Bread and Breakfast
The Best Pumpkin Bread
After trying dozens of recipes throughout the years, this is the best pumpkin bread I have ever made and/or tasted, courtesy of my friend Gina. She often makes this bread as a study break, and hand-delivers warm slices to other students working late into the night at the library. Though it is fantastic straight out […]
Nutella Swirl Banana Muffins
With a family of runners, bananas never last long in my house. However, sometimes we will “accidentally” let the bananas over-ripen, and use the brown bananas to make banana bread or muffins. These muffins just may be my new favorite recipe. Subtle and perfectly moist, the muffins are even better the next day. Oh, and […]
Berry Baked Oatmeal
Growing up with classic Quaker rolled oats as a staple in the Green household, oatmeal is one of my go-to breakfasts. I usually eat my oatmeal with a heavy-handed dash of cinnamon, but love adding other mix-ins, too. My sister and I discovered adding fresh nectarine slices and cinnamon to our oats one summer, and […]
Banana Breakfast Sandwiches
On a recent visit to my hometown of Chicago, Illinois, I spent a night at my grandparents’ house in the suburbs. My grandfather is usually the master of all breakfast-related items (his scrambled eggs are impossibly light and fluffy), but I surprised them by taking over the kitchen one morning. An adaptation of French Toast, […]