When planning your Thanksgiving menu, you may find yourself trying to decide between biscuits or cornbread. Well here is your answer. These cornmeal biscuits are the perfect compromise between the two. The texture is not as grainy as some cornbread, with an almost “creamy” quality. Paired with honey butter, or cinnamon-honey butter (my personal favorite),...
Breakfast
Soufflé Au Fromage (Cheese Soufflé)
Oh my. Where to begin? I had no idea what to expect when I embarked up the creation of my first cheese soufflé. Not just any cheese soufflé...Julia Child's Cheese Soufflé. I have desperately wanted to make a chocolate soufflé for quite a while now, but wanted to wait until I had a proper charlotte mold...
Leek and Gruyere Rosti with Fried Eggs
For my birthday weekend at the cabin, we cooked up all sorts of delicious meals from my new Gordon Ramsay's Home Cooking cookbook. We very much enjoyed this breakfast on a crisp, rainy, Fall birthday morning. If you want to save some time in the morning, you could par-boil your potatoes the night before and...
Double-Glazed Pumpkin Spice Scones
I know I've mentioned before that I have a love for scones, and I usually make them with loads of fresh fruit in them. Well, it's a crazy gorgeous Fall day in northern Michigan today, and I got in the mood for some scones. This time I was determined to have a successful batch of...
Frittata with Potato and Prosciutto
One frittata, two frittata. For our second frittata this week, and the final recipe from my Cookbook of the Week: Everyday Italian by Giada De Laurentiis, we enjoyed this Frittata with Potato and Prosciutto as a quick and easy breakfast-for-dinner. Between this frittata and the one we enjoyed last weekend, Frittata with Asparagus, Tomato, and...
Chocolate Hazelnut Biscotti
Happy October! It's my favorite month, which also means that it's beginning to be hot drink weather again. Looking forward to lots of cool days sipping lattes, chai, coffee, cider, or whatever. I make these biscotti around the holidays usually, but they were the perfect way to use up the rest of my leftover hazelnuts from the...
Frittata with Asparagus, Tomato, and Fontina Cheese
We enjoyed this frittata for brunch after the boys went out salmon fishing this morning. They caught a huge one, so I think it's salmon for dinner for us tonight. This recipe comes together rather quickly, and I think it would be really delicious as a breakfast-for-dinner option as well. Frittata Asparagus, Tomato, and Fontina...
Cinnamon Swirl Raisin Bread & Cinnamon Honey Butter
The only times in life that I voluntarily eat raisins are in bagels, and cinnamon raisin bread. Don’t try sneaking them in with peanuts and m&m’s in trail mix either...I will waste precious eating-time picking them out. However, put them in a deliciously warm baked good and I’m on board. If only you could smell...
Quiche aux Champignons (Mushroom Quiche)
There's nothing like a Saturday morning brunch during a holiday weekend in northern Michigan. We very much enjoyed this quiche before a long day spent exploring little antique shops and walking around downtown Ludington this afternoon. The original recipe did not call for bacon, but we liked the added bit of saltiness that it brought...
Pâte Brisée (Shortcut Pastry, Pastry Dough, Pie Crust, Quiche Crust)
Pâte Brisée (Shortcut Pastry, Pastry Dough, Pie Crust, Quiche Crust) Credit: Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child, Simone Beck, and Louisette Bertholle You could make this dough using a food processor, but I find my results are better when I make this by hand, plus there are less dishes to wash and that...