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Delicious Mornings: Comforting Breakfasts Baked from Scratch
- Author: Dina Foglio Crowell
- Paperback: 144 pages
- Publisher: Cedar Fort (November 11, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1462114601
- ISBN-13: 978-1462114603
- Cover price $18.99
Make the most important meal of the day the BEST meal of your day! “Delicious Mornings” is a delectable collection of from-scratch breakfast recipes, including everyone’s classic favorites as well as scrumptious new twists like French Toast Casserole, Red Velvet Pancakes and Easy Apple Fritter Monkey Bread. Holidays, birthdays, or even weekdays — whatever the occasion, you’ll be jumping out of bed to try these amazing recipes!
About Dina Crowell:
Dina Foglio Crowell is a proud military wife, mother, baker and blogger. She is the author, recipe developer, photographer and food stylist behind the popular baking blog Buttercream Bakehouse. Dina is a self-taught baker and an award-winning cake decorator with two second-place wins at the National Capital Area Cake Show.
Her passion for baking and cake decorating led her to open a home-based custom cake business in 2009 called Buttercream. She soon embarked on sharing her sought-after recipes and created a baking blog in 2010 called Buttercream Bakehouse, which soon became her full-time passion.
As her blog grew in popularity, she was accepted by dozens of ad networks, including Pollinate Media Group and Collective Bias, and as a freelance writer for Tap Influence and as a brand ambassador for well-known brands, including Hershey’s, Nestle, Kraft Foods and Betty Crocker. She spends her free time as a volunteer field editor for Taste of Home Magazine, and her blog listed as a favorite at www.tasteofhome.com.
Her biggest cheerleaders are her parents, Lucy and Jimmy Foglio, who continue to inspire her to work hard every day and reach for the stars. She currently lives in the suburbs of Fredericksburg, Va., with her husband and her four beautiful children. For fun she likes to cook for her husband, John; cheer on her two youngest sons, Brennen and Kayeden, in baseball; volunteer in their schools; shop with her teenage daughter, Ashlynn; and have one-on-one talks with her oldest son, Tristen. The family also has two Maltese, named Oliver Nutmeg and Finnegan Chestnut.
I have always enjoyed breakfast. There are so many tasty things you can eat for breakfast. I was happy to get a chance to check out Delicious Mornings, a cookbook that contains nothing but breakfast recipes. The table of contents contains not only the chapters, but also every recipe in each chapter. I think this is so helpful when I’m looking for something specific. The beginning of the book also has an intro with helpful tips and information on commonly used items.
Chapters include:
- Good Morning Muffins
- Come On Over Coffee Cakes
- Bakery-Style Breads, Donuts, Cinnamon Rolls, And Pastries
- Tasty Tarts And Stratas
- Country Breakfast Sides
- Eggs
- Not Your Mama’s Casseroles
- Pancakes
- Desserts
Then come the recipes. There are lots of baked goods and they made me hungry. Most, but not all, of the recipes have a color photo. Each recipe contains a bit of information about the recipe or something used in it. The recipes themselves are easy to understand. Ingredients are all basics that you can easily find in your local grocery store. Cooking time is included in the recipes in this cookbook so you have to read through the whole recipe to figure it out. I do find this inconvenient as I use cooking and prep time to help me decide what I’m going to make. There are lots of tasty sounding recipes in this cookbook. The cookbook would be great for anyone who enjoys breakfast food as well as folks who enjoy baked goods.
pat.
Saturday 3rd of January 2015
tonga aka stuffed banana french toast
Carlee C
Thursday 1st of January 2015
Personally my favorite breakfast food is an egg, bacon and toast sandwich. I do like the idea of making Muffins for my family a couple times a week though.
Melissa Pezza
Wednesday 31st of December 2014
This sounds like a wonderful cookbook. I'll definitely be picking up this one.
LaVonne
Wednesday 31st of December 2014
My husband would love that Apple Fritter Monkey Bread recipe for sure. Apple fritters are his favorite. Thanks for sharing about this great cookbook!
Robin Gagnon
Wednesday 31st of December 2014
That breakfast pizza looks yummy. The book looks like it has a good variety.