This is How We Granola
I made a joke that it was going to bother me to not have a 2017 post, but I guess it was no joke.
Buckwheat Banana Muffins
This is our stock banana muffin. I wanted to make something like the deep, dense buckwheat banana loaf West and I once shared on the milk crates at GTA. Or that he ate and I tasted a piece that fell on his sweatshirt.
Tartine’s Sourdough Brioche
I brought out the big, buttery guns for the end of New Breakfast Week.
You know that recipe that you bookmark, flip to over and over, read, and read again, but never make? The sourdough brioche in Tartine Bread was mine.
Heidi Swanson’s Giant White Beans with Kale
Of course I was going to put an egg on this, but really, it didn’t need it.
I wish I could tell you what kind of giant white bean I used, but the bin was mislabeled. And later, I will go into too much detail about cooking beans from scratch.
But for now, all you need to know is, cooked this way, the beans taste like In-N-Out French fries.
Kim Boyce’s Seeded Granola
Since West hasn’t napped since he turned two, I’ve had put him to work in the kitchen.
We made this Seeded Granola together for New Breakfast Week. I measured, he poured, then enlisted the honey bear to help clean up the mess. The recipe comes from Kim Boyce’s Good to the Grain, which I’m so sure is on your bookshelf, I’ll just tell you it’s on page 134.
This is not your usual granola. No nuts, just seeds – pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, flaxseeds, poppy seeds, sesame seeds. Oats, wheat germ. Cayenne pepper.
Peach Chia Shake
Truly, I have found a soul sister in Azusa. She also has a 2 year-old, who West is so over the moon about, he says she can sit in his chair.
We hang out Wednesdays and sometimes Saturday mornings at the Pasadena farmers market. (Sometimes without the kids, but don’t tell them, and especially don’t tell them about the Mother Moo popsicles.)
Azusa cooks. Obsessively, of course, with cookbooks, scans of cookbooks, online bookmarks, carefully chosen ingredients, and the most thoughtful meal plans. We have much to discuss. Over coffee, of course.
Our poor, neglected blogs come up often – hers is the elegant, Japanese home cooking blog, Humble Bean.
So this is our plan: 5 new breakfasts this week, and 5 blog posts to go with. (Before midnight, so I had better type faster.)
Huckleberry’s Chocolate Chunk Muffins
I’m a big fan of the Sabzi questionnaire, so I was stoked when Sara invited me to her loveliest of blogs to fill it out.
The questions are fun, and so telling, too, like your fridge contents and favorite food-related movies. It was so nice to think and write about something other than the meal plan (ooh, chicken noodle soup, Persian-style).
I needed a photo of me in my kitchen, but it felt too weird being in there, not doing anything. So I made muffins.
Arugula Pesto (For Avocado Toast, Of Course)
Or, how to get your kid, who shows a genuine interest in salad greens but still gags on them, to eat arugula.
You also get to have the best avocado toast ever.
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