Breakfast

Mini Mango Hazelnut Cardamom Bread

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May

Raise your hand if you love mangoes, but they’ve always intimidated you! Up until a few weeks ago, I would have raised my hand. Every time I’ve had mango in a restaurant, I’ve loved it to bits. But I always passed it over in the supermarket – a funny foreign ingredient that I’d never use [...]

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Secret Recipe Club: Apple Cinnamon Waffles

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May

It’s that time again, time for a Secret Recipe Club reveal! This month I was assigned Itzy’s Kitchen, written by Erica, mom to the most adorable baby girl, Kaylin, and an English Bulldog named Frank. My pal Maegan would be so in love with Frank! It didn’t take me long to settle on a recipe. [...]

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Mini Banana Toffee Walnut Bread

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May

Sometimes inspiration comes in the form of the desperate need not to waste food. Sure, I could throw those bananas in the freezer, but there they would languish, forgotten, until they become freezer burnt beyond all recognition. As I was baking up treats for the Great American Bake Sale I looked around my kitchen and [...]

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Grandma Mack’s Breakfast Delight

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May

James and I are huge fans of brinner. This hybrid of breakfast and dinner, brinner typically means we’re having bacon and eggs or breakfast tacos around 8 p.m. One of the highlights of brinner for me is that typically it takes little to no effort to accomplish, and we’re always left feeling happy and full. [...]

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Giveaway: Le Creuset Cafe Collection in Truffle

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Apr

This giveaway is now closed. Congratulations to Rebecca G.! I hope you love this Cafe Collection as much as I do! Even if you’ve only read a post or two here on Bluebonnets & Brownies, I’m pretty sure it’s come across clearly that I am a coffee addict. But let me clarify: I am [...]

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Secret Recipe Club: Banana Bars

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Apr

You’ve heard of the Secret Recipe Club, right? If you haven’t, let me give you the rundown: think Secret Santa, but for making and blogging a fellow blogger’s recipe. It’s such fun getting your assignment each month, mentally strolling through what might be a new-to-you blog, finding all the treasures it holds. This month I [...]

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Strawberry Lemonade Muffins

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Apr

Remember the other week when I made those crazy good strawberry scones? Well, I managed to find the same brand of strawberries here on the East Coast, and they were just as flavorful. When my Southern Living magazine arrived this month with an alluring headline on the cover: “Luscious Strawberry Desserts”, I had to flip [...]

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Fresh Strawberry Kefir Scones with Orange Glaze

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Mar

I’m not much one for pressuring other people in the grocery store about what to buy. Over the years, I’ve become more informed about where my food comes from, and that leads me to make choices that may be different from mainstream America. Occasionally, I’ve been accused by my midwestern brother-in-law for being a food [...]

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Peanut Butter & a Giveaway

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Mar

Oh, peanut butter. I never realized how much I relied on this super food until I moved to England, where it’s a more recent phenomenon, and very hard to find in its “American” version. I remember having to buy imported Skippy, a brand I’d never bought when I lived in the States. I also remember [...]

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Banana Red Walnut Muffins

23

Jan

I’m chasing a white whale, I know it. But my Ishmael is clearly the perfect bakery muffin. I’ve got the texture down pat. The pancake mix is really what does it. However, I am still searching for that exquisite domed top, the high rise of those Panera Bread behemoths. I’ve got a few more tricks [...]

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