Breakfast

Using your starter: sourdough banana bread

Using your starter: sourdough banana bread

Bananas rarely last long enough in our household for me to make banana bread. More often, they’ve been gobbled up for an after run or after school snack, or I’ve frozen them to be tossed into smoothies. This past week, I bought a bunch of […]

Hands off, pot-in-pot Instant Pot steel cut oats

Hands off, pot-in-pot Instant Pot steel cut oats

Steel cut oatmeal is the best kind of oatmeal. I’ll fight you on it. I like regular rolled oats just fine, but the nubby little grains making up a bowl of warm, milky steel cut oats make a morning special. I didn’t grow up eating […]

Using your starter: sourdough quick bread

Using your starter: sourdough quick bread

Dinner becomes extra comforting when there is a loaf of fresh bread at the table. Indeed, sometimes it is the only part of the meal my kids will eat, and when I’ve made it myself, it doesn’t seem like such a bad option. We almost […]

Make this delicious granola and you can be smug all week: Raisin Pecan Granola

Make this delicious granola and you can be smug all week: Raisin Pecan Granola

Store-bought granola almost always underwhelms. It’s often doctored up with things that I do not want in my breakfast (peanuts, coconut, chocolate, dried tropical fruits), or so sweet it overwhelms any other flavors at breakfast. I also find much of it to be chalky, almost […]