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If you love eggnog and you love french toast, they you are going to love, love, love this recipe for baked french toast with eggnog. I made this recipe 3 times last winter and my family inhaled it every single time. 🙂 Yep, it was that good. French Toast Ingredients 8 slices french bread, cubed Read More >>
I found this recipe for blueberry buckle on my friend Jane’s blog a couple of years ago and have been making it about three to four times a year ever since. In the summer time I use fresh blueberries, and in the winter I use frozen. Typically I’ll use a 9 inch spring form pan when Read More >>
A big thank you to Heather who told me about how she substituted canned pears for blueberries and how she upped the vanilla in my blueberry buckle recipe. I made Heather’s version today and man oh man was it yummy. Here is the recipe. Ingredients {slightly adapted from Jane} 1/2 cup butter, plus more for Read More >>
Ever since The Girl Who Thinks She’s a Bird and Monkey Boy were small, we have always made a tube of Pillsbury Cinnamon Rolls for Christmas breakfast. It’s not exactly idyllic, or something you would see in a Norman Rockwell painting, but I’m pretty sure we are stuck with it forever because The Girl won’t Read More >>
My friend Mama JJ has me hooked on this granola recipe. I pretty much want to marry it. Delicious does not even begin to describe it. Not one bit. If you have never tried to make your own granola before, put it on your bucket list. Seriously, because once you make it, you’ll be like… Read More >>
