Tag: Eggs

Fall Egg Dishes and Brunch, Spring Egg Dishes and Brunch, Summer Egg Dishes and Brunch, Winter Egg Dishes and Brunch

Phyllis’ Mouth-watering Buttermilk Waffles

The batter for these waffles can be made the night before, an especially good thing for brunch entertaining!  I have included two fruit sauces that are delicious on waffles and we often add a few dollops of yogurt.  We also like using fresh fruit and some maple syrup. Make the Waffles: 2 cups sifted unbleached flour** 2 tsp. […]

Fall Egg Dishes and Brunch, Spring Egg Dishes and Brunch, Summer Egg Dishes and Brunch, Winter Egg Dishes and Brunch

Brunch Baked Eggs

Here’s another do ahead brunch dish for a stress free host, you can be enjoying your  Blood Orange Mimosa while brunch is baking!  I don’t know about you, but around the holidays when entertaining can get crazy, we need all the do-aheads we can get our hands on. This can be made vegetarian by leaving out […]

Spring Salads

A Springtime Salad

We were entertaining visitors from back east and I thought, considering the arrival of so many local goodies in the market, that our guests should be treated to our very own “locavore” dinner. I created this salad (luckily I had little gem lettuce, Italian parsley and arugula growing in the garden), to accompany a barbecued […]

Baking and Sweet Endings

Mom’s Rhubarb Custard Pie

Mom made fabulous rhubarb pies.  OK Mom made fabulous pies period! I tweaked her recipe a bit by adding some grated orange peel and I think it really adds something special to her original. Pie crust for a 9″ 2 crust pie (see bottom of page) For the Pie Filling: 3 cups rhubarb, cut into ½” […]

Fall Egg Dishes and Brunch, Spring Egg Dishes and Brunch, Summer Egg Dishes and Brunch, Winter Egg Dishes and Brunch

Huevos Rancheros (Mexican Eggs)

For a printer friendly version of this recipe, click here. One of our favourite breakfast or brunch plates! For sure, it gets you going! Perhaps for a weekend brunch, with or without guests, maybe a Caesar to kick things off? Makes Approximately 4 Servings For the Beans: 1/2 cup dried black beans, soaked overnight 4 Tbsp., approximately, […]

Baking and Sweet Endings

Food Processor Brioche

I adore brioche. There are croissants and then there is brioche! For those of you who are a little wary of baking with yeast, this dough is for you, all that’s required is a food processor. Brioche is a sweet dough and is wonderful lightly toasted with jam or whatever. I made a delicious shrimp […]

Fall Egg Dishes and Brunch, Spring Egg Dishes and Brunch, Summer Egg Dishes and Brunch, Winter Egg Dishes and Brunch

Veggie And Cheese Strata

For a printer friendly version of this recipe, click here. An excellent way to feed a large-ish group brunch, with most of the work done the day before! Always a good thing in my opinion!  You could serve the strata with oven roasted potatoes** and/or sausage patties or sausages, for a hearty brunch; on the […]