We like the Challah from Trader Joes, and one of the advances of this century is that you can buy it almost any day of the week, whereas in the ole days it seemed to be a Friday/Saturday bread. We usually make french toast out of it on weekends or just plain toast during the […]

I just rediscovered Draegers in Menlo Park. Informally the prices are just as high as Williams-Sonoma at the Stanford shopping center, however Draegers is open later (10pm nightly), seems to easily have more specialty food items than WS, and upstairs at Draegers they have a good selection of cooking items.

For years I used to go to Java Man in Hermosa Beach and regularly order their Morning Glory Muffins.
I’m pretty happy with the Morning Glory Muffin recipe from Earthbound Organic Farms and it produces muffins that look like this:

I’ve played around with the recipe and made some modifications:

I don’t use coconut
The amount of sugar can […]