Valentine’s Day is supposed to be a day to celebrate love. But showing loved ones you care needn’t mean showering them with chocolate, roses, and other pink and red items. (Not that I’d object to any of those, so long as those chocolate truffles aren’t Walgreens-quality.) And Valentine’s Day shouldn’t be the only day you [...]
breakfast, brunch
Pizza Dough Cinnamon Rolls Makes 2 6-inch pans (about 12 mini rolls 2 inches in diameter and 1 inch deep) 1 package Whole Foods fresh pizza dough (about the size of a softball) 8 Tbsp. butter, divided and softened 1/4 c. sugar 2 Tbsp. ground cinnamon 1/2 tsp. salt flour for rolling out dough Remove [...]
If I had known breakfast could taste like a berry-vanilla milkshake, I would never have become a Pop-Tarts fanatic in elementary and middle school or a Cocoa Krispies junkie in high school or a leftover-pizza-for-breakfast snarfer in college. And that’s not even taking into account how quick and easy this smoothie is, much less the [...]
Ripe, fresh farmers market strawberries. Dark chocolate chips. Basic, not-too-sweet buttermilk muffin batter. Put them all together and voilà! You’ve got cake (or a muffin, if you choose that pan) that’s perfectly appropriate for a breakfast or brunch. And did I mention that it’s pretty? Because it is. Beautiful, in fact. Generally, I’m a taste-over-form [...]
Brunch is without a doubt my favorite meal, not just because it offers an array of delicious food but also because it has a certain ad hoc quality that most meals lack. While I love a complicated recipe that requires exact measurements, there’s something almost magical about a meal that comes together without any real [...]
