Glazed Doughnuts Muffins

Good morning everyone! I have arrived in Nantucket and it as beautiful as I remember. Tensions are running high in my family but what else is new, especially since all five of us are stuck in the house, it is raining right now. Everything will, hopefully calm down soon.

Before I left , I made some delicious muffins that taste a lot like doughnuts... but they taste more like home than anything else. It must be the combination of the sweetness of the glaze, the butter, the cinnamon, and the nutmeg. These muffins didn't really taste too much like doughnuts but they reminded me of home, of comfort and my childhood.  Nutmeg and cinnamon are too constants in my life, not only are they my favorite spices, along with vanilla, but they are in most of my recipes. 

Muffins are great and so are doughnuts but these doughnut muffins are awesome!! While you lose the crispy, fried bits from the doughnuts, you gain much more of a cake-y consistency. These muffins were dunked into the glaze twice, but you could totally dunk each muffin top 3 times for a thick and rich glaze that can rival a frosting. If you wish to top with sprinkles or blueberries, do so, immediately after the muffin has been coated 2 or 3 times with glaze.  These doughnut muffins are perfect for breakfast on the go and will make great school snacks.  Enjoy!

Swordfish in Style

We made this swordfish for dinner after a cool and windy beach day. The swordfish was delicious with a rich and oily mouth feel and the salsa was perfect, spicy and freshly sweet and it was the delicious,  I am allergic to peppers so I got a small dish of mango salsa without the peppers and it was perfect.

Delicious and spicy!

Friday Dinner with Uncle David

Josh and I are on our way to Nantucket!!!! And hopefully, our tradition (meeting up with dad at the airport and finding lobster rolls waiting in the car) will continue. Dad are you reading this?? 

Madaket Tacos Del Mar

Hello friends,  before I share some of my vacation photos and an amazing Nantucket recipe, I would like to remind you that we still have the Cuisinart® 3-Cup Mini-Prep Plus Food Processor giveaway. This giveaway has been extended to  September 10th at midnight. The winner will be announced Monday September 12th  So if you haven't entered yet you still have a few extra days to do so.  Thanks!


Also check out a giveaway at the Cooking Underwriter.  We both have been celebrating out 1 year anniversary with giveaways and Shelia has taken a page out of my book (I am so flattered) and purchased this fabulous The Best of Gourmet: 20th Anniversary Edition.  So please go check out the Cooking Underwriter and sign up to win!

Oh, do I have an amazing recipe to share with you... this comes straight from Madaket Beach in Nantucket.  My brother and I arrived to Nantucket around 3:30 and were greeted with fresh beach air and the sent of jasmine and honeysuckle. We were also greeted by my (tanned) dad and 2 lobster rolls with our names on them.  (Check out Calamity Kate on Facebook to see a picture of the lobster roll) The drive to Wild Rose Cottage (our home in Nantucket) was great, with the windows open and lobster in our mouths we were on vacation!!!

Awesome August

Good Morning! Today is August 1st and that means I am going to have a very busy month.  In 13 days I (yay) leave for a very needed vacation to Nantucket. I will be joining my parents, brother and cousins for a week in  this lovely cottage. Then I fly  into Chicago to attend the SITS Bloggy Bootcamp on the 20th.  Then on the 26th someone has a blogaversary

 to celebrate…can you guess who that is? Yay its Calamity Kate's Kitchen's 1st blogaversary.

I love the trips to Nantucket. My cousins and their 2 adorable kids rented the house behind us. The kids would wait till our shades were raised in the morning and come in. I got in the habit of making breakfast. I would make pancakes with cut up marshmallows for E and the rest of us would eat my blueberry sauce on our pancakes.  I am getting excited about Nantucket so I decided to make a batch of pancakes and blueberry sauce. Enjoy… this blueberry sauce is so delicious,  fresh and just amazing if I do say so myself.   Cheers!  

Pancakes with blueberry sauce