Easy Quiche by Penny Hawkins

Quiche is the perfect idea for an easy, budget-friendly dinner, and it comes together in a flash! The perfect "go-to" meal when you’re on a budget and you have the "what's for dinner?" blues, quiche is also a smart and economical way to use up leftover meat, veggies and cheese. Add some fruit or a side salad, and you have…

Easy Breakfast Oatmeal Muffins w/ Chocolate chips and Coconut by Denise Sherin

This is a great recipe for a fast breakfast, after school snack or anytime. They are fast and easy to make and you can freeze them for a grab and go snack. You can add whatever you like to them. Chopped nuts, raisins, dried fruits, wheat germ or…

Pancakes à la Elvis by Jennifer Bass

Banana Nut Muffins by erin de martini

Delicious for breakfast or as an afternoon snack!

Brown Sugar Bacon by Vanessa

For the most part I’m a fairly simple person and I don’t usually stray too far from traditional recipes, especially bacon But every so often I get a craving for maple or brown sugar bacon. So instead of buying brown sugar bacon at the store, where it will probably end up in the freezer for several months, I use this recipe to make…

Cranberry Orange Nut Muffins and Holiday Brunch Menu by Salad Foodie

HOLIDAY BRUNCH MENU: Cranberry Orange Nut Muffins Bacon Sweet Potatoes/Yams Coffee or Cocoa (Slice leftover cooked sweet potatoes or yams with skins intact, and fry briefly in bacon drippings or butter; serve with a light sprinkle of brown sugar.)

Cheesy Hash Browns by Nancy Miyasaki

This is an amazing simple dish that stands up well to much more complicated potato au gratin recipes. I adapted it from a recipe in the Sacramento Bee by Ann Freeman. You may not want to tell your guests how easy it is! That said, this dish was completely demolished at our recent Christmas brunch while more complicated dishes…

Favorite Pumpkin Bread by Salad Foodie

This is even good the day of baking, but improves and mellows with age. Freezes well, but it's hard to keep out of the fresh baked to have any left for the freezer!

Maggie's simple Carrot Cake by Maggie

This is the simplest Carrot cake and yet the tastiest i have made, best for breakfast because it is easy and quick to make. The cinnamon makes all the difference!

Pumpkin Caramel Monkey Bread Muffins by Erin S

Monkey Bread made into Muffins with a Pumpkin Caramel Sauce

Like Hobee's Coffee Cake by Aspen Lee-Moulden

This recipe ran in the Palo Alto Weekly over 25 years ago. It's for the much loved Hobee's coffe cake for you Palo Altans.

Original Flax Honey Butter by Smokinhotchef

This is an amazing spread packed with vitamins, minerals, and anti-oxidants that will become a staple in a nutritious diet. The powerful benefits of alpha-linolenic acid and not to mention the health and the cosmetic attributes. Glorious honey- natures 'perfect' food, being anti- inflammatory, antiseptic and an antioxidant, packed…

Best Crispy Waffles by Salad Foodie

This is my favorite recipe for a crisp waffle. If that’s the way you like them, don’t reduce the oil, cause that’s what makes them crispy! Lazy soul that I am, I mix the batter in a blender and use that as a pitcher to pour them conveniently. I freeze extra waffles for a quick into-the-toaster breakfast. Just add maple syrup, butter…

Favorite Buttermilk Waffles (with Whole Grain option) by Salad Foodie

Buttermilk makes baked products divine, and this is the way I use it in waffles. White whole wheat flour or whole wheat pastry flour can be subbed to boost nutrition. Lazy soul that I am, I mix the batter in a blender and use that as a pitcher to pour them conveniently. I freeze extra waffles for a quick into-the-toaster breakfast.…

Apple Butter by Brittany Hoverman