Breakfast

Cold brew is the coffee I make most in my kitchen, especially in warm weather. It is incredibly smooth, naturally a little sweet and never bitter, and making it at home takes about 5 minutes of actual work. You just stir coarse coffee and cold water together in a jar, leave it overnight, then strain…

I drink iced coffee almost every day from spring until late fall, and for years I spent way too much money on it at coffee shops. When I first tried making it at home, it came out weak, watery and a little bitter. After a lot of testing, I figured out the simple tricks that…

If you have ever picked the crumbs off the top of a coffee cake and left the rest, this recipe is for you. My coffee cake has a soft, buttery sour cream cake, a ribbon of cinnamon sugar through the middle, and a thick layer of big crunchy streusel on top. There is almost as…

Monkey bread is pure joy on a plate. Soft little balls of dough rolled in cinnamon sugar, baked in a bundt pan with a buttery brown sugar caramel, then flipped out into a sticky, glossy ring that everyone pulls apart with their fingers. My family makes it every Christmas morning and on birthdays, and it…

The first chilly morning of fall is always pumpkin bread day in my kitchen. There is nothing cozier than the smell of pumpkin, cinnamon and nutmeg filling the house while the rain taps on the window. This pumpkin bread is incredibly moist, perfectly spiced and has a tender crumb with a slightly crackly top. It…

I always have a batch of breakfast muffins in my freezer. They are my answer to busy school mornings, quick snacks and those days when I need breakfast in the car. These muffins are soft, moist and lightly sweet, made with oats, Greek yogurt and banana, so they actually keep you full instead of tasting…

Pizza for breakfast always makes my kids cheer, and honestly, it makes me pretty happy too. This breakfast pizza has a crispy golden crust, a creamy garlic sauce instead of tomato, lots of melty cheese, crumbled sausage, crispy bacon and eggs baked right on top. It is the recipe I pull out for slow Saturday…

A few years ago I would never have put cottage cheese on my breakfast table. I thought of it as bland diet food. Then I started looking for easy ways to eat more protein in the morning, and cottage cheese completely changed my breakfasts. It blends into creamy pancakes, bakes into fluffy eggs, turns into…

Crispy breakfast potatoes are the side dish that makes any breakfast feel like a diner brunch. Golden, crunchy edges, soft fluffy centers, and plenty of garlic, paprika and herbs. I make a big pan of these almost every weekend, and they disappear before the eggs are even finished. For a long time mine came out…

Breakfast burritos saved my weekday mornings. Before I started making them, breakfast was usually a granola bar eaten in the car. Now I spend about an hour on Sunday rolling a big batch, and every morning I just grab one from the freezer and heat it up in 2 minutes. They are packed with fluffy…