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Breads, Breakfast/Brunch, Sweet Snacks

Brioche French Toast with Orange Cardamom Compound Butter

Nothing like starting off a Monday morning with a hearty breakfast. Trader Joes sells this great sliced brioche bread which makes the absolute perfect French Toast so I thought that I would indulge. Light, fluffy with just the right amount of sweetness. And you know what, French Toast doesn’t actually take that long as I managed to make it before my early doors this morning. Might need to make a habit of this to start the week.
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Breakfast/Brunch, Lunch

Veggie and Potato Hash with Fried Eggs

Breakfast for Dinner…. although I guess this meal is really an “any time of day meal”… but I am counting it towards the Breakfast theme this week in the Bake-a-Long. Veggies, potatoes, eggs… it has all the important food groups, right? Super quick and really easy to make.
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Breakfast/Brunch

No Frills Blueberry Pancakes

Sometimes you just want to get something quick on the table for breakfast. But sometimes you want it to a little more impressive than a piece of toast. Enter these really easy pancakes. Straight forward, simple ingredients (you can even skip the blueberries if you want, but why would you want to do that?). Makes between 12-15 pancakes so can satisfy the whole gang for breakfast. I’m going to freeze my extras so that I can reheat just a couple each day for the next week. Don’t forget the maple syrup!
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Breads, Breakfast/Brunch

Cranberry Swirly Bread

I guess this is a bit of a variation on a cinnamon roll bread only instead of a brown sugar and cinnamon paste, it’s filled with a cranberry sauce. I’m not overly pleased at how it slacked out and got some big holes (I suspect the cranberry mixture was too heavy), but it did taste good – sort of like pre-jammed breakfast bread.
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Breads, Breakfast/Brunch, Lunch, Sandwiches/Paninis

Unholy Bagels

Unholy (adjective)
Definition #1: sinful. wicked. godless. blasphemous. sacrilegious. profane. heathen. irreligious. nontheistic.
Definition #2: lacking in holes

We’re going to go with definition number 2, please. These bagels are unholy. They have no holes.

You see, a few weeks ago, a friend of mine was making Pretzel Rolls (Laugenbrötchen, for you Germans). Similar to making bagels, you place the rolls in boiling water for a minute or two before baking, only with pretzels or pretzel rolls, you are supposed to put food lye or baking soda in the boiling water, which gives it that dark brown exterior. Well, she forgot the baking soda, and thus ended up making bagel rolls much like these. She posted a photo to her FB page and I spontaneously just said “Unholy bagels!” which I found somehow very funny. Apparently it doesn’t take much to amuse me during lockdown. So there you have it. Unholy bagels, aka Dinner Rolls. They are really damn (ha ha) yummy, even if they started out as accident.
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