breakfast

Pancake Fridays: Basic Vegan Pancakes, 2 ways

What’s better than playing pancake jenga at 7:30 in the morning?Oh you have a sweet pad in Hawaii? An all-expenses paid trip to Paris? You just won a lifetime supply of cheese? Well, I’ll see your ...

Pancake Fridays: The Thickest, Puffiest Pancake Yet

by erika 37 Comments

When I was little, I could speak five languages.Second-grade Mandarain, sesame-street Spanish, I could count to three in Japanese and I could say exactly one sentence in German. I don’t think I ...

Pancake Fridays: Soaked Buckwheat Pancakes

by erika 31 Comments

Thin pancakes are growing on me.I am usually alllll about the thick, puffy pancakes, as you can probably tell from my pancakes archive. But these super thin, light and crisp-edged buckwheat ...

Pancake Fridays: Peach Streusel Pancakes

by erika 36 Comments

Over the fourth, I finally made pie. This pie.Or attempted to. I skimped on the butter in the streusel, which led to a buttery-in-parts, floury-in-other-parts dusting of crumbly flour up top and ...

Pancake Fridays: Cottage Cheese Pancakes

by erika 28 Comments

I think I had a traumatic experience with cottage cheese as a kid.I don’t remember it, but I’m convinced something must have happened. Because I’ve spent more hours than I’d care to admit racked ...

Cashew Honey Blackberry Muffins + a blogger brunch

by erika 23 Comments

Home: never have I so appreciated the cool, breezy-sunny weather of northern California as I did this past weekend, celebrating the fourth of July in perfect 70 degree weather. Not one trace of ...

{Stovetop} Granola

by erika 51 Comments

I feel exactly as David Lebovitz feels about his favorite granola recipe, which is: “I never planned to write about this granola, since Molly and Cenk [insert: David] did excellent adaptations. ...

Pancake Fridays: Sweet Corn & Tomato Pancakes

by erika

As a kid, some family friend showed me how she scatters a tiny pinch of sugar over tomato slices before she eats them. I thought it was the weirdest thing, but tried it when I got home. And of course ...

Pancake Fridays: Oat and Yogurt Pancakes

by erika

If you google “best restaurant pancake recipe” like I do periodically (every other day or so—you know, whenever the pancake cravings become overwhelming) you’ll undoubtedly have come across several ...

Pancake Fridays: Whole Wheat Chocolate Chip Silver Dollar Pancakes

by erika 38 Comments

I’m going to New York!For three glorious days next week, I’m escaping to the metropolitan, cultured bustle of NYC for the first time since far too long ago. I’m going to a) scope out potential ...

Perfect Kale Green Smoothie

by erika

I used to LOVE green smoothies, but only ones made with spinach (which simply melts into the texture undetected). But because spinach is often more expensive than other greens, I recently decided to ...

Pancake Fridays: Banana Buckwheat Pancakes

by erika

I had pancakes for dinner the other night.Believe it or not, I try not to do that too often. Or like, ever. Because my body’s wired for savory at dinnertime and eating pancakes only means I’ll be ...