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Appetizers/Starters, Breakfast/Brunch, Dinner, Lunch, Sandwiches/Paninis, Savory Snacks

Bacon Caramelized Onion + Cheese Hand Pies

Sticking to the “mildly-Irish” Or “Irish-inspired” theme, here are some more hand pies, I do seem to be making a lot of these currently. They freeze really well and so I always have a lunch on hand. Definitely seek out the right kind of bacon, if you can. Avoid using streaky bacon, aka American breakfast bacon as the recipe will be either too greasy or too crunchy. If you can’t find Irish or British-style bacon, I’d go for Canadian bacon (like the kind in eggs benedict.

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17. March 2024
Appetizers/Starters, Breakfast/Brunch, Dinner, Lunch, Savory Snacks, Sides

Colcannon Cakes

If you follow this site, you know that I seem to make a variation of Colcannon (Irish mashed potatoes) most St. Patrick’s Day — varying the potatoes (sometimes sweet potatoes) and the greens (cabbage, kale, even spinach), but this year, I stuck with transitional russett potatoes and cabbage, but make “cakes”, sort of like potato pancakes. Fried up, they are a great side dish to Irish-style sausages, or even for breakfast with bacon and eggs. Very filling!

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17. March 2024
Breakfast/Brunch, Lunch, Sweet Snacks

Lemon Ricotta Pancakes
with Blueberries and Syrup

Hey! It’s Pancake Day! Why, you ask? Well, it’s the last day of Carnival (Mardi Gras or Pre-Lent, all that) and this day has historically been used (apparently since the 1400s?) to use up sugars, eggs, and fat before Lent. Not being the religious sort myself, it was just an excuse for me to make pancakes. 🙂 And because it is citrus week, I went with my absolute favorite pancake recipe: Lemon Ricotta Pancakes with Syrup and Berries. Light, fluffy, just sweet enough but not too tart (lemony) to overpower.

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13. February 2024
Breakfast/Brunch, Sweet Snacks

Lemon Brioche Milleswirlie

Early on a Monday and it’s time to change topics again in the little Ingredient Game that we have going on. Up this week is Citrus Week and the first thing that I made are these delicious Sourdough Lemon Brioche Milleswirlie. Mille means 1000 in Italian so I like to calls these tight breakfast swirls “milleswirlie”. The lemon curd has a nice hit of tartness this morning too. Overall pleased with this recipe. I’ve made blueberry and cinnamon versions of these previously.

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12. February 2024
Breakfast/Brunch, Desserts, Sweet Snacks

Banoffee Waffles: Banana Cream, Salted Caramel + Toffee Crunch

One more stop on the Banana ingredient in this little ingredient game that we are up to this winter: Banoffee Waffles, with Banana Cream, Salted Caramel + Toffee Crunch. I hadn’t actually intended to make these — I thought maybe Banoffee Doughnuts, but then I didn’t want to wait for yeast to do it’s thing so I went with these instead. They are sweet — between the pudding cream layer, the salted caramel and the toffee bits, this will definitely send you to sugar overload. I even intentionally made the waffles and whipped cream fairly neutral to cut the sweetness. Maybe better as a dessert than a breakfast thing. They are delicious, just very sweet, so if that is your thing…

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4. February 2024