Category: Breakfast (35)

  • What would we do without vanilla. Might as well punch out and call it a day. The vanilla bean is one of the most amazing things created by nature. Once you’ve read the process of how vanilla is made you truly can appreciate the beauty of this brown bean. We haven’t even started talking about the…

  • Someday I will travel to Provence France to see the great lavender fields. This is a reoccurring dream of mine. I envision myself standing in a vast field of lavender before me, as far as the eye can see, with the warm sunshine basking my upturned face only to feel the soft undulating breeze while I…

  • This is no average ho hum pancakes and bacon. This is King for a day breakfast, only I’m sorry- your fantasy maid/cook? yeah, she’s off for the day and you still  have to cook it yourself. Hey, you can’t have everything. This is bacon kicked up a notch. Spicy, sweet candied bacon. Meaty, bordering on cannibalistic inner cave man- chewy bacon. The best…

  • Fall is my favorite baking season. Quite frankly Fall is my favorite everything when it comes to living in San Francisco. I love San Francisco and where I live; I can walk to the bank, the library, the park, and if I don’t feel like driving, all I have to do is walk 3 blocks and the street car will…

  • Years ago we vacationed in New Orleans and it took us all of one bite to become addicted to beignets. Sweet, fluffy fried dough showered with mountains of sugar. I think we ate beignets every day; or almost for a whole week when we were there. Soft pillowy dough fried to perfection. What’s not to love?…

  • These scones are packed with orange flavor. There is triple flavor from orange zest, orange extract and candied orange peel. I had some candied orange peel that I wanted to use up so I got inspired to make scones with a true assertive flavor. If that were not enough I glazed them with orange icing. I really…