Breakfast and Brunch

Sour Cream Lemon Scones. Beautifully light and tender little lemon scones that go together particularly well with wild blueberry jam. Perfect for weekend brunch or morning coffee.

Biscuits with Chanterelle Mushroom Gravy and Chorizo Sausage. An incredibly flavourful brunch idea using easy homemade sausage and fresh mushrooms.

Blueberry Buttermilk Scones with Honey Butter. This recipe uses readily available frozen blueberries to make this outstanding brunch favourite.

Roasted Pineapple Jam. A super easy way to make jam by roasting the fruit to concentrate and intensify the delicious tropical pineapple flavour.

Mango Cream Cheese Scones. Differently delicious scones made with cream cheese baked right in along with chunks of sweet mango. Weekend brunch perfect!

Apricot Pecan Banana Crinkle Cakes. This is what a I call a cupboard cleaner recipe, sometimes the best combinations come from odds and ends of baking supplies on hand.

New York or Montreal Style Bagels Just around the corner and a couple of streets up from my house sits Georgestown Bakery where on any given morning you can find the locals lining up waiting for the shop to open as the scent of freshly baked Montreal Style Bagels wafts outside. Wikipedia tells me that …

Walnut Crumble Banana Coffee Cake. An absolutely scrumptious idea for a weekend brunch cake or serve it warm with caramel sauce for Sunday dinner.

Rum Raisin Sticky Buns. Light, tender, yeast raised cinnamon rolls turned into sticky buns by being baked on top of a layer of rum & butter caramel!

As regular readers will attest, I love my weekend brunches and this delicious Canadian inspired frittata made this past weekend’s brunch very special indeed. I sliced these beautiful potatoes and blind baked them into an oven safe frying pan to form a potato “crust” for the frittata which included some lightly fried Canadian Bacon and …