Pecan – In the Kitchen with Polly

Toasted Coconut Waffles

PollyJuly 20, 2014July 11, 2025

I know there is no toasted coconut on the top of this waffle. Oops! It was all gone before I took the picture. Don’t do this! Put toasted coconut in your waffle batter and save some to sprinkle on top…

Breakfast & Brunch Fall Fruits

Banana Pancakes with Caramel Syrup

PollySeptember 1, 2012August 28, 2025

Hmpfff. I just got through looking at the two hundred and seventeen pictures of a recent bride’s Hawaiian honeymoon. As one of her friends commented, “The envy hurts“! I went to Hawaii once. I did. It was with my kids’…

Breakfast & Brunch Fall Pies & Tarts

Pear Crisp

PollyOctober 18, 2010August 28, 2025

Ahhh, fall comfort food! I love baked pears and I love an oatmeal rich crisp topping, so I was pleased to cut this recipe from a Cooking Light magazine several years ago. I’ve fooled with it quite a bit, more spices, more oatmeal,…

Asst Holidays & Events Breakfast & Brunch Cakes & Cupcakes Fall Muffins Seasonal

Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins

PollyOctober 16, 2010September 16, 2025

My new favorite muffin recipe, just in time for your fall weekend baking: Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins! This muffin has been likened to the Starbucks Cream Cheese Pumpkin Muffins, and I think that’s a fair comparison, but I like this…

Breads Breakfast & Brunch Veganized!

Veganized! Pecan Praline Toast

JocelynAugust 7, 2010August 3, 2025

Polly’s Pecan Praline Toast recipe sounded so good that I just had to see if I could veganize it! And it turned out great! Full of buttery, gooey praline goodness 🙂 Veganized! Pecan Praline Toast INGREDIENTS For the French Toast…

About Me

It's all about the recipe—really, it is! I have amassed quite a collection of recipes from my favorite cookbooks, food magazines, friends, the Internet, and more recently my adult daughters. I test every recipe I post. Some I've been cooking for years, decades even, and a few I have made only a few times. I don't post mediocre recipes. I don't post good recipes. I post GREAT recipes! When I find a recipe I LOVE, I can't wait to share it. I started In the Kitchen with Polly on January 01, 2010, a joint venture between myself and my non-cooking but most excellent webmaster, proofreader, technical goddess and all-around bestie, ratty (not a joke—ratty is her chosen nickname—her Mama didn’t do that to her, she did it to herself!). Last year we hit a snag—the website went up in monstrous flames. It took a long time to sort out what happened and even longer to recreate what was lost. Hundreds of pictures gone, and every recipe we posted (300+) over the last 14 years had to be reformatted, many pictures retaken. It's done now though, and we are back! I like this brighter version :) Scroll through! Find something you like, and let's get cooking! There’s a search button and there are also tags to click on if you want to find a recipe for a specific food. If you need it, the print button is on the preview page and at the end of each post.

Enjoy!