Breakfast

The Makowiec Poppyseed Roll: An Eastern European Tradition

The Makowiec Poppyseed Roll: An Eastern European Tradition

I met Lettuce on our third day of law school and we immediately bonded over being science majors, not being from Louisiana and our Eastern European backgrounds, she being Polish, and me being Hungarian. Over the years, we’ve both realized how much these two cultures…

Healthier Tortilla Espanola

Healthier Tortilla Espanola

  Dining “tapas” style is the Spanish tradition of eating a bunch small plates of both hot and cold foods and in my travels through Spain years ago, Healthier Tortilla Española is undoubtedly a popular one.  It’s a style that encourages sharing, which is my…

The Best Nutella Crepes

The Best Nutella Crepes

France. The best Nutella crepes.  Let’s reminisce.

Leige Belgian Waffles

Leige Belgian Waffles

Leige Belgian Waffles! Let’s get into it.   I’ve been to Belgium a handful of times. It’s a lovely country and the fact that it is known for mussels, chocolate, fries and waffles is no farce.  I love the food there so much and could…

Fresh Plum Bread

Fresh Plum Bread

Moving on today with perhaps a not entirely traditional dish, but nonetheless a little nod to Luxembourg with this fresh plum bread. 

Gravlax Cured Salmon

Gravlax Cured Salmon

Sorry for the delay in posting. I timed things badly since I didn’t realize that today’s breakfast- Gravlax- took 36 hours to cure.  My bad. From what I’ve found, Scandinavian breakfasts are a far cry from the cereal, muffins and pancakes that we typically enjoy…

Irish Brown Bread

Irish Brown Bread

  Introducing….IRISH BROWN BREAD!  My excitement over this seemingly simply breakfast staple comes from the fact that my daydreaming about brown bread sparked the idea for this project, and therefore I had to do my best to get it right.  As with any recipe, there…

Rhode Island Johnny Cakes

Rhode Island Johnny Cakes

Move over, classic stack. Rhode Island Johnny Cakes are in town.

Cinnamon Sugar Coffee Cake

Cinnamon Sugar Coffee Cake

 There’s a chocolate shop that I pass daily on my walk to work and the smell of freshly baked croissants hits me in the face every morning, taunting me, as if saying, “Come eat my buttery goodness!”  That calling is the inspiration for today’s breakfast…