This is a traditional Icelandic dish, wonderful texture and taste, tasty warm or cool. Even the fact that there is sour cream in it gives this pancake-like breakfast meal no odd taste. Fill each ponnukokur with brown sugar and icing sugar, and roll up.
Holiday Bread
Holiday No Knead Pumpkin Bread
The flavor is very subtle, just a slight earthy undertone, and the tiny dash of spice is perceivable only to the nose. For plain bread, just use water in place of the pumpkin puree, and follow the steps the same way.
Bubbling Bread Sticky Buns
This is a tasty morning treat I learned from my friends at Christmas brunch!
Sweet Potato and Black Pepper Biscuits
Sweet and peppery biscuits, great for ham sandwiches with a little honey mustard. You can substitute pumpkin or winter squash for the sweet potato.
Passover Pumpkin Muffins
These Passover pumpkin muffins are absolutely fabulous! I have made them many times and my kids can not tell that they are for Passover and not ‘regular.’ A true family favorite!
Lemon and Lavender Scones
These lovely old-fashioned scones are very light; they will literally melt in your mouth! The recipe is very versatile. Substitute your favorite flavor of yogurt and add a tablespoon or two of a chopped complementary fruit, raisins, or currants instead of the lavender. Serve with honey, fruit preserves, or if you’re lucky enough to be able to get it, clotted cream.
Chef John’s Easter Bread
If you were lucky enough to grow up in an Italian-American home, there’s a good chance you got to enjoy the smell of freshly baked Easter bread, with its unmistakable anisette aroma filling the air. This loaf of Easter bread is one of my favorite holiday traditions, and an authentic family heirloom recipe; made the same way as my mother, and her mother, and her mother’s mother made it. I hope you give this a try, and remember, it’s never too late to start an old family tradition. Frost with pink icing and top with sprinkles!
Low-Fat Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread
A healthier version of a holiday favorite without missing any flavor! Moist and delicious.
World Famous Fall Pumpkin Pancakes
It’s fall. It’s time for hot cocoa, cozy blankets, and lazy Sundays spent watching movies. In honor of the season, this is a recipe I love for Sunday morning pumpkin pie pancakes. They’re tasty, perfect for the season, and pretty healthy for you too! These are the best in town. Try them out and let me know what you think.
Sweet Potato Waffles with Cranberry Maple Syrup
These flavorful waffles are filling, lightly spiced, slightly sweet, and perfect for the holidays. They can easily be made using leftover sweet potato casserole and cranberry sauce after Thanksgiving or for a festive Christmas morning breakfast!
Fastelavnsboller (Fastelavn Buns)
Traditional Danish buns with a custard-type cream and chocolate icing are always eaten by children on Fastelavn, which falls around Shrove Tuesday.
Orange Blintzes
Delicious, subtle orange flavor highlights this old world favorite. Whether for holidays or if I need a ticket out of the doghouse, my wife loves these and eats ’em about as fast as I can make ’em. Don’t be scared, blintzes are actually very easy to make. They fill the house with a unique baking/frying smell which shouts, Comfort food is on the way! I hope you enjoy these as much as we do.
Cinnamon Crown Rolls
This cinnamon roll wreath is amazing! I have been making it for 13 years for my family’s breakfast on Christmas morning. The cream makes it unique and delicious. For an easier and quicker version, you can use quartered refrigerated biscuit dough, but ‘from scratch’ is the best!
Butterhorns
To DIE for, buttery crescent rolls that divide up the work between two days. This yeast-raised dough may be kept in the refrigerator, and used over a period of 2 weeks! So you can make them fresh when you like.
Pumpkin Popovers
Enjoy these delicious, easy-to-make popovers with your festive holiday meals. Guests are sure to be impressed and begging for more! Serve hot popovers in a bread basket with whipped cream on the side!
No Knead Holiday Pumpkin Bread
The dough is so soft, so supple, so sensual that it’s a joy to make this bread. Pumpkin gives it a soft color and super-subtle flavor. It’s a great country bread.
British Hot Cross Buns
A hot cross bun recipe for stand mixers, these are light and perfectly seasoned.
Mom’s Pumpkin Rolls
A Thanksgiving favorite. They are even better the next day, cut in half, a little mayo, pepper, and leftover turkey, then off to the the mall at 6 am for Black Friday shopping.
Christmas Tea Ring
Our family makes a lot of these every Christmas, some to give away, some for Christmas breakfast.