Roasted Carrot Breakfast Muffins

Roasted Carrot Breakfast Muffins

Roasted carrots for breakfast? Why not! I was considering making carrot cake or carrot cake muffins but to be honest I really need to eat healthier…especially with the holidays coming up. So roasting carrots and popping them in a breakfast muffin seemed just the thing to do…thankfully they were really really good! Continue reading

Bacon & Eggs on Honey-Ricotta Toast

Bacon & Eggs on Honey-Ricotta Toast

Everyone in my family loves bacon & egg sandwiches for breakfast. We might not have them everyday but we certainly have them often. For today’s sandwich I made it just a wee bit different. Toasting up a hearty slice of Italian round loaf bread and slathering it with a little bit of creamy ricotta, drizzling on some fresh sweet honey and topping it all with crisp thick bacon and a fried egg. I loved it! I’ll be making these again and again… Continue reading

Country Breakfast

Country Breakfast

I recently shared one of my grandmother’s stand-by recipes: German Potato Salad. Here’s another one of her favorites! Mom Mom (Catherine) was a ‘meat & potatoes’ cook…she loved serving potatoes since a little goes a long way and there were many mouths to feed! I’ve taken her Country Breakfast recipe and adapted it for four servings. It’s hearty and filling and a great weekend breakfast! Continue reading

Lemon-Cream Cheese Stuffed French Toast with Fresh Blueberries & Syrup

Lemon-Cream Cheese Stuffed French Toast

I was chatting with my mom on the phone the other day. It was her and my dad’s anniversary and she was telling me all about this wonderful breakfast she had just had at a restaurant. Raving…I mean really raving about it…saying how she hoped it wouldn’t disappear off the menu EVER ‘raving’. As she was describing it to me I thought – well, that doesn’t sound too hard to make…so here Mom – a late anniversary gift just for you! Continue reading