By Dani Meyer, on May 13th, 2013 
Cinnamon rolls have to be one of the finest inventions of mankind. This cinnamon roll recipe was not only phenomenal but it was executed perfectly on the first try by my husband who hasn’t baked a thing since his mom taught him how to bake in middle school!
Though he is an amazing cook and it’s debatable in my book whether his German Pancake Pizza should count as “baking” or not. In all fairness though he hadn’t worked with yeast and kneading dough and he totally nailed these. Nice work babe!
That’s love on a plate right there.
Oh and did I mention I got totally surprised and spoiled with this spread on Mother’s Day?
Kevin had been talking all week about the surprise breakfast that he was going to make me for Mother’s Day. When I saw two entire bricks of butter and he mentioned that he needed scalded milk I was suspicious. Then when he rolled out of bed hours before everyone was awake on Sunday morning I had a pretty good inclining something tasty and yeasty would be gracing our breakfast table.
I was barricaded in our bedroom with a cup of coffee and my iPad and told to relax while these amazing smells wafted under the door. Somehow he wrangled all this food and managed to keep Noah
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By Dani Meyer, on April 30th, 2013 
I have a love hate relationship with potstickers. Well, truth be told I love everything about them. Their perfect little folds of dough. The crunch when they are fried. The chewy goodness when they are steamed. The slightly terrifying appearance of their translucent skin wrapped around a brain looking piece of filling. The smell of cabbage and ginger that comes pouring out as you take that first bite of each one.
And the sauces?
Don’t get me going on sauces. Soy sauce and spicy sauce and that crazy delicious sticky sauce…..plum sauce I think it is? Or it might be a sweet chili sauce….whatever it is they have it at the asian restaurants and it’s like crack. This sauce over at Ali-Babka looks tasty and similar to my obsession.
Then there’s the teriyaki sauce that Mom always made them with, Yoshida’s teriyaki. Bane of my existence as a child. She would take them and steam them, then crisp them up, then caramelize the tar out of them in that sticky delicious sauce until they were perfectly coated and even had crunchy bits of teriyaki sauce on the edges.
I told you. I love them.
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By Dani Meyer, on April 19th, 2013 
This last week I have been digging through our blog archives trying to make them more user friendly. In this tinkering fest I stumbled upon this post about Kevin competing in a recipe contest with his German Pancake Pizza. The recipe was kind of buried in the post and with how good it is, it really deserves it’s own special page…so without further ado here it is!
This recipe is a twist on a classic German Pancake (also known as a Dutch Baby). It is denser and more stable to handle slicing and in hand eating. We really love it with a pesto sauce and the queso sauce but a red sauce would also work if you are going for a more traditional pizza type experience.
Roasting the tomatoes and kale really brings out their flavor and with the prosciutto it really is a simple but fantastically flavorful combination. Plus it’s a great way to use up half a dozen eggs in one go! This is always a plus when you start to get bombarded with eggs from your chickens or ducks.
If you are on a gluten free diet this recipe is also easily adapted with a simple flour substitution. If you have gluten-free oat flour that would be my first choice to try on this recipe!
Give it a try and let us know what combinations you come up with
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By Dani Meyer, on March 20th, 2013 
A few weeks back I let you in on our new found obsession with quiche. So when we were invited to a flock dinner at our church and my fridge was filled to the brim with eggs again (thank you ducks!) a Mexican quiche seemed like a natural fit.
One of our good friends is currently eating a gluten free diet and I knew she would be there so I wanted to make sure that she was able to get in on the action. Since pie crust was out as were flour tortillas (both of which would work great here) I went for the corn tortilla’s. I actually ended up loving it this way because the corn in the tortilla’s plays off the sweet fresh corn in the mixture so well.
Simply layer them in your pan and cover with a handful of cheese.
A simple substitution of oat flour for regular flour was all the other effort I had to go to in order to make it gluten free and I was thrilled to see how well my base recipe adapted to the new addition.
Note: Not all oats are 100% gluten-free because they are often contaminated with other grains processed in the same plant. If you can’t find certified oat flour look for certified gluten free oats at your grocery store
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By Dani Meyer, on March 5th, 2013 
Quiche. The quintessential brunch food. The dish that many a husband has turned up his nose at when presented for dinner as a “girlie food”. A poor misunderstood soul. I being the product of a meat-and-potatoes kind of family was raised with a gaping hole in my life where quiche should have filled.
As a young mom myself I now have great empathy for my mother. I’m sure when we were young she whipped up something like a beautiful quiche and proudly presented it to a table full of kids and my father. I’m equally as sure (knowing the picky eaters that we were) that we probably gave her heck over it and complained and fussed and begged for steak or lasagna.
So it is no surprise to me that my first real memories of quiche happened at a friends house. I was eight or nine and my childhood friend Madeline had a birthday party….it must have been a tea party of sorts because there were little fancy appetizers out everywhere. Somewhere along the line I discovered these strange looking spinach filled pies and popped one in my mouth.
Lordy. It was creamy and fluffy at the same time. A perfect blend of spinach and cheese and egg wrapped in a buttery pastry.
Self control wasn’t a strength of mine at that age, and I am fairly certain that over the course of the party I
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