Family Favorite scone recipe
Light and flakey fresh baked scones can’t be beat. This recipe is versatile and works with lots of flavor combinations.
Homemade superfood breakfast cereal
Quick and easy recipe for a homemade superfood breakfast cereal to get your day off to an amazing start.
Pressure Cooker "Boiled" Eggs
The easiest way to make boiled eggs is to not boil them at all.
Lemon Curd
An easy recipe for a homemade lemon curd for a decadent treat your family will love.
Swiss Muesli: an easy overnight oats recipe that the whole family will love
Do you want a breakfast that's easy, hearty, and healthy, and the whole family will love? Well this might just be it.
Have you seen all the buzz lately about these overnight refrigerator oats recipes? Seems like some new way to make oats? Nope, not new. The Swiss have been doing it this way for over 100 years. They call it Muesli, or Swiss Muesli, or Bircher Muesli (named from the doctor that created the recipe for the health benefits of his patients). This is not the "muesli" that you've seen in a cereal box. That is a granola like cereal that has some oats and dried fruit and somebody decided to give it the name because some of the ingredients are similar. No, this is a totally different thing - it's a way of preparing oats that's like nothing you've probably ever tasted. I love it, it's one of my favorite breakfasts. I first learned about Swiss Muesli almost 30 years ago, when my older sister came home from being an exchange student in Switzerland. She introduced us to the way the Swiss do oats, and I've loved it ever since. In the summer I like to make up a huge bowl and eat it for breakfast all week long. It's cool and refreshing, but hearty and filling. And you can dress it up however you like.
Easy Quick Bread and Muffin Recipe
A master recipe for making all kids of quick and easy muffins or breads! This recipe is made with whole wheat flour, whole fruits and veggies, and no refined sugar (or very little, if you decide to add some). It is sweetened with just a little honey and the natural flavors of fruit. Best of all - it's made all in the blender, and takes less than 5 minutes from start until it's in the oven. It is so fast and easy, you are just not even going to believe it. This is not your grandma's banana bread - there is no need to let your butter or eggs come to room temperature, there is no creaming of butter and sugar. You aren't washing multiple bowls.
Banana Chocolate Chip Blender Muffins
I think I need to just bow out while I'm ahead with this one - I will never try another muffin recipe again. My children have declared these to be the best muffins they've ever had. And if you knew my kids, you'd know that they are pretty tough little food critics (my fault, I'm sure).
I've made a couple batches of these over the last week, and they are inhaling them as fast as I can bake them. But it's totally ok, because these are super easy to make, and relatively healthy, as far as things containing chocolate chips go. We're talking from starting to in the oven in like 5 minutes.
How to Make Almond Milk
Do you want to know how to make your own almond milk? Please say yes - you won't regret it - because this is too easy, and it tastes so good!
I've been making my own almond milk for a while now. I love having it in my morning coffee - it gives the milkiness I like from putting milk in my coffee, and just the right amount of sweetness, but somehow seems lighter on the stomach. I also love using it in my kid's smoothies.
When I made it the first time I was completely blown away at how easy it was. I couldn't believe I'd been holding off on making nut milk, for some reason thinking it would be too much work. So wrong!
Homemade "instant" oatmeal
It totally kills me that my kids prefer those instant oatmeal packets over real cooked oats. But lately I'm really trying to focus on choosing my battles, and trying to force people to learn to like oatmeal with some texture over the creamy, mushy stuff, just seems like a fight that's not worth fighting at this stage, especially on an already manic school day morning. But instant oatmeal packets have all kinds of strikes against them, and I just can't bring myself to buy them any more. The artificial flavorings in so many of the mainstream brands, the amount of sugar, and the cost - with 4 kids eating two packets each, we would use whole box at one meal. I have bought some organic ones before, which are a little better, but they still have so much sugar and are even more expensive. I had seen several mentions on various food blogs and pinterest boards about making your own, so I thought I'd give it a try.
Basic recipe: pancakes and waffles
Add to the list of things that I can't for the life of me figure out why I ever bought in a box: pancakes.
Pancakes and waffles are so easy to make from scratch. Call me lazy, but I love a recipe that's versatile and adaptable to a number of uses. I like to think about it once and use it a lot - and this one definitely fits that bill.
Yogurt Parfaits
I recently wrote about my super picky child, and how she is finally starting to try new foods, now that I have completely given up on pushing her. But we are still in the baby steps phase with that, she certainly has a ways to go before she is eating everything the rest of us eat. So for now, a very large part of her diet is still yogurt. I'm thankful at least that she really loves something that is so healthy, and I can load it up with fruit and oats to really make it an even more complete meal for her.
Easy Sunday Breakfast
I love Sunday breakfast with the family. It's a day of the week when we usually have no plans, we take our time, we relax, and we enjoy just doing our thing and hanging out. It's also usually the one day of the week when I get to take the time to fix a real full breakfast for the whole family, and I enjoy it.
I usually make some kind of pancakes or waffles, along with either bacon or sausage, and maybe some scrambled eggs. This Sunday I decided to freshen things up just a bit and experiment with a new egg dish. And I'm so glad I did - this was easy to make, mostly hands off, and very satisfying.