Pancakes are usually made when we have the time to linger over breakfast (a rarity on a farm), have houseguests, or if it just happens to be a rainy Saturday. We’ll make extra, to be enjoyed cold with a bit of jam, as a mid-afternoon treat. My pleasure in making these is the fact that…
Category: Breakfast
Porridge
It may seem like a simple recipe, however, it is a reminder of how we can easily make the right choices when it comes to eating. A bowl of porridge will feed you well to make it through the morning, with a wholesome whole grain that has saved populations from starvation, and only takes a…
Dutch Baby
For a few summers when in my teens, I was fortunate to be taken along to the Okanagan for a few weeks to babysit. Besides spending hours on the beach and boating, I soon took over the morning breakfast ritual. Out behind their cabin was a wood oven with a ¾” sheet of steel for…
Potato Crusted Quiche
I’ve been methodically going through my cooking files. Everything is kept in legal sized hanging files, where I can jot things down on the folders themselves, such as cookbooks that offer a recipe that I use often, idea notes can be tossed in indiscriminately to a parent file. I moved away from a recipe card…
Parmesan & Bacon Strata with Spinach
This is my very favourite Strata. To be honest I’ve never been a fan of Stratas in general. Ones I’ve had in the past tend to have too much cheese, too much sausage, and left me feeling overfull. To fix this, I thought it best to figure out the right ratio of bread, egg, &…
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