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Category Archives: Breakfast

How To Make Pancake Puffs — Halloween Treat

My wife had pancake puffs at a restaurant a couple of weeks ago, and wanted to try making them at home. We took our regular pancake recipe, tweaked it a little, and it came out great on the first try. Then we noticed something cool, and turned them into an awesome Halloween treat.
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How To Make Cinnamon Rolls

I won’t lie to you, doing these will take a little practice. If you’ve never rolled dough out into a rectangle before, it probably won’t be really even. The good news is, even if they come out all kinds of different shapes they’re still going to taste great. So practice on yourself a few times [...]
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How To Make Fried Dough

Now that spring is showing up every now and then — anyone else who’s ever been in Cleveland through April knows what that means — I start thinking about fair food from my childhood. I always preferred funnel cake to elephant ears, though they’re basically the same food in a slightly different shape. (Funnel cake [...]
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The Best French Toast In The World

I’ve seen lots of French toast recipes. Even a few that claim to be the best. But most of them are all about the ingredients you dip the bread in. How about the bread? I promise, changing the bread makes much more of a difference than adding another teaspoon of vanilla.
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How To Make A Banana Smoothie

There’s really not much to a banana smoothie. I don’t know how stores can stay in business doing nothing but throwing fruit and milk in a blender and charging four bucks each for it. Oh, wait … I think that four bucks each might be the secret. Okay, so what I don’t get is why would [...]
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