This is my family’s hot chocolate recipe. We have it when the weather gets chilly. We have it when we’re looking for a little something sweet along with breakfast. We have it when we visit my parents’ cabin, where my mom taught each of the kids to make it so that she can get up […]
Easy Overnight Oats
We started back to school this week. And my husband works at 3am. And while these two facts may seem unrelated — they both point to a need for some easy, quick, healthy breakfasts around here.
Patriotic Yogurt Parfait Recipe
My kids can finish off a box of cereal in one sitting. There are four of them, and they each usually want two bowls apiece, and by the time we’re done with all that and a wee bit for me the entire box is gone. Add in a preteen boy who’s beginning to ask for […]
11 Delicious Pancake Recipes
Ohhhh, I could eat me some pancakes all the day long. Breakfast in general, actually. I could eat breakfast all day, every day, for the rest of my life and never ever get tired of it. Pancakes and waffles and cinnamon rolls and eggs and fruit,– all washed down with gallons of hot chocolate and […]
Chocolate Cherry Fruit Smoothies
I’m on a health-food kick. I get these a lot, actually, so I make all these plans for good, healthy dinners and walks with the family and extra veggies and more water and they’re awesome, admirable plans except that they all live inside my head and they’re trapped and they cannot get out. Such great things going […]
Cinnamon Sugar Pretzel Sticks
So this beginning is the part where I tell you a story about this cinnamon sugar pretzels recipe and how we decided to make it and it’s all very interesting and witty and a little peak into life around here so that you realize you’re not the only one who sometimes makes pretzels from scratch […]
Blueberry Parfaits
I have one more snack to add to yesterday’s list. Blueberry parfaits — great as an after-school snack…or as breakfast (we were getting a little tired of cold cereal every morning.) I use homemade granola (my favorite recipe is this one). And while I like to use blueberries, you can really use any berry or soft fruit. We […]
Banana Berry Smoothie
I first published this Banana Berry Smoothie recipe about a year and a half ago during our 5 Days of No-Cereal Breakfast Challenge. I’d gotten into a rut, slapping some cereal and milk in front of the kids each morning, and I decided we needed to try a week of not doing that. And so […]
Egg Breakfast Recipes
When the kids are on vacation, we try to slow down around here. They no longer have to scarf down a box of cereal, hurry up, get ready, find their shoes, and get out of the house. We can relax. We can spend a little time making breakfast. We can make it special. Modern Mrs. […]
Baked Oatmeal Recipe
Can we talk breakfast for a minute? It’s my favorite. I could honestly, actually, live on nothing but breakfast foods all the long day every day forever. French toast. Pancakes. Cinnamon rolls. Eggs. All those lovely, glorious carbs and fatty things like bacon and…just…yum. I promise you, of all the food rules out there, the […]
