It’s the end of day two at Oktoberfest in Munich and there are sure to be more than a few people desiring a recovery breakfast in the morning.  Whether you’re at the actually Oktoberfest or recovering from a domestic celebration, I recommend a traditional Munich breakfast that always got me back on my feet…Weisswurst, Brezn (pretzels), and Bier.  For those [...]

The NFL Recipe Series continues with the New York Giants and a recipe for one of the iconic foods of New York…the bagel.  Craftyglutton, a native New Yorker, made this recipe as part of the Bread Baker’s Apprentice challenge (the recipe itself is from Peter Reihart’s book The Bread Baker’s Apprentice).   While making bagels that [...]

A few days ago I had a hunkering for some eggs over easy, bacon, and toast (partially because of the previous night’s activities).  As I grabbed the bacon out of the freezer my frozen roasted anaheim peppers caught my eye and I thought, “Why not?”  I roughly chopped the peppers and bacon, sautéed them up in [...]

An occasional staple of weekend mornings in our household is homemade coffeecake.  Now I’m not talking about your standard café or coffee shop coffeecake which is a dry fluffy cake with some cinnamon sugar mixture on top.  I’m talking about a moist cake with nuggets of gooey goodness topped with buttery/cinnamon/brown sugar deliciousness. This coffeecake is absolute the [...]

Now incorporating bacon into waffles is nothing new, especially for people who love bacon.  But a few years back I want to take bacon waffles (and any regular waffle for that matter) to the next level. Using one of my favorite Sherries, Alvear Solera 1927 Pedro Ximenez*, I concocted a phenomenal adult syrup topping that is the [...]