Category: Breakfast

Gluten Free Zucchini Muffins

Happy New Year, Friends! I hope 2018 is starting off easily and peacefully for everyone.  I thought I would start the year off by sharing this easy recipe for Zucchini Muffins. It was my first

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Brown Butter Granola

Brown Butter Granola! I was never a big granola fan until I started making my own. Store bought granola is always so hard and crunchy, way too sweet, and suffering from raisin overload. With homemade

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Rosemary Lemon Zucchini Bread

Rosemary Lemon Zucchini Bread is the recipe for those of you in the grips of summer Zucchini Mania! My yard is too shady for a garden so it’s particularly annoying to me to have to

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Smoky Roasted Potatoes

I thought we should make a new category here at Idiot’s Kitchen…Super Simple Sides! Smoky Roasted Potatoes are a good place to start. You can’t get much better or more simple than potatoes roasted in

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Pretty in Pink Smoothie

Showing my age with this one… The Pretty in Pink Smoothie! This movie actually showed up on my TV a couple of days after I made this smoothie so the name stuck. I also got

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Ultimate Mango Lassi

I’m just going to go ahead and brag and say that I make a damn good smoothie. It’s not like smoothies are rocket science, but it is fairly easy to go wrong if you’re just

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Purple Power Smoothie

Purple Power Smoothie! Otherwise known as Blueberry Banana with a few extras thrown in. I used to think I was having a healthy breakfast by eating a cup of store bought yogurt and a banana

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Roasted Strawberries

Roasted Strawberries! The person who thought of this has my undying gratitude. Strawberries are plenty good all on their own but when you roast them, magical things happen. Just like roasting vegetables, heat from the

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Picadillo

Mmmmmmm! Picadillo…Cuban Comfort Food. You might not know that I’m a big fan of Cuban food. It helps that I now live in Florida and get to visit and work in Miami somewhat frequently. However,

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Pumpkin Madness

So, I’m having a little trouble getting into the autumnal spirit. Maybe it’s because we had 2 glorious days of what could be called fall weather down here only to have to turn the AC

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Sausage, Kale & Apple Hash

    Breakfast. Dinner. Or Breakfast FOR Dinner. Sausage, Kale & Apple Hash has all those bases covered in a big way. Anything that includes the word hash usually gets my vote. When you start

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Quick Shrimp & Grits

I LOVE SHRIMP & GRITS. I’m pretty sure I’ve had them for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I might even have had them twice in one day. Whenever we are in a true southern food town

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Tropical Green Smoothie

If you had told me even a year ago that I would now love green smoothies, I would have thought you were crazy. But it’s true. I do! While juicing and “cleansing” seems to be

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Rhubarb Crumble Coffee Cake

Oh Rhubarb! Why didn’t I appreciate you more when you were growing freely in my former back yard? Maybe because I didn’t have this Rhubarb Crumble Coffee Cake back then. This one can make a

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Peanut Butter Banana Smoothie

So…remember a week or so ago when I posted the ridiculously healthy, vibrant green smoothie? Well, I DO love that smoothie and I DO feel quite healthy when I have one. But I would be

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