Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins}Muffin Monday

Today’s muffin recipe is due to having two overly ripe bananas on my counter. I just wasn’t in the mood for banana bread, although I have an amazing banana bread recipe. But a banana muffin sounded pretty good. I added in some mini chocolate chips and I had an amazing muffin. I tweeked my basic [...]

Orange Creamsicle Muffins}Muffin Monday

So you may remember my slight obsession with orange creamsicle flavor.  You can find it here with my orange creamsicle scones, Orange creamsicle cookies, orange rolls and my favorite orange cake. I decided that the list wouldn’t be complete without an orange creamsicle muffin. I played around with my basic muffin recipe a bit and [...]

Cinnamon Swirl Muffins}Muffin Monday

Happy Muffin Monday! What a whirlwind two weeks!  Six Hairspray performances, 3 dress rehearsals, over 3,000 photos taken, 7 house guests (including my 3 Utah kids!), cast party, photography class taught, and a few other things.  Busy but so fun!  I can’t wait to share a few of those photos with you this week! I [...]

Cinnamon Streusel Pancakes

Today is National Pancake Day – seriously! I guess you can get free pancakes at IHOP today but I promise if you make these for dinner instead your family will love you. It’s like having dessert for dinner disguised as breakfast! Today’s recipe is over at Portland Mama so head on over and take a [...]

Raspberry Dream Muffins}Muffin Monday

It’s back! Thanks to several Facebook requests Muffin Monday is back.  It got lost in all the holiday happenings, baking and cooking but it’s back and it’s back with a good one! These muffins were so yummy I made them twice last week. These muffins were so yummy I spent over $4.00 on a pint [...]

Cinnamon Apple Dutch Baby Pancake

Note:  Are you voting for the Northwest Tailgater?  I hope so!!  Just go here and vote please!  The site does not support Safari so you will need to use Internet Explorer or Firefox. One of our favorite Saturday morning activities is to go out to breakfast.  Portland is breakfast town!  There are so many amazing [...]

Orange Creamsicle Scones

So I think I have mentioned before that I have a tendency to get on “flavor kicks.”  When I crave a certain flavor over and over.  Lately it’s been orange.  Orange creamsicle to be more exact. Remember those lovely orange creamsicle cookies?  So good. And then there are those orange creamsicle shakes we’ve been making [...]

Creme Brulee French Toast

Note:  Thank you to everyone that has shared their Word of the Year for 2011.  You have chosen some amazing words and I love reading your why behind it too!  Like myself, many of you have discovered that your word can choose you!  If you haven’t chosen a word yet you still can.  Read about [...]

Breakfast with Santa

Our annual Breakfast with Santa that we host for some of our neighbors was last Saturday.  This event has turned into one of my favorite Christmas traditions. When my children outgrew going to Breakfast with Santa at Meier & Frank but I hadn’t, I decided to host my own Breakfast with Santa and invite the [...]

Snickerdoodle French Toast

So what are you having for breakfast Christmas morning? The last thing I want to be doing is spending a lot of time in the kitchen! For a delicious,easy to prepare the night before breakfast idea, head on over to Portland Mama. Be sure and leave a comment and let me know what you are [...]