One day I was telling Charles that my most popular recipes are for quiche and zucchini lasagna. His reply was that I should make a zucchini quiche. It was such an obvious idea that I wondered why I didn’t come up with it myself. After some consideration, I decided that instead of using a pastry (read more)
Breakfast
Post Workout Smoothies with Olly Smoothie
I promised myself that September would be about getting in shape. It’s what I need to do after eating so much fried chicken and biscuits in Nashville. Plus, it’s important that I strengthen my knee after hurting my IT Band climbing glaciers in Iceland. I have committed to spinning every day in September. It’s a (read more)
Breakfast Pita Pizza
Weekend breakfasts should be special. It’s also nice when they don’t take much effort to prepare or make much of a mess. This Breakfast Pita Pizza is all of those things. A pita is slathered with a seasoned ricotta, topped with sautéed mushrooms, spinach, and an egg, and drizzled with pesto. It’s a hearty breakfast (read more)
Spinach and Cheddar Quiche with a Tater Tot Crust
Are you still liking quiche recipes? They are getting repined a lot, so I keep coming up with new ones, but I hope that my longtime readers aren’t thinking, “Geez Kit, cool it with the quiche recipes!” Lately I have been making quiche with a tater tot crust because tater tots are amazing and this (read more)
French Toast made with melted ice cream
Sometimes inspiration just hits. I was working on a roundup of my favorite cocktail recipes, and when I realized that two used Halo Top ice cream as an ingredient, I started to wonder about other ways I could use it in my recipes. And somehow, the first thing that came to mind was french toast, (read more)
Cheeseburger Quiche
This food mashup is particularly delicious. Cheeseburger Quiche is a quiche made with ground beef and cheddar with a tater tot crust. It’s all the best parts of breakfast (eggs and tater tots) combined with a cheeseburger. Charles gave this meal two very enthusiastic thumbs up, and had a second helping (and usually he isn’t that (read more)
Hashbrown Quiche
Hashbrown quiche is a traditional quiche made with a hashbrown crust instead of a pastry crust. This substitution makes the quiche gluten free, and I love the crispy potatoes more than the pastry crust I have used in my other quiche recipes. You can add any of your favorite cheeses or vegetables to a quiche (read more)
Eggs in Purgatory with Garlic Bread
On weekends I love making brunch at home, and usually it involves eggs with runny yolks. I think that they are one of the most satisfying foods you could eat. I do make avocado toast topped with a sunny side up egg very often, but sometimes I mix it up and make something else, like (read more)
Carrot Cake Pancakes
Pancakes taste so much better when you make them with cake mix. And top them with frosting. These Carrot Cake Pancakes with cream cheese frosting are light, moist, fluffy, and just sweet enough. They would make a perfect addition to a birthday brunch, bridal shower, or baby shower. They are an alternative to dessert that (read more)
Breakfast Stuffed Peppers
These Breakfast Stuffed Peppers filled with sausage, cheese, and a sunny side up egg are a full breakfast! They also make a perfect breakfast for dinner, which is the occasion I made them for. The best part is that they can be made in just 20 minutes. I don’t think my family ever had breakfast for (read more)