Katie Conquers Breakfast

On Saturday, our first official day of Spring break, Katie woke up early and found me at the kitchen table looking through cookbooks for coffee cake recipes.  Breakfast remains a lazy meal of sorts for me.  Usually breakfast is every man for himself in the Lewis household. 

Weekdays we are pouring bowls of cereal or boiling water for oatmeal or toasting English muffins or bread - on really great weeks we have frozen pancakes or waffles from the weekend that the kids heat in the microwave.  Weekends sometimes bring pancakes or waffles made by Robby or Maureen.  Sometimes Arnie makes garbage eggs - eggs and anything he can find in the refrigerator.  Arnie's concoctions are Katie's favorites.  Robby loves the pancakes and waffles.

On Saturday, Katie helped me search the cookbooks.  We found a simple recipe for buttermilk scones with currants and orange zest.  We had lemons and dried cranberries, so we went to work.  Katie enjoyed using the pastry cutter and I loved using more dried cranberries!  (Continue to have a couple bags on hand at all times!  One of my student's dad works at Ocean Spray and gives us sample bags of Craisins often.)

Katie and I are so proud of our scones.  Crispy on the outside and dense but crumbly and soft on the inside.  The lemon zest made the scones brighter and citrus-y while the cranberries added bursts of flavor.  Robby and Arnie liked them a lot.

Katie really did most of the work.  She is really fun to work with in the kitchen.  She is motivated to learn how to cook and bake - this week we are going to make granola!  More on that later...here's the scones.  This is a recipe we will make again.

Sprinkling them with cinnamon before they finish baking.