what jen does

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Tag: Morning

  • recipes

    cinnamon banana muffins

    Feel free to file these under “fastest muffin making”.  I’ve been slowly working through a batch of very ripe bananas. It would be easiest to just eat them or put them in a smoothie – but oddly that feels like more work that baking with them. Last week I made this DELICIOUS banana cake that…

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    miso banana bread

    I’m not really a banana person but I do love banana bread. It’s like a sneaky, potentially healthy breakfast dessert. I saw a reference a couple weeks ago to miso banana bread. A miso banana bread feels like a lifetime of difference from the other variations like: nutella, peanut butter, chocolate, or just straight up…

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    “romantic” lemon lavender scones

    In June 2010, I had a scone that changed my life. It was in Kinsale, Ireland. It had raspberries. And it changed how I felt about scones as a whole. I’m not sure what I felt before… but it wasn’t love for scones.  To this day … I have searched for a scone that I…