normal eggs? Not no mo'!

Just a fast 2 minute blurt...
Why did we waste our mornings and eat plain milk and egg omelets for so long? Some mornings had mushrooms or onions, sometimes cheese or even spinach. How lame... Not no mo'! 
My mom shared a trick about placing a long sprig of rosemary in soups for a short time and it makes the broth, kick you in the throat, good. Since I love being kicked in the throat, but think she's whack for cooking soup in August, I wanted to try it right away! I was melting butter for omelets when the idea hit me to drop a stick of rosemary in it. I am now hooked so I ran over to tell you about it. Just make sure you take it out before adding the eggs and all the whatnot stuff that you add. Remember I want to be kicked but however long you leave it in, is your preference I just wouldn't leave it in too long. Probably no more than 45 seconds. I want a do over of all those lame mornings. I ought to make up for all the years lost to plain omelets and create different versions 5 times a day.

 Onions, tomatoes, a big handful of fresh spinach & egg whites topped with turkey, chives and onion spouts. 

ahh, that was a nice kick.

fruity stew

It was a dark and stormy night morning... 



There is just something weird to me about having cereal or eating yogurt for breakfast on a rainy and gloomy  morning. It's like making a "Yay, you are 5!" birthday card and only having brown glitter, getting a back rub from a midget Gerard Butler, or a crying unicorn. There's just no point in trying to mesh bummers with happiness. Not really bummers because I do love the rain but ya know it tranquilizes a person. There's no energy packed blow dart for a reason.

Or is there?... 

When it was rainy a couple days ago, I whipped up a healthy "heavy fruity stew" I was so full that I caught myself slipping in and out of consciousness like how grandpas do, upright in the chair. I was falling into a food coma even though I had just woken up 30 mins ago. A protein shake never did that! So comfy, yet in a few minutes, I was buzzing around everywhere with energy.

Heavy Fruity Stew 

1/2 cup of nonfat yogurt

1 - 2 tbsp freshly ground flaxseeds 

1 tsp of whole flaxseed for the crunch

1 tbsp of oat bran

1 tbsp of chia seeds

1/2 cup fresh strawberries & 1/2 banana sliced (next time I'm doing fresh blueberries)

combine all ingredients and top with fruit. 

wait a few minutes (for chia and flax seeds to thicken yogurt) 

Probably shouldn't eat this every morning due to the temporary lethargy it causes but here are some suggestions on when it's okay to do so... 

• "I hate you aunt flo, you must die" bad cramp day
• I cant believe all I have in my fridge is flax, chia seeds, oatbran, yogurt, berries and bananas. What will I eat?
• I need comfort food even though I don't have time to get depressed since I just woke up
• I'm laying on a faux bearskin in front of the fireplace with a beefcake and it's snowing outside of my log cabin
• I wonder how Grandpa felt when he slept like that
• I need a healthy blowdart to the stomach

sticky balls

My eyes detach themselves and roll back in my head when I eat one because it's that gooooood!

much modified form of almond rice chews from the internet. I wish I remembered the site but I just wrote the recipe it down awhile ago on an past due electric bill envelope. My changes are in the (parenthesis) and I call em sticky balls. 

• 1/4 cup chunky almond butter (I used 1/4 of crunchy raw almond butter usually, can use any nut butter I assume)
• 1 tsp vanilla extract (1 tsp almond extract)
• 1 cup rice crisp cereal 
• 3 tbsp brown rice syrup (They don't sell that shit anywhere so I used 3 tbsp of honey)
• 1 tbsp cacao nibs (yuck, I used dried currants, YUM!)

mix nut butter, extract and syrup/honey together, nuke for 30 seconds then mix in rice cereal while still hot, fold in the 1 TABLESPOON of the "sweet treat" chocolate or any dried fruit. 

Wet hands and I use a table spoon to heap scoop out beer pong ball sized balls. 

Seal it in something on wax paper, put in fridge or freezer. I do the latter. Lick bowl clean. 

Eat it before you work out because it's an awesome pre-workout food :) Candy/cookie before working out? Trick is you can only eat one *whimper* but still, I freeze mine so it takes LONGER to eat.