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Monday Mission: Are You Ready for Breakfasts?

September 5th, 2011 · 25 Comments · Monday Missions, Recipes

Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to include more vegetables in your breakfasts. Impact Ratings: ! Level of Commitment: Making Strides This summer I challenged you to plan your breakfasts, with the goal of getting more variety, more food groups, better nutrition and less stress. Now that school has started or is imminent [...]

Recipe Connection: Potato Vegetable Pancakes (Latkes)

August 12th, 2011 · 12 Comments · Recipes

This Latke recipe (also called potato pancakes) is written in my own hand from 1988, when I would have been in third grade. Food has always been a part of my history, and this traditional dish from my Polish heritage is a perennial favorite. When I first served them to my husband, he was incredibly [...]

Monday Mission: Plan Your Breakfasts

August 1st, 2011 · 53 Comments · Do It Yourself, Monday Missions

Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to plan your breakfasts for (at least) a week. Impact Ratings: Level of Commitment: Baby Steps A lot of people plan dinners and understand the importance of doing so, but lunches and breakfasts are often spur of the moment or just something simple like toast or cereal [...]

A Sweet, Sweet Summer: Maple Syrup and Maple Sugar Facts

July 14th, 2011 · 35 Comments · Food for Thought, Science of Nutrition

I put my pure Michigan maple syrup right next to my in-laws’ sugar-free (taste-free?) maple “syrup” in the fridge the other day and reflected on how people try so very, very hard to find a “healthy” alternative to sweets. In the mainstream, this usually means something “low-calorie” with little nutrition in it or something with [...]

Recipe Connection: Two Grain-Free Pancake Options (Banana and Almond-Apple)

March 15th, 2011 · 22 Comments · Recipes

I shared this recipe last week on Twitter in well less than 140 characters. Brace yourselves. I’ll flesh it out a little more today, but rest assured it’s THAT brain-dead easy. It’s really nice having some grain-free options to take the place of traditionally grain-filled breakfast foods. We miss our oatmeal, so options beyond “eggs [...]

Sourdough Recipes Galore: Sourdough Pancakes

March 9th, 2010 · 14 Comments · Recipes

My very first attempt at baking anything with my new sourdough starter last fall was Sarah’s sourdough focaccia with her Best Ever Minestrone. It really doesn’t need to rise at all, which is good, because I don’t think mine did. I thought I’d died and gone to Heaven in an Italian restaurant, though, when we [...]