eclaire (what's in a) name?

i know pumpkin recipes are ubiquitous this time of year, but i just have to share this pumpkin bread recipe with you. it’s everything i want in a breakfast bread – moist, full of delicious spices, not too sweet, and replete with pecans and raisins to add some texture. when i realized that my weekend would be full of fun with my family – my sister flew in from michigan, my dad and b drove into town to spend some time with us on saturday, and we celebrated my mom’s 60th birthday on sunday – i decided i had to whip some of this up to munch on throughout the activities.

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thanks to the magic of delayed posting, i am not at home typing away right now, but off enjoying boston, portland (maine), new york city, and ann arbor (to see my sister!!!) with mike to celebrate both our wedding (2 year) and dating (10! year!) anniversaries. so while we’re exploring the eastern side of our country, i thought i’d keep you all satiated with my favorite pancake recipe – partly because pancakes are so delicious and partly because my sis-in-law asked me to post the recipe on this site after sampling them.

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a coworker kindly gave me an enormous zucchini from her garden a few weeks ago, and i spent a few days trying to decide what to do with all that zucchini…besides photograph it for posterity, that is.

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before i start describing this delicious quiche, which we’ve made three times in the past month, i have to admit that i had never used phyllo dough before, nor had i made a quiche in my adult life (although i’m sure i helped make some when i was a kid). so you can imagine that i was pretty excited when i saw this recipe in the april 2009 edition of vegetarian times. i figured the recipe would expand my culinary repertoire, and i would finally get to try my hand at utilizing phyllo.

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i bet you’re wondering where the banana chocolate-chip bundt cake went, right?  honestly, it was hard to keep this dessert (or breakfast!) on the plate long enough to take a picture of it!

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