breakfast | starter menu

Jun 122 min read

springtime tot frittata with creamy herb dressing

This tater tot frittata has all the lovely green things—asparagus, zucchini, and peas—plus a creamy herb dressing for drizzling or dipping.

May 242 min read

clean-out-the-crisper eggs

Sure, you can make plain eggs with salt and pepper. Or you can make crunchy soy gochujang eggs with cool cucumber yogurt sauce.

Oct 3, 20232 min read

apple cinnamon oatmeal pancakes

Studded with spiced fruit and browned in butter, these rustic flapjacks are an epic final form for all those apples you've been picking.

Aug 17, 20232 min read

blueberry lemon coffee cake with almond streusel

Fresh off the farm or plucked from the produce bin, blueberries are right at home with this tangy lemon batter and buttery almond streusel.

Jul 31, 20232 min read

toasted cheddar & hash brown egg taco w/ sweet and spicy chimichurri

When you need to zap your bored noon tastebuds and remind them lunch can be drippy and salty and dirty-delicious, make this taco.

Jun 10, 20232 min read

orange cardamom coffee cake with crunchy almond streusel

This nutty, spiced orange cake is the stuff of lazy weekend mornings.

May 12, 20232 min read

four(ish)-ingredient breakfasts

Keep mornings simple with these recipes featuring oats, bananas, and other breakfast staples.

Mar 27, 20215 min read

Cookbook Challenge: Bread Ahead's Deep-Fried Custard Doughnuts

Despite ingredient swaps, an accidental dough node, and a humbling amount of math, I successfully made custard doughnuts. I bet you can too.

Dec 30, 20202 min read

morning yogurt bowl + how to peel and de-seed a pomegranate without spraying red juice everywhere

Give it ten minutes and you'll be eating fistfuls of scarlet juice orbs like an Egyptian queen.

Dec 19, 20204 min read

orange chocolate cinnamon rolls with citrus cream cheese frosting

Throw on a Christmas record, brew a pot of coffee, and eat an orange chocolate cinnamon roll—because it's been a goddamn year.

Oct 14, 20203 min read

rustic apple danishes

It's the season for bringing home too many apples! Why not toss a few in cinnamon-sugar and bake them on a flaky butter bed?

Sep 18, 20202 min read

peanut butter banana chocolate chip (and cinnamon) muffins

It's 10:30am and your belly's rumbling: time for your morning snack. Time for these muffins.

May 8, 20203 min read

cinnamon sugar and cardamom buns

These simple cinnamon-sugar buns made with puff pastry are for lazy weekend mornings when cereal just won't cut it.

Apr 17, 20202 min read

tomato + onion + kale frittata

Who's got eggs? You need eight of them to make this hot rustic egg cake, also known as a frittata.

Mar 21, 20202 min read

white cheddar, arugula & caramelized onion quiche

If you're hanging around with some eggs in the fridge and no plans for them, this is a low-stakes way to make something hearteningly basic.