch of pancake batter, (because they sounded so amazing 15 minutes earlier when you were in bed), only to find yourself in front of the stove, spatula in hand, thinking "I ...

On The Menu: Make French Toast This Weekend!

It feels like fall is sending us subliminal messages: "It might be the slightest bit chilly outside. Better huddle up and eat sugary carbs. You know you want to." And yes. Yes, we want to very much. F...

What's the Difference? Eggs Over Easy Vs. Sunny Side Up

In a much-loved episode of Reading Rainbow (now getting canceled, so sad!), LeVar Burton visits a diner and gets completely bamboozled by the colorful and confusing line cook lingo. We think of this s...

The Toddy Take On Iced Coffee

We've been talking a great deal about iced coffee lately, but it is after all a place where many of us spend extra cash, buying cold drinks at the coffee shop when it's actually easier and best of ...

Watch Out! Dangerously Addictive Olive Oil Granola
Recipe Review

A few weeks ago Melissa Clark had a recipe in her New York Times column that we knew we had to try: Homemade granola with pistachios, sunflower seeds, apricots — and a dose of silky, fragrant, s...

On Egg Salad (and Other Non-Traditional) Sandwiches for Breakfast

Whenever we go to our favorite bagel store in New York for breakfast, we skip right past the array of cream cheeses and order egg salad. Maybe it's a lunchtime food to you, but we think it's perfect p...

What Should I Make for a Vegetarian or Vegan Brunch?
Good Questions

Q: I was hoping for some advice from the devout vegetarians among your readers. I'm hosting a veggie friend (dairy no, but eggs yes) for brunch but have no idea about what to make. Do you have any s...

Recipe Review: Sour Cherry Coffee Cake from Lottie + Doof

We may have mentioned that we have ten pounds of sour cherries burning a hole in our fridge. We've been whittling away at them with weekend clafoutis, sour cherry pancakes and baked cherries with haze...

Classic Breakfast: Cottage Cheese with Peaches

We, along with many other kids, we're sure, used to eat a lot of canned pears with cottage cheese on top. It was one of those dishes you saw in cafeteria lines, which demeans its genius, really—swee...

The Best Waffle You'll Ever Eat: Gaufres de Liege
Guest Post from Chichi of My Chalkboard Fridge

Can you love a waffle so much that it becomes essentially impossible to do justice to its magnificence? The first time I tried Gaufres de Liege I was in Amsterdam, where the waffles must have migrate...

Great Idea! Granola with Olive Oil
The New York Times 7.10.09

Did you see Melissa Clark's most recent recipe in The New York Times: Olive Oil Granola With Dried Apricots and Pistachios? And if you did, did you swoon straight away like we did? ...

Good Question: Fast, Cheap and Healthy Breakfast Ideas?

Here's a great question from Nick, who asks: I eat breakfast at my desk at work. It usually consists of store-bought cereal, a cup of yogurt, or oatmeal from the cafeteria. But I'm bored with all that...

Egg Sandwich Survey: Fried or Scrambled?

We adore breakfast sandwiches with eggs. But up until last weekend, that invariably meant a fried egg. We hadn't ever even considered scrambled eggs on a sandwich. But then we ordered this scrumptious...

Breakfast Fun: Spell Things With Your Pancakes

Tired of round pancakes? Maybe even the standard chubby pancake man is losing his charm. Mix things up with pancake letters instead, like reader Jackie who sent us these cute photos of her own breakfa...

Quick Breakfast: Biotta Breakfast Juice

It seems like we get a question from a reader nearly every week on what to eat for breakfast. The constraints are always the same: fast, cheap, easy to grab on the way out the door. We generally recom...

What's Your Favorite Warm-Weather Breakfast?

We're not ones for elaborate breakfasts (which is why we've devoted quite a bit of space to grab-and-go recipes and things you can make ahead of time). This is even more true when the weather turns wa...

Good Question: An Impressive Dish with Fresh Eggs?

Here's one last good question for the week from Julia; we had to sneak this one in before the weekend! The farmers markets here in the Boston area are finally picking up, and I just bought some delici...

Eat Outside This Weekend: Five Outdoor Breakfasts

Do you love breakfast? How about weekend breakfast outdoors on the front stoop, the porch, or the back deck? What about brunch on the balcony, if you're so lucky as to have one? Here are five photos t...

Seasonal Treat: Strawberry Butter

Are you tired of our strawberry addiction yet? Well, they are about the only new, exciting thing at the markets in New York, so bear with us. Here's one more indulgence to whip up for breakfast this...

Sunday Morning Breakfast Brioche (With Chocolate)
Guest Post from Laura of What I Like

I am one of the biggest proponents of breakfast that you will ever find. I work two blocks from my apartment, and still get up two hours before I have to be at work in order to make a substantive brea...