my favorite breakfast recipes

13 great ways to start the day from the darn good archive

i’ve been thinking a lot about breakfast lately. given the fact that i haven’t had quite as much time in the mornings as i used to, it’s sort of strange that it’s been so much of a hyperfixation. thanks to the early morning sunshine and my new routine, i’m naturally waking up early and have been able to give myself the time, even on busy mornings, to sit down for 10 minutes and eat something simple, all the while planning what my special weekend-slash-day-off breakfast will look like.

to me, “special” doesn’t have to mean hard to make, a lot of ingredients or anything particularly involved, it just has to be made and eaten with intention and joy. for me, this could mean a biscuit baked from the freezer and slathered with cream cheese and/or jam, half a grapefruit eaten with my beloved grapefruit spoon, a simple scrambled egg sandwich (maybe even with chips?), a slice of cake that’s baked once and enjoyed all week, my (soon to be?) infamous yogurt and granola bowls (i call them yogi bowls)—you get the picture.

so, without further ado, here are some of my favorite breakfast recipes from the darn good archive that (imho) always fit the bill. they can be made today or saved for your next long weekend. see you next time, and hope you have a lovely morning—or afternoon, or evening, or whenever this newsletter finds you.

from left to right (top to bottom): "the bear" breakfast sandwiches, buckwheat and orange buns, custardy quiche

• buckwheat and chocolate chunk breakfast muffins

• sticky spiced buckwheat and orange buns

• custardy spring quiche

• “the bear” breakfast sandwiches

• salted banana buckwheat granola

• crispy harissa and egg stuffed sandwiches

• wild rice and oat porridge

from left to right (top to bottom): bulgogi breakfast burritos, almond, fennel and dark chocolate granola, hong kong-style french toast with kaya

• cardamom and spent coffee crumb cake

• bulgogi breakfast burritos with kimchi salsa

• almond, fennel and dark chocolate granola

• cheez-it biscuits

• hong kong-style french toast with kaya

• crispy cardamom cereal

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as mentioned above, i’ve been plotting longer, lazier, brunch-ier breakfasts for my days off. obviously these days will not solely be filled with recipes from my own recipe archive, because i love cooking new things and trying other people’s recipes, too. here are some recent breakfast-y saves that i’ve been looking forward to making:

• Aunt Tresa’s Passionfruit Curd from Maddie Beck of desserts & such

• The Granola from Rosie Kellett of The Late Plate by Rosie Kellett

• Café‑Style Corn & Peach Muffins from Karina Velasquez of Open Crumb

• Whipped Cottage Cheese & Roasted Strawberry Parfait and/or Giant Cornmeal Pancake with Strawberry Burnt Honey from Bella of Early Girl

• Doughnuts from Nicola Lamb of Kitchen Projects

• Cinnamon Raisin Swirl Qiang Bing from Kayla Wong for Cake Zine

• Brown Butter + Tahini Granola Bars from Jillian of Jillian’s Substack

• The Glorious Frittomelette from Ben Quinn of Ben Quinn

• Yogurt cake with coffee, orange & rose from Marie Frank of More Than Sweet