Category Archives: Breakfast

Cherry Almond Breakfast Cookies

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Happy New Year!  As I’ve mentioned before, I’m not into resolutions.  But I do love the feeling of a fresh year laid out ahead of me.  So many possibilities!  So many things I’d like to do this year! But before I get started with all that I’ll need a good breakfast.

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And that’s usually where it breaks bad for me.  I’m not much of a breakfast person.  Like, at all.  What?  You’re saying, “Um, duh, because you have yet to post a single breakfast recipe, Christina!”?  Well you’re right.  I don’t dislike breakfast foods per say, they are just not so much my thing.  Also, when you have a perfectly delightful, adorable, sweeter-than-peaches 10 month old WHO IS STARTING TO WALK/RUN AWAY FROM YOU, you really don’t have much time to sit down to a decent breakfast anyway.  Enter these breakfast cookies. Continue reading

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Chocolate Zucchini Bread

So, I promised you a few days ago that I’d share the recipe that keeps me from getting sick of zucchini at times when my garden seems to be spitting it out faster than I can handle. Without further ado, here it is… Chocolate Zucchini Bread.

I got this recipe last year from my mother-in-law, after I subjected her to my complaints about the abundance of zucchini coming from my garden. When she first told me she had this recipe, she said something to the effect of, “I used to make this for the kids all the time, because it got them to eat zucchini and it just tastes like chocolate cake.” I was skeptical that anyone could pass off zucchini bread as chocolate cake, but figured even getting close would be worth giving it a try. Continue reading

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Chocolate Chip Pecan Banana Muffins

 

Bananas are tricky.  They look so innocent in the store, and they are cheap and yummy looking and you think things like, “Bananas would be good to have in my cereal in the morning.”
But then you get them home, and it turns out you don’t eat cereal in the morning. Like… ever.  And as much as you like the idea of eating a banana as a snack, it just doesn’t come to fruition.  Especially when you have snacks like this or this around.

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