Watermelon Fruit Cups with Green Grapes and Orange Slices
When plain watermelon feels a little boring, I make a simple fruit cup like this.
You can add any fruit you like, but today, watermelon is the main one, so I used much more watermelon than anything else.
The drink, syrup, or sauce you add to the fruit cup can be whatever you like.
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Blueberry muffin at home.
I wanted blueberry muffins, so I baked them with plenty of almond flour crumb topping.
I like adding butter while the muffin is still warm.
It tastes best with a strong latte.
Most people like muffins that are soft and moist,
but for fruit muffins, I like them baked a little longer.
A warm blueberry muffin, butter, and a strong latte.
This combination was pretty satisfying.
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Homemade Summer Fruit Pies
I made small fruit pies with blueberries and cherries,
and tried adding little cherry shaped pieces of dough on top.
They were not perfect, but they looked sweeter on the table than I expected.
One small fruit pie, a little powdered sugar, and another summer baking note saved from home.
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Milk and Cookie with Cookie Monster
Good with coffee, but some cookies feel even better with fresh milk.
Chocolate chip cookies, and maybe Oreos too.
Somehow today, I wanted a giant chocolate chip cookie with a glass of cold milk.
So I bake cookies again today.
A little bigger than usual, a giant chocolate chip cookie and a glass of milk, with Cookie Monster too.
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Cinnamon Sugar Cookies with Greek Yogurt and Maple Syrup
Homemade snickerdoodles with almond flour.
I would love to eat healthy all the time, but small treats are hard to give up.
Cookies and cakes are not everyday food, but sometimes they are one of the small joys at home.
So I keep wondering if I can make them just a little better, without making them taste too much like healthy baking.
The kids do not really like cookies or cakes that feel too different from the original,
so I try changing small parts of the recipe instead.
For these homemade snickerdoodles, I replaced a little of the flour with almond flour,
used a little less sugar, and added Greek yogurt and maple syrup to the dough.
Soft in the center, rolled in cinnamon sugar, with a slightly different texture from the usual snickerdoodles.
This version worked, so this recipe is saved.
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Coffee cake made with little things left from other baking days
Sometimes after baking, there are small things left in the kitchen. A little crumb, a bit of topping, or dough made a little more than I needed. I do not always want to throw them away, so I save them and use them for another bake.
Today, I used mocha topping left from Korean-style mocha bread. I broke the topping into small pieces and used it like a crumb topping over two small coffee cakes.
Before baking, the tops were covered with mocha crumbs. But once the cakes went into the oven, the topping melted into the batter. It did not stay crisp on top like a classic crumb cake, but the surface baked darker and softer.
It was not made from the original recipe, and the shape was not perfect. Still, it used what was left from another baking day, and the taste was better than I expected.
A small home baking note with leftover mocha topping, coffee cake, and coffee time at home.
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Pancakes, fruit, and small breakfast details from home
A few small details from a weekend brunch morning.
Pancakes, a glass syrup jar, fruit, and everyday plates served at home.
Not a styled table, just a simple record of brunch at home.
Some pancakes were plain, some had blueberries, and a few were served with fruit on the side.
Pancakes always feel good even while they are cooking.
The warm smell that fills the kitchen is the kind only chocolate chip cookies can almost replace.
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Fresh fruit, simple vegetables, and small homemade donuts from home
A few details from a weekday table at home.
Fresh fruit, simple vegetables, and small homemade donuts were on the table.
Not a styled table, just a simple record of food at home.
The weather is getting warmer, so lighter food felt right for the day.
Fruit, vegetables, and small homemade donuts made a simple weekday table.
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A homemade Dutch baby pancake with fruit, coffee, honey, and maple syrup
Not a styled table.
Just what we actually ate for a weekend breakfast at home.
A Dutch baby pancake with fruit, coffee, honey, and maple syrup.
The pancake was served with blueberries, banana slices, and a little powdered sugar.
Coffee, milk, honey, and maple syrup were also on the table for a simple weekend breakfast.
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Soft homemade cheese rolls from a small sourdough baking day
Not a styled table.
Just what we actually made for a weekday brunch at home.
Sourdough cheese rolls, a simple homemade brunch bread.
These soft rolls were filled with small pieces of cheese and baked until lightly golden.
The leftover bread was pulsed in a food processor and turned into homemade bread crumbs for another meal.
This was the last small baking record from the sourdough soft roll series.
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