Hatch Chili Cornbread Waffle

Today the high was in the low 70's. Brrrrrrrr This cold weather is to blame for me breaking out the crock pot for brown rice and vegetable soup. My boys love corn bread and I was looking for something new. I found a cornbread waffle recipe and tweaked it a little bit. It was a neat twist on an old favorite.

1 3/4 C Cornmeal
3/4 C Flour
1 Tbsp Baking Powder
1 Tsp Salt
2 Tbsp Sugar
1 Egg
1 1/2 C Milk
1 C Cream Corn
1/2 C Roasted Hatch Chilies

In one bowl, mix all dry ingredients. In a different bowl, beat the egg and then add in the milk, cream corn and chilies. I cooked these on the darkest setting on my waffle maker.

White Chocolate-Apricot Bread

I've been on a mission to find a White Chocolate-Apricot Bread recipe. I have a nice scone recipe but it doesn't translate into a loaf. I tried this one. It's good but it's still more of a pound cake than bread. I figured I would go ahead and post it. The family enjoyed it.

What you need...
1/2 Cup snipped dried apricots
2 Cups all-purpose flour
1 Cup sugar
1 Tbsp baking powder
1/2 Tsp salt
1 egg, lightly beaten
1 Cup milk
1/4 Cup cooking oil
1/2 Cup white baking pieces

Directions..
1. In a small bowl, combine dried apricots and enough boiling water to cover. Let stand for 15 minutes; drain.

2. Meanwhile, preheat oven to 350 degree F. Line a 9x5x3-inch loaf pan with foil, extending foil over edges of pan. Grease foil; set aside. In a large bowl, stir together flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt. Make a well in center of flour mixture; set aside.

3. In a medium bowl, combine egg, milk, and oil. Add egg mixture all at once to flour mixture. Stir just until moistened (batter should be lumpy). Fold in pecans, baking pieces, and drained apricots. Spoon batter into the prepared pan.

4. Bake for 60 to 65 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool in pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes.

5. Use the foil to lift bread out of pan; remove foil. Cool bread completely on wire rack. Wrap and store overnight before slicing. Makes 16 servings.

Sour Cream Banana-Blueberry Muffins

What you need...


A pretty muffin.


Well today I decided to deviate from our normal banana nut bread recipe. I had both bananas and blueberries on hand dying to be utilized. I also had some sour cream in the house (not something I normally keep around) so I pieced a few recipes together to make sour cream banana-blueberry muffins. I also used white flour, something I rarely do. They are beautiful and totally delish. More like cake than something to accompany breakfast...of course if you want to serve this as breakfast go ahead…no judgment here.

1 C Brown Sugar
2 Tbsp butter
1 egg, beaten
3 Bananas
½ C Blueberries
2 Tbsp Sour Cream
2 C Flour
2 Tbsp Vanilla
1 Tsp Baking Soda
½ Tsp Baking Powder
½ Tsp Salt

Cream sugar, vanilla, bananas, blueberries, butter and egg together. Then mix in dry ingredients. 400 degrees for 25 mins for muffins.

Autumn Bread

Today was my five year old's first day of Kindergarten. That's pretty important stuff around these parts! So with the pretend feeling of fall in the air, I decided to make a loaf of Autumn Bread last night. It was yummy :)

What you need:
1 C Brown Sugar
2 C Whole Wheat Flour
1/2 C Coconut Oil
2 eggs
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 apple ~ peeled and chopped
1 C canned pumpkin
1/2 C coconut
1/2 C white chocolate chips
1/2 tsp fresh ground ginger
1/2 tsp fresh ground nutmeg
1/2 tsp cinnamon

(I would normally add in 1/2 C walnuts but left them out since my 1 year old hasn't mastered walnuts yet.)

350 degrees for about an hour (my oven took a little longer)

This morning my boys had big, thick slices of this toasted with butter. Mmmmm...butter.

Banana Nut Bread

The stuff you need.


He is so silly.


Mmmmm...my kitchen smells so good!

You know when you walk into the kitchen and the smell of over ripened bananas almost knocks you out that it’s time for banana nut bread! I have a fool proof recipe. You can tweak this recipe over and over and it just keeps turning out.

1 C brown sugar
1 1/2 C banana (about 3 larges ones) mashed
3/4 C Coconut oil (I know, right? 3/4 Cup! Is she serious? Yes…yes she is.)
2 eggs
2 C whole wheat flour
1/2 C nuts (optional)
1 tsp baking soda
2 tbsp vanilla
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
Sprinkle of cinnamon and nutmeg (fresh taste better & you'll feel fancy buying whole...and really...don't we all want to feel fancy?)

Mix all ingredients and pick muffins or loaf pan.

For muffins ~ 20 mins at 400 degrees
For loaf ~ 45-55 mins at 350 degrees


My friend Michele has used a cup of applesauce in place of oil and says it works. I’m sure it probably does but my boys eat my applesauce as fast as I can make it so I never have a cup left over. I’ve used half a cup of oil before and it turns out..its not as good but its still really good.