Breakfast for Two

Breakfast is one of the best meals, it can really make your day - or break it! Maybe it should be called 'makefest' instead of breakfast, anyways, hopefully this inspires you, as breakfast doesn't need to be the typical greasefest of bacon, eggs, sausage, hash browns, toast with butter, which would make me feel like yuck all day!

- Crock pot full of barley, black eyed peas, potatoes, onion, fennel seed, black pepper and bay leaves

- Steamed beets with onion and kale, with a mint, parsley, lime, and hemp oil dressing

- Sweetless granola made with toasted almonds, oat flakes, orange juice, cardamom, green stevia, flax oil (pour on after) and blueberries

- Sharla's bloobie pancakes made with whole rye flour, goat milk and oat bran

- Homemade almond milk, sauerkraut, goat kefir, oatgurt, mint/catnip tea

- Blueberries, orange slices and sliced tomatoes from my garden!

YUM!

Creamy Quinoa Porridge

This was my breakfast, along with miso soup. It felt so good I had to blog about it!

• Grind quinoa in a grinder to a course flour (you can toast it first to remove the bitter saponins, but I couldn't be bothered this morning as I was multi-tasking)
  
• Add to water (as it's warming up to a boil) and stir in!

You can add sweet - but I chose:

• finely diced carrot
• fennel and dill seed

Bring to a boil, stirring, and then simmer. It's ready then, but letting it sit does some good to it!

It's really that simple.... 5 minutes, tops!

Vegetable & Sprout Scrambly Wambly

Really.. sprouting is supposed to maximize the benefits of raw foods, thus it would make sense to eat them raw - as they are wee living organisms full of potential and life, just eager to bust out in the world and make a difference - well they do, definitely,.. on your liver, blood, heart and so on. But what if you feel like eating warm and cooked food, but also feel like the refreshing, energizing effects of sprouts. Cook 'em!!

By now I think I've probably insulted or offended the raw food advocate by cooking precious young greens as sprouts. I feel like I bastardized the food, like teaching a 2 year old swear words or something. Sure cooking destroys some of the benefits of their cleansing, reducing nature, but the sprouts contain so many more benefits than just they're reducing abilities - in fact, I'm not interested in reducing or cleansing right now, my focus is to build myself. Build my immunity, tissues, strength, liver, gusto.. you get it, and so I went with my instinct to cook these wiggly hair like green fellows. It was the first time I've ever done it.

I ended up eating about 3-4 large clamshells of sprouts that week, as greens always shrink when heated, and are much less rough getting down. They make my stomach happy. (Going back to clamshells.. I REALLY don't like those plastic tubs that greens and sprouts come in!! We've got to think of something better to transport those fellows in!... actually, solution: grow them yourself!) I usually don't buy the cramshell lettuces, greens and sprouts through the winter because it's not really what I crave (or need) in the winter, and it's so readily and locally available in the summer that you don't get them in those nasty plastic things, but it's spring now, and these dandy sprouts were hollering at me from across the store for me to put them in my basket, and consequently in my stomach (but first the pan). I digressed...

SO.. what is this beauty of a feast on my plate? Sauteed veg, then scramble eggs, then at the last moment (just after the eggs go in) toss in some sprouts and mix 'em around. In just a moment, when the eggs start solidifying - you're finished! I garnished with a half avocado and some spice. 

Breakfast of Champions

Breakfast is one of the most important meals of the day.  I see many people in the morning make the mad dash out of their front door to their car with a large mug of coffee and a bagel clenched between their teeth.  Coffee and simplified carbs wont be able to sustain you for very long and eating on the run can give you the runs or stop traffic in your end.  Making yourself a nourishing breakfast is a great way to start your day and to support great digestive fire throughout the whole day.  Here is a breakfast of Champions, filled with protein, vitamins and nutrients.

  

Start by heating a small dollop of ghee in a heavy skillet (you can also use unrefined sesame oi)

saute a handful of thinly sliced onions until just cooked through

add a handful of chopped collard green or swiss chard

add diced shiitake or crimini mushrooms

add 1/4 cup of tomato, either fresh or canned organic diced tomatoes, with a bit of juice

put in some dried oregano, fennel, or thyme to your taste

salt and pepper to taste

add 2 whisked eggs with a pinch of salt to skillet when vegetables are cooked through

mix everything together and stir until eggs are done

Serve with saurkraut, and half of an avocado, with dulse, lemon and hemp oil

put a pinch of cayenne on your eggs or use your favorite hot sauce. Enjoy!

Huevos Rancheros

Another dish from our ceremonial breakfast out to commemorate the painting of our kitchen. Huevos Rancheros with a whole wheat wrap, roasted vegetables, poached eggs, and a hollandaise sauce. It just couldn't be finished... it was too good to overeat.