The best Mother’s Day brunch usually comes down to one or two dishes done really well, not a giant list. Here are the three recipes I actually make every year, plus a full planning guide for timing, drinks, and the table.
The easiest Christmas breakfast recipes are the ones you build the night before, and a hash brown sausage and egg casserole is the one that gets the whole table fed while you’re still in your pajamas. I used to think a big holiday breakfast meant getting up at 6 a.m. to stand over a skillet
Eggs with avocado, Greek yogurt with chia and berries, cottage cheese with flaxseed, oats fixed with nut butter, baked veggie egg muffins, and nut butter with apple all pair protein or fat with fiber, which is what keeps blood sugar steady for hours instead of crashing by 10am, and none of it requires weighing a
A breakfast grazing board is a large, abundant, self-serve spread of morning foods: pastries, bagels, cheeses, breakfast meats, fresh fruit, and spreads arranged on a wood board or marble slab so everyone can graze and build their own plate. This is the brunch move that looks like you spent all morning on it and mostly
Mochi pancakes are fluffy Japanese-style pancakes made with mochiko sweet rice flour that gives them a chewy, bouncy interior and crispy lacy edges you cannot get from regular wheat-flour pancakes. I made these for the first time expecting something close to a regular pancake with a slight chew. What I got was completely different, softer,
Sourdough cinnamon rolls are soft, fluffy rolls made with a live sourdough starter instead of commercial yeast, giving them a subtle tang that balances the sweet cinnamon filling and makes them noticeably more tender than regular cinnamon rolls. I mix the dough the night before, let it do its thing in the fridge while I
Carrot cake pancakes are warm-spiced buttermilk pancakes loaded with finely grated fresh carrots, topped with a whipped cream cheese butter that melts into the stack and mimics the cream cheese frosting that makes carrot cake worth eating. This is my go-to Mother’s Day brunch recipe. It looks impressive, takes about 30 minutes, and tastes like