Category: Recipes
This was a first for me. But it turned out lovely, has great floral notes, but not overpowering and the color is so pretty.
Lilac Syrup
Perfect for spring. Floral and herbal notes.
4 cups lilac florets (flowers removed from… Read more
Baklava Cookies
Another Honey inspired recipe that Casey used to feed the members at a Olympia Beekeepers Assocation meeting. She upsized the batch and made at least six dozen cookies. This recipe is makes a couple of dozen. They are dainty li… Read more
We don't make this recipe often, truth be told, because Nathan doesn't like oatmeal and has a hard time serving it. It is always well received by guests, and on more than one occasion by self-proclaimed "oatmeal snobs" to be the best they have … Read more
Every breakfast we do for guests starts with freshly baked scones. The sort that are ready to eat. No need for butter, cream or jam. the fruit or flavor is already in them!
We have innkeeper friends who count the number of cookies they bake, we shoul… Read more
We started cooking this recipe when our first daughter Lauren was born. Nathan was doing breakfast solo, and was tired of making the same few items that were easy to do by ones-self. Our friends at the Greenlake Guest House in Seattle offered this re… Read more
Decadent French Toast is one of the signature breakfasts for us here at the Swantown Inn & Spa. Over the past decade it has been prepared literally thousands of times. It falls in to our sweet category of breakfast dishes. We also can do a gluten… Read more