Easter Weekend Menu Ideas
Over the past nine years of blogging here on The Kitchen Scout, I’m sure at some point I told you how much I adored Easter as a child. I still do! Especially… Read More
Individual Baked Oatmeal Cups
Oh how I just love the Fall. The onset of cool mornings and evenings makes me energized, especially after the humidity of this past summer. Yes, I was that kid who was… Read More
Bacon and Egg Risotto
On very rare occasions when I was growing up, my mother would prepare breakfast for dinner. The menu was typically bacon and eggs accompanied by Thomas’s English Muffins. Family breakfast was not just… Read More
Sweet Potato Nests & Eggs
If you slice a vegetable and put it in your toaster to cook, can you really call it “toast”? I ask this because in case you haven’t heard, sweet potato “toast” is a… Read More
Aunt Elizabeth’s Fresh Apple Cake
As much as I value the ability to search for recipes and other cooking information online, I will always cherish my cookbooks. Books that were written without the need to provide a… Read More
The Best Blueberry Muffins
This weekend, I am traveling to Maine to attend my 30th college reunion. My emotions are somewhere between yikes and yippee. How can it be that long ago that I first stepped… Read More
Summer Squash, Corn & Tomato Gratin
Well, the vacation I was referring to in The Pink Holiday came to an end this past Sunday. While I am so happy to be home, I am also thinking a lot about our… Read More
Rhubarb Almond Crumb Cake
For the past several Springs, I have played on a tennis team with some really great women. This allows me a brief, 7 week opportunity to challenge myself more than I do… Read More
Asparagus, Ham and Gruyere Tart
When I open my newspaper’s food section on Wednesdays, I keep my fingers crossed that its editors haven’t whipped up something similar to what I have planned for my Friday post. Well,… Read More
Carrot Cake Cupcakes
As I write this, the sun is shining and the snow is melting. Earlier this morning, the birds were singing a very happy tune. I can finally see sections of our lawn… Read More
Scenes from the Kitchen
Picture a calendar. Now picture that calendar with an entry every Saturday morning for the next six months that I’ve thoughtfully written to guide me on my blog’s content for the upcoming… Read More
My week with Ina Garten
Fifteen years ago, The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook was published which was our introduction to Ina Garten and the food she once prepared at her specialty food store in East Hampton, New York. She just… Read More
